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{{Short description|Historically Black university in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.}}
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| name                   = Clark Atlanta University
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| motto                  = "''I'll Find a Way or Make One''" (Atlanta University); "''Culture for Service''" (Clark College)<ref name="Petersons">{{cite web|url=http://www.petersons.com/blackcolleges/profiles/clark_atlanta.asp?sponsor=13|title=Clark Atlanta University|access-date=2008-02-25}}</ref>
| established            = {{start date and age|1865|9|19}}
| closed                 = 
| type                   = Private historically black<ref name="PresHBCU">{{cite web|url=http://www.ed.gov/about/inits/list/whhbcu/edlite-list.html|title=List of HBCUs – White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities|date=August 16, 2007|access-date=2008-01-03|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223032324/http://www.ed.gov/about/inits/list/whhbcu/edlite-list.html|archive-date=December 23, 2007}}</ref> research university
| religious_affiliation  = United Methodist Church
| academic_affiliation   = {{hlist|ORAU|[[Organization:National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program|Space-grant]]}}
| endowment              = $102,435,884 (2021)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cau.edu/about/CAU-AT-A-GLANCE-Fall-2022.pdf |title=Ranking |website=www.cau.edu|access-date=2023-01-17}}</ref>
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| president              = George T. French Jr.<ref name="NewPres" />
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| students               = 4,135 (Fall 2023)<ref>https://www.cau.edu/opar/institutional-research/Enrollment-Report_Fall-2021--20231.pdf</ref>
| undergrad              = 3,495
| postgrad               = 640
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| city                   = Atlanta, Georgia
| country                = U.S.
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| campus                 = Urban, {{convert|126|acre|km2|1}}
| free_label             = Newspaper
| free                   = ''The CAU Panther''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://panthernews1988.wixsite.com/mysite | title=HOME }}</ref>
| sports                 = 
| colors                 = {{Color box|#CE1126}}{{Color box|Black}}{{Color box|#444F51}} Red, black, gray<ref>"[https://clarkatlantasports.com/sports/2016/3/15/logo-information.aspx?=&tab=4 Logo Information]". ''Clark Atlanta University''. Retrieved March 4, 2020.</ref>
| sports_nickname        = Panthers<ref name="AthleticFacts">{{cite web|url=http://www.cau.edu/athletics/Basketball_m/basket_m_facts.html|title=Men's Basketball Facts|access-date=2008-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515072300/http://www.cau.edu/athletics/Basketball_m/basket_m_facts.html|archive-date=May 15, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| mascot                 = Panther
| athletics_affiliations = NCAA Division II, Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference<ref name="AthleticFacts" />
| website                = {{URL|www.cau.edu}}
| logo                   = Clark Atlanta University wordmark.svg
| logo_size              = 150px
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}}

'''Clark Atlanta University''' ('''CAU''' or '''Clark Atlanta''') is a private, Methodist, historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Clark Atlanta is the first Historically Black College or University (HBCU) in the Southern United States. Founded on September{{nbsp}}19, 1865 as '''Atlanta University''', it consolidated with '''Clark College''' (established 1869) to form '''Clark Atlanta University''' in 1988. It is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".<ref>{{cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup |url=https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=138947 |publisher=Center for Postsecondary Education |website=carnegieclassifications.iu.edu |access-date=29 August 2020 |archive-date=27 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127220754/https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=138947 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== History ==
Atlanta University was founded on September 19, 1865, as the first HBCU in the Southern United States. Atlanta University was the nation's first graduate institution to award degrees to African Americans in the Nation and the first to award bachelor's degrees to African Americans in the South; Clark College (1869) was the nation's first four-year liberal arts college to serve African-American students. The two consolidated in 1988 to form Clark Atlanta University.
=== Atlanta University ===
In the city of Atlanta, while the Civil War was well underway, two literate African American ex-slaves, James Tate and Grandison B. Daniels, in 1862 established the first school in Atlanta for African American children. It was located on the corner of Courtland and Jenkins Streets in an old church building of Friendship Baptist Church, the original home of First Baptist Church. Tate and Daniels, along with 25 other former slaves, founded Friendship Baptist Church, the first black Baptist autonomous congregation. They began holding classes in an old church building built in 1848. The building was badly damaged during the Siege of Atlanta in 1864. The school would later become Atlanta University in September 1865.

When white missionary Reverend Frederick Ayer, along with his wife, arrived in Atlanta in November 1865 under the auspices of the American Missionary Association, the AMA church purchased a boxcar for $310 (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US|value=310|start_year=1865}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and sent it to Friendship by the Ninth Street Baptist Church of Cincinnati, Ohio. The modest space of the boxcar served two purposes: a new teaching space for Atlanta University and a meeting space for the Friendship Church congregation. Tate and Daniels readily transferred their responsibilities to Ayer, who was better prepared to lead the educational effort, in 1865.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ga Tech|title=Booker T. Washington High School: Education Flagship for the People|url=https://leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu/building-memories/booker-t-washington-high-school-education-flagship-for-the-people/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Bacote|first=Clarence A|date=1969|title=The Story of Atlanta University: A Century of Service, 1865–1965|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VOI7AAAAIAAJ}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Tech|first=Georgia|date=2020|title=Friendship Baptist Church: A Commitment for the Ages|url=https://leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu/building-memories/friendship-baptist-church-a-commitment-for-the-ages/}}</ref>

