Tuskegee University, private, coeducational, historically black institution of higher education in Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S. Its establishment as a school for training African American teachers was approved by the Alabama state legislature in 1880; the school still serves a predominantly black student body.
She identified the importance of literacy programs and saw to the establishment of a school on the fifth floor of her department store in Ürümqi.
In constant battle and rivalry with Spain, its eastern neighbour, Portugal then turned to the sea and, after Henry the Navigator's establishment of a school of navigation at Sagres, in time founded a vast overseas empire that would become Europe's largest and richest.
In 1898 he published his famous Quanxuepian ("Exhortation to Learning"), in which he reaffirmed his faith in Confucianism but detailed the measures needed for the acquisition of Western knowledge: study abroad by Chinese students, establishment of a school system, translation of Western and Japanese books, and acquisition of knowledge from foreign newspapers.
The establishment of a school of technology was proposed in 1882 during the Reconstruction period.
Despite these constraints, Hayes oversaw the establishment of a school for deaf-mutes and a reform school for girls.
When it was introduced it outlined the establishment of a school only for the blind, not the deaf.
As the superintendent for the church's work in the South, Kilgore repeatedly advocated the establishment of a school.
In 1901 a German noble bequeathed his entire fortune of 700,000 marks toward the establishment of a school for the blind at the orphanage.
After thirty years of professional service in the Army Corps of Engineers, Thayer endowed $70,000 to Dartmouth College in 1867 for the establishment of a school of engineering, initially called the Thayer School of Civil Engineering.
