赌博平台 opened on November 1, 1901 as the Colored Industrial and 农业学校. It was founded by the North Louisiana Colored Agriculture Relief Association, organized in 1896 by a group of African-American farmers who wanted to organize and operate a school for African Americans in their region of the state.
In response to the Association’s request for assistance, Tuskegee Institute’s Booker T. 华盛顿派查尔斯·P. Adams to help the group organize an industrial school. Adams became its founding president.
In 1905, the school moved to its present location and was renamed the North Louisiana Agricultural and Industrial School. By 1928, after becoming a state junior college and being renamed the Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute, the school began to award two-year professional certificates and diplomas. 1936年，课程 emphasis shifted to rural teacher education; students were able to receive professional teaching certificates after completing a third academic year. 第一个学士学位 degree was awarded in 1944, in elementary education.
In 1946, the school became Grambling College, named after P.G. 格兰布林，白人 sawmill owner who had donated the parcel of land where the school was constructed. In addition to elementary educators, Grambling prepared secondary teachers and added curricula in sciences, liberal arts and business, transforming the college from a single purpose institution of teacher education into a multipurpose college. In 1949, the college earned its first accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges 和学校(SACS).
In 1974, the addition of graduate programs in early childhood and elementary education gave the school a new status and a new name – 赌博平台. 大学 expanded and prospered between 1977 and 2000. Several new academic programs were incorporated and new facilities were added to the 384-acre campus, including a business and computer science building, school of nursing, student services building, stadium, stadium support facility and an intramural sports center.
Following Founding President Charles P. Adams, who served for 35 years, Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones became the second president in 1936. Five presidents served from 1977 到2001年:博士. 约瑟夫·本杰明·约翰逊博士. 哈罗德·W. Lundy,博士. 雷蒙德·希克斯博士. 莱昂纳德·海恩斯三世和博士. 史蒂夫一个. 支持. 赌博平台’s first female 总统,博士. Neari Francois Warner, served a three-year interim term until the selection 博士的. Horace Judson, who became the institution’s seventh president in 2004. 后 leading an ambitious five-year campaign to rebuild the institution's facilities, Judson 2009年辞职. 后 Judson's resignation, Frank G. Pogue, Ph值.D.，一位备受尊敬的 educator and administrator with a distinguished 47-year career in higher education 被任命为GSU的校长. Prior to his selection as 总统,博士. 波格担任 the president of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, interim president at Chicago State University and State University of New York (SUNY)-Cobleskill. Dr. Pogue退休 after serving a five-year term as president, and Dr. 辛西娅·沃瑞克博士.D.,气道. 被任命为 as interim president in 2014 during the presidential search. 华立克冒险 into higher education 16 years ago serving in multi-faceted leadership roles as an administrator, public servant, healthcare professional, environmental research scientist, faculty member, and accreditation reviewer. Dr. 威利D. 拉金博士.D. 被任命为 ninth university president in 2015 (May) and server a one-year term. Dr. 拉金了 previously served as Chief of 工作人员 to leaders of Morgan State University and the University of Wisconsin Colleges, where he worked directly with the chancellor, and the president at Morgan State University, to provide oversight of nearly 3,000 employees and an operating budget of more than $300 million. At Auburn University, he was the faculty advisor to the university’s Board of Trustees and the first African American to chair the university’s 90-member University Senate.
Our current president is Richard J. 小Gallot. The University of Louisiana System (ULS) Board of Supervisors announced (07/26/2016) that the tenth President of Grambling State University (GSU) will be former Louisiana state senator, and state representative, Richard J. 小Gallot. Gallot is a 1987 GSU graduate where he received a bachelor of arts 在艺术 & 历史. He earned his Juris Doctorate from Southern University in 1990. From 2000 to 2012, Gallot held the District 11 seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives. He served three terms in the house before winning his first term in the senate in 2011. Gallot did not seek re-election in the October 24, 2015 election. (Click here for President's welcome and bio.)