Atlanta University was founded on September 19, 1865<ref>{{Cite book|title=African American History Day by Day – A Reference Guide To Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=urVzCgAAQBAJ&q=atlanta+university+september+19+1865&pg=PA276|last=Carrillo|first=Karen Juanita|date=2012|isbn=978-1-59884-361-3}}</ref> by James Tate and Grandison Daniels.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Selcer|first=Richard S.|date=2006|title=Civil War America, 1850 To 1875|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dqIBqiNoB9wC&q=founded+by+to+former+slaves+that+turned+it+over+in.1867+american+missionary+associaktion&pg=PA312|isbn=978-1-4381-0797-4}}</ref> Two years later, Edmund Asa Ware of the American Missionary Association was appointed the first president.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Selcer|first=Richard F.|date=2006|title=Civil War 1850–1875|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dqIBqiNoB9wC&q=atlanta+university+opened+it+doors&pg=PA308|isbn=978-1-4381-0797-4}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Tech|first=Georgia|date=2020|title=Booker T. Washington High School: Education Flagship for the People|url=https://leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu/building-memories/booker-t-washington-high-school-education-flagship-for-the-people/}}</ref> Atlanta University was chartered in 1867 with the assistance from Oliver Otis Howard of the Freedmen's Bureau. He also appointed William J. White as educational agent of the Freedmen's Bureau on January 12, 1867. White was the half-brother of founder James Tate and was the co-founder of the Augusta Institute in 1867, which would become [[Organization:Morehouse College|Morehouse College]]. He served as trustee of Atlanta University in 1869.

Atlanta University—now Clark Atlanta University—is the first HBCU in the Southern United States, and the nation's oldest graduate institution serving a predominantly African-American student body. <!-- (Hiding this because it almost makes sense, but doesn't. Can someone reword it and add a source?) It is the first HBCU to the founded, chartered and to conferee its first bachelor's degree in the South.--> It was chartered on October 17, 1867.<ref>{{Cite book|title=His Truth Is Marching On – African Americans Who Taught the Freedom for the American Missionary Association, 1861–1877.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GCqRDQAAQBAJ&q=October+17,+1867;+atlanta+university&pg=PT174|last=DeBoer|first=Clara Merritt|date=2016|isbn = 978-1-315-40832-3}}</ref> It offered its first instruction at the postsecondary level in 1869. Its first graduating class was in 1873 (normal school for future teachers including women), and it awarded its first six bachelor's degrees in June 1876.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Savannah State University – Education & History|url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/education/savannah-state-university|last=Elmore|first=Charles J.|date=2005}}</ref>

Atlanta University was the first{{clarification needed|date=August 2022|reason=first what?}} to accept women, and the first HBCU to have a women's dormitory, North Hall, built in 1869. One woman earned a bachelor's degree from Atlanta University between 1876 and 1895. Seven women received bachelor's degrees from Atlanta University between 1895 and 1900.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientist and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890–1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V8pT3rcU7LYC&q=atlanta+university+first+degree+1876&pg=PA105|last=Wilson|first=Francille Rusan|date=2006|isbn = 978-0-8139-2550-9}}</ref> Atlanta University awarded bachelor's degrees 53 years (1876–1929) before exclusively offering graduate degrees.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sullivan|first=Dr. Louis Wade|date=2014|title=Breaking Ground – My Life In Medicine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t5LLAgAAQBAJ&q=atlanta+university+medical+school&pg=PA86|isbn=978-0-8203-4663-2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Haber|first=Elizabeth|date=November 20, 2018|title=Oakland Remembers World Was I. James Edward Tate, Jr.|url=https://oaklandcemetery.com/oakland-remembers-world-war-i-james-edward-tate-jr/}}</ref>

{{archival records|title=Atlanta University photographs|location=AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library|description_url=https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:001}}A 1912 catalog shows that Atlanta University had three divisions—the college and the normal school, each with a preparatory division. Enrollment that year was 403-40 college students, 62 normal students, 115 high school students in the college prep program and 183 high school students in the normal program. At that time half of the Atlanta University alumni were employed in teaching. There were a group of small Black colleges in Atlanta – Atlanta, Morehouse, Spelman, Clark, Morris Brown and Gammon – each guarding its independence but each dependent on Northern philanthropy. By the end of World War I, the Northern philanthropists were demanding mergers to improve educational quality. 1929 saw the creation of the Atlanta University Affiliation, in which Atlanta University took on a new role as the graduate school, with Morehouse and Spelman as undergraduate colleges. Before World War II, the Affiliation came to include other Black colleges in Atlanta. By 1988, Atlanta University merged with Clark College, becoming Clark Atlanta University on July 1, 1988.

'''North Hall – now Gaines Hall ([[Organization:Morris Brown College|Morris Brown College]])'''<br />
Atlanta University began on West Mitchell, about a mile from downtown Atlanta. Built in 1869 by architect William H. Parkins, North Hall, now Gaines Hall, marked the first female dormitory on the campus of a co-ed school in the United States. Gaines Hall stood as Atlanta University's initial original building. A year later, South Hall opened for boys. Wings were added to each in 1871 and 1880. In 1882, Stone Hall opened as the main building, containing the chapel, lecture halls, recitation rooms, laboratories and administrative offices. By 1905 four more permanent buildings had been added, including a Carnegie Library. North Hall is the middle building, flanked by South Hall (left) and North Hall. South Hall was later demolished by Morris Brown College. A fire in mid-August 2015 threatened to raze the building completely. In October 2017, a court ruling returned the property to Clark Atlanta University.

