Shaw University

Shaw University is a private liberal arts institution and historically black university specializing in social research and the liberal arts, located in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA with its College of Adult Professional Education campuses located throughout the state of North Carolina. It is the oldest HBCU in the Southern United States. Shaw is affiliated with the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina and is a member of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. which also supports the Shaw University Divinity School. Furthermore, Shaw University is one of the co-founding institutions of the NCAA Division II's Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Conference which is the oldest African American athletic association in the country, along with Howard University, Hampton University, Lincoln University, PA and Virginia Union University as co-founders. And as of the recent 2010-11 academic school year, the university have won the CIAA championships in Football, Basketball(both women's and men's teams), and Men's Tennis. Because of these athletic accomplishments, those who participated, were honored and received additional awards from Governor Bev Perdue of North Carolina. Among its recent accomplishments, the university won a 5-year grant with University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to create a Partnership for the Elimination of Health Disparities for minorities, which adds to its research capacity and a 7-year grant with Johns Hopkins University for the two institution's partnership for Gerontological Research.In 2007, Shaw University received a $2.5 million Grant from the National Science Foundation to support its Nanoscience and Nanotechnology program's recent studies and research. The University also created a foreign exchange program with Northwestern University for Nationalities of the (People's Republic of China) and Xian University of Science and Technology, the first program established between an American and a Chinese institution since 1978. Furthermore, On April 15th, 2010, the National Alumni Association of Shaw University, donated $20.000 to the Tom Joyner Foundation for making Shaw University, the TJMS(Tom Joyner Morning Show)'s School or HBCU of the Month, thus celebrating its community support for the local communities for almost two centuries.