The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the

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(NCAA) at the Division II level. Formed in 1913, it consists mostly of

historically black colleges and universities Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African-American community. M ...

(HBCUs), with all but one member located in the

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. The SIAC has led all NCAA Division II conferences in football attendance.

History

Only three charter members are still part of the conference— Clark Atlanta University (formerly Clark College),

Tuskegee University Tuskegee University (Tuskegee or TU), formerly known as the Tuskegee Institute, is a private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama. It was founded on Independence Day in 1881 by the state legislature. The campus was ...

, and Morehouse (which briefly left before returning). Before 2014, all members had been southern HBCUs, but four of the SIAC's five newest members include its only non-HBCU, Spring Hill College (joined in 2014), and its only member outside the South,

Central State University Central State University (CSU) is a public, historically black land-grant university in Wilberforce, Ohio. It is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Established by the state legislature in 1887 as a two-year program for t ...

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(joined in 2015). Their last three recent members were former member schools in their first stints: Savannah State University returned to the SIAC in 2019 after a 19-year absence,

Allen University Allen University is a private historically black university in Columbia, South Carolina. It has more than 600 students and still serves a predominantly Black constituency. The campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Allen ...

returned to the SIAC in 2020 after a 51-year absence, and Edward Waters University returned to the SIAC in 2021 after a nearly 86-year absence. The U.S. Army's 24th Infantry Division teams competed as members of the SIAC from 1930 until 1935.

Chronological timeline

* 1913 - The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) was founded as the Southeastern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SEIAC). Charter members involved Lincoln Junior College (now Alabama State University), Atlanta University,

Clark College Clark College is a public community college in Vancouver, Washington. With 11,500 students, Clark College is the largest institution of higher education in southwest Washington. Founded in 1933 as a private two-year junior college, Clark Colleg ...

Fisk University Fisk University is a private historically black liberal arts college in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1866 and its campus is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1930, Fisk was the first Afric ...

, Jackson College (now Jackson State University),

Morris Brown College Morris Brown College (MBC) is a private Methodist historically black liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded January 5, 1881, Morris Brown is the first educational institution in Georgia to be owned and operated entirely by African Am ...

Morehouse College , mottoeng = And there was light (literal translation of Latin itself translated from Hebrew: "And light was made") , type = Private historically black men's liberal arts college , academic_affiliation ...

, Talladega College and

, effective beginning the 1913-14 academic year. * 1914 - Jackson State left the SIAC after spending just one season, effective after the 1913-14 academic year. * 1920 - Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University), Knoxville College and Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State Normal College (now Tennessee State University) joined the SIAC, effective in the 1920-21 academic year. * 1927 - Miles Memorial College (now Miles College) joined the SIAC, effective in the 1927-28 academic year. * 1929 - Atlanta University left the SIAC, effective after the 1928-29 academic year. * 1929 - The SEIAC has been rebranded as the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC), effective in the 1929-30 academic year. * 1929 - Lane College joined the SIAC, effective in the 1929-30 academic year. * 1930 - Tennessee State left the SIAC, effective after the 1929-30 academic year. * 1930 - Edward Waters College (now Edward Waters University) joined the SIAC, effective in the 1930-31 academic year. * 1932 -

Benedict College Benedict College is a private historically black college in Columbia, South Carolina. Founded in 1870 by northern Baptists, it was originally a teachers' college. It has since expanded to offer majors in many disciplines across the liberal ar ...

and LeMoyne College (now LeMoyne–Owen College) joined the SIAC, effective in the 1932-33 academic year. * 1935 - Edward Waters left the SIAC, effective after the 1934-35 academic year. * 1935 - The Normal Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina (now South Carolina State University) and

Xavier University of Louisiana Xavier University of Louisiana (also known as XULA) is a private, historically black, Catholic university in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the only Catholic HBCU and, upon the canonization of Katharine Drexel in 2000, became the first Catholic ...

joined the SIAC, effective in the 1935-36 academic year. * 1941 - Talladega left the SIAC, effective after the 1940-41 academic year. * 1941 - Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University) joined the SIAC, effective in the 1941-42 academic year. * 1947 - Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University) and

joined the SIAC, effective in the 1947-48 academic year. * 1950 - Bethune–Cookman College (now Bethune–Cookman University) joined the SIAC, effective in the 1950-51 academic year. * 1960 - Xavier (La.) left the SIAC, effective after the 1959-60 academic year. * 1969 - Allen left the SIAC, effective after the 1968-69 academic year. * 1969 - Albany State College (now Albany State University) and Savannah State College (now Savannah State University) joined the SIAC, effective in the 1969-70 academic year. * 1971 - South Carolina State left the SIAC, effective after the 1970-71 academic year. * 1976 - Alabama State left the SIAC, effective after the 1975-76 academic year. * 1978 - Rust College and Stillman College joined the SIAC, effective in the 1978-79 academic year. * 1979 - Bethune–Cookman and Florida A&M left the SIAC to join the MEAC, effective after the 1978-79 academic year. * 1983 - Fisk left the SIAC, effective after the 1982-83 academic year. * 1985 - Paine College joined the SIAC, effective in the 1985-86 academic year. * 1988 - Rust left the SIAC, effective after the 1987-88 academic year. * 1990 - Knoxville left the SIAC, effective after the 1989-90 academic year. * 1997 - Kentucky State University joined the SIAC, effective in the 1997-98 academic year. * 1998 - Alabama A&M left the SIAC to join Division I ranks of the