Stanley Pritchett, Morris Brown's former president, shows a photo of Atlanta University students taken on what is now Morris Brown's campus.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wheatley|first=Thomas |date=2017|title=Morris Brown College used to enroll 2,500 students. Today, there are 40.|url=https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/morris-brown-college/}}</ref>

[[File:Atlanta University (Stone Hall).jpg|thumb|300x300px|Stone Hall, c. 1910]]

'''Stone Hall – now Fountain Hall (Morris Brown College)'''<br />
Erected in 1882 on the crest of Diamond Hill on the Morris Brown College campus, Fountain Hall is one of the earlier structures for the original site of Atlanta University. Historically, the hall is significant to the city, state, and nation for its role in providing higher education to Blacks in this country. It was for this reason that Fountain Hall was made a National Historic Landmark in 1975. Architecturally, this building is important as a work of G. L. Norrman. This Atlanta architect was active during the late nineteenth and very early twentieth centuries, but few of his works have survived. The three-story, red brick structure is also an excellent example of the High Victorian style, its clock tower a rare sight in Atlanta. Over its 138-year history, Fountain Hall has served as the location for administrative offices, as well as a number of other university activities, contributing greatly to the cultural fabric of the city through the education of its citizens.

From its construction in 1882 until 1929, Fountain Hall primarily functioned as the administration building for Atlanta University, though it contained a chapel, library, recitation rooms, and laboratories during various times in its history. It served in a similar capacity for Morris Brown College for many years. Currently, the structure contains offices, a chapel, art studios, and a gallery. Fountain Hall has been a gathering place and focus of activity in the education process of many of the mostly Black Americans attending the university and college since its construction. Because of the building's location, Fountain Hall can be seen from some distance and has long served as an impressive and identifying landmark for the historic Atlanta University Center.

In the early 1930s, Morris Brown College was in financial trouble and was forced to give up its property at Houston and Boulevard. Since its affiliation with Spelman and Morehouse, Atlanta University was no longer using several of its original buildings. In 1932, Bishop W. A. Fountain, former college president and then chairman of the Board of Trustees, and his son, W. A. Fountain, Jr., President of Morris Brown, negotiated for the college to become part of the university system and lease some of the vacant buildings on the old campus. After this, Stone Hall became known as Fountain Hall, named for Bishop William A. Fountain. In the 1929, the college deeded the buildings, establishing a permanent home for Morris Brown College.<ref>{{Cite web|last=City of Atlanta|title=Fountain Hall|url=https://www.atlantaga.gov/government/departments/city-planning/office-of-design/urban-design-commission/fountain-hall}}</ref>

The Atlanta University campus was moved to its present site, and the modern organization of the [[Organization:Atlanta University Center|Atlanta University Center]] emerged, with Clark College, [[Organization:Morris Brown College|Morris Brown College]], and the Interdenominational Theological Center joining the affiliation later. The story of the Atlanta University over the next twenty years after 1930 includes many significant developments. Graduate Schools of Library Science,<ref>Mulligan, Risa L.(2006). [https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/masters_papers/8049g898c The Closing of the Clark Atlanta University School of Library & Information Studies] University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.</ref> Education, and Business Administration were established in 1941, 1944, and 1946, respectively. The Atlanta School of Social Work, long associated with the university, gave up its charter in 1947 to become an integral part of the university. In 1957, the controlling boards of the six institutions (Atlanta University; Clark, Morehouse, Morris Brown and Spelman Colleges; and Gammon Theological Seminary) ratified new articles of affiliation. The new contract created the Atlanta University Center. The influence of Atlanta University has been extended through professional journals and organizations, including ''Phylon'', and through the work of Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, a member of the center.

The significance of Atlanta University Center rests in the quality of its leaders, faculty, and graduates. Edmund Asa Ware was Atlanta University's spiritual and intellectual father. His dedication to academic excellence and rejection of racial inferiority influenced other black colleges and American education in general. John Hope, former Morehouse president and Atlanta University's first black president, is noted in every history of American education during the first half of this century. Atlanta University's most famous faculty member (1897–1910) was W. E. B. DuBois, who began the Atlanta Studies on Negro Sociology and later became the director of publications for the NAACP.

The influential [[History:Atlanta Sociological Laboratory|Atlanta Sociological Laboratory]] was founded at Atlanta University in 1895.

===Clark College===
Clark College was founded in 1869 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, which later became the United Methodist Church as the nation's first four-year liberal arts college to serve the primarily African-American student population. Originally named Clark University, the school was chartered and incorporated in 1877. It first offered instruction at the postsecondary level in 1879, and awarded its first degree (baccalaureate) in 1880. It became Clark College in 1940.<ref>{{cite book |title=Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Clark University, 1879 |date=1879 |publisher=Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library |page=21 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.004.cc.catalogs:0002 |access-date=15 October 2021 |language=en |chapter=History|hdl=20.500.12322/auc.004.cc.catalogs:0002 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=American Universities and Colleges - Fourteenth Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lw12DwAAQBAJ&q=atlanta%20university%20first%20degree%201876&pg=PA414|last=Gruyter|first=Walter de|date=1992|isbn = 9783110850482}}</ref> It was named for Bishop Davis Wasgatt Clark, who was the first President of the Freedman's Aid Society and became Bishop in 1864. A sparsely furnished room in Clark Chapel, a Methodist Episcopal church in Atlanta's Summerhill section, housed the first Clark College class. In 1871, the school relocated to a new site on the newly purchased Whitehall and McDaniel Street property. In 1877, the School was chartered as Clark University.

[[File:CAUSign.jpg|thumb|150px|Clark Atlanta University sign]]
An early benefactor, Bishop Gilbert Haven, visualized Clark as the "university" of all the Methodist schools founded for the education of freedmen. After the school changed locations several times, Bishop Haven, who succeeded Bishop Clark, was instrumental in acquiring {{convert|450|acre|km2|1}} in South Atlanta, where in 1880 the school conferred its first degree. In 1883, Clark established a theology department named for Dr. Elijah H. Gammon. In 1888 the Gammon School of Theology became an independent theological seminary, and is currently part of the Interdenominational Theological Center. Clark College merged with Atlanta University on July 1, 1988 to form Clark Atlanta University.

