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Huston–Tillotson University

Huston-Tillotson University
Huston-Tillotson University
Former names
Tillotson Collegiate and Normal Institute (1875–1952)
Samuel Huston College (1876–1952)
Huston–Tillotson College (1952–2005)
TypePrivate historically black university
Established1875
AffiliationUNCF
Religious affiliation
United Methodist Church, United Church of Christ
EndowmentUS$11.5 million[1]
PresidentMelva K. Wallace
ProvostArchibald W. Vanderpuye
Students1,160[2]
Undergraduates968
Postgraduates55
Location
Austin, Texas
,
U.S.

30°15′53″N 97°43′21″W / 30.2648°N 97.7224°W / 30.2648; -97.7224
Campus24 acres (9.7 ha)
ColorsMaroon & gold
   [3]
NicknameRams
Sporting affiliations
NAIA – RRAC
Websitewww.htu.edu
Huston-Tillotson College
NRHP reference No.100007662
Added to NRHPApril 22, 2022

Huston–Tillotson University (HT) is a private historically black university in Austin, Texas, United States. Established in 1875, it was the first institution of higher learning in Austin. The university is affiliated with the United Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ, and the United Negro College Fund. Huston–Tillotson University awards bachelor's degrees in business, education, the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, science, and technology and a master's degree in educational leadership. It also offers alternative teacher certification and academic programs for undergraduates interested in pursuing post-graduate degrees in law and medicine.

History

History at a glance
1875 Tillotson Collegiate and Normal Institute opens.
1876 Samuel Huston College opens.
1935 Tillotson is a women's college.
1952 Huston–Tillotson College is established when the two colleges merge.
2005 The school becomes Huston–Tillotson University.

Huston–Tillotson University began with the 1952 merger of two earlier schools: Tillotson College and Samuel Huston College.

Tillotson Collegiate and Normal Institute was chartered as a coeducational school in 1877 by the American Missionary Society of Congregational churches and its namesake, George Jeffrey Tillotson.[4] It opened on January 17, 1881, and had 12 presidents: "William E. Brooks, first president (1881-85), was succeeded by John Hershaw (1886), Henry L. Hubbell (1886-1889), William M. Brown (1889-93), Winfield S. Goss (1894-95), Marshall R. Gaines (1896-1904), Arthur W. Partch (1905-06), Isaac M. Agard (1907-18), and Francis W. Fletcher (1919-23). J. T. Hodges, the first African American to be president (1924-29), was followed by Mary E. Branch (1930-44) and William H. Jones, who became president in 1944."[4] Tillotson College was a women's college from 1926 to 1935.[4]

Samuel Huston College developed out of an 1876 Methodist Episcopal conference.[5][6] An 1883 agreement with the Freedmen's Aid Society led to the development of the college. The college was named after Samuel Huston of Marengo, Iowa, and the college opened in 1900.[5]

On October 24, 1952, Tillotson College and Samuel Huston College merged to form Huston–Tillotson College.[7] It then became Huston–Tillotson University on February 28, 2005.[8]

Before the merger, future baseball legend Jackie Robinson accepted an offer from his old friend and pastor Rev. Karl Downs [9] who was president of the college, to be the athletic director at Samuel Huston College, then of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).[10]

Before joining the Kansas City Monarchs, Robinson coached the school's basketball team for the 1944–45 season. As a fledgling program, few students tried out for the basketball team, and Robinson even resorted to inserting himself into the lineup for exhibition games. Although his teams were outmatched by opponents, Robinson was respected as a disciplinarian coach, and drew the admiration of, among others, Langston University basketball player Marques Haynes, a future member of the Harlem Globetrotters.[10]

Presidents

Main article: List of presidents of Huston–Tillotson University

Since 2022, Melva K. Williams serves as president of Huston–Tillotson University.[11] She was preceded by Archibald W. Vanderpuye, an interim president.[12]

Academics

HTU offers undergraduate and graduate degrees through the following:

  • College of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Business and Technology

The W.E.B. Dubois Honors Program is a selective program that provides highly qualified undergraduate students special academic and extracurricular opportunities.[13]

HTU has an engineering dual degree program with Prairie View A&M University. Under this program, HTU undergraduates complete preliminary required courses on campus and then automatically transfer to Prairie View A&M to complete their engineering degree. Students who successfully complete the program will receive two degrees: a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from HTU and a Bachelor of Science in an engineering discipline from Prairie View A&M.[14]

Campus

Huston–Tillotson University's campus is located at the site of the former Tillotson College on a land feature formerly known to local residents as Bluebonnet Hill. The 24-acre (9.7 ha) campus is located in East Austin, between seventh and 11th streets near I-35 and downtown Austin. East Austin has historically been the city's designated place for African-American culture and empowerment largely due to Jim Crow segregation laws.[15]

Most of the buildings on campus follow the same nomenclature as the name of the university, with hyphens denoting the importance of the contributions of individuals from both colleges before the merger.

Anthony and Louise Viaer Alumni Hall

Anthony and Louise Viaer Alumni Hall

The Anthony and Louise Viaer Alumni Hall (formerly known as the Old Administration Building) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Student body

In the fall of 2015, the student body was 57% female and 43% male. 68% identified as Black, 22% identified as Hispanic, 6% identified as non-Hispanic White, and the remaining 4% identified with other ethnicity or racial groups.[16]

Athletics

The Huston–Tillotson athletic teams are called the Rams. The university is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Red River Athletic Conference (RRAC) since the 1998–99 academic year. The Rams previously competed as a founding member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) from 1920 to 1921 to 1953–54 (when it was majority known as Samuel Huston College), which is currently an NCAA Division I FCS athletic conference.

