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University description (as per official university website)
Fisk University
Fisk University was originally established as the Fisk School in 1866. On August 22, 1867, it was incorporated as Fisk University. The institute sits on a 42-acre campus in Nashville, Tennessee. More than 800 students enroll in Fisk University every year.
A large number of undergraduate and postgraduate programs are offered by Fisk University. Students can choose from courses in the fields of art, biology, business administration, computer science, English, mathematics, nursing, religious studies and Spanish, among others. Pre-professional programs in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, engineering, teacher certification and business administration are also available.
History of Fisk
Barely six months after the end of the Civil War, and just two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, three men — John Ogden, the Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath, and the Reverend Edward P. Smith — established the Fisk School in Nashville, named in honor of General Clinton B. Fisk of the Tennessee Freedmens Bureau, who provided the new institution with facilities in former Union Army barracks near the present site of Nashvilles Union Station. In these facilities Fisk convened its first classes on January 9, 1866. The first students ranged in age from seven to seventy, but shared common experiences of slavery and poverty — and an extraordinary thirst for learning.
The work of Fisks founders was sponsored by the American Missionary Association — later part of the United Church of Christ, with which Fisk retains an affiliation today. Ogden, Cravath, and Smith, along with others in their movement, shared a dream of an educational institution that would be open to all, regardless of race, and that would measure itself by the highest standards, not of Negro education, but of American education at its best. Their dream was incorporated as Fisk University on August 22, 1867.
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