BLACK COLLEGE PRESIDENTS: Pioneering On The Frontiers Of Education

Ebony, Sept, 2001

* 1st in Street and Smith's Black College Football Top Twenty Pre-season Predictions

* 1st in the Sheridan Poll National Black College Football Rankings

* 2nd in the SWAC in Women's Basketball

* Head Football Coach Doug Williams inducted into the NCAA Small College Division Hall of Fame in 2001 and named

* 2000 Southwestern Athletic Conference Coach of the Year

* Pigskin Club of Washington, D.C.'s SWAC Coach of the Year

* Street and Smith's Black College Coach of the Year

* Shutt Sport's NCAA Division 1-AA Coach of the Year

* 100% Wrong Club of Atlanta's SWAC Coach of the Year

Grambling State University

"The Place Where Everybody Is Somebody"

As one of the most respected and recognized historically black universities in America, Gambling State University has long become known as "The Cradle of the PROs:"

PROlific in its academic programs

* 71 degree programs, ranging from associates to doctorates, awarded through six colleges, two professional schools and two divisions

* The nation's only doctorate degree in Developmental Education

* The Earl Lester Cole Honors College for Academically Talented Students

* Technology-enriched library for research, study and leisure-time reading

PROficient in cutting-edge technology and research

* First Louisiana univerisity to offer a bachelor's degree via distance learning

* Mobile Automated Learning Lab (MALL) for community and work-site access to individualized and computerized learning enhancement

PROductive among all American colleges and universities in conferring bachelor's degrees to African Americans

* 2nd in Computer and Information Sciences

* 8th in all disciplines

* Air Force and Army Officers commissioned each semester

* 6th in graduating African American males

* 8th in Physical Sciences

PROmoting a wholesome and healthy environment and co-curricular activities conductive to learning and developing

* More than 150 social, civic, professional, and religious clubs and organizations including all black Greek-letter fraternities and sororities

* Nationally and internationally acclaimed Tiger Marching Band and Orchesis Dance Troupe

* Ultra modern student center, bookstore and intramural center

* Tiger Marching Band:

* First Band inducted in the NCAA Hall of Champions

* Four Super Bowl Performances

* Several NFL and NBA half-time performances

* Performances on foreign soil and in every domed stadium in America

* Louisiana's only representative in the 2001 Inaugural Parade for President George W. Bush

* Numerous television and national advertising apperances

PROviding outstanding graduates who excel in the public and private sectors

* More than 35,000 graduates successful in the economic, civic, corporate, professional, educational and political arenas

PROving its reputation as a competitive, comprehensive institution of higher learning

* Constituent member of the University of Louisiana System

* Accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

* Academic programs individually accredited by 11 national accrediting agencies