Tuskegee University publishes its Reopening Guide and COVID-19 Policies and Procedures, which details the measures taken to facilitate our cultural shift within the COVID19 pandemic environment. View the guide at:
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received a $20 million gift from philanthropist, activist and author MacKenzie Scott. President Lily D. McNair said the unrestricted donation is the largest single gift in the university’s history. Read more here:
Caleb Washington, a senior from Demopolis, Alabama, majoring in sociology, is among the eight recipients of the
@Beyonce
Knowles-Carter and
@BeyGood
's $25,000 2018-19 Homecoming Scholars scholarship award.
The Tuskegee University Board of Trustees is proud to announce that interim president Dr. Charlotte Morris has been elected the ninth president of Tuskegee University, effective August 1, 2021.
Founded in a one-room shanty, under the leadership of founder, Dr. Booker T. Washington –
#TuskegeeUniversity
has become one of the nation's most outstanding institutions of higher learning. Today we celebrate 139 years of excellence.
#HappyFoundersDay
#TU139
❤️💛
Retired NBA Basketball Star and Hall of Famer, Charles Barkley, announced that he was choosing Tuskegee University for his next big donation to an HBCU -
Kudos to Interim President, Dr. Charlotte Morris on officially receiving her bachelor’s degree in business education from Jackson State University. The original commencement ceremony in 1970 was cancelled due to a tragic mass shooting. Read more at:
Tuskegee University is pleased to announce that its new flight school degree program will take flight this fall thanks to $6.7 million in federal funding secured by Alabama Senator Katie Britt. Read more at: .
On February 27th local authorities reported to TU PD that Marquez Duncan, a 22-year-old Atlanta area-native, who at one time was a student, has been missing for a week. Join us Tonight for An Update With the Chief of Tuskegee Police. Read more at:
Make plans now for Homecoming Oct. 14
Tuskegee will host its Homecoming celebration on Oct. 14. Arrange your travel plans now. A full calendar of events will be shared once available.
Tuskegee University has received a $7.93 million grant to build a new 8,600-square-foot biomedical annex to the Carver Research Center facility. Read more at:
#OneTuskegee
#biomedicalresearch
Tuskegee University and Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law have partnered together to create a 3+3 program pathway that will allow Tuskegee students to venture straight into one of the most highly regarded law programs in the state of Alabama -
Nearly four decades later, Woodard honors a promise to himself and his mom to earn his Tuskegee degree - Former pro football star Ken Woodard earns Tuskegee degree -
Thousands of family and friends flocked into Chappie James Arena and overflow areas to watch more than 400 students walk across the stage to receive their Tuskegee University degrees on Saturday. Read more at:
CNN political analyst, attorney, activist and former representative from South Carolina, Bakari Sellers, will serve as the keynote speaker for Tuskegee University’s 2021 Spring Commencement exercises. Read more at:
“It’s a Great Day to be a
#GoldenTiger
.” ❤️💛
Over the next three days, we will welcome nearly 600 freshmen to Mother Tuskegee. We’re absolutely excited but we’re not forgetting our masks and we’re also keeping our distance. Welcome
#TU24
!!!
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#NSO
On Nov. 10,
#TuskegeeUniversity
will dedicate campus signage and announce a new annual scholarship honoring the memory of former tennis student-athlete Bobby “B.J.” Smith, who was killed in September 2013.
@mytuathletics
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Tuskegee Ranks 4th Among U.S. News and World Report’s Top HBCUs. Improved Student Retention and Alumni Giving cited as TU’s ranking improves from 2020’s Report -
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson enjoyed the campus route her mother Ellery Brown ’67 walked during a special tour of Tuskegee University. Read more at:
🎉 Congratulations to Dr. David K. Wilson '77, President of Morgan State University and a proud Tuskegee University alum, for being awarded the prestigious Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education for 2023! Read more at:
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#HBCUExcellence
#HBCU
Today, Tuskegee University alumnus and trustee Jonathan Porter '95 presented the Tuskegee University Marching Crimson Pipers Band with a $50,000 donation through Alabama Power to support Phase II of the MCP Band fundraising initiative. Read more at:
BIG WIN ALERT! Our NAHB Student Competition Team snagged 1st Place in the Custom Home Building Division at the Las Vegas competition. This is our second 1st Place in three years!
#NAHB
#StudentCompetition
#Architecture
#Construction
Two Tuskegee students -- Sierra Powell (Political Science; CAS) and Bruce Taylor (CBIS) -- have been awarded the prestigious White House HBCU scholarship. Read the full release at:
🚧 Exciting News from TU! 🚧 The historic renovation journey begins for Adams and Olivia Davidson Halls at Tuskegee University. Track our progress as we aim for completion this fall. Witness as we honor the past and build for the future! Read more at: .
Tuskegee University continues to lead most historically black colleges and universities among rankings by U.S. News & World Report. The university ranked No. 4 among all HBCUs and is the top-ranked HBCU in the state of Alabama. Read more at:
Help us congratulate
#TuskegeeUniversity
student and software developer Henry Moses, who is a finalist in
@TheYARD2019
's grand pitch finale on Dec. 20, where he and business partner Malachi Ards are pitching their Connect app for a $10K grand prize!
#TuskegeeUniversity
commemorates the 155th anniversary of
#JUNETEENTH
. June 19, 1865 was a day filled with triumph as it marked the emancipation of the last enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas. Let us pause to recognize our history and tell the story of our generations.
Although
#MisterTuskegee
, didn’t win the title of Mister HBCU we are still proud of his persistence and willingness to put
#TuskegeeUniversity
back on the stage, after nearly five years of not competing. Congratulations for a job well done.