=== Philanthropy ===
In 2020, MacKenzie Scott donated $15 million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=15000000|start_year=2020}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) to Clark Atlanta University. Her donation is the largest single gift in the history of the institution.<ref>{{cite web |title=Clark Atlanta University Announces $15 Million Gift: Largest Individual Gift in University History |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/clark-atlanta-university-announces-15-million-gift-largest-individual-gift-in-university-history-301193420.html |website=CISION PR Newswire |access-date=22 November 2021 |date=December 15, 2020}}</ref>

== Presidents ==
Clark Atlanta University's current president is George T. French Jr., who started in the role in 2019.<ref name="NewPres">{{cite press release |title=Clark Atlanta University Welcomes Its New Leader |url=https://www.cau.edu/news/2019/09/welcomes-new-leader.html |work=Clark Atlanta University |date=1 September 2019}}</ref> He was preceded by Lucille H. Maugé, as acting president.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Suggs |first=Ernie |title=Clark Atlanta University names Lucille H. Maugé acting president |language=English |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/clark-atlanta-university-names-lucille-mauge-interim-president/TsuOCACFWAp1zLhMpTYiDJ/ |access-date=2023-03-28 |issn=1539-7459}}</ref>

== Campus ==
[[File:WEB DuBois bust at Clark Atlanta University.jpg|thumb|Bust of W.E.B. DuBois by Ayokunle Odeleye at Clark Atlanta University]]

Clark Atlanta University's main campus houses 37 buildings, including an art museum,<ref>[http://www.cau.edu/art-museum/index.html art museum]</ref> on {{convert|126|acre|km2|1}} and is {{convert|1.4|mi|km|1}} southwest of Downtown Atlanta.

===Residential facilities===
All undergraduate students with under 58 credits hours are required to live on campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cau.edu/studentaffairs/residence-life.html|title=Clark Atlanta University|website=Cau.edu|access-date=27 March 2018|archive-date=25 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925210525/http://www.cau.edu/studentaffairs/residence-life.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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==Academics==
Clark Atlanta offers undergraduate and graduate degrees through the following schools:
*School of Arts & Science
*School of Business
*School of Education
*School of Social Work
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Clark Atlanta is the most comprehensive institution in the [[Organization:Atlanta University Center|Atlanta University Center]], offering over 40 degrees at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels.

Clark Atlanta is annually ranked on the list of ''The Washington Monthly'' "Best Colleges and Universities" and consistently ranked a top 25 HBCU by ''U.S. News & World Report'' (No. 21).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/hbcu/page+2|title=Historically Black Colleges and Universities Ranking|website=Colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com|access-date=15 August 2015|archive-date=11 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911134455/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/hbcu|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Isabella T. Jenkins Honors Program is a selective academic program established to provide a close-knit and uniquely stimulating community for high-achieving undergraduates at Clark Atlanta.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cau.edu/honors-program/|title=Clark Atlanta University|website=Cau.edu|access-date=27 March 2018}}</ref>

Clark Atlanta's [[Social:Social work|social work]] graduate program consistently ranks among the 100 best in the nation by ''U.S. News & World Report''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/clark-atlanta-university-138947/overall-rankings |title=Ranking |website=www.usnews.com|access-date=2019-07-19}}</ref>

Clark Atlanta's Center for Functional Nanoscale Measures (CFNM) has produced more black [[Social:Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.s]] in [[Engineering:Nanotechnology|Nanoscale Science]] than any HBCU in the nation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cau.edu/news/2016/11/cau-top-producer-black-phd-nanomaterials-science.html|title=Clark Atlanta University|website=Cau.edu|access-date=27 March 2018|archive-date=12 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712004508/https://www.cau.edu/news/2016/11/cau-top-producer-black-phd-nanomaterials-science.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Student life==
===Student body===
Annually between 30 and 40% of students are Georgia residents, while the remaining come from outside Georgia.<ref name="cau.edu">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cau.edu/about/index.html|title=About CAU}}</ref> Approximately 25% of students are male and 75% are female.<ref name="cau.edu"/> In 2018, 89% of students identified as African-American/Black, 7% identified as other/unknown, and 4% identified as international.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cau.edu/opar/institutional-research/Fact-Book-FINAL-2014-2018.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2020-06-07 |archive-date=2020-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920064005/https://www.cau.edu/opar/institutional-research/Fact-Book-FINAL-2014-2018.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> 95% of first-year students receive need-based financial aid.  The average need-based scholarships or grants awarded to first-year students is $5,713.<ref>https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/clark-atlanta-university-1551/paying</ref>

=== CAU Experience ===
All new undergraduate students are required to attend "CAU Experience," five days of events orchestrated to acquaint them with the legacy, culture, and community of Clark Atlanta University. The preeminent scheduled event is the ceremony in which new undergraduate students are officially inducted as CAU Panthers.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cau.edu/_files/cau-experience-2015-letter-to-students.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150806212612/http://www.cau.edu/_files/cau-experience-2015-letter-to-students.pdf |archive-date=2015-08-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Athletics ===
[[File:CAUFootball2.jpg|thumb|CAU Football Stadium]]
Clark Atlanta University, known athletically as the Panthers, competes within the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Division II. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football and track & field; women's sports include basketball, cross country, softball, tennis, track & field and volleyball.

=== Marching band ===
The university's marching band is known as the Mighty Marching Panther Band.

