The first and oldest HBCU in the U.S., Cheyney University, has been released from accreditation probation. The Middle States Commission on Higher Education placed the university on probation in ...

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It is the oldest HBCU in the country. Now known as Cheyney University, the school's mission was to arm free African Americans with primary education and training to become teachers or tradespeople.

Cheyney, the oldest historically Black college or university in the nation, was placed on probation in November. Its accreditation status was listed as “in jeopardy,” according to the Commission.

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania – known as the African Institute and the Institute for Colored Youth in its early years – became the country's first HBCU in 1837, according to its website.

Founded in 1837, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania was the first HBCU. Other private HBCUs established before the Civil War include the University of the District of Columbia (1851) and Lincoln ...