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Norfolk State College

Norfolk State University
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Former names
Norfolk State Unit of Virginia
   Union University
Norfolk Polytechnic College
Virginia State College
Norfolk State College
Motto "Achieving With Excellence"
Type Public, HBCU
Established 1935 (1935)
Academic affiliation
VHTP
U.S. Census Bureau
Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund
Endowment $23 million
President Eddie N. Moore, Jr.
Provost Sandra J. DeLoatch
Academic staff
285
Undergraduates 6,200
Postgraduates 835
Location Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.
36°50′55″N 76°15′45″W / 36.8487°N 76.2625°W / 36.8487; -76.2625Coordinates: 36°50′55″N 76°15′45″W / 36.8487°N 76.2625°W / 36.8487; -76.2625
Campus Urban, 134 acres (0.5 km2)
Colors Green and Gold
         
Athletics NCAA Division IMEAC
Nickname Spartans
Affiliations TMCF
ORAU
Website www.nsu.edu
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Directors and Presidents of Norfolk State University
Samuel Fischer Scott Director 1935–1938
Lyman Beecher Brooks Director 1938–1963
Provost 1963–1969
President 1969–1975
Harrison Wilson, Jr. President 1975–1997
Marie McDemmond President 1997–2005
Alvin J. Schexnider Interim President 2005–2006
Carolyn Meyers President 2006–2010
Tony Atwater President 2011–2013
Sandra DeLoatch Acting President & Provost 2013
Eddie N. Moore Jr. Interim President & CEO 2013–2016
President 2016 -

Norfolk State University (NSU) is a public four-year, coed, liberal arts, historically black university located in Norfolk, Virginia. The university is a member-school of Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the Virginia High-Tech Partnership.

The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has accredited Norfolk State to award associate, baccalaureate, master and doctoral degrees. Currently, Norfolk State offers two doctorate and 15 master's degrees, including master's degree programs in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, and Criminal Justice. The school also offers 36 undergraduate degrees, including the only bachelor's degree in Optical Engineering in Virginia.

Norfolk State's undergraduate and graduate programs are divided into eight schools/colleges.

The institution was founded on September 18, 1935 as the Norfolk Unit of Virginia Union University. Eighty-five students attended the first classes held in 1935. Mr. Samuel Fischer Scott, an alumnus of Virginia Union and Portsmouth native, served as the first director with the primary focus of maintaining the solvency of the school. Dr. Lyman Beecher Brooks, a Virginia Union alumnus, succeeded Mr. Scott as director in 1938, and served as provost, 1963–1969, and the first president 1969–1975.

In 1942, the school became independent of VUU and was named Norfolk Polytechnic College. Within two years, by an act of the Virginia Legislature, it became a part of Virginia State College (now Virginia State University). By 1950, the 15th anniversary of the college founding, the faculty had grown to fifty and the student enrollment to 1,018. In 1952, the college's athletic teams adopted the "Spartan" name and identity.


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