- Elizabeth City State University was founded on March 3, 1891, when House Bill 383 of the North Carolina General Assembly established a normal school for the specific purpose of "teaching and training teachers of the colored race to teach in the common schools of North Carolina
- Under the leadership of the second president, John Henry Bias, the institution was elevated from a two-year normal school to a four-year teachers college (1937).
- The college was granted membership in the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in December 1961 and maintains its accreditation with that body to the present.
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