The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is a public university locate in Washington, D.C. The university was formed in 1977 through the amalgamation of the Federal City College and Washington Technical Institute (both of which had been established in 1966 as the result of a study commissioned by President Kennedy on the educational needs of Washington) with District of Columbia Teachers College (itself formed out of the 1955 merger of the previously all-black Miner Teachers College and the all-white Wilson Teachers College).