===National fraternities and sororities===
All nine of the National Pan-Hellenic Council organizations have chapters established at Clark Atlanta University. About two percent of undergraduate men and three percent of undergraduate women are active in CAU's National Pan-Hellenic Council.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/clark-atlanta-university-1551/student-life |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518074045/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/clark-atlanta-university-1551/student-life |archive-date=2017-05-18 |title=Clark Atlanta University {{!}} Clark Atlanta University {{!}} Student Life {{!}} US News Best Colleges}}</ref>

==Notable alumni==
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This is a list of notable alumni which includes graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Atlanta University, Clark College, Clark University, and/or Clark Atlanta University. It does not include other notable persons who may have attended Clark Atlanta University as cross-registered students (credit as an alumnus is not given to Clark Atlanta University, which has spurred controversy over the school's cross-registration policies).
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{{Alum|name=Ralph Abernathy|year=1951|nota=civil rights activist|ref=<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Kirkland|first=W. Michael|encyclopedia=The New Georgia Encyclopedia|title=Ralph Abernathy (1926–1990)|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2736&sug=y|date=April 27, 2004|publisher=Georgia Humanities Council|location=Athens, GA|oclc=54400935|access-date=2008-02-12|archive-date=2013-06-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618102106/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2736&sug=y|url-status=dead}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Marvin S. Arrington, Sr.|year=1963|nota=politician and first black graduate of Emory University School of Law|ref=<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1258&category=LawMakers |title=The HistoryMakers |access-date=2008-07-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060719042043/http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1258&category=LawMakers |archive-date=2006-07-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Carolyn Long Banks|year=1962|nota=First black woman to sit on the Atlanta City Council|ref=<ref name="ajc-bb-clb-obit-23">{{cite news |last1=Badertscher |first1=Nancy |last2=Bunch |first2=Riley |title=Carolyn Long Banks was an Atlanta trailblazer |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/banks-was-an-atlanta-trailblazer/SUK5YH2F3ZCNDJKDYMF6NA6OUA/ |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=13 April 2023}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Ajamu Baraka|year=|nota=Human rights activist and 2016 Green Party vice presidential nominee|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/18/meet_ajamu_baraka_green_vp_candidate|title=Meet Ajamu Baraka: Green VP Candidate Aims to Continue the Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois & Malcolm X|website=Democracynow.com}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Brenda S. Banks|year=1982|nota=archivist|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/atlanta/obituary.aspx?pid=180818923|title=Brenda Banks obituary|website=Legacy.com}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Bryan Barber|year=1996|nota=film director|ref=<ref>{{IMDb name|id=1309359|name=Bryan Barber}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Kenya Barris|year=1996|nota=television producer|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hbcudigest.com/post/127804471346/clark-atlanta-university-alumnus-and|title=Kenya Barris|publisher=HBCUDigest|access-date=2015-08-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908232537/http://hbcudigest.com/post/127804471346/clark-atlanta-university-alumnus-and|archive-date=2015-09-08|url-status=dead}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Hamilton Bohannon|year=|nota=Songwriter and record producer|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Joseph Bouie Jr.|year=|nota=politician and university administrator|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_Reps/members.asp?ID=97 |title=Joseph Bouie, Jr. |website=House.louisiana.gov |access-date=April 26, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150428022834/http://house.louisiana.gov/H_Reps/members.asp?ID=97 |archive-date=April 28, 2015 }}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Ruby Chappelle Boyd|year=1943|nota=librarian|ref=<ref>{{cite web |title=Boyd, Ruby Chappelle |url=http://akapioneers.aka1908.com/index.php/component/mtree/vocations/history-research-library-science-1/1521-boyd-ruby-chapell-1 |website=Alpha Kappa Alpha |accessdate=20 October 2019}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=James Albert Bray|year=1893|nota=C.M.E. Bishop, educator, academic administrator|ref=<ref name="Murphy">{{Cite book |last=Murphy |first=Larry G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fxsmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA114 |title=Encyclopedia of African American Religions |last2=Melton |first2=J. Gordon |last3=Ward |first3=Gary L. |date=2013-11-20 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-51338-2 |pages=114 |language=en}}</ref> }}
{{Alum|name=Wayman Carver |year=|nota=composer|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Theresa Chapple|year=|nota=epidemiologist|ref=<ref>[https://www.oak-park.us/news/epidemiologist-be-new-director-oak-park-department-public-health ''Epidemiologist to be new director of the Oak Park Department of Public Health'']</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Pearl Cleage|year=|nota=author|ref=<ref name="NewGAEncyclopedia" />}}
{{Alum|name=Pinky Cole|year=2009|nota=restaurateur|ref=<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hill-Bond |first1=Ann |title=Pinky Cole's 'Slutty Vegan' is vegan food meat eaters can love |date=10 January 2019 |url=https://www.theatlantavoice.com/articles/pinky-coles-slutty-vegan-is-vegan-food-meat-eaters-can-love/ |access-date=20 February 2020}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Aki Collins|year=1997|nota=Assistant coach with the Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball team|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gomarquette.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/collins_aki00.html|title=Aki Collins|publisher=Marquette University Athletics|access-date=2010-10-26}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Marva Collins|year=1957|nota=educator|ref=<ref name="Petersons" />}}
