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Public university in Greensboro, North Carolina, U.s.

University of North Carolina
at Greensboro

Former names	State Normal and Industrial School (1891–96) State Normal and Industrial College (1896–1919) North Carolina College for Women (1919–32) Woman's College of the Academy of North Carolina (1932–63)
Motto	Service
Type	Public research university
Established	1891; 131 years ago  (1891)
Parent institution	UNC Arrangement
Academic affiliations	CUMU
Endowment	$310.iii million (2020)[one]
Chancellor	Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr.[two]
Provost	Terri Shelton
Academic staff	1,145 (859 Full-time and 286 Role-time) (2019 Fall)[three]
Students	19,764 (2020 Autumn)[four]
Undergraduates	15,995 (2020 Fall)[four]
Postgraduates	3,769(2020 Fall)[iv]
Location	Greensboro , Northward Carolina , United states of america
Campus	Urban, ~250 acres (i.0 kmii)[four]
Colors	Gilded, white, navy blue[5]
Athletics	NCAA Sectionalisation I – SoCon
Nickname	Spartans
Mascot	"Spiro" the Spartan
Website	www.uncg.edu

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG or UNC Greensboro) is a public inquiry academy in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina system. UNCG, like all members of the UNC system, is a stand-alone university and awards its own degrees. UNCG is accredited by the Southern Clan of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to honor baccalaureate, masters, specialist and doctoral degrees. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – Loftier enquiry activeness".^[6]

The university offers more than 100 undergraduate, 61 master'southward and 26 doctoral programs.^[seven] The university'south academic schools and programs include the College of Arts & Sciences, the Joseph K. Bryan School of Concern & Economics, the School of Education, the School of Health and Homo Sciences, the Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering (one of the offset such schools in the nation), the Schoolhouse of Visual and Performing Arts, the Schoolhouse of Nursing, Continual Learning, Graduate School, Warren Ashby Residential College and Lloyd International Honors College. The university is also dwelling to the Weatherspoon Fine art Museum, which features 1 of the largest collections of modern American fine art in the country.

History [edit]

North Carolina Land Normal and Industrial School, ca. 1906.

Credit for the founding of UNCG goes mainly to Charles Duncan McIver. McIver served the institution every bit its kickoff chief executive officer with the championship of President. This position has too seen various names, with the administrator being known as the Dean of Administration afterward 1934 and Chancellor from 1945 to present.

The schoolhouse was established equally a women'south higher by legislative enactment on Feb 18, 1891, as the Country Normal and Industrial Schoolhouse and opened October 5, 1892. The school provided instruction in business, domestic science, and teaching with a student body of 223 and a faculty of 15 in its kickoff yr. R. Southward. Pullen and R. T. Greyness gave the original 10-acre (4.0 ha) site in Greensboro, Northward.C. where the commencement edifice was erected with land funds totaling $30,000. It is the first and only public academy in North Carolina founded for the purpose of educating women. In 1949, it became the largest all-female institution in the United States.^[8]

Following the 1903 commencement, in June 1903, Dr. Charles Duncan McIver issued a report of the school and its progress.^[9] McIver stated the school was in "desperate need of two essentials to whatever high class educational institution," when referring to a gymnasium and a quality library.^[9] At the time the chapel of the Back-scratch building on campus was beingness used for physical action.^[9] He noted that if a donation of $5,000 or $10,000 for either building would allow the university to hopefully build a structure within twelve months.^[9]

The school has seen many names over the years, changing from the "State Normal and Industrial School" to the State Normal and Industrial College in 1896, and over again in 1919 to Northward Carolina College for Women. In 1932, it changed to the Woman's College of the University of N Carolina, when information technology became 1 of the three charter institutions of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, and changed again to the Academy of N Carolina at Greensboro when men were first admitted to the school in 1963. Information technology is remembered fondly by many graduates of the Woman'south College simply as "the W.C."

UNCG has expanded beyond its traditional borders onto Gate Urban center Boulevard, a major city thoroughfare, with the construction of an 800-bed residence hall for students, and this is just the beginning of the $200 one thousand thousand project on Gate City Boulevard. The new structure is a mixed-utilise evolution, with infinite for retail and restaurants, along with student residence halls and a new student recreation center. The university's expansion into the West Lee Street Corridor was triggered by UNCG'southward housing program, which calls for the university to increase the percentage of undergraduates living in university housing from xxx per centum to more than than 40 percent over the next decade.