#TUProud
#Tuskegee
#TU
Congratulations to the 2021-2022 Tuskegee University Royal Court.
Miss Tuskegee University Jasmine McCollum
1st Attendant Morgan Banks
2nd Attendant Janasia Phillips
Mister TuskegeeUniversity Lorenzo Winston
1st Gentleman Hasson Lewis-Majied
2nd Gentleman Jalen Moss
Tuskegee University's computer science department has received a $995,000 grant to train local minority high school students in information technology and cyber security. Read the full article here:
Tuskegee University is pleased to announced that we will now host an in-person Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, May 30, at Cramton Bowl Stadium in Montgomery, Alabama. Read more at:
It’s a packed house for the
#TU23
New Student Orientation!!! We are so excited for our new Golden Tigers🐯 to join us this year.
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#TU
Tuskegee University’s Ninth President Charlotte P. Morris, who has served the university for almost 40 years in different capacities, will retire as planned next spring. Read the full announcement here: .
#OneTuskegee
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Help us congratulate
@micdg_
for leading the
#TuskegeeUniversity
student body through what can only be described as an
#unprecedented
academic year. Thank you, Micah Grey, for your leadership and dedication!
Two Tuskegee veterinary students receive $20k PetDesk Equity in Veterinary Medicine Scholarships. The scholarships will help defray the cost of their veterinary medical education. Read more...
Tuskegee University honors over 800 graduates from the classes of 2020-2021 in historic commencement ceremony held at Cramton Bowl in Montgomery, Alabama. Read more...
#TuskegeeUniversity
’s Department of Architecture has received an unparalleled contribution of $100,000 from the Cooper Carry Charitable Foundation, Inc. The gift will be used to increase access to the architecture profession for African American students. Full story online.
Tuskegee University has been awarded a five-year $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to educate the next generation of STEM graduates in sustainable packaging materials.
With degree in hand, newly graduated Kayla Frazier is heading to Texas to show how women in engineering get things done - Skegee Spotlight: Kayla Frazier -
Greetings Golden Tigers! Today is the day to celebrate our 140th birthday. Visit and let us all celebrate 140 years of excellence by making a gift during the 1881 Challenge.
#1881challenge
We send our sincerest condolences to the family of Dr. Edward Donald Willis. He earned his doctorate from Tuskegee University's School of Veterinary Medicine in 1966 and was Montgomery, Alabama's first African American veterinarian.
This Saturday July 4th 2020 we Alumni, Students, Family and Friends of
@TuskegeeUniv
will be on your timeline like this for celebration of Tuskegee University Opening July 4th 1881!!!!
Kicking off
#TuskegeeUniversity
's countdown to our May 9 virtual graduation observance is
#biology
major and
#SGA
president Micah Grey. Read more about Saturday's virtual event at
Best wishes to the
#TuskegeeUniversity
women’s basketball team as they compete this evening in the first round of the Division II NCAA Tournament. Share this post and comment
#Tuskegee_RYS21
to help push TU to the
#1
spot in the Home Depot Retool Your School Contest.
#OTD
in 1842, Lewis Adams was born. A former slave, he was one of
#TuskegeeUniversity
's founders, an early trustee, and a prominent African American in the Tuskegee community. He died on April 30, 1905.
Tuskegee University’s College of Veterinary Medicine will recognize the Class of 2021 graduates during both an in-person and virtual graduation and oath ceremony on Saturday, May 1 at 10a.m. and 1 p.m. CST respectively. Read more...
Tuskegee University among HBCUs to benefit from a $25 million COVID-19 initiative from the world leader in serving science, Thermo Fisher Scientific. Thermo Fisher plans to donate diagnostic instruments, test kits, and related supplies -
Hats off…literally to Tuskegee University alumnus Archie Clay '12 on the launch of his new luxury fedora hat line WEARBRIMS, with exclusive styles sold in the luxury department store Nordstrom! Read more at:
Dr. Wayne Barr has shared that Ms. Antoinette Frederick, Ka-O, Class of 1943 has passed. She served as the
#GoldenVoices
Choir's chaperone from about 2010 to the present. She never tired of being with the choir in its travels near or far and of encouraging our students.
Graduation Day has finally arrived for our graduates. Congratulations to the Class of 2023, wishing you all the best of luck in the future.
#tuskegeegrad2023
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Rev. Dr. William Flippin Sr. to
#TuskegeeUniversity
graduates: "Take your stone from this place and get involved [with your community]. Show and help others who are less fortunate. The world, your race is counting on you to carry your stone." 🎓
#TU19
President Lily D. McNair offers condolences on behalf of
#TuskegeeUniversity
-- as well as grief-counseling advice for students -- following the passing of junior Nyra Shaw-Hemphill Thursday evening.
Among the participants at this year's
#TuskegeeUniversity
Founder's Day weekend reunion are these members of the class of 1943 celebrating their 75th reunion!
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#OTD
in 1955
#RosaParks
was arrested for failing to relinquish her seat to white passengers when the bus was full -- sparking a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system and leading to the 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation.
#OTD
in 1915,
#TuskegeeUniversity
's first president,
#BookerTWashington
, died. Born into slavery, he became known as an educator, author, orator, advisor to multiple U.S. presidents, and co-founder of the National Negro Business League.
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political science major Nina Hylton awarded
@UNCF
’s Mellon Mays humanities fellowship focusing on art conservation, cultural heritage preservation -
#TuskegeeUniversity
was listed as
@Cosmopolitan
50 most beautiful college campuses, and we can’t argue with that! Come visit us, we guarantee you’ll fall in love!!!
😍❤️💛