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'Texas Southern University' is one of the largest historically black universities in the USA. Located in Houston, Texas, the university was established on March 3 1947 by the Texas Legislature and it was initially named 'Texas State University for Negroes'. Prior to becoming a state university, Texas Southern University was owned by the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and had been known as 'Houston College for Negroes'.
Texas Southern University's school colors are maroon and gray and the school nickname is the Tigers. Texas Southern sports teams participate in NCAA Division I-A (I-AA for football) in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).

Contents

History

Campus

Jesse H. Jones School of Business

College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Athletics

Varsity Sports

Rivalries

Athletic Facilities

Postal services

Notable alumni

See also

External links

History

In February 1946, Heman Marion Sweatt, an African American man, applied to The University of Texas School of Law. He was denied admission because of his race, and subsequently filed suit. (See ''Sweatt v. Painter''.) At the time, there was no “separate but equal” law school for African Americans, and the Texas trial court, instead of granting Sweatt a ''writ of mandamus'', continued the case for six months allowing the state time to create a law school only for blacks. As a result, Texas Southern University was established under Senate Bill 140 by the Fiftieth Texas Legislature on March 3 1947 as a state university to be located in Houston. Originally named Texas State University for Negroes, the school was established to serve African Americans in Texas and offer them fields of study comparable to that available to white Texans. The state took over the HISD-run Houston College for Negroes as a basis for the new university. At the time, Houston College had one permanent building, but, more importantly, an existing faculty, and students. The school was charged with teaching "pharmacy, dentistry, arts and sciences, journalism education, literature, law, medicine, and other professional courses," and further stipulated that "these courses shall be equivalent to those offered at other institutions of this type supported by the State of Texas."

Campus

The university currently sits on a 150 acre campus in the middle of Third Ward and enrolls almost 11,500 students.
The university is currently compromised of ten schools and colleges:the College of Liberal Arts and Behavioral Sciences , the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs, the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, the Thurgood Marshall School of Law, the College of Education, the College of Continuing Education, the College of Science and Technology, the Jesse H. Jones School of Business, the Graduate School, and the recent established Tavis Smiley School of Communication. The Thurgood Marshall School of Law is one of the four public law schools in Texas.

'Programs'
As the fastest-growing School at Texas Southern University, the Jesse H. Jones School of Business remains on the forefront of contemporary trends. Current initiatives include curriculum changes that stress the importance of professional development, entrepreneurship, and globalization. As such, students receive the benefits of an applied and comprehensive approach to business practice.

Jesse H. Jones School of Business

The 'Jesse H. Jones School of Business' is guided by its 50-year commitment to service and education in the city of Houston. Houston’s business economy is significantly diversified with a strong energy base as well as high-technology industries, medical research, and professional services. The city’s employment growth is estimated to attract 31,000 new jobs among the 18 Fortune 500 companies and thousands of energy-related firms headquartered here. With Houston’s booming economy, the School’s mission is to not only provide students with a quality education for employment in today’s globally diverse job market but also afford them the tools to shift existing paradigms and change the way the business world works, for the better.

College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

This is one of the premier schools of Pharmacy in the Nation producing a majority of the minority Pharmacists in the state of Texas. The college of Pharmacy in particular has a rigorous program that graduates soundly trained and highly professional graduates with remarkable pass rates in the North American Pharmacy Licensure Examination (Naplex). Currently the dean of students is Dr. Barbara Hayes. The college has a campus in the highly acclaimed Texas Medical Center in Houston Texas that is designed to train the clinical Doctor of Pharmacy students in a setting that imparts the most pertinent knowledge in conjunction and collaboration with the other medical institutions in the TMC center.
There are several professional organizations on campus like the American Pharmacy Association (APhA). 2006/2007 officials in the class of 2009 play an integral role with the clinical academic course work in sharpening the skills of its members to the utmost perfection. The class of 2009, led by its able president, has served as a model unit deserving of emulation and adulation by all and sundry.
The program has an intricate network of affiliated community, hospital, retail and private clinics that serve as the on-site training grounds for final year students who are set to graduate after completing the well structured and detailed one year rotation program.The college of Pharmacy admits 120 students every fall semester. The students are formally inducted into the program through the White Coat ceremony, a solemn and serious part of getting inculcated into the process of mentally charting one's way through the choppy waters that constitute the program.

Athletics

The Texas Southern University Tiger athletic teams compete in the NCAA Division I-AA Southwestern Athletic Conference.

Varsity Sports

Men's varsity sports include baseball, basketball, football, golf, tennis, and track and field. Women's varsity sports include basketball, bowling, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field, and volleyball.

Rivalries

TSU's best known rivals are Prairie View A&M.

Athletic Facilities

★ Health and Physical Education Arena

★ TSU Recreation and Wellness Center

★ Robertson Stadium

★ Reliant Stadium

★ Toyota Center

Postal services

United States Postal Service Texas Southern Post Office is located at 3100 Cleburne Street, 77004-4575.

Notable alumni

★ Yolanda Adams, Grammy Award-winning gospel singer

★ Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, the first black woman from a Southern state to serve in the U.S. House

★ Congressman Mickey Leland, U.S. House

★ Congressman Craig Washington, U.S. House (Texas Southern Law School)

★ Michael Strahan, Defensive End for the New York Giants

★ Don Narcisse, Former Saskatchewan Roughriders Wide Receiver (1987-1999) / CFL Legend

★ Lloyd Wells, first black full-time professional football scout (Kansas City Chiefs, American Football League)

★ Bennie Swain, played for Boston Celtics

★ Lady Paula Merry, African-American children's book author

★ Ernie Holmes, Defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers and one of the players on the Steel Curtain

★ Honorable Senfronia Thompson, longest serving woman and African-American in the Texas House of Representatives.

See also

★ KTSU-FM

External links

★ AACSB Accreditation Web Site

★ Texas Southern University

★ Texas Southern University Athletics

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