North Carolina Central University (NCCU) is a public historically black university in the University of North Carolina system, located in Durham, North Carolina, offering programs at the baccalaureate, master’s, professional and doctoral levels. North Carolina Central University was founded by James E. Shepard as the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua in the Hayti District . It was chartered in 1909 as a private institution and opened on July 5, 1910. Along with other progressives, future U.S. President Woodrow Wilson contributed small private support for the school's founding. The school was sold and reorganized in 1915, becoming the National Training School, and supported by Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage of New York. In this capacity, it supported Black teacher development in the Jim Crow era, a time when funding and support for Black education was severely limited. It became a taxpayer-funded institution in 1923, and was renamed Durham State Normal School. In 1925, it was renamed the North Carolina College for Negroes, the nation's only state-supported liberal arts college for black students.