In improver to providing room for UNCG's growth, the expansion also syncs with Greensboro's revitalization plan for the Gate City Boulevard corridor, a main entry bespeak and thoroughfare in the city. The projection will also spur economic evolution in the surface area. Projections gauge the development will generate more than $590 1000000 in new spending between 2014 and 2023, create 945 new jobs and boost local property revenues by $seven.5 million. The expansion has not been without controversy, especially the $91 million able-bodied center. The able-bodied middle is financed past a mandatory annual fee of $435 charged every UNCG student.^[ten]

A personnel scandal erupted in 2014. On September 25, UNCG terminated the employment of three persons in the university's public relations department and they were arrested on felony charges of operating a photography concern on University time and with University property.^[xi] On September 29, the story broke on a local web log. Academy kinesthesia and staff protested the firings and arrests.^[12] On Oct 30, the district attorney dropped all criminal charges against the three onetime employees. UNCG defended reporting the incident to legal regime, but announced that the onetime employees had the right to appeal their termination through the personnel grievance organisation.^[13]

On October xx, 2014, Chancellor Linda Brady announced her retirement effective July 31, 2015. Brady said her retirement was non related to the ongoing personnel scandal at the university.^[14] On January 27, 2015, the caput of the public relations section tendered his resignation, effective February 6.^[15]

Recognition and rankings [edit]

Academic rankings
National
ARWU [sixteen]	191–206
Forbes [17]	559
THE/WSJ [18]	501–600
U.Due south. News & World Report [19]	258
Washington Monthly [xx]	96
Global
ARWU [21]	901–1000
THE [22]	601–800
U.S. News & World Written report [23]	1038

• In its 2021 rankings, U.S. News & World Report ranked UNC Greensboro tied for 258th out of 389 national universities, tied for 126th in its ranking of 209 "Top Public Schools", and 23rd out of 389 universities in "Pinnacle Performers on Social Mobility".^[24]
• In its 2019–2020 rankings, Money magazine ranked UNC Greensboro 509th for "best value" out of 744 universities in the U.S.^[25]
• In 2020, Washington Monthly ranked UNC Greensboro 96th out of 389 schools on its National Universities list. Washington Monthly assesses the quality of schools based on social mobility, inquiry, and promoting public service.^[26]
• In 2019, Forbes mag'due south "America's Top Colleges" list ranked UNC Greensboro 559th out of 650 universities, liberal arts colleges, and service academies nationwide; 202nd amid public universities, and 128th amid schools in the South.^[27]

Campus [edit]

The Fountain in front end of the Dining Halls.

UNCG has an architecturally various campus with distinctively unique landmarks.^[28] Historic structures include the Julius I. Foust Building (1891), Spencer Hall (1904, 1907), the Quad (1919–1923), the Chancellor'south Residence (1923), Aycock Auditorium (1927) and Alumni House (1937).^[29] Other features include a statue of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, located to the e of Elliott University Center. Minerva has been a role of campus from the starting time diploma begetting her likeness in 1894 to the statue erected near the center in 2003. Minerva as well inspired the university's new graphic identity plan, which was launched in 2004.

Other landmarks include "Charlie," a statue of the university's founder Charles Duncan McIver exterior Jackson Library. The white tower stacks of the Jackson Library and the Spartan water belfry are recognizable structures in the Greensboro community, and the campus is as well dwelling to "the Rawk" and the clock tower—two campus landmarks—and schoolhouse traditions (See Traditions beneath). A new bell tower at the corner of College Ave. and Leap Garden St. was completed in 2005.

The Fountain is some other landmark on UNCG's campus and is a mutual coming together place for student groups. Visible from parts of the quad all the fashion to the Elliot University Centre and from in a higher place in the Jackson Library and "the Caf," the large steps and platform around the fountain are frequently dwelling house to demonstrations, performances, and fraternity/sorority functions.

The campus is in close proximity (within 1.5 hours drive) to many other universities — North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Knuckles, Elon, High Signal University, NC Country, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC Charlotte, Wake Forest, and Winston-Salem State University. The university is located about halfway between Washington, DC and Atlanta, Georgia.

