ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY

Alabama State University, established 1867, is a truly dark college situated in Montgomery, Alabama. ASU is a part school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. 

History: 

Alabama State University established in 1867 as the Lincoln Normal School of Marion in Marion. In December 1873, the State Board acknowledged the exchange of title to the school after an authoritative demonstration was passed approving the state to support a Normal School, and George N. Card was named President. Along these lines, in 1874, this ancestor of Alabama State University turned into America's first state-upheld instructive establishment for blacks. This started ASU's history as an "Educator's College." 

In 1878, the second president, William Paterson, was named. He is respected as an originator of Alabama State University and was the president for 37 of the initial 48 years of its presence. Paterson was instrumental in the move from Marion to Montgomery in 1887. In 1887, the college opened in its new area in Montgomery, however an Alabama State Supreme Court administering constrained the school to change its name; in this way, the school was renamed the Normal School for Colored Students. 

The college encountered about pressure with the state government in 2013 and 2014. In December 2012, college president Joseph Silver surrendered after just six months in the employment. In October 2013, the state representative requested that the college stop its progressing presidential hunt to address a review that charged that "ASU endeavored to foil and hamper the review," a few trustees got uncalled for advantages, and noteworthy budgetary blunder. 

Understudy life: 

More than 70 understudy associations are contracted at Alabama State, including nine Greek-letter associations, a full scope of men's and ladies' intramural and intercollegiate games, and 17 respects associations. Notwithstanding social, social and religious gatherings, there are musical open doors, for example, the walking and symphonic groups, the choir, and departmental associations for generally majors. 

Grounds: 

ASU's urban, 172-section of land (0.70 km2) grounds has Georgian-style red-block classroom structures and compositionally contemporary structures. ASU is home to the cutting edge 7,400-seat scholarly and sports office the ASU Acadome; the Levi Watkins Learning Center; a five-story block structure with more than 267,000 volumes, the best in class John L. Buskey Health Sciences Center; which is 80,000 square feet (7,400 m2) office which houses classrooms, workplaces, an interdisciplinary facility, three restorative recovery labs, cutting edge Gross Anatomy Lab, Laboratory for the Analysis of Human Motion (LAHM), a Women's Health/Cardiopulmonary lab, and a wellbeing sciences PC lab, and WVAS-FM 90.7; the 80,000-watt, college worked open radio station.