Huston–Tillotson competes in 12 intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, soccer and track & field; women's sports include basketball, soccer, softball, track & field and volleyball; and co-ed sports include cheerleading and eSports.

Facilities

The baseball team plays at historic Downs Field at East 12th Street and Alexander Avenue.

Notable people

Faculty

Alumni

  • Dr. Herman A. Barnett III, first African-American to be admitted to the University of Texas Medical School; first native Texan African-American to graduate from a Texas medical school and to be licensed to practice medicine in Texas; a successful doctor[17]
  • Maceo T. Bowie, first president of the Kennedy-King City College in Chicago[18]
  • Bobby Bradford, jazz trumpeter, cornetist, bandleader, and composer
  • Dr June H. Brewer, former professor of English at Huston–Tillotson University for 35 years; former chairperson for the English Department at Hutson-Tillotson; one of the first five African Americans admitted to the University of Texas after the landmark Sweatt v. Painter case[19]
  • Juanita Craft, politician and civil rights activist[20][21]
  • Dr. Karl E. Downs, minister in the United Methodist Church, graduated from Sam Huston College (now Huston–Tillotson University),[9] in 1933; the school's former president
  • Maud A. B. Fuller, Baptist leader and educator[22]
  • Ron Givens, first African-American Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, since 1982; represented Lubbock County 1985–1989; Realtor in Lubbock
  • James A. Harris, scientist, part of a team that discovered and identified elements 104 and 105 in 1969-1970 which are now part of the periodic table of chemical elements[23]
  • Robert E. Hayes, bishop of the United Methodist Church; regional minister of congregations and ministries in Texas and Oklahoma[24]
  • Dr. Zan Wesley Holmes, retired pastor of the St. Luke 'Community' United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas[25]
  • Joe Leonard Jr., Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, United States Department of Agriculture; former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus[26]
  • Azie Taylor Morton, Treasurer of the United States during the Carter administration
  • Ahmed Johnson (born Anthony "Tony" Norris), professional wrestler[27]
  • Volma Overton, activist in the Civil Rights Movement
  • Ada Simond, public health activist and historian[28]
  • Robert G. Stanton, former National Director of the U.S. Park Service during the Clinton administration[29]
  • Cecil Williams, former minister of Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco, community leader, author, lecturer, and spokesperson for the poor
  • Joyce Yerwood, physician and social justice advocate; first female African American physician in Fairfield County, Connecticut[30]

References

  1. ^ "Colette Pierce Burnette Named HT's Sixth President". Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Huston-Tillotson University welcomes largest freshman class in 8 years". kvue.com. Retrieved Apr 9, 2021.
  3. ^ "Media Kit".
  4. ^ a b c "TSHA | Tillotson College". www.tshaonline.org. Retrieved Apr 9, 2021.
  5. ^ a b "TSHA | Samuel Huston College". www.tshaonline.org. Retrieved Apr 9, 2021.
  6. ^ "History of Education in Texas" by John J. Lane, 1903.
  7. ^ "TSHA | Huston-Tillotson University". www.tshaonline.org. Retrieved Apr 9, 2021.
  8. ^ "Huston-Tillotson renamed as university to alter perceptions". Retrieved Apr 9, 2021.[permanent dead link]
  9. ^ a b "Abilene man mentor to Jackie Robinson". Archived from the original on 2010-03-16. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
  10. ^ a b "Jackie Robinson - Baseballpage.com". Archived from the original on 2009-04-30. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
  11. ^ "A Conversation With Dr. Melva K. Williams, HTU's Seventh President". KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station. 2022-12-20. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  12. ^ Hickman, Matt (2022-07-25). "Austin's Huston-Tillotson University is now a recognized historic district". The Architect's Newspaper. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  13. ^ "W.E.B. DuBois Honors Program". htu.edu. Retrieved Apr 9, 2021.
  14. ^ Pre-Engineering-Program
  15. ^ "How gentrification and racism is pushing black people out of Austin in droves | Fusion". Archived from the original on 2017-01-16. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
  16. ^ Institutional Fact Sheet – Fall 2015
  17. ^ "Dr. Herman A. Barnett". University of North Texas.
  18. ^ Jet. Johnson Publishing Company. 1976-12-23.
  19. ^ "Hutson-Tillotson Alumnus Remembered". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
  20. ^ "We Shall Overcome -- Juanita Craft House". www.nps.gov. Retrieved Apr 9, 2021.
  21. ^ "Decades after death of Juanita Craft, the Dallas civil rights leader's legacy still looms large". Dallas News. Feb 15, 2017. Retrieved Apr 9, 2021.
  22. ^ "First Ladies of Colored America - No. 12". The Crisis. 50 (9): 272. September 1943 – via Google Books.
  23. ^ "James A. Harris". University of Wisconsin.
  24. ^ "Robert Hayes elected a bishop of the United Methodist Church". Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
  25. ^ "Dallas Pastor Looks Back: Rev. Zan Holmes Retires- Articles- BlackandChristian.com". blackandchristian.com. Retrieved Apr 9, 2021.
  26. ^ "Joe Leonard". USDA. Archived from the original on 2010-10-07.
  27. ^ Lewis Currey (July 3, 2015). "Ahmed Johnson: Found!". Canoe.ca. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  28. ^ "Ada Marie Simond". Austin American-Statesman. 25 October 1989. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  29. ^ "Robert G. Stanton National Park Service" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-01-23.
  30. ^ "Joyce Yerwood". CT Women’s Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2020-07-29.

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