The new Nursing Building was completed and opened in January 2021.^[30]

Athletics [edit]

The intercollegiate athletics programme at The Academy of Northward Carolina at Greensboro reaches every bit far dorsum equally the tardily 1940s during the days of the WCUNC, with students participating in national golf game tournaments in 1948 and the school hosting the national tournaments for women's golf game (1954) and lawn tennis (1965). During the 1980s, all Spartan teams competed in Partition Three (not-scholarship) and and then Division II (scholarship) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and all teams take competed in Division 1 since Fall 1991. Between 1982 and 1987 the Men'south Soccer team won the NCAA Division III national championship championship every year except for 1984. Today UNCG competes in the Southern Briefing, which is made up of 10 schools beyond five states in the Southeast.

The 18 able-bodied teams currently at UNCG include: Football, Baseball, Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball, Men's Cantankerous Country, Women's Cross Land, Men's Golf, Women'south Golf game, Men's Soccer, Women's Soccer, Softball, Men'due south Indoor Runway, Women's Indoor Track, Men'due south Lawn tennis, Women's Tennis, Men's Track, Women'due south Track, Women's Volleyball.^[31] Wrestling was dropped in the spring of 2011. Although not considered official sports teams, the Athletic Department also includes the UNCG Cheerleading Squad and the UNCG Dance Team, the Spartan Gs.

UNCG'due south men's basketball team moved into a "new" habitation in 2009–10, making the Greensboro Coliseum their home court. The motility was announced by UNCG chancellor Dr. Linda Brady on December five, 2008. As a preview of things to come, UNCG hosted Davidson in its new venue two months afterwards and drew a oversupply of 11,687. On December 29, 2010 a UNCG record attendance of 22,178 watched the Spartans host the Duke Blue Devils. At total chapters, the building holds more than than 23,000 fans for basketball giving UNCG the ability to have potentially one of the largest basketball arenas in the land. UNCG utilitizes a diverseness of configurations for its contests with a minimum capacity of seven,617. Every bit part of the move, the Coliseum remodeled a flooring into a Spartan "habitation floor" and completely renovated a massive locker room space for the squad, complete with training room, meeting facilities, coaches offices and a players' lounge. The team is coached by former University of N Carolina at Chapel Hill actor Wes Miller, who at the time of his engagement in 2012 was the youngest head autobus in Segmentation I.

One-time UNCG women'southward basketball motorcoach Lynne Agee, who retired post-obit the 2010–2011 season, ranks amidst the most successful coaches in intercollegiate women's basketball game history. Currently, she is one of only 45 coaches in the history of the women'southward game to have engineered more than 600 victories; encounter listing of college women'south basketball coaches with 600 wins. Nether Agee's guidance, UNCG reached the xx-win plateau 16 times. The Spartans also earned berths into the Division I national tournament in one case, the Partitioning Ii tournament one time and the Segmentation Iii tournament 7 times. With Agee at the helm, UNCG became 1 of only 10 teams nationally (all divisions) to reach the NCAA tournament each of the first seven years it was held (1982–1988). With UNCG's 1998 NCAA appearance, Agee became the first women'south coach in history to take teams to the NCAA tournament in all 3 divisions. UNCG is now coached by Roxboro, Person Canton native and former WNBA thespian Wendy Palmer.

The Blue Coiffure [edit]

The Blue Crew is a educatee organization dedicated to cheering on the Spartans at athletic events.

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  The Blueish Crew at a soccer game.

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  The Blue Crew at a basketball game.

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  Bluish Coiffure at a basketball game.

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  Blue Coiffure

Clubs and traditions [edit]

UNCG is home to a large number of diverse and active sports and pupil organizations from Greek life to a radio station, and some traditions unique to the school.

Clubs [edit]

In Fall 2010, the Clubs and Organizations affiliated with UNCG included 36 Honor Societies and 20 Fraternities and Sororities. The university also has an agile student government clan, founded in 1910,^[32] Campus Activities Board (CAB), and several foreign culture groups, a Neo-Black Society, PRIDE! (An LGBT support and acceptance group.), Queer Pupil Commonage, The Science Fiction Fantasy Federation, and diverse performing arts, religious and service programs. Student media groups also produce UNCG's newspaper The Carolinian, CORADDI Fine Arts Magazine, and WUAG 103.i Campus Radio Station. The campus also includes numerous political organizations for students, including the Higher Republicans, Higher Democrats, College Libertarians^{[33] [34]} and the International Socialist Organization and other activist groups including STAND, an organization focused on the state of affairs in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Club sports [edit]

All clubs are recognized student organizations through the UNCG'south Office of Campus Activities & Programs.

