Albany State University is a four-year, state-upheld, generally dark college (HBCU) situated in Albany, Georgia, United States. It is one of three HBCUs in the University System of Georgia. ASU is a part school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
Foundation
Joseph Winthrop Holley, conceived in 1874 to previous slaves in Winnsboro, South Carolina, established the organization in 1903 as the Albany Bible and Manual Training Institute. Two instructors, Reverend Samuel Loom-is and his wife, sent Holley to Brainerd Institute and afterward Revere Lay College (Massachusetts). While going to Revere Lay, Holley became acquainted with one of the school's trustees, New England specialist Rowland Hazard. Subsequent to taking a jumping at the chance to Holley, Hazard orchestrated him to proceed with his training at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Holley tried to end up a clergyman and arranged by finishing his instruction at Pennsylvania's Lincoln University.
W. E. B. Du Bois roused Holley to come back toward the South after he read Du Bois' compositions on the situation of Albany's blacks in The Souls of Black Folk. Holley moved to Albany to begin a school. With the assistance of a $2,600 blessing from the Hazard family, Holley sorted out a leading body of trustees and bought 50 sections of land (200,000 m2) of area for the grounds, all inside of a year. The point of the organization at the time was to give rudimentary instruction and instructor preparing for the nearby Black populace. It was swung over to the condition of Georgia in 1917 as Georgia Normal and Agricultural College, a two-year rural and educator preparing organization.
In 1932, the school turned out to be a piece of the University System of Georgia and in 1943 it was conceded four-year status and renamed Albany State College. The move to four-year status vigorously expanded the school's enlistment. In 1981 the school offered its first graduate program, a prelude to the school being moved up to college status in 1996.
Holley served as President of the school from 1903–1943. He was succeeded by Aaron Brown (1943–1954), William Dennis (1954–1965), Thomas Miller Jenkins (1965–1969), Charles Hayes (1969–1980), Billy C. Dark (1980–1996), Portia Holmes Shields (1996–2005), and Everette J. Freeman (2005 – 2013)
U.S. Social liberties and the Albany Movement
The school assumed a critical part in the American Civil Rights Movement in the mid 1960s. Numerous understudies from the school, Black change associations, and delegates from the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) met up to make the Albany Movement. The development conveyed noticeable social liberties pioneers to the town including Martin Luther King Jr. The development brought about the captures of more than 1,000 dark protestors. Among the first to be captured were understudies from Albany State. On November 22, 1961, Blanton Hall and Bertha Gober entered the white holding up room of the Albany transport station to purchase tickets home for the Thanksgiving occasion. Declining to leave subsequent to being requested to do as such, police captured them both. Albany State president William Dennis, frightful of losing his position, promptly suspended and in the end ousted the understudies. This activity caused a lot of ill will from the dark group and the understudy body. Gober would proceed in the social equality development as one of the SNCC's Freedom Singers and compose the gathering's song of devotion. Bernice Johnson Reagon, another Albany State understudy who left school to work with the SNCC, would later shape the surely understood a cappella assemble Sweet Honey in the Rock. On December 10, 2011, thirty two of the understudies who were removed were allowed privileged degrees. The school recompensed thirty one privileged baccalaureate degrees and one privileged doctorate – that to Bernice Johnson Reagon. A prominent social history specialist, Reagon was likewise the initiation speaker.
Albany State University
In July 1996 the college framework's Board of Regents affirmed a name change, and the school authoritatively got to be Albany State University. Today Albany State University keeps on giving an extensive variety of instructive chances to the occupants of southwest Georgia. The school takes part in a building exchange program and a double degree program with the Georgia Institute of Technology, one of the top designing schools in the country. At that point President, Portia Shields made the Holley Institute summer program, which comprises of an exceptional four weeks of study to help secondary school understudies enhance low SAT scores and pick up admission to school. The system has a close to 100 percent achievement rate and has gotten acclaim from the state Board of Regents. Albany State additionally has the third most elevated understudy standard for dependability in the college framework. Another stadium was opened in 2004, and new lodging units opened in 2006. In 2015, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia reported the union of ASU and Darton State College. The new school will have very nearly 9,000 understudies and will be one of the biggest HBCUs in the nation.
Academics and demographics
Albany State offers undergrad and graduate human sciences and expert degree programs.
As per U.S. News and World Report, ASU is number 32 out of 36 positioned in the magazine's positioning of undergrad training at HBCUs. It is positioned as a second level school on the Regional Universities (South) list.
Today the Albany State University understudy body comprises of both conventional and non-customary understudies who make up the more than 4,000 understudy populace. These understudies come fundamentally from Atlanta, southwest and focal Georgia, different US states and numerous remote nations. The normal understudy age is 24 and around 40 percent of the understudies live in on-grounds lodging
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