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*Prairie View A&M University was founded on this date in 1878. They are a comprehensive public institution of higher education.
On this date, Prairie View A&M opened its doors, enrolling eight young men. It is one of the over 100 historically Black colleges and universities in America (HBCU). Part of the Texas A&M University System, Prairie View A&M was founded during the first year of the Texas constitution. It is a land-grant university authorized under the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890.
The main campus is in Waller County, about forty miles northwest of Houston, Texas. A College of Nursing branch facility is located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston. The university offers various academic programs through six colleges and two schools. College of Agriculture and Human Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Engineering, Nursing, Architecture, and a School of Juvenile Justice.
One additional school, the Graduate School, offers programs through the previously listed colleges. Mission and Purpose: The modern mission of Prairie View A&M University was redefined by the people of Texas through an amendment to the Constitution in 1984. Through that amendment, Prairie View A&M University joined both the University of Texas and Texas A&M University as constitutionally designated "institutions of the first class." Clara Belle Williams, Dewey Redman, Mr. T., and Percy Sutton are Notable graduates.
Black American Colleges and Universities:
Profiles of Two-Year, Four-Year, & Professional Schools
by Levirn Hill, Pub., Gale Group, 1994
ISBN: 0-02-864984-2
