Donor Pledge for Professor Joseph Carter Corbin Memorial Scholarship at University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff

DONOR PLEDGE FORM Please return to Dr. Gladys Turner Finney gtturnerfinney@gmail.com Professor Joseph Carter Corbin Day September 27, 2023 Sesquicentennial (150 Year) Founding of Branch Normal College, now University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff Donor Pledge Amount_________________ To establish the Professor Joseph Carter Corbin Memorial Scholarship at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. To memorialize Professor Corbin, an educator extraordinaire, who produced the first African Americans in Arkansas with Artium Baccalaureus (AB) degrees, and the founder of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Name___________________________ Address__________________________ Phone____________________________ On -line Giving: Uapb.taforms.net/ UAPB Office of Development: development@uapb.edu

Professor Joseph Carter Corbin Day: Sesquicentennial Celebration

PROFFESOR JOSEPH CARTER CORBIN DAY SESQUICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Dr. Gladys Turner Finney DATE: September 27, 2023 PLACE: Pine Bluff, Arkansas Purpose: To commemorate Professor Joseph Carter Corbin, founder of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and Father of Higher Education for African Americans in Arkansas. Community Celebration: Free and open to the public, beginning with a Proclamation and Tribute Ceremony with city and state officials at the original site of the college, 2nd Avenue & Oak Street. Plans include exhibits, speakers, newly released documentary on Professor Corbin, at the Pine Bluff-Jefferson County Library. There will be a reception with panelists reflecting on Dr. Corbin’s contributions to education in Arkansas. ALL ARE WELCOMED. Joseph Carter Corbin (1833-1911) American Educator of African American heritage, Journalist, Mathematician, Scholar, Linguist, Musician. He was born free in Ohio to formerly enslaved parents, William and Susan Corbin, from Virginia. He became one of the most educated men of his day, earning an A.B. degree and two masters degrees from Ohio University at Athens. During Reconstruction following the Civil War, Professor Corbin migrated to Arkansas and in 1872 was elected Arkansas Superintendent of Public Instruction. Recognizing the need for teachers for the 115,000 “freedmen,” he help lay the foundation for a public teacher’s college for “the poorer class” that would become Branch Normal College of the Arkansas industrial University, now the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Branch Normal College, chartered in 1873, is the predecessor of A.M.& N. College, and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Professor Corbin opened Branch Normal College on September 27, 1875 with seven elementary students. During his 27 years tenure as founder and president, he produced the first African Americans in Arkansas with Artium Baccalaureus (A.B.) degrees. The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff is the second oldest public institution of higher education in the state. It is an 1890 Land Grant HBCU and serves a diverse student population which it prepares for careers that serve the nation. It contributes greatly to the economy of Pine Bluff.