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North Carolina Central Remains Strong When he told the North Carolina Central University faculty of his intention to resign at the end of December, MU1, from his administrative post, Chancellor T.R. Richmond spoke of the pleasure he gets from teaching. He also expressed Ms confidence that NCCU will continue to grow stronger over the next ten years. The two comments are related. NCCU’s strength comes from the quality and the dedication of faculty members like Dr. * Richmond, who teach because it bring them joy. NCCU's Undergraduate Research Program is an illustration of faculty dedication to teaching. The Undergraduate Research Program offers NCCU students an opportunity to work closely with one faculty member on significant research projects. That opportunity depends on the faculty member's willingness to spend at least two hr. jrs a week working exclusively with the undergraduate research student The faculty member must be involved in an on going research project with which the student will assist. NCCU faculty members volunteered enthusiastically for the project. NCCU now has one of North Carolina’s largest undergraduate research programs, and has taken a lead role in creating a statewide Consortium on Undergraduate Research. Chancellor Richmond has said repeatedly over the past year that NCCU’s academic programs are at their peak strength. i * udents are fully aware of that strength. The College Board, which administers the Scholastic Aptitude Test, announced in the fall of 1M0 that NCCU is among the top ten colleges and universities in America in erms of the number of black students who direct that their SAT scores be sent to the school. NCCU ranked ninth on the list provided by the College Board. North Carolina Central University was founded in 1MQ by Dr. James E. Shepard, a pharmacist and Baptist church leader, as the National ReHgious Training School and Chautauqua. Its roie was envisioned as that of a training ground for tenders of the hlark. church and for black leadership In general. Subsequently, the state of North Carolina assumed responsibility for the institution. It was briefly a nonaai school for the training of teachers, and then bnrame in 10 the nation’s first state wpported liberal arts college for black people. In 10, the institution—then known as Ngrth Carolina College for Negroes—wps authorized to psiablisn'graduate*and professional programs. The graduate program in arts and sciences, the School of Law, and the School of Library and Information Sciences all trace their anniversaries to 10. The founder of the university, Dr. Shepard, remained its president until his death in 1M7. By that time, his school had undergraduate programs in the arts and sciences, e graduate school of arts and sciences, a school of library science, and a school of law. Education and bueimns were included among the arts and sciences in those years. Dr. Shepard led the school under four different names. Before his death in 10, the racial identification had I from the name, and the North Carolina College at Durham. In 10, North Carolina College was renamed North Carolina Central University. Since 10 it has been one of lffi yy .«tta VttantoJf Ntrtb itonVni 1 NCCtTd grikh&OMM+n iddiMM the firtt praparOaa if Macks aged 25 and aver wha had a calaga dagrna rasa (ran 10.7 parcanl In 1017 ta 11.0 parcaat la 1HI aad tha dht oiacft mayors w iwu suite capitals, nuama and Raleigh. (Maynard Jackson, a graduate of the NCCU School of Law, was re-elected mayor of Atlanta in the fall o! 1989.) NCCU alumni hold key charmanships in the North Carolina General Assembly, and alumnus Daniel T. Blue, Jr., of Raleigh, is Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives. An NCCU alumnus retired recently as a senior vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and alumni have been or are now presidents of banks, scientists with major corporations and Federal agencies, and college and university presidents. For afull year, an NCCU alumnus. Dr Thomas Malone, was acting director of tbi National Institutes of Health, and an NCCl dean. Dr. John Ruffin, was named ai Associate Director of the NIH in 1980. NCCU law graduates hold judgeships ai all levels, up to the Supreme Court of thi state of Connecticut. They have beet elected judges of the North Carolini Superior Courts and the N.C. Court ai Appeals, by popular vote. Dr. S. Dallas Simmons, an NCCl alumnus, is President of Virginia Uni of University, and the Chancellor of Winston Salem State University is NCCU gradual* Dr. Cleon Thompson. As pround as NCCU is of alumni o national and statewide prominence, it it equally proud of thousands at graduate who are leading citizens of their loca communities, outstanding school teachers committed members at town, city, an* county governing boards, business men am women, volunteers in community organizations, and hardworkinf professionals in the law, health careers communications, and other fields. NCCU has consistently ranked among tin leaning in&uiuumra in uic iwiiwu ui ww number of Mack baccalaureate recipients who subsequently earned their doctoral degrees. It also ranks high in the proportion of its athletes who receive their degrees. NCCU continues to build its students into scholars and leaders with programs in more than SO academic disciplines and specialties. The NCCU library collection is the second largest among those of America’s historically black colleges and universities, and is the seventh largest in the state of North Carolina, ahead of 41 other senior colleges and universities. N(X!U today enrolls some 5,300 students in five degree -granting schools: the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Education, and the School of Business, all three with undergraduate and graduate i programs; the School of Library and Information Sciences, which offers the Master of Library Science and the Master ' of Information Sciences degrees; and the School of Law, which awards the Juris ' Doctor degeree. The School of Library and Information Sciences cooperates with the College of Arts and Sciences in offering a pre-Library Science program which allows the student to earn a bachelor’s degree in a subject nutter ana and a Master of Library Science degree in five years. Dr. Tyronxa R. Richmond, chancellor of i North Carolina Central University, is its > sixth chief administrator. Dr. Richmond's I resignation as Chancellor will be effective in December, 1991, and he intends to return I to teaching and research. He was promoted I to the Chancellor’s post Item the post of dean of the NCCU School of Business. Dr. Richmond bolds earned academic degrees from Fisk University, the American University in Washington, and Purdue University. Bureau Notes College Rates Improve For Black Students The percentage of the nation’* adult black population who completed four or more (rears of college increased from 1087 to IM, according to a report re leaped by the The proportion of blacks aged 25 and over who had a college degree nee from 10.7 percent in 1907 to 11.0 percent in 1M0. The proportion who were hft^go ochool p aduatee in ION was M.0 percent, not atatiatieally different from the proportion in 1*7 but higher than the 1MB rate. In 1M0, whites had the Mghrrt level of high echool completion, 78.4 percent. At the college level^ 21>S percent co^npteted four or more years. Among persons of Hispsroc origin, who may be of any race, about 1 in 10 had completed 4 or more yean of college in 1H0 and about one-half had completed high sehaal Hw Mjli ■rhnol MwipUHmi r«t» wyy not statistically different from the 1887 rate but was higher than the 1MB rate. Aa hi all surveys, the data in this report are subject to sampling variability and Copies of tbe report' Educational Attainment in the United States: March 1M0 and IMS, Series P-20, No, 451 may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 20M8 (100-783 3238). An Investment In Education... Is An Investmenttu Your Future' +■ t *• •• * * + s ,<•> * . *.‘V •t'V • ‘‘V*%•',♦* *•“- *>.. ..... , .
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