30 BCALA NEWS Volume 41, Issue 3
Summer 2014
Minority Enrolment 2012
NCCU University
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The NCCU School of Library and Information Sciences has a fascinating history, as does the university itself. The school now called North Carolina Central University was founded in Durham in 1910, in the early days of the Jim Crow era, as the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua for the Colored Race. In the 1920s, it was purchased by the State of North Carolina and renamed the North Carolina College for Negroes; it was the nation’s first public liberal arts college for African- Americans.
In 1939, the state legislature, seeking to fend off efforts to integrate graduate and professional programs at the state’s flagship university in Chapel Hill, authorized the establishment of several graduate and professional programs at North Carolina College. The Department of Library Science offered its first courses in fall of 1939, and the master’s program in library science was started in 1951.
At the outset, the library program was simply intended to train Black librarians to work at Black schools and colleges, but the School of Library and Information Sciences (as it has been named since 1984) has survived by being an innovator. Continuously accredited by the ALA since 1975, it began in the 1980s to offer a range of instructional options that made it attractive to working professionals. They include evening, online and Saturday classes, a Master of Information Sciences degree, joint-degree programs in collaboration with the School of Business (MBA/MIS) and the School of Law (JD/MLS). Today, the majority of our concentrations are available online.
These options — combined with tuition rates that are below those of most other ALA-accredited programs — have made the NCCU school attractive to students of all races, particularly people already working in the field. In a typical year, a slight majority of our students are White and a large minority are African-American. Latinos, Asian-Americans, Native Americans, international students and others account for the rest. In 2012, enrollment in the School of Library and Information Sciences graduate programs totaled 278, with the following breakdown:
White — 151 (55%) African-American — 95 (35%)
Asian-American and Hispanic — 5 each (2% each) Native American — 3 (1%) Multi-racial and other — 14 (5%)
NCCU continues to add programs intended to bring strong students to its program from all racial and ethnic groups. The
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