This is a list of clubs that are members of the Club Sports Council:^[35]

• Basketball game (Women's)
• Bass Fishing
• Equestrian
• Fencing
• Football
• Lacrosse (Men's)
• Lacrosse (Women's)
• Quidditch
• Rugby (Men's)
• Rugby (Women'southward)
• Running
• Soccer (Men'south)
• Soccer (Women's)
• Softball
• Swimming
• Tennis
• Ultimate Frisbee (Women'due south)
• Volleyball

Greek life [edit]

UNCG is home to 19 social fraternities and sororities that each have their own traditions. Their main result is Greek Calendar week, a calendar week-long celebration of Greek life and team-building games that have identify each year in April. Other events include Greek Treats in October and a luminary brandish in December.

The following Greek organizations are present at UNCG:

Traditions [edit]

Some of the virtually visible traditions at UNCG take place between the university dining hall and the Elliott Academy Eye where "The Rawk" and the clock tower are located.

The Rawk [edit]

The Rawk^[36] is a big bedrock donated by members of Alpha Phi Omega in 1973 and painted nigh every twenty-four hour period past students, who use it as a behemothic bulletin board. Unofficial rules govern the employ of the Rawk, and students know not to apply foul language and that messages must be left for at least 24 hours before being painted over. Students know when they tin begin to paint over the previous bulletin on The Rawk by the ii smaller rocks in front of it; one for the appointment, and one for the time at which the message was painted. The Rawk was originally placed where the fountain is today, on the loma in front of the dining hall.

Clock towers [edit]

Students at the academy likewise uphold the tradition of non walking beneath the iv-faced clock tower located near the Rawk. Information technology is said that those who walk under the clock volition not graduate on time, and some students believe in this well-nigh religiously, avoiding the bricks around the clock belfry every bit well. Only graduates and the occasional unbeliever walk through the middle of the four posts to read the plaque below the clocks.^[37]

Students are as well told non to depend on the time shown on any of the clock's faces. All four faces tend to testify slightly dissimilar times.

A new clock and bell tower, the Nicholas A. Vacc Bell Tower, was constructed in 2005 on the site of the erstwhile University Bell, at the corner of College Artery and Bound Garden Street. The bells ring on the hour and on every quarter of the hour in a sequence made famous by the Big Ben chimes.

Other traditions [edit]

It is also a tradition each year to requite new students a Minerva pin and a daisy—the school flower of UNCG—after student convocation. The daisy was the inspiration for the original two school colors: aureate and white. (Navy blueish was added to the color palette in 1987 "to provide better visual dissimilarity to publications, merchandise and athletic uniforms."^[38]) Another tradition is the ringing of the university bong to open the academic yr at the showtime of each Fall Semester.

Still another tradition is to put a wreath of daisies at the pes of the statue of Charles McIver at UNCG and on the grounds of the Due north Carolina land capitol on Founder's Day. This is done by the alumni of the academy.

University libraries [edit]

The UNCG Academy Libraries system has two branches. They are:

• the Walter Clinton Jackson Library (the main campus library); this includes the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and Academy Archives
• the Harold Schiffman Music Library

Other affiliated libraries on campus include:

• the Teaching Resources Center and the Self Pattern Studio (housed in the School of Education)
• the Interior Architecture Library
• the Multicultural Resources Center Library (located in the Elliot University Center)

Academic units [edit]

UNCG is home to research institutes and centers including the Gateway University Inquiry Park, Heart for Applied Research, Center for Creative Writing in the Arts, Center for Drug Discovery, Institute for Customs and Economic Engagement, Center for Biotechnology, Genomics & Wellness Inquiry, Music Research Establish and the Southeastern Regional Vision for Didactics (SERVE).

The university is organized into ane traditional college, one specialty college, one professional college, and seven professional person schools:

• Higher of Arts and Sciences
• College of Visual and Performing Arts
• Lloyd International Honors College
• Joseph M. Bryan School of Business and Economic science
• School of Education
• School of Health and Human Sciences
• Schoolhouse of Nursing
• Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering
• The Graduate School

College of Arts and Sciences [edit]

The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest of the eight academic units that make upwardly the university, with almost 500 full-time faculty in 21 academic departments and 7 interdepartmental programs, spanning the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and mathematics. John Z. Buss was appointed Dean on July 1, 2016.^[39]

UNCG requires all students, no matter what their major, to complete a General Education Curriculum (GEC) that includes courses in the traditional liberal arts, as well as courses that introduce them to new perspectives that have become increasingly important today. The College offers most of the university's general educational activity courses, in addition to the hundreds of more specialized courses that make up its undergraduate majors and graduate programs.

