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Campus Address
Tuskegee, Alabama 36088
Telephone: 334-727-8011
Admissions Address
102 Old Administration Building
Tuskegee, Alabama 36088
Telephone: 334-727-8500
Toll-free: 800-622-6531
Fax: 334-724-5750
E-mail: admissions@tusk.edu
http://www.tuskegee.edu
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History
Tuskegee University is a four-year, private, state-related, coed, liberal arts institution. It was founded in 1881 as Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute to educate rural black youth in Alabama. A former slave, Lewis Adams, and a former slave owner, George W. Campbell, negotiated a political deal that engineered the passage of legislation that appropriated $2000 annually for teachers’ salaries for a school to educate black youth in Macon and surrounding counties. They wrote to Hampton Institute for a teacher recommendation and the principal sent 26-year-old Booker T. Washington.
Later in 1881, Booker T. Washington opened Tuskegee, serving as its first principal. It humbly began with 30 men and women, primarily from Macon County, in a one-room shanty. The next year, Washington purchased a 100-acre abandoned plantation, which became the nucleus of Tuskegee’s present campus. Dr. Washington died at Tuskegee on November 14, 1915, and is buried on the campus.
The first class graduated from the Tuskegee Normal School in 1885. Incorporated in 1893, the first instruction at the postsecondary level was offered in 1923. The first baccalaureate degree was awarded in 1925. In 1937, the school’s name changed to Tuskegee Institute, and the present name was adopted in 1967 when the school achieved university status.
Tuskegee University is a privately controlled, yet state-related, professional, scientific, and technical institution with four-year and graduate degree programs. TU boasts a long list of notable alumni and leaders. George Washington Carver, its most notable alumnus, is known for his research on the use of peanuts and sweet potatoes. Others include Lionel Richie, renowned singer, songwriter, and winner of five Grammy Awards and General Daniel "Chappie" James, the first black four-star general in the armed forces.
TU was the first black college to be designated as a Registered National Landmark and has the distinction of being the only existent college designated a National Historic Site and District by Congress. It was the first site for the training of black military pilots and has had more graduates become flag officers than any other institution. Tuskegee also established the first nursing degree program in Alabama. The founder of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) was Dr. Frederick D. Patterson, third president of Tuskegee University. Tuskegee is unique in that it is the only historical black institution that enjoys private control and state land-grant status.
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General Information
Private institution
Year founded: 1881
Religious affiliation: None
Academic calendar: Semester
Undergraduate student body: 2,480
Setting: Rural
Endowment: $67,471,035
Fall 2005 Admissions
Application deadline: March 15
Application fee: $25
Selectivity: Selective
2005-2006 Expenses
Tuition and fees: $11,990
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