ABOUT
Motto :Scientia, Officium, Honos
Motto in English: Knowledge, Duty, Honor
Type: Public historically black land-grant university
Established: March 4, 1896
Endowment: $4.5million (2015)
President: Alexander Conyers
Students :1,905
Undergraduates :1,529
Postgraduates: 376
Location :Orangeburg, South Carolina, U.S. 33°29′50″N 80°51′00″W
South Carolina State University (SCSU or SC State) is a public, historically black, land-grant university in Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States.
It is the only public, historically black land-grant institution in South Carolina that is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).
History
The university’s beginnings were as the ‘South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Institute in 1872 in compliance with the 1862 Land Grant Act within the institution of Claflin College—now known as Claflin University.
In 1896 the South Carolina General Assembly passed an act of separation and established a separate institution – the Colored Normal Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina, its official name until 1954.
The 1920s–1940s
Academic programs received more attention as the student population increased, but other programs, such as the university’s high school, were forced to close due to the Great Depression.
The New Deal Programs were used to create, among other things, Wilkinson Hall, the university’s first separate library building (now home to Admissions and Financial Aid).
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The university’s beginnings were as the ‘South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Institute in 1872 in compliance with the 1862 Land Grant Act within the institution of Claflin College—now known as Claflin University.
In 1896 the South Carolina General Assembly passed an act of separation and established a separate institution – the Colored Normal Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina, its official name until 1954.