VUU FACTS

• One of the nation’s oldest HBCU’s- founded in 1865
• Established on the site of Lumpkin’s Jail – a holding cell for runaway slaves
• Virginia Union University (was formed by the merger of two older schools,
  Richmond Theological Institute and Wayland Seminary. Later Hartshorn Memorial College
  (the first college in Richmond for African-American Women)and Storer College were merged
  into the University forming a true “union”.
• Virginia Union University is accredited by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
• Virginia Union University was the first HBCU to establish a completely wireless network infrastructure.
• Virginia Union University is the only HBCU with a police training academy housed on its campus,
  offering joint programs with the Department of Criminal Justice.

Virginia Union University currently has a population of about 1700 students.
 
2010-11 Charges for full-time undergraduate (12-17 credits) residential student.
Tuition & Fees   =          $14,630 (Fall & Spring Semesters)
Room                =            3,084 (Fall & Spring Semesters)
Board                =            3,746 (Fall & Spring Semesters)
 
Summer school (undergraduate) rates for 2010-11 are as follows:
Tuition (per credit hour)     $235
Fees                               150
Room & Board                 1,085
*Other charges and fees may apply.
**This is a 21 meals/week plan. Commuter students can enroll for different meals plans.
 
Over $2.8 million in scholarships awarded in 2009-10
Total Operating Budget about $32 million
Endowment value is about $22 million          

• Sydney Lewis School of Business (Accredited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Program)
• School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
• Evelyn Reid Syphax School of Education, Psychology, and Interdisciplinary Studies (Accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education)
• School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Samuel Dewitt Proctor School of Theology (Accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada)
  

Second oldest Historically Black Seminary School in the United States
 
 
Twenty-four majors offered at the baccalaureate level Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in Christian Education and Doctor of Ministry degrees also offered
 
 
Notable Alumni
Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor
Theologian, civil rights activist, former president of Virginia Union University and North Carolina A&T State University

 L. Douglas Wilder
First elected African American governor of a state

Roslyn M. Brock
Chairman of the NAACP

Vice Admiral Samuel L. Gravely
Highest ranking African American officer in the Navy
 
Leontine T. C. Kelly
First woman of any denomination consecrated as a bishop
 
Will Downing
R&B singer
 
Dr. Donda West
Mother of rap artist Kanye West
 
Randall Robinson
Author and civil rights activist
 
Rev. Wyatt T. Walker
Civil rights activist and theologian
 
Spotswood Robinson
First African American appointed to US District Court for
Washington, DC
 
Charles Oakley
Professional basketball player
 
Ben Wallace
Professional basketball player
 
Athletics

• Virginia Union has won four NCAA Division II National Basketball Championships. Three for the men’s team in 1980, 1992 and 2005; and one for the women’s team in 1983.
• The men’s team has also been to the Division II "Final Four" seven times (1980, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2005, 2006)
• The men’s basketball team has won the CIAA Championship a record 17 times.