The College of Arts and Sciences has seven,135 undergraduates enrolled every bit of 2009^[update] fall semester.

English language Section [edit]

The English Department, established in 1893, offers a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, PhD, and multiple minors.^[40] The writing program was, and continues to be, one of the about popular and successful parts of department. A writing center was established in 1985 aimed at students in the Higher of Arts and Sciences.^{[41] [42]} Today, the university Writing Middle caters to all students and faculty and is housed under the Division of Student Success along with a Speaking Center, Digital ACT Studio, and Academic Achievement Middle.^{[43] [44]} The department is ranked #7 in 2021 in NC for the English BA.^[45] The PhD program has been recognized on U.S. News & World Report's 2022 All-time Graduate School Rankings as the #3 PhD in English language program in NC and #99 overall.^[46]

Currently, the English Department is housed in the Moore Humanities and Research Assistants Building, merely was previously housed in the now demolished McIver Edifice, which was referred to as "the ugliest classroom edifice in America."^[47]

Notable Alumni & Faculty [edit]

In May 2017, alum Adam Tarleton gave the commencement address.^[48] For a cursory period in 1973, Nobel prize winner Louise Gluck held a position as a visiting poet.^{[49] [50]}

Notable Emeritus Faculty include: Denise Bakery, Fred Chappell, Keith Cushman,^[51] and Craig Nova.

Lloyd International Honors College [edit]

The Lloyd International Honors College is a selective honors college at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and provides undergraduate students in all majors an opportunity to attain a higher level of academic accomplishment in the same time it takes to earn a regular degree.

The College offers three Honors academic programs that allows students to enhance their general-educational activity studies (International Honors Program), work in their major (Disciplinary Honors Program), or their unabridged undergraduate education while at UNCG (Full Honors Plan). All Honors students have special Honors courses that are more often than not restricted to no more than 20–25 students and oft take an interdisciplinary focus. For those who wish to complete International Honors or Full University Honors, an international feel and a second language are required.

Joseph M. Bryan School of Business organization and Economics [edit]

The Bryan building, dwelling house of the concern school, was completed in 1979.

The Bryan School of Business and Economics is the largest of UNCG'southward seven professional schools. It was founded in 1969, and is named for Joseph M. Bryan, a prominent effigy in Northward Carolina business and philanthropy. The Bryan School is among the pinnacle one percentage of business concern schools worldwide that have achieved accreditation in both business organisation and bookkeeping by AACSB International –The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business organization.^[52] The Bryan School has 73 total-time faculty likewise every bit 3,200 undergraduates and 460 graduate students.^[53] There are also more than twenty,000 alumni.

Dr. McRae C. "Mac" Banks Two is the fourth dean of the Joseph Thousand. Bryan School of Business and Economic science, who was approved past the UNCG Lath of Trustees on March 17, 2011. The first to concord the Virginia Batte Phillips professorship, Dr. Banks started his tenure every bit Dean on July 1, 2011.^[54]

Academic departments [edit]

• Bookkeeping and Finance
• Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies
• Economics
• Information Systems and Supply Concatenation Direction
• Direction
• Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality and Tourism

Research centers and institutes [edit]

• Center for Business and Economic Research
• North Carolina Sales Institute

School of Pedagogy [edit]

The School of Education at the University of Northward Carolina at Greensboro.

The Schoolhouse of Pedagogy has several graduate programs, i notable one existence a Doctorate in Philosophy (PhD) in Educational Studies with a Concentration in Cultural Studies from the Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations Section.

The history of the School of Education of UNCG has its roots in the founding of the university itself. Originally designated in 1891 every bit the Northward Carolina State Normal and Industrial School, UNCG was established as a school to train women educators, based on the assumption that if women received training they would, in turn, educate their children and ultimately amend the level of instruction and literacy in the state.

Founding of "the Normal" was a long time in coming. Although providing state-supported higher education for women in North Carolina had been an occasional topic of discussion among educators, the idea did non announced to exist taken seriously until later the Civil War. When the thought was first formally proposed to the country'southward legislators, all of whom were men, it was overwhelmingly resