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{{University
|name=Virginia State University
|background=Orange
|type=Public, land grant
|city=Ettrick, Virginia
|size=4,917<ref name=tp>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/vsu-in-trouble-board-member-says/article_5d1c077e-7178-5de9-be8b-5e2ed108afb8.html|work=Richmond Times Dispatch|title=VSU ‘in trouble,’ board member says|date=September 11, 2014|first=Karin|last=Kapsidelis|accesdate=September 12, 2014}}</ref>
|faculty=300
|sports=Baseball, Basketball, Bowling, Cross-Country, Cheerleading, Football, Golf, Softball, Tennis, Track, Volleyball<ref>http://www.govsutrojans.com/index.aspx Retrieved September 12, 2014}}</ref>
|colors=Orange and Blue
|mascot=Trojan
|website=http://www.vsu.edu/
|endowment=$13.8 million<ref>As of June 30, 2009. {{cite web | title = U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2009 Endowment Market Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2008 to FY 2009|work = 2009 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments | publisher =National Association of College and University Business Officers | url=http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/research/2009_NCSE_Public_Tables_Endowment_Market_Values.pdf|format= PDF | accessdate = February 5, 2010}}</ref>}}
'''Virginia State University''' (VSU) is one of two land-grant colleges in Virginia. It has a has a 236 acre main campus and a 416 acre agricultural research facility. The main campus includes more than 50 buildings, including 16 dormitories and 16 classroom buildings. The main campus is located close to the [[Appomattox River]] in [[Ettrick, Virginia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vsu.edu/about/index.php|title=About VSU|publisher=Virginia State University|accessdate=September 12, 2014}}</ref> Together with Virginia Tech, VSU operates the Virginia Cooperative Extension program throughout the commonwealth.
== History==
William Mahone, a Confederate general, was an advocate of educational opportunities for freedmen. After his railroad was sold to the Norfolk and Southern, he donated the proceeds to found a [[normal school]] for black teachers near his hometown of [[Petersburg, Virginia]].VSU was founded on March 6, 1882, as America’s first fully state supported four-year institution of higher learning for Blacks. Although the [[Morrill Act]] establishing land-grant colleges was passed during the Civil War, the land-grant colleges in most southern states were racially segregated. However, in 1890, Congress passed a second Morrill Act which provided that if a state did not open its land-grant college to black students, it must establish a separate one for blacks. In response, Virginia designated VSU as its second land-grant college.
In 1935, a branch campus started in Norfolk, Virginia. This was later spun-off into an independent college now called [[Norfolk State University]].
In response to civil rights legislation, VSU has opened its doors to non-black students and actively recruits them. At one point, the President of Virginia Tech proposed merging the two schools under the name of "Virginia State University."
Petersburg gained white state-operated Richard Bland College as a junior college in 1960. (Petersburg also has a separate local junior college John Tyler Community College founded in 1967.) When Richard Bland College proposed to expand from a two-year to a four-year college, a lawsuit successfully blocked the expansion on the grounds that it would make it difficult for VSU to attract white students. ''Norris v. State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.'' <ref>See, Stephen C. Halpern, On The Limits of the Law (JHU Press) pages 238-39 ISBN 0-8018-4897-0</ref>
==Present day==
VSU faces serious financial challenges. VSU faces a $5.3 million budget shortfall for the 2014-15 academic year. Its enrollment dropped by more than 10%, and in order to fill its dormatories, it now requires all freshmen and sophomores to live on campus. There are also serious concerns about campus safety. In fall 2013, a student was fatally shot in VSU's University Apartments.<ref name=tp/> There was also a stabbing at its homecoming event.<ref name=tp/>
Its official motto is "Building a Better World". Dr. Keith T. Miller was appointed the 13th president of VSU by the Board of Visitors in 2010.<ref>http://www.vsu.edu/about/leadership/index.php Retrieved September 12, 2014</ref>
