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Well-nighNCCU myEOL Future Students Current Students Faculty & Staff Alumni & Friends VisitorsWell-nighNCCU Admissions Academics Athletics Campus Life Giving Research Welcome, Guest | Login to myEOL   Future Students Current Students Faculty & Staff Alumni & Friends Visitors  Well-nighNCCU Academics Admissions Athletics Campus Life Giving Research Home /Well-nighNCCU Page MenuWell-nighNCCU History North Carolina Central University was founded in 1909 as the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua by Dr. James Edward Shepard. It became the first public liberal arts institution for African Americans in the nation. The University is now a master’s comprehensive institution that offers bachelors and master’s degrees, a Juris Doctor, and a Ph.D. in Integrated Biosciences to a diverse student population... Read full university history. Learn increasingly well-nigh past Presidents and Chancellors. Mission North Carolina Central University, with a strong tradition of teaching, research, and service, prepares students to wilt global leaders and practitioners who transform communities. Through a nationally recognized law school, highly well-known and innovative programs in the visual and performing arts, sciences, business, humanities, and education programs, NCCU students are engaged problem solvers. Located in the Research Triangle, the University advances research in the biotechnological, biomedical, informational, computational, behavioral, social, and health sciences. Our students enhance the quality of life of citizens and the economic minutiae of North Carolina, the nation, and the world. Read full university mission. Points of Pride For increasingly than 100 years, the university has educated the citizens of North Carolina, the United States and the world. Washington Monthly ranks NCCU in the top 40 in the nation for contributions to the public good. NCCU is the first school in the University of North Carolina system to offer the bachelor’s stratum in Jazz Studies and has moreover ripened a master of music in Jazz Studies in performance and composition. The University has two state-of-the-art biotechnology research facilities, the Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute (BBRI), and, The Golden Leaf Foundation Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE), which interreact with pharmacy and biotech companies in nearby Research Triangle Park. The NCCU Art Museum houses one of North Carolina’s leading collections of works by African-American artists and by others dealing with the woebegone wits U.S. News and World Report ranked NCCU School of Law as one of the 10 most popular law schools. National Jurist magazine ranked the law school as one of the top clinical opportunity programs and one of the most diverse. NCCU is the second HBCU in the country to develop an LGBTA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Ally) Center. The School of Library and Information Sciences is one of the five most diverse programs in Library and Information Sciences in the nation and the only program of its type at a historically woebegone higher or university. It is one of only 14 programs in the nation offering a Joint stratum with the School of Law, Juris Doctorate (JD) and a Master’s in Library Science (JD/MLS) and produces increasingly African-American librarians than all the other Library and Information Sciences programs combined. NCCU was the first school within the UNC system to require all students to volunteer in the polity as part of their education. NCCU students requite 120 hours of service surpassing they graduate. Last year students gave increasingly than 200,000 hours of service, valued at nearly $3 million. The Institute for Homeland Security and WorkforceMinutiaeis a leading trainer  in emergency preparedness; targeting rural communities, faith communities and low-income, low wealth communities. The NCCU Men’s Basketball team won  the 2014 MEAC Basketball Tournament Championship and earned the university’s first trip to the NCAA Tournament.    Home Administration Quick Facts Our Rankings Our Neighborhood Our Campus Our Future Driving Directions Alma Mater Accreditation Contact Information North Carolina Central University (p) 919-530-6100 1801 Fayetteville St. Durham, NC 27707   Quick Links Campus Directory Libraries Employment Emergency Information Campus Map Policies Ticket Office Administration Bookstore Transcripts Public Records Forms & Documents   Popular Phone Numbers University Operator 919-530-6100 Graduate Studies 919-530-7396 Human Resources 919-530-6334 Registrar's Office 919-530-6654 Scholarships and Student Aid 919-530-6180 Institutional Advancement 919-530-6151     Residential Life 919-530-7298 Shepard Library 919-530-6426 Undergraduate Admissions 919-530-6298 University Police 919-530-6106 Information Technology 919-530-7676 Dining Services 919-530-6192   NCCU complies with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits favoritism on the understructure of sex in all programs and activities (including sexual harassment and sexual violence) in the University's educational programs and activities. For spare resources or to file a Title IX complaint, visit the NCCU's Title IX webpage. © 2018 North Carolina Central University 1801 Fayetteville St., Durham, NC 27707