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Grambling State

Grambling State University
Grambling State University seal.png
Former names
Colored Industrial and
   Agricultural School
North Louisiana Agricultural
   and Industrial School
Louisiana Negro Normal
   and Industrial Institute
Grambling College
Motto Where Everybody is Somebody
Type Public, HBCU
Established 1901
Endowment $4.5 million
President Richard J. Gallot, Jr
Provost Dr. Ellen Smiley, Interim
Students 4,863
Undergraduates 3,883
Postgraduates 980
Location Grambling, Louisiana, U.S.
32°31′31″N 92°42′55″W / 32.5252°N 92.7153°W / 32.5252; -92.7153Coordinates: 32°31′31″N 92°42′55″W / 32.5252°N 92.7153°W / 32.5252; -92.7153
Campus Rural
Colors Black & Gold
         
Athletics NCAA Division I FCSSWAC
Nickname Tigers
Affiliations UL System
TMCF
Website www.gram.edu
GSU logo.PNG
University rankings
Regional
U.S. News & World Report RNP (South)
Master's University class
Washington Monthly 79

Grambling State University (GSU) is a historically black, public, coeducational university, located in Grambling, Louisiana. The university is home of College Football Hall of Fame inductee and former head football coach Eddie Robinson, and is listed on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail. The university is a member-school of the University of Louisiana System and Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

Grambling State was founded in 1901 and accredited in 1949. The school became Grambling College in 1946 named after a white sawmill owner, Judson H. Grambling, who donated a parcel of land for the school to be constructed. With the addition of graduate departments, Grambling gained university status in 1974. Grambling State University emerged from the desire of African-American farmers in rural north Louisiana who wanted to educate other African Americans in the northern part of the state. In 1896, the North Louisiana Colored Agriculture Relief Association was formed to organize and operate a school. After opening a small school west of what is now the town of Grambling, the Association requested assistance from Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Charles P. Adams, sent to aid the group in organizing an industrial school, became its founder and first president.

Under Adams’ leadership, the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School opened on November 1, 1901. Four years later, the school moved to its present location and was renamed the North Louisiana Agricultural and Industrial School. By 1928, the school was able to offer two-year professional certificates and diplomas after becoming a state junior college. The school was renamed Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute.


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