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Hampton University

Hampton University is a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia. Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, it was established by Black and White leaders of the American Missionary Association after the American Civil War to provide education to freedmen. The campus houses the Hampton University Museum, which is the oldest museum of the African diaspora in the United States and the oldest museum in the commonwealth of Virginia.[4] First led by former Union General Samuel Chapman Armstrong,[5] Hampton University's main campus is located on 314 acres in Hampton, Virginia, on the banks of the Hampton River.

Former names

Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (1868–1930)
Hampton Institute (1930–1984)

"The Standard of Excellence, An Education for Life"

Private historically black research university

September 17, 1861 (1861-09-17)

Space-grant

$280.6 million (2020)[1]

JoAnn Haysbert

Darrell K. Williams

JoAnn Haysbert

3,516 (Fall 2021)[2]

3,063 (Fall 2021)[2]

453 (Fall 2021)[2]

Hampton, Virginia
,
U.S.

37°01′21″N 76°20′05″W / 37.02250°N 76.33472°W / 37.02250; -76.33472

Suburban, 314 acres (127 ha)

The Hampton Script [3]

   Blue & white

Pirates

NCAA Division I (FCS) – CAA

hamptonu.edu

The university offers 90 programs, including 50 bachelor's degree programs, 25 master's degree programs and nine doctoral programs. The university has a satellite campus in Virginia Beach and also has online offerings. Hampton University is home to 16 research centers, including the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute, the largest free-standing facility of its kind in the world. Hampton University is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity."[6]

Location

NW of jct. of U.S. 60 and the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel, Hampton, Virginia

37°01′13″N 76°35′40″W / 37.0203°N 76.5945°W / 37.0203; -76.5945

314 acres (127 ha)

1866 (1866)

Richard Morris Hunt; Et al.

69000323[46]

114-0006

November 12, 1969

May 30, 1974[48]

September 9, 1969[47]

Mansion House, original plantation residence of Little Scotland

Virginia Hall, built in 1873

Academic Hall

Wigwam

Marquand Memorial Chapel, a red brick chapel with a 150-foot (46 m) tower

Romanesque Revival

Civil rights movement (1865–1896)

historic tree on the campus

Emancipation Oak

WHOV 88.1 FM

Anderson, James D. (1988) pp 33–78 online.

The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935

Armstrong, Mary F. and Ludlow, Helen W., New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874.

Hampton and Its Students.

Engs, Robert Francis (1999). . University of Tennessee Press.

Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited: Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute, 1839–1893

Molin, Paulette Fairbanks (Fall 1988). "'Training the Hand, the Head, and the Heart': Indian Education at Hampton Institute". Minnesota History. 51 (3). Minnesota Historical Society Press: 82–98.  20179107.

JSTOR

Maddox, Lucy (June 2002). "Politics, Performance and Indian Identity". American Studies International. 40 (2). Mid-America American Studies Association: 7–36.  4127989.

JSTOR

Schall, Keith L., ed. (1977). Stony the Road: Chapters in the History of Hampton Institute. The University Press of Virginia.

Welch, John S. "Reassessing the Vocational Origins of Hampton University and Celebrating a Singular History of Arts Engagement." Public Historian 40.3 (2018): 107–141.

Official website

Official athletics website

Official student newspaper – The Hampton Script

at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

Hampton Institute: Its Program of Education for Life