University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The
University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a public
university in
Greensboro, North Carolina. It was chartered in
1891 as the
State Normal and Industrial School, the first state-supported institute of higher education for women in
North Carolina, and opened
October 5,
1892, providing instruction in business, domestic science, and teaching. Its name was changed in
1896 to
State Normal and Industrial College, and again in
1919 to
North Carolina College for Women. In
1922 the college awarded its first master's degrees. In
1932, as the
Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, it became one of the three charter institutions of the Consolidated University of North Carolina (since
1972 called the
University of North Carolina System). With the advent of
coeducation in
1963, WCUNC was renamed the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro; it awarded its first doctorates the same year.
UNCG now offers over one hundred undergraduate, fifty-nine master's, and fourteen doctoral programs. As of fall 2002, it had 766 FTE faculty members and an enrollment of 13,918 resident students (10,751 undergraduate and 3,167 graduate). Its sports teams are called the "Spartans."
Administration
- Charles Duncan McIver (president, 1891-1906)
- Julius Isaac Foust (acting president, 1906-1907; president, 1907-1934)
- Walter Clinton Jackson (dean of administration, 1934-1945; chancellor, 1945-1950)
- Edward Kidder Graham (chancellor, 1950-1956)
- William Whatley Pierson (acting chancellor, 1956-1957)
- Gordon Williams Blackwell (chancellor, 1957-1960)
- William Whatley Pierson (acting chancellor, 1960-1961)
- Otis Arnold Singletary (chancellor, 1961-1966)
- James Sharbrough Ferguson (acting chancellor, 1964-1967; chancellor, 1967-1979)
- William Edward Moran (chancellor, 1979-1994)
- Debra W. Stewart (interim chancellor, 1994-1995)
- Patricia A. Sullivan (chancellor, 1996- )
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