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Colleges]]
|name=Virginia State University
|background=Orange
|type=Public, land grant
|city=Ettrick, Virginia
|size=4,917<ref name=tp>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/vsu-in-trouble-board-member-says/article_5d1c077e-7178-5de9-be8b-5e2ed108afb8.html|work=Richmond Times Dispatch|title=VSU ‘in trouble,’ board member says|date=September 11, 2014|first=Karin|last=Kapsidelis|accesdate=September 12, 2014}}</ref>
|faculty=300
|sports=Baseball, Basketball, Bowling, Cross-Country, Cheerleading, Football, Golf, Softball, Tennis, Track, Volleyball<ref>http://www.govsutrojans.com/index.aspx Retrieved September 12, 2014}}</ref>
|colors=Orange and Blue
|mascot=Trojan
|website=http://www.vsu.edu/
|endowment=$13.8 million<ref>As of June 30, 2009. {{cite web | title = U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2009 Endowment Market Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2008 to FY 2009|work = 2009 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments | publisher =National Association of College and University Business Officers | url=http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/research/2009_NCSE_Public_Tables_Endowment_Market_Values.pdf|format= PDF | accessdate = February 5, 2010}}</ref>}}
'''Virginia State University''' (VSU) is one of two land-grant colleges in Virginia. It has a has a 236 acre main campus and a 416 acre agricultural research facility. The main campus includes more than 50 buildings, including 16 dormitories and 16 classroom buildings. The main campus is located close to the [[Appomattox River]] in [[Ettrick, Virginia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vsu.edu/about/index.php|title=About VSU|publisher=Virginia State University|accessdate=September 12, 2014}}</ref> Together with Virginia Tech, VSU operates the Virginia Cooperative Extension program throughout the commonwealth.
== History==
William Mahone, a Confederate general, was an advocate of educational opportunities for freedmen. After his railroad was sold to the Norfolk and Southern, he donated the proceeds to found a [[normal school]] for black teachers near his hometown of [[Petersburg, Virginia]].VSU was founded on March 6, 1882, as America’s first fully state supported four-year institution of higher learning for Blacks. Although the [[Morrill Act]] establishing land-grant colleges was passed during the Civil War, the land-grant colleges in most southern states were racially segregated. However, in 1890, Congress passed a second Morrill Act which provided that if a state did not open its land-grant college to black students, it must establish a separate one for blacks. In response, Virginia designated VSU as its second land-grant college.
In 1935, a branch campus started in Norfolk, Virginia. This was later spun-off into an independent college now called [[Norfolk State University]].
In response to civil rights legislation, VSU has opened its doors to non-black students and actively recruits them. At one point, the President of Virginia Tech proposed merging the two schools under the name of "Virginia State University."
Petersburg gained white state-operated Richard Bland College as a junior college in 1960. (Petersburg also has a separate local junior college John Tyler Community College founded in 1967.) When Richard Bland College proposed to expand from a two-year to a four-year college, a lawsuit successfully blocked the expansion on the grounds that it would make it difficult for VSU to attract white students. ''Norris v. State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.'' <ref>See, Stephen C. Halpern, On The Limits of the Law (JHU Press) pages 238-39 ISBN 0-8018-4897-0</ref>
==Present day==
VSU faces serious financial challenges. VSU faces a $5.3 million budget shortfall for the 2014-15 academic year. Its enrollment dropped by more than 10%, and in order to fill its dormatories, it now requires all freshmen and sophomores to live on campus. There are also serious concerns about campus safety. In fall 2013, a student was fatally shot in VSU's University Apartments.<ref name=tp/> There was also a stabbing at its homecoming event.<ref name=tp/>
Its official motto is "Building a Better World". Dr. Keith T. Miller was appointed the 13th president of VSU by the Board of Visitors in 2010.<ref>http://www.vsu.edu/about/leadership/index.php Retrieved September 12, 2014</ref>
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Colleges]]