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We’re kicking off our HBCU Homecoming tour with Alabama State College (go Hornets!), identified for its fairly women, dazzling dance squads (Sensational Stingettes and world-famous Honey Beez), and stadium-rocking college pleasure within the coronary heart of Montgomery, Alabama.
Nestled within the birthplace of the trendy civil rights motion, Alabama State College was based in 1867 by 9 previously enslaved males now generally known as the Marion 9, making ASU one of many nation’s oldest establishments of upper training based for Black People.
In a rising pattern amongst HBCUs, ASU boasts a various scholar physique with college students from greater than 41 states and 21 international locations. With a 20 to 1 student-faculty ratio, “college students obtain the private consideration, mentoring, encouragement and data wanted to realize their goals,” per its official web site.
In 2024, the storied establishment provides greater than 60 undergraduate and graduate diploma packages from our historic instructor training program to an inventory of high-demand packages just like the Doctorate in Bodily Remedy, the Ph.D. in microbiology, the Grasp of Accountancy, the Grasp’s in Social Work and the Bachelor of Advantageous Arts in dance.
Notable alumni embrace 2 Chainz, Rickey Smiley, Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, Broadway stars Bonita Hamilton Ceasar and Brandon McCall (Lion King), Peabody Award-winner/actor/director Timothy Ware Hill, legendary soccer coach Woody McCorvey, worldwide rugby star Phaidra Knight, the late Archbishop of the Catholic Church Joseph Lawson Howze, and lots of extra.
Which homecomings are you attending this 12 months? Do you’ve got your outfits picked out already? Is there a band you wish to see carry out? Inform us down under and revel in our gallery of Bama State baddies who slayed at homecoming on the flip.
