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Harris–Stowe State University

Harris–Stowe State University
Motto	Inspiring change.
Type	Public
Established	1857
President	Dr. Dwaun J. Warmack
Students	1,464 (Fall 2016)
Location	St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Campus	Urban
Colors	Brown      & Gold
Athletics	NAIA - AMC
Mascot	Hornet
Website	www.hssu.edu
Harris Teachers College
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	3026 Laclede Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63103
Coordinates	38°38′00″N 90°13′27″W / 38.63333°N 90.22417°W / 38.63333; -90.22417Coordinates: 38°38′00″N 90°13′27″W / 38.63333°N 90.22417°W / 38.63333; -90.22417
Area	1.9 acres (0.77 ha)
Built	1905 (1905)
Architectural style	Tudor Revival
NRHP reference #	04000787[1]
Added to NRHP	August 4, 2004

Harris–Stowe State University is a historically black public university in St. Louis, Missouri. The university is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and offers 31 majors, minors, and certificate programs in education, business, and arts & sciences.

History

In 1857, St. Louis Public Schools established a normal school (teaching college) for white students; it was subsequently named Harris Teachers College, after William Torrey Harris, a former St. Louis superintendent of schools and United States Commissioner of Education. In 1863 philosopher Anna Brackett became principal of the school, and it became the first normal school led by a woman in the United States. In 1920, it was authorized to issue a four-year Bachelor of Arts in Education degree.^[2]

In 1890, the St. Louis school system established Sumner Normal School to train black teachers. In 1929, its name was changed to Stowe Teachers College, after author Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose Uncle Tom's Cabin had promoted the abolitionist cause in the antebellum United States.^[2]

The U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education mandated integration of public-school systems. In response to this, Harris and Stowe Colleges were merged into one institution, which retained the "Harris Teachers College" name. At the behest of Stowe alumni and other St. Louisans, the name "Stowe" was added, and the school became Harris-Stowe College.^[2]

In 1979, the college was added to the state system of public higher education, under the name of Harris-Stowe State College. Its four-year education degree was changed to a Bachelor of Science in Education. It subsequently expanded its programs to offer several new degrees in education, including the B.S. in Urban Education, designed to enable non-teaching urban education personnel to address problems specific to urban schools; and a degree in Business Administration with various professional options.^[2]

In 2005, the college attained university status, and was renamed Harris–Stowe State University.^[2]

Academics and accreditation

Academics

Harris–Stowe State University comprises three academic units:

• Anheuser-Busch School of Business


• College of Arts & Sciences


• College of Education

All degree programs at Harris-Stowe are dual level with the first level emphasizing general education studies and the upper level concentrating on professional studies.^[3]

Accreditation

Harris–Stowe State University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The Anheuser-Busch School of Business receives additional accreditation through the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs and the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education. The School of Education receives additional accreditation through the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.^[4]

Student activities

Student organizations

The Office of Student Engagement sponsors or hosts more than thirty activity or special interest clubs and approximately a dozen academic clubs and honor societies, several campus affiliate chapters of national organizations, and nearly 12 Greek organizations (mostly in conjunction with other St. Louis area colleges and universities).^[5]

Athletics

Harris–Stowe State teams are known as the Hornets.^[6] The university competes in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) as a member of the American Midwest Conference (AMC).

Harris-Stowe sponsors three men's and four women's teams in NAIA sanctioned sports:

William L. Clay, Sr. Early Childhood Development/Parenting Education Center

The William L. Clay, Sr. Early Childhood Development/Parenting Education Center is an early childhood child care center that sits on the campus of Harris–Stowe State University. Harris-Stowe invested $11 million into the new facility that is used to train early learning professionals, provide parenting education, and high quality full day care for children. Harris-Stowe was awarded an FY09 Area Resources for Community and Human Services (ARCHS) start-up and expansion grant to assist in the purchase of developmentally appropriate materials for the center's new infant/toddler rooms.^[7]

Notable alumni

• 
  Arlene Ackerman, former superintendent of public schools in District of Columbia, San Francisco and Philadelphia


• 
  David S. Cunningham, Jr., Los Angeles, California, City Council member, 1973–87


• 
  Julius Hunter, retired television anchorman, former St. Louis University vice-president, author


• 
  Bobby Wilks, U.S. Coast Guard aviator, first African-American promoted to Captain in the Coast Guard

References

External links

• Official website


• Official athletics website