| Dillard
University
New
Orleans, Louisiana
Dillard University
is a private, historically black, comprehensive undergraduate
institution, having as its purpose the development of graduates
who are broadly educated, culturally aware, concerned with improving
the human condition, and able to meet the competitive demands
of a global and technologically advanced society. To achieve this
purpose, the university strives to create and maintain an academic
climate that is conducive to the pursuit of scholarship through
programs of excellence anchored in the liberal arts.
Dillard's
history begins in 1869. On June 12, 1869, the American Missionary
Association of the Congregational Church founded Straight University;
on July 8, 1869 the Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church established Union Normal School. Straight University and
Union Normal School were subsequently renamed Straight College
and New Orleans University, respectively. Initially, both institutions
offered instruction on the elementary level, then expanded to
include the secondary, collegiate, and professional levels.
On June 6, 1930, New
Orleans University and Straight College merged to form Dillard
University, which elected to follow the practices of the two parent
institutions in making no distinction as to race, religion or
sex in the admission of students or in the selection of faculty.
www.dillard.edu
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