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Recent Event Highlights: The University created the position of vice provost for diversity and African-American affairs., Nubian Message, NCSU's African-American student published its first issue., James Andersen became the dean of undergraduate studies, becoming the University's first black dean., The African American Cultural Center opens., Delta Sigma Theta chapter, the first black sorority at the University, is chartered., Nanette Smith henderson becomes the first black woman to receive a Ph.D. at the University.

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Last updated: 11/18/09 at 02:27 AM

• The University created the position of vice provost for diversity and African-American affairs.
  2000

• Nubian Message, NCSU's African-American student published its first issue.
  Nov 1992

• James Andersen became the dean of undergraduate studies, becoming the University's first black dean.
  1992

• The African American Cultural Center opens.
  1991

• Delta Sigma Theta chapter, the first black sorority at the University, is chartered.
  1975

• Nanette Smith henderson becomes the first black woman to receive a Ph.D. at the University.
  1974

• Mary Evelyn Porterfield becomes the first black homecoming queen.
  1970

• Ed Leftwich becomes the first black basketball player and the first given a freshman scholarship
  1968

• Stephen Latimer becomes the first black person to receive a Ph.D.
  1967

• Dorothy Williams becomes the first black instructor with faculty ranking.
  1965

• Hazel Virginia Clark is the first black woman to receive a master's degree from the University.
  1960

• Robert Clemons receives a degree in electrical engineering, becoming the first black graduate of ...
  1957

• NCSC enrolls the first black undergraduates, Ed Carson, Irwin Holmes, Walter Holmes and Manuel Cr...
  1956

• N.C. State College (now NCSU) accepts two black graduate students, its first black students.
  1953

• The Agricultural Extension Service hires its first black.
  1935