{{Alum|name=Clarence Cooper|year=1964|nota=Federal judge|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emoryhistory.emory.edu/|title=History and Traditions - Emory University|website=Emoryhistory.emory.edu|access-date=28 February 2019}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Bryan-Michael Cox|year=|nota=record producer and songwriter|ref=<ref>{{cite news|title=Amanda Davis|url=http://balleralert.com/profiles/blogs/baller-behind-the-scene-bryan-michael-cox/|access-date=February 26, 2019|date=February 26, 2019}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=N'Dea Davenport|year=|nota=singer|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theburtonwire.com/2016/08/12/entertainment/ndea-davenport-brand-new-heavies-vocalist-talks-reunion/|title=N'Dea Davenport: Brand New Heavies Vocalist Talks Reunion|website=Theburtonwire.com|date=2016-08-12}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Amanda Davis|year=|nota=news anchor|ref=<ref>{{cite news|title=Amanda Davis|url=http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/myfox/pages/InsideFox/Detail?contentId=317208&version=7&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=5.3.1|access-date=February 13, 2017|date=February 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080427185415/http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/myfox/pages/InsideFox/Detail?contentId=317208&version=7&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=5.3.1|archive-date=April 27, 2008}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=DJ Drama|year=2000|nota=Music producer|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Mary Frances Early|year=1957|nota=First African-American graduate of the [[Organization:University of Georgia|University of Georgia]]|ref=<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.onlineathens.com/photogallery/GA/20200225/PHOTOGALLERY/225009992/PH/1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226022433/https://www.onlineathens.com/photogallery/GA/20200225/PHOTOGALLERY/225009992/PH/1 |archive-date=2020-02-26 |title=Photos: Naming Ceremony for the Mary Frances Early College of Education at UGA - Athens Banner-Herald - Athens, GA}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2514|title=Mary Frances Early|publisher=Fox Television Stations, Inc|access-date=May 15, 2005|archive-date=July 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713062513/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2514|url-status=dead}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=James Felder|year=1961|nota=civil rights activist|ref=<ref name="sc.go">{{Cite web |last=Tailor |first=Tre |date=June 15, 2017 |title=James "Jim" Felder Oral History |url=https://ed.sc.gov/instruction/standards/social-studies/instructional-resources/jim-felder-oral-history-transcript/ |access-date=2023-12-20 |website=South Carolina Department of Education}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Henry O. Flipper|year=|nota=First black graduate of West Point|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buffalosoldier.net/HenryO.Flipper2.htm|title=Second Lieutenant Hennry O. Flipper: First Black Graduate of West Point|publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior|access-date=2008-02-25}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=C. Hartley Grattan|year=1923|nota=Economist, historian|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2000-2001/memorials/AMR/Grattan/grattan.html|title=In Memoriam – C. Hartley Grattan|publisher=University of Texas|access-date=December 18, 2009}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Grace Towns Hamilton|year=1927|nota=First African American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly|ref=<ref>{{cite book|last=Graham|first=Lawrence Otis|title=Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class|url=https://archive.org/details/ourkindofpeople00lawr|url-access=registration|year=1999|publisher=Harper Perennial|isbn=978-0-06-098438-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/ourkindofpeople00lawr/page/339 339]}}</ref> }}
{{Alum|name=William Leo Hansberry|year=1921|nota=scholar|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tadias.com/02/23/2009/black-history-month-leo-hansberry-founder-of-ethiopian-research-council/|title=Leo Hansberry, Founder of Ethiopian Research Council at Tadias Magazine|website=Tadias.com|access-date=27 March 2018}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=James A. Hefner|year=1962|nota=Economist|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Fletcher Henderson|year=1920|nota=pianist, band leader and composer|ref=<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Hill|first=Ian|encyclopedia=The New Georgia Encyclopedia|title=Fletcher Henderson (1897–1952)|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1690|date=December 20, 2005|publisher=Georgia Humanities Council|location=Athens, GA|oclc=54400935|access-date=2008-02-22}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Cora Catherine Calhoun Horne|year=1881||nota=Black suffragist, civil rights activist, and Atlanta [[Social:Socialite|socialite]]|ref=<ref>{{Cite book|last=Smith|first=Jessie Carney|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ssMBzqrUpjwC|title=Notable Black American Women|publisher=Gale Research|year=1992|isbn=978-0-8103-9177-2|volume=2|location=Detroit, Michigan|pages=302–304|language=en|chapter=Cora Catherine Calhoun Horne (1865–1932)}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Alexander Jefferson|year=1942|nota=Retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and a member of the Tuskegee Airmen|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=2040&category=Educationmakers&occupation=Education%20administrator&name=Alexander%20Jefferson|title=Alexander Jefferson Biography|website=Thehistorymakers.com|access-date=January 25, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617042951/http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=2040&category=Educationmakers&occupation=Education%20administrator&name=Alexander%20Jefferson|archive-date=June 17, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Robert R. Jennings|nota=university administrator}}
{{Alum|name=Curtis Johnson|year=2008|nota=Former NFL linebacker|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Henry C. "Hank" Johnson|year=1976|nota=U.S. Congressman|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hankjohnson.house.gov/about_hank.shtml|title=Congressman Hank Johnson Georgia's Fourth Congressional District|access-date=2008-02-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227185343/http://hankjohnson.house.gov/about_hank.shtml|archive-date=2008-02-27|url-status=dead}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=James Weldon Johnson|year=1904|nota=Noted author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter and civil rights activist; writer of the poem "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing", widely known as the "Negro National Anthem"|ref=<ref name="NewGAEncyclopedia">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Clowney|first=Earle D.|encyclopedia=The New Georgia Encyclopedia|title=Clark Atlanta University|url= http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1447&hl=y|date=August 24, 2004|publisher=Georgia Humanities Council|location=Athens, GA|oclc=54400935|access-date=2008-02-22}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Otis Johnson|year=1969|nota=Mayor of Savannah, Georgia|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://otisformayor.com/biography.htm|title=Biography – Who is Dr. Otis S. Johnson?|access-date=2008-02-25|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109180217/http://www.otisformayor.com/biography.htm|archive-date=2007-11-09}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Bomani Jones|year=2001|nota=Sportswriter, co-host of ''Highly Questionable''|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Dewey W. Knight, Jr.|year=1957|nota=department director|ref=<ref name="Petersons" />}}