(NCAA) and the

Southwestern Athletic Conference The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which is made up of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southern United States. It participates ...

(SWAC), effective after the 1997-98 academic year. * 1999 - Stillman left the SIAC to join the NCAA Division III ranks and the Great South Athletic Conference (GSAC), effective after the 1998-99 academic year. * 2000 - Morris Brown and Savannah State left the SIAC to become NCAA D-II Independents, effective after the 1999-2000 academic year. * 2002 - Stillman re-joined the SIAC, effective in the 2002-03 academic year. * 2008 -

Claflin University Claflin University is a private historically black university in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Founded in 1869 after the American Civil War by northern missionaries for the education of freedmen and their children, it offers bachelor's and mast ...

joined the SIAC, effective in the 2008-09 academic year. * 2013 -

joined the SIAC as an associate member for football, effective in the 2013 fall season (2013-14 academic year). * 2014 - Spring Hill College joined the SIAC, effective in the 2014-15 academic year. * 2015 - Central State had upgraded to join the SIAC for all sports, effective in the 2015-16 academic year. * 2016 - Stillman left the SIAC for a second time to join the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC) of the

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(NAIA) ranks, effective after the 2015-16 academic year. * 2018 - Claflin left the SIAC to join the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA), effective after the 2017-18 academic year. * 2019 - Savannah State re-joined the SIAC as a provisional member, effective in the 2019-20 academic year. * 2020 - Allen re-joined the SIAC as a provisional member, effective in the 2020-21 academic year. * 2021 - Edward Waters re-joined the SIAC as a provisional member, effective in the 2021-22 academic year.

Member schools

Current members

The SIAC currently has 15 full members; all but five are private schools: ;Notes:

Former members

The SIAC has 17 former full members, all but six were private schools: ;Notes:

Membership timeline

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Alabama State Alabama State University (ASU) is a public historically black university in Montgomery, Alabama. Founded in 1867, ASU is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. History Alabama State University was founded in 1867 as the Lin ...

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Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,71 ...

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Clark Atlanta Clark Atlanta University (CAU or Clark Atlanta) is a private, Methodist, historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Clark Atlanta is the first Historically Black College or University (HBCU) in the Southern United States. Founde ...

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Knoxville Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state ...

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Miles The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English ...

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Lane In road transport, a lane is part of a roadway that is designated to be used by a single line of vehicles to control and guide drivers and reduce traffic conflicts. Most public roads ( highways) have at least two lanes, one for traffic in eac ...

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Edward Waters Edward Waters University is a private Christian historically Black university in Jacksonville, Florida. It was founded in 1866 by members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME Church) as a school to educate freedmen and their childre ...

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Fort Valley State } Fort Valley State University (FVSU, formerly Fort Valley State College and Fort Valley Normal and Industrial School) is a public land-grant historically black university in Fort Valley, Georgia. It is part of the University System of Georgia and ...

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Rust Rust is an iron oxide, a usually reddish-brown oxide formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the catalytic presence of water or air moisture. Rust consists of hydrous iron(III) oxides (Fe2O3·nH2O) and iron(III) oxide-hydroxide (FeO(OH), ...

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Stillman Stillman may refer to: *Stillman (surname) * Stillman, Michigan *Stillman College, Alabama *Stillman Valley, Illinois **Stillman's Run Battle Site *W. Paul Stillman School of Business The W. Paul Stillman School of Business is a post-secondary de ...

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Conference facilities

Conference sports

The SIAC currently sponsors 14 sports, eight for men and six for women. Men's volleyball became the 14th SIAC sport in the 2020–21 school year; play was intended to start in January 2021 but was delayed to 2022 due to

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issues.

Men's sponsored sports by school

Women's sponsored sports by school

Other sponsored sports by school

Championships

Commissioner's All-Sports

Men's sports

''Last three years of champions.'' *Golf returned as a conference sport in 2008. The first SIAC Intercollegiate Golf Championship was held at Tuskegee in 1938. The SIAC stopped Golf as a sport due to World War II but restarted in 1947 as an official conference sport until 1980 when golf was discontinued.