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VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY FACTS
 

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.
     
    Over $2.8 million in scholarships awarded in 2009-10
    Total Operating Budget about $32 million
    Endowment value is about $22 million              

 

  

 



 

Schools/College

  • 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 presidend 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. 

     

     

     

     

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