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Winston-Salem State University was founded as Slater Industrial Academy on September 28, 1892. It began with 25 pupils and one teacher in a one-room frame structure. By 1895 the school was recognized by the State of North Carolina and in 1899 it was chartered by the state as Slater Industrial and Slater Normal School.
Winston-Salem State played in the 2012 Division II National Championship football game on December 15, 2012. They lost, 35–7, to Valdosta State University , finishing the season, 14–1, the best of any historically black college/university.
The Winston-Salem State Rams men's basketball team is the men's basketball team that represents Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. The school's team currently competes in the NCAA Division II Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The school won the 1967 NCAA Division II championship.
Bonita J. Brown, a former assistant attorney at Winston-Salem State University, was announced as the school’s 14th chancellor on May 29, 2024 — the first woman to hold the position since the ...
The C.E. Gaines Center is a basketball arena on the campus of Winston-Salem State University. It is named for former WSSU men's basketball coach Clarence "Bighouse" Gaines, who led the men's basketball team for 47 years. The facility has a capacity of 3,200 spectators and opened in 1978.
Bowman Gray Stadium is part of the Winston-Salem Sports and Entertainment Complex and is home of the Winston-Salem State University Rams football team. [1] It was also the home to the Wake Forest University Football Team from 1956 until Groves Stadium (now Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium) opened in 1968. Bowman Gray Stadium was a popular ...
Elva Johnson Jones was born and raised on a tobacco farm in Louisburg, North Carolina.Her parents are Bettie and Sanford Jones and she has three siblings. She married Emory Jones, an alumnus and former WSSU faculty member; they had one son, Eugene who graduated from WSSU.
WS/FCS has over 80 schools in its system, and it serves 54,984 students every year. WS/FCS was formed in 1963 by the merger of the Forsyth County School System and the Winston-Salem School System. [1] WS/FCS is now the fourth largest school system in North Carolina, and it is the 81st largest in the United States. [2]