Transcript 2007 National Alumni Convention Building On Our Legacy:

ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Education
NCATE Presentation
“Building on the Legacy
of a Proud Past”
ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY
Alabama State University is an institution
with a distinguished and unique position in
American history.
Founded on the mission to educate Negro
teachers, that history started at the end of the
Civil War with the end of slavery. A need for an
institution to provide educational opportunities for
recently freed slaves arose and several of those
freedmen, now known as the Marion Nine, united
in Marion, Ala., and started Lincoln Normal
School, the progenitor of Alabama State
University
ASU’s unique position includes the
distinction as the nation’s oldest publicly assisted
historically black college.
Early Beginnings in Marion, Ala.
Lincoln School opened on Nov. 13,
1867 with 113 students. The Rev.
Mr. Thomas C. Steward of Ohio, a
white Congregational minister,
served as administrator of the
school. In Sept. 1868, the trustees
leased the school to the American
Missionary Association (AMA)
which agreed to keep the school in
operation.
The State Normal School and University
for Colored Teachers and Students
The State Normal School and University
began operation under state control in 1874
with an annual appropriation of $2000.00.
This was increased to $4000.00 the next
year when 70 students were enrolled.
Expanding the Marion Facility
In 1879, the school purchased a new 5.6 acre site. By 1885 there was “one main
building, 40’ x 80’, with eight classrooms, an office, a music room and an auditorium.
Four more rooms were added later”. An enlargement of this picture seems to show form
of a bell in the tower at left.
A. S. Plump in State Normal Courier, Feb 7, 1924
Bidding Farewell to Marion
Although the school operated successfully in
Marion, opposition to its presence grew,
and in 1887 a bill was presented to the state
legislature to abolish the Lincoln Normal
School and University and provide for a
replacement to be called Alabama Colored
People’s University, with the specification
that it could not be located in Marion.
Beginning Again in Montgomery
In Summer 1887, in a mass meeting
at Old Ship AME Zion church,
plans were presented plans for
re-locating the former Lincoln Normal
School, now called the State Normal
School, to Montgomery.
A New Community Pitches In
In 1888, the Alabama State Supreme Court ruled
that the state could not legally fund a colored
peoples university and state financial support was
withdrawn. The doors were kept open, but in
that year, the school had to exist on the tuition of
one dollar a month from its students and on
donations and fund raisers. In 1889, state funding
was restored to support a normal school, and the
community donated $3300.00 and six and one
half acres of land for the school.
The Original Montgomery Campus
The school flourished in Montgomery, where
it would ultimately become Alabama State
University. The school grew from its six and
one-half acre campus in 1889 to today’s
campus of 250 acres and more than 5,500
diverse students from more than 40 states
and a half dozen countries.
ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY
IN 2007
ASU Today
Diverse Student body from seven countries
and 42 states
• Forty-seven degree granting programs
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31 bachelors
11 masters
2 educational specialist
3 doctoral
The College of Education
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Graduated more than 7000 teachers
19 programs at the baccalaureate level
17 programs at the masters level
11 programs at the post masters level
Offers Education Specialist
Offers Alternative fifth-year program
SATELLITE PROGRAMS
• Birmingham
• Brewton
• Mobile
Tomorrow is Being Created Today
By a Single University
ASU PROPOSED ACADEMIC
CONCENTRATIONS
 Forensic Sciences
 Hospitality and Tourism Management
 Transitional Doctorate in Physical Therapy
 Master of Science in Rehabilitation Therapy
 Entertainment Industry Management
NEW ACADEMIC PROGRAMS DRIVE
$125 MILLION IN NEW CONSTRUCTION
NEW CONSTRUCTION
 Fred Shuttlesworth Dining Hall
 Robert C. Hatch Forensic Sciences Building
 Life Sciences Building
 Ralph David Abernathy College of Education Building
 Levi Watkins Learning Center expansion
 Dormitory renovations
 Student Center construction
 Power Generator
Fred Shuttlesworth Dining Hall
Robert C. Hatch Forensic Sciences
Building
Robert C. Hatch Forensic
Sciences Building
 PURPOSE: To house classrooms and laboratories for the
new Forensic Sciences concentration and share space with
the State of Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences
 LOCATION: Carter Hill Road and Union Street
 ARCHITECTS: Parsons, Wible, Brummal, Alkire, Architects
Inc.
 COST: $10.3 million
 OCCUPANCY DATE: First week of August 2007
Life Sciences Building
Life Sciences Building
 PURPOSE: To house the Department of Biological
Sciences, including the new Microbiology Ph.D.
program.
 LOCATION: Hall Street and O’Connell Street
 ARCHITECTS: Goodwyn, Mills, and Cawood, Inc.
 COST: $26,745,000
 OCCUPANCY DATE: June 2008
Ralph David Abernathy
College of Education Building
Ralph David Abernathy
College of Education Building
Ralph David Abernathy
College of Education Building
 PURPOSE: To house the College of Education, bringing the
college’s bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral level education
programs together under one roof
 LOCATION: Hall and Hardaway Streets
 ARCHITECTS: Parsons, Wible, Brummal, Alkire, Architects, Inc.
 COST: $30,183,000
 OCCUPANCY DATE: April 2009
Levi Watkins Learning Center
Expansion
Levi Watkins Learning Center
Expansion
 PURPOSE: To expand the library’s resources to include
requirements for collections, readers, services and staff for the
University’s new academic concentrations and degree programs.
 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The addition of a new, 4-story wing
providing 46,000 square feet of new space including an Internet
café, group seating/study areas, an Information Commons and
an Interlibrary loan work area.
 ARCHITECTS: Nolanda, Hatcher, Bearden, AIA-Architect
 COST: $9,200,000
 PROJECTED COMPLETION: October 2008
Residence Hall Renovations
Residence Hall Renovations
 PURPOSE: Converting six residence halls into suite-style living quarters (Bibb
Graves, George N. Card Hall, William Benson, J.W. Abercrombie, Willease
Simpson, Bessie Benson Hall).
 PROJECT MANAGER: TCU
 ARCHITECTS: Brown and Chambless
 COST: $25 million
 PROJECT PHASES:
PHASE ONE will include renovation of Bibb Graves and J.W. Abercrombie
Halls and is scheduled to be completed Fall 2008.
PHASE TWO will include the renovation of two additional residence halls to be
completed Fall 2009.
PHASE THREE will include the renovation of the final two residence halls and
will be completed Fall 2010.
Student Center Construction
 PURPOSE: To improve student life and offer an updated facility
 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The John Garrick Hardy University
Center will be raised, and a new facility will be constructed.
 ARCHITECTS: Barganier, Davis and Sims
 COST: $16 million
 CONSTRUCTION BEGINS: January 2008
 PROJECTED COMPLETION: January 2010
A New School of Thought for a
New Generation of Thinkers