{{Alum|name=Walt Landers|year=|nota=Former NFL player|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Lucy Craft Laney|year=|nota=educator|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Kenny Leon|year=1978|nota=film director|ref=<ref name="NewGAEncyclopedia" />}}
{{Alum|name=Emmanuel Lewis|year=1997|nota=Actor|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Martha S. Lewis|year=|nota=Government official in New York City and state|ref=<ref>Lewis, Martha S., Obituary, ''Albany Times Union'', found by searching [http://www.legacy.com/TimesUnion-Albany/Obituaries.asp?Page=SEARCHRESULTS Legacy.com Obituary web site]. Accessed April 15, 2008.</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Barbara Lewis King|year=1957|nota=Founder of the Hillside Chapel and Truth Center; played an important role in the African American church and community| ref=<ref>Bishop Barbara L. King, founding pastor of Hillside International Truth Center, dies at 90 - Atlanta Journal Constitution,  found by searching https://www.ajc.com/news/bishop-barbara-l-king-founding-pastor-of-hillside-international-truth-center-dies-at-90/W55VU6ZOUJHMJO6X2G4AUKF7FM/ Accessed October 16, 2020</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Nnegest Likke|year=|nota=Movie director and screenwriter|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Evelyn G. Lowery|year=|nota=civil rights activist|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Mase|year=|nota=rapper|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Greg McCrary|year=|nota=football player|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Mary Jackson McCrorey|year=|nota=educator, mission worker|ref=<ref>Audrey Thomas McCluskey, [https://books.google.com/books?id=yaiDBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA43&pg=PA43&q=Mary%20Jackson%20McCrorey ''A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South''] (Rowman & Littlefield 2014): 43-44. {{ISBN|9781442211407}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=New Jack|year=|nota=Professional wrestler|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Isaiah DeQuincey Newman|nota=State field director, South Carolina NAACP, first African American elected to the South Carolina Senate after Reconstruction|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Phuthuma Nhleko|year=|nota=CEO of the MTN Group|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Major Owens|nota=Librarian, U.S. Congressman (New York)|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Dinah Watts Pace|year=1883|nota=Educator|ref=<ref name=crisis>{{cite journal|ref={{harvid|''The Crisis''|1933}}|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Died|journal=The Crisis|date=May 1933|volume=40|issue=5|pages=19|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xVcEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA115|access-date=13 February 2017|publisher=The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc.|location=New York, New York|issn=1559-1573}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Harry Pace|year=1903|nota=African-American recording pioneer, founder of Black Swan Records, Insurance executive|ref=<ref>Harry Pace</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Duke Pearson|nota=pianist and composer}}
{{Alum|name=Eva Pigford|year=|nota=Model/actress|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Rachel E. Pruden-Herndon|year=|nota=judge and attorney; first African-American woman admitted to the Georgia Bar|ref=<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Winslow Adams |editor1-first=Myron |title=General Catalogue of Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia: 1867-1918 |date=1918 |publisher=Atlanta University Press |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zzZFAQAAMAAJ&q=Rachel+E.+Pruden-Herndon+atlanta+university&pg=PA16 |access-date=22 February 2020 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Jacque Reid|year=1995|nota=Journalist|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Jo Ann Robinson|year=1948|nota=Civil rights activist|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Lamont Robinson|year=2004|nota=Illinois House 5th district State Representative|ref=<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/20/us/elections/results-illinois-primary-elections.html,%20https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/20/us/elections/results-illinois-primary-elections.html|title=Illinois Primary Election Results|newspaper={{wipe|The New York Times}}|date=20 March 2018|access-date=28 February 2019}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Pernessa C. Seele|nota=Immunologist; CEO and founder of Balm in Gilead, Inc.|ref=<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187389,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614094243/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187389,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 14, 2006|title=Pernessa C. Seele|website=Time.com|access-date=January 25, 2011}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Amy Sherald|year=1997|nota=artist|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/02/13/the-life-and-near-death-of-michelle-obama-portrait-artist-amy-sherald/|title=The life — and near-death — of Michelle Obama portrait artist Amy Sherald|website=Washington.com}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=C. Lamont Smith|nota=Sports agent; founder and president of All Pro Sports and Entertainment}}
{{Alum|name=Marilyn Strickland|year=1992|nota=U.S. Congresswoman, Washington's 10th District; first Korean-American woman elected to Congress in its 230-year history|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://strickland.house.gov/about|title=Meet Marilyn|date=3 January 2021|access-date=February 11, 2021}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Morris Stroud|year=1969|nota=Former professional football player|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Bazoline Estelle Usher|year=1906, 1937|nota=Educator, Georgia Woman of Achievement|ref=<ref name=lewis>{{cite book|title=W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race|last=Lewis |first=David Levering | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tSoFQEbmhyMC&pg=PA211|year=1994|publisher=Henry Holt and Company|isbn=978-1-4668-4151-2 |oclc=872607522 |pages=211–212 |access-date=August 18, 2018 | via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Bobby V|year=2004|nota=Singer, born Bobby Wilson|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Walshy Fire|nota=DJ, producer and member of Major Lazer}} 
{{Alum|name=Horace T. Ward|year=|nota=judge|ref=<ref name="NewGAEncyclopedia" />}}
{{Alum|name=Walter Francis White|year=1916|nota=NAACP leader|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=Hosea Williams|year=|nota=civil rights activist|ref=<ref>{{New Georgia Encyclopedia|id=h-2721|title=Hosea Williams (1926–2000)|last=Kirkland|first=W. Michael|date=March 24, 2006|access-date=2008-02-22}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Madaline A. Williams|nota=First black woman elected to the New Jersey state legislature|ref=<ref>{{cite news |title=Mrs. Madaline A. Williams Dies|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|page=86|date=December 15, 1968|access-date=2009-01-04|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1968/12/15/archives/mrs-madaline-a-williams-diesi-jersey-democratic-leader-70.html}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Louis Tompkins Wright|year=|nota=surgeon|ref=<ref name="NewGAEncyclopedia" />}}
{{Alum|name=Richard R. Wright|year=1876|nota=Paymaster in the U.S. Army|ref=<ref>{{cite web|title=New Georgia Encyclopedia|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1428|website=Georgiaencyclopedia.org|access-date=2007-08-30}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=Ella Gaines Yates|nota=librarian}}
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==Notable faculty and administrators==
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{{Faculty|name=Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen|dept=|nota=Music Professor|ref=}}
{{Faculty|name=Enos Luther Brookes|dept=Chemistry|nota=Head of Science Department|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/brookes.html|title=E. Luther Brookes|access-date=2 February 2019}}</ref>}}
{{Faculty|name=Robert D. Bullard|dept=Sociology|nota=Ware Professor of Sociology, Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center}}<ref>{{cite web|last1=Dicum|first1=Gregory|title=Meet Robert Bullard, the father of environmental justice|url=http://grist.org/article/dicum/|website=Grist.org|access-date=13 August 2015|date=2006-03-15}}</ref>
{{Faculty|name=Wayman Carver|dept=Music|nota=Jazz flute and saxophone player)|ref=<ref>{{cite web |title=Collection: Wayman A. Carver papers {{!}} Archives Research Center |url=http://findingaids.auctr.edu/repositories/2/resources/37 |website=Findingaids.auctr.edu |access-date=18 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011225443/http://findingaids.auctr.edu/repositories/2/resources/37 |archive-date=2018-10-11}}</ref>}}
{{Faculty|name=Pearlie Craft Dove|dept=Education|nota=Educator, philanthropist, and community service activist|ref=<ref>{{cite web |title=Collection: Pearlie Craft Dove papers {{!}} Archives Research Center |url=http://findingaids.auctr.edu/repositories/2/resources/100 |website=findingaids.auctr.edu |publisher=Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library |access-date=16 September 2021}}</ref>}}
{{Faculty|name=W.E.B. Du Bois|dept=Sociology|nota=author and civil rights activist|ref=<ref>{{New Georgia Encyclopedia|id=h-905|name=W. E. B. Du Bois in Georgia|author=Derrick P. Alridge|date=January 8, 2010|access-date=2011-07-21}}</ref>}}
{{Faculty|name=Mary Frances Early|dept=Music|nota=First African American graduate of the [[Organization:University of Georgia|University of Georgia]]|ref=<ref name=NPR>{{cite news | url=https://www.npr.org/2012/08/14/158742330/university-of-georgia-to-honor-first-black-graduate| title= University of Georgia To Honor First Black Graduate| website= NPR}}</ref>}}
{{Faculty|name=Virginia Lacy Jones|dept=|nota=librarian|ref=}}
{{Faculty|name=Shelby F. Lewis|dept=Political science|nota=|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://exhibits.lib.odu.edu/items/show/49 |title=Institute for the Study of Minority Issues |publisher=Old Dominion University Libraries |date=1990 |access-date=11 March 2020}}</ref>}}
{{Faculty|name=Whitman Mayo|dept=|nota=Drama Professor|ref=}}
{{Faculty|name=[[Biography:Alfred Msezane|Alfred Msezane]]|dept=|nota=Physics Professor|ref= <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/alfred-msezane|title=Alfred Msezane|website=Thehistorymakers.com|access-date=15 August 2015}}</ref>}}
{{Faculty|name=Ira De Augustine Reid|dept=Sociology|nota=Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department|ref=}}
{{Faculty|name=Henry Ossawa Tanner|dept=|nota=painter|ref=<ref name=Springfield>{{cite web|url=http://www.spfld-museum-of-art.org/collection/tanner.html |title=Henry Ossawa Tanner |access-date=July 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060110063014/http://www.spfld-museum-of-art.org/collection/tanner.html |archive-date=January 10, 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{Faculty|name=Donda West|dept=English|nota=Mother of rapper Kanye West|ref=}}
{{Faculty|name=J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr.|dept=|nota=Mathematician and nuclear scientist|ref=}}
{{Faculty|name=Whitney M. Young Jr.|dept=|nota=Executive Director of the National Urban League|ref=}}
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== See also ==
* Panther Stadium
*[[Organization:UNCF|UNCF]]
*List of colleges and universities in metropolitan Atlanta
* List of historically black colleges of the United States

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==References==
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===Further reading===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041230173018/http://fax.libs.uga.edu/E185x5xA881p/ Atlanta University Publications]: a series, which began in 1896, of studies on problems affecting black people in the United States, edited by W. E. B. Du Bois.

== External links ==
* {{cite web |title=Digital Collections: Atlanta University Photographs |url=https://radar.auctr.edu/islandora/object/auc.001:9999 |website=RADAR |publisher=Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library}}
* {{cite web |title=Digital Collections: Clark College and Clark Atlanta University Photographs |url=https://radar.auctr.edu/islandora/object/auc.003:9999 |website=RADAR |publisher=Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library}}
* {{cite web |title=Digital Collections: Yearbooks of Clark College and Clark Atlanta University |url=https://radar.auctr.edu/islandora/object/cau.yearbooks:9999 |website=RADAR |publisher=Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library}}
* {{cite web |title=Digital Collections: The Clark Atlanta University Panther (student newspaper) |url=https://radar.auctr.edu/islandora/object/auc.004.newspaper:9999 |website=RADAR |publisher=Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library}}
* {{cite web |title=Digital Collections: The Atlanta University Bulletin (newsletter) |url=https://radar.auctr.edu/islandora/object/002.au.bulletin:9999 |website=RADAR |publisher=Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library}}

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