Virginia Land Grant Universities: Virginia Tech

Virginia has two land grant universities initially funded through the Morrill Acts' mechanism of the sale of tribal land in the west. Virginia Tech did not admit its first Black undergraduate until 1953 and did not permit his participation in campus life, in contrast to foreign students decades earlier who were able to fully engage in college activities. Learn more about the founding of Virginia Tech, its desegregation, and its 21st century efforts to acknowledge its past.