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  • Shaw University
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  • Shaw is affiliated with the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina and a member of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. which supports the Shaw University Divinity School. Along with Howard University, Hampton University, Lincoln University, PA and Virginia Union University, Shaw was a co-founding member of the NCAA Division II's Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Conference, the oldest African American athletic association in the U.S. The university has won CIAA championships in Football, Basketball (women's and mens), and Men's Tennis.
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Former names
  • Raleigh Institute
Chairman
  • Dr. Joeseph N. Bell
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campus
Affiliation
  • National Baptist Convention,USA,Inc
Nickname
  • Shaw U.
Country
Name
campus size
  • 65.0
Type
Football Stadium
  • Durham Co. Memorial Stadium
Nota
  • 1990.0
  • author
  • one of the first African American female pilots and flight instructors in the United States
  • Baptist minister best known for his opposition to the United States embargo against Cuba
  • former member of the North Carolina Senate from 1993 to 2002
  • Grey Cup champion and all-star CFL football player
  • first heavyweight boxing champion with a college degree
  • Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1893.
  • President & CEO of Mechanics & Farmers Bank
  • President of Voorhees College
  • President of the Medgar Evers College
  • educator and businessman, co-founder of Mechanics & Farmers Bank, an African-American Bank in Raleigh, North Carolina
  • multi-millionaire attorney and co-founder of the Black Family Channel
  • currently serves on the Board of Library Commissioners for the Los Angeles Public Library
  • first President of Elizabeth City Normal College,
  • founder and President of North Carolina Central University
  • leader of SNCC and civil rights activist
  • pastor and gospel music artist
  • professional basketball player
  • first African-American member of the New York state legislature when he was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1917.
  • former President of Shaw University, President Emeritus of Howard University, 1983 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
  • former President of the United Nations General Assembly and Associate Justice to the National Supreme Court of Liberia
  • founder of the National Christian Counselors Association
  • first African American to hold the rank of colonel in the United States of the volunteer regiment during the Spanish American War
  • Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly, 14th Senate district, including constituents in Wake County
  • prominent physician in Raleigh; ran for mayor in 1919. His home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a museum
  • civil rights activist and educator, North Carolina State University
  • historian, administrator, scholar, educator, and writer.
Students
  • 2800
Colors
  • Garnet and White
Divinity Dean
  • Rev. Dr. James T. Roberson
President
  • Dr. D. Yancy, Ph.D
Athletics
Founder
  • Rev.Dr.Henry Martin Tupper
endowment
  • 2.3E7
Established
  • 1865-12-01
sports
  • 14
Affiliations
State
City
Website
Chaplain
  • Rev. Dr. Quincy Scott,Jr.
Motto
  • Pro Christo Et Humanitate
faculty
  • 200
mottoeng
  • For Christ and Humanity
Year
  • 1883
  • 1886
  • 1894
  • 1927
  • 1931
  • 1949
  • 1954
  • 1955
  • 1967
  • 1970
  • 1971
  • 1975
  • 1984
  • 1997
  • 2002
  • attended
Mascot
  • BEARS
abstract
  • Shaw is affiliated with the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina and a member of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. which supports the Shaw University Divinity School. Along with Howard University, Hampton University, Lincoln University, PA and Virginia Union University, Shaw was a co-founding member of the NCAA Division II's Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Conference, the oldest African American athletic association in the U.S. The university has won CIAA championships in Football, Basketball (women's and mens), and Men's Tennis. The university won a 5-year grant with University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to create a Partnership for the Elimination of Health Disparities for minorities, and a 7-year grant with Johns Hopkins University for Gerontological Research. In 2007, Shaw received $2.5 million from the National Science Foundation to support its Nanoscience and Nanotechnology program. In 2004, Shaw University received $1.1 million from the U.S. Department of Education to develop an Upward Bound Program.
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