Southern University celebrates 141 years with Founders' Week activities

Southern University to celebrate 141 years with Founders’ Week activities 

BATON ROUGE, La. — Southern University and A&M College (SU) will commemorate its annual Founders’ Day and 141st anniversary during the week of March 8-12 with a variety of events and observances. Southern University became the first state-funded institution of higher learning for Black people in Louisiana in 1880. It remains the flagship of the Southern University System, the only system of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the nation. 

Events include: 

Monday, March 8 

• John B. Cade Library Exhibit and Video 
• #ImSoGlad Social Media Challenge
  Students, alumni and supporters are encouraged to post photos and other memories about their time at Southern University.  

Tuesday, March 9 

• SU System Founders’ Day Convocation and Pilgrimage to the Clark Gravesites 
  11 a.m. CST
  View at:
  www.subr.edu
  Southern University and A&M College Facebook
  Southern University System YouTube

Wednesday, March 10 

• SU System Students Celebration 
  Noon CST
  View on Instagram Live

Thursday, March 11 

• SU Employee Service Recognition and Recognition of Pandemic Response Personnel 
  Noon CST
  View at:
  www.subr.edu
  Southern University and A&M College Facebook
  Southern University System YouTube
• Terrence Osborne signing of “The Bluff” art prints 
  1-3 p.m., Valdry Center for Philanthropy 

Friday, March 12 

• SU Spirit Day
  Students, alumni and supporters are encouraged to wear blue and gold and SU paraphernalia, and post photos to social media. 

• SU Alumni Brick Scholarship Groundbreaking
  Noon CST., Alumni House 
  
  
• SU Alumni “40 Under Forty” Announcement  

All events are virtual unless otherwise noted. Throughout the month, the Southern University Alumni Federation will host the Founders’ Fund scholarship campaign to raise funds for students to attend Southern University System campuses. For a full list of events and for more information, go to subr.edu/foundersday. 

Southern University has continuously commemorated Founders Day since 1915, when the institution was under the leadership of then-president Joseph Samuel Clark. 

About the Southern University System 

The Southern University System was created in 1974 by constitutional mandate, which fashioned it into the nation’s only historically black 1890 Land-Grant University System.  Presently, the System is comprised of five institutions:  Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (established 1880), Southern University Law Center (established 1947), Southern University at New Orleans (est. 1956), Southern University Shreveport (established 1964), and the Southern University Cooperative Extension Program (established 1972), which became the fifth campus of the System in 2001 and is now named Southern University Agricultural, Research and Extension Center.