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{{Infobox_University |name = Howard University |image = Image:Howardseal.gif |motto = Veritas et Utilitas (Truth and Service) |established = March 2, 1867 |type = Private |president= H. Patrick Swygert |city = Washington |state = D.C. |country = USA |undergrad = 7,025 |postgrad = 3,617 |staff= 2,075 |campus = Urban |mascot = Bison |free_label = Athletics |free = 16 sports teams |website= www.howard.edu }} Howard University is a historically black university in Washington, D.C. It was established by a congressional charter in 1867, and much of its early funding came from the Freedmen's Bureau. From its outset, it was nonsectarian and open to people of both sexes and all races.

Howard has graduate schools of law, medicine, dentistry and divinity, in addition to the undergraduate program. The current enrollment (as of 2003) is approximately 11,000, including 7,000 undergraduates. It should also be noted that the university's football homecoming activities serve as one of the premier annual events in Washington.

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History

Image:Howard U.jpg Howard University has played an important role in civil rights history on a number of occasions. After being refused admission to the then-segregated University of Maryland School of Law, a young Thurgood Marshall enrolled at Howard University School of Law instead. There he studied under Charles Hamilton Houston, a Harvard Law School graduate and leading civil rights lawyer who at the time was the dean of Howard's law school. Houston took Marshall under his wing, and the two forged a friendship that would last for the remainder of Houston's life and forever change America. Howard University was the site where Marshall and his team of legal scholars from around the nation prepared to argue the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.

Major improvements, additions, and changes occurred at the school in the aftermath of World War One. In 1918, all the secondary schools of the university were abolished and the whole plan of undergraduate work changed. The four-year college course was divided into two periods of two years each, the Junior College, and the Senior Schools. The semester system was abolished in 1919 and the quarter system substituted. Twenty-three new members were added to the faculty between the reorganization of 1918 and 1923. A dining hall building with class rooms for the department of home economics was built in 1921 at a cost of $301,000. A greenhouse was erected in 1919. Howard Hall was renovated and made a dormitory for girls; many improvements were made on campus; J. Stanley Durkee, became president in 1918.

Five of the National Pan-Hellenic Council nine member organizations were founded at Howard University beginning in 1908, after Alpha Phi Alpha established its' second chapter, Beta, in 1907 at Howard.

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered a speech to the graduating class at Howard, where he outlined his plans for civil rights legislation

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Enrollment Statistics

  • Enrollment: 7,063
  • Female: 67%
  • Male: 33%
  • Out of State: 90%
  • International: 7%
  • African American: 84%
  • Asian: 1%
  • Caucasian: 0%
  • Hispanic: 6%
  • Native American: 0%

Via the Princeton Review

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Schools & Colleges

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Presidents of Howard University

•  Charles B. Boynton 1867
•  Byron Sunderland 1867 – 1869
•  Oliver Otis Howard 1869 – 1874
•  Edward P. Smith 1875 – 1876
•  William W. Patton 1877 – 1889
•  Jeremiah E. Rankin 1890 – 1903
•  John Gordon 1903 – 1906
•  Wilbur P. Thirkield 1906 – 1912
•  Stephen M. Newman 1912 – 1918
•  James S. Durkee 1918 – 1926
•  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson 1926 – 1960
•  James M. Nabrit 1960 – 1969
•  James E. Cheek 1969 – 1989
•  Franklyn G. Jenifer 1990 – 1994
•  H. Patrick Swygert 1995 –
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Famous Faculty

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Notable alumni

Howard University has conferred 99,318 degrees and certificates in its 137-year history. Noteworthy alumni are educators, politicians, United States ambassadors, writers, prominent international figures, corporate executives, and a Nobel Laureate

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Academia

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Arts, Media, Music & Literature

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Civil Rights

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Law & Politics

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Systems and Computer Science

  • Mr. Jason T. Smith owner and creator of 401m.net
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See also

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External links

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