Interesting Facts
The largest number of AUC alumni reside in this state.
What is Georgia?
The person Spelman College was named after.
What is Laura Spelman Rockefeller?
NSBE is only for Engineering/STEM majors.
What is False?
NSBE is for all :)
This alum entered Morehouse College as an early-admissions student at the age of 15 in 1944. They graduated with a B.A in Sociology and set the stage for historic speeches that would define the civil rights movement.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
The official name that AUCC or AUC stands for.
What is Atlanta University Center Consortium?
“Et facta est lux,” translates to _______________.
What is “And there was light.” ?
A residence hall that Spelman and Morehouse have in common.
What is Living Learning Center (LLC)?
The region our AUC NSBE chapter is in.
What is Region III?
Before becoming a Hollywood movie director, this celeb took film courses at Clark Atlanta University while attending Morehouse College. Later they went on to get a Master of Fine Arts in Film and Television from NYU.
Who is Spike Lee?
In order, the months that Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University, and Spelman College were founded.
What is February, March, April?
In this popular TV show, visual shots for its fictional campus 'Hillman College' were filmed at two real-life colleges, Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College.
What is A Different World?
Clark Atlanta's motto.
What is I'll Find a Way or Make One
This year marks NSBE's ___ annual convention.
What is 51st?
This American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Color Purple. She studied at Spelman in 1961.
Who is Alice Walker?
A long-standing tradition where new first-year students from Clark Atlanta, Morehouse, and Spelman gather for an official AUC unity ceremony and celebration every August before the beginning of the fall semester.
What is Olive Branch?
The number of HBCUs across the nation.
What is 106?
This chapel on Morehouse campus hosts various events and lectures related to civil rights and social justice.
What is Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel?
The meaning of the NSBE torch.
What is Our Everlasting Burning Desire to Achieve Success?
This alum's efforts have been widely credited with boosting voter turnout in Georgia, including in the 2020 presidential election, when Joe Biden narrowly won the state.
Who is Stacey Abrams?
This number estimates the number of students currently attending the AUC.
What is Over 10,000?
As of 2024, the approximate percentage of Black engineers working in the Engineering field.
What is 5 percent?
We're changing that as we speak!
This is the NCAA Division that Morehouse and Clark Atlanta compete in.
What is Division II?
Student-led group that has workshops to educate and provide hands-on tools needed to learn about STEM year-round for NSBE’s pre-college students in grades 6–12.
What is NSBE Jr.?
This civil rights activist and poet wrote the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice and Sing", dubbed the Black National Anthem. They graduated Atlanta University--now Clark Atlanta University in 1894.
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
This is the year the AUC was founded.
What is 1929?