In its first 129 years, Tuskegee University has been successfully educating African Americans to understand themselves and their society against the background of their total cultural heritage and the promise of their individual and collective future. The over purpose is to nurture and nurture students to grow to their fullest potential has never been forgotten. Each presidental administration has continued that legacy of nurting the development of high-order intellectual and moral qualities needed for a ever rapidyly changing global community. While in the same token, uplifting the university to meet those needs.
            
Booker T. Washington (1881-1915)

Robert R. Moton (1915-1935)

Frederick D. Patterson (1935-1953)

Luther H. Foster (1953-1981)

Benjamin F. Payton (1981-2010)