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West Virginia State University (WVSU) is a public historically black, land-grant university in Institute, West Virginia, United States.Founded in 1891 as the West Virginia Colored Institute, it is one of the original 19 land-grant colleges and universities established by the second Morrill Act of 1890, which evolved as a diverse and inclusive campus.
After the dissolution of the WVIAC, WVSU joined the new Mountain East Conference in 2013, which is part of Division II. During the segregation era, black high schools were barred from competition in the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission , and State therefore sponsored an unofficial "state colored championship" from 1932 to 1959.
WVSU may refer to: . West Virginia State University, located in Institute, West Virginia, United States; West Visayas State University, located in Iloilo City, Philippines; WAJH, a radio station (91.1 FM) licensed to serve Birmingham, Alabama, United States, which held the call sign WVSU-FM from 1978 to 2018
The West Virginia State Yellow Jackets football program represents West Virginia State University in college football at the NCAA Division II level in the Mountain East Conference. [2] [3] West Virginia State began competing in intercollegiate football in 1921.
This is a list of seasons completed by the West Virginia State Yellow Jackets football team of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Division II. Adolph Hamblin served as head coach from 1921 to 1944 and led the 1936 West Virginia State Yellow Jackets football team to a black college football national championship. [1]
From the foundation of the state's various colleges until 1970, all colleges, indeed all forms of education, from pre-school through the graduate programs at Marshall University were under a single state Board of Education, with the exception of West Virginia University and what is now known as West Virginia State University which were under ...
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It was built in 1893, and is a modest, two-story frame building with a hipped roof. In 1937, it was moved from the east side of campus to the west quadrangle. Until 1974, it was the official home to presidents of West Virginia State University and is the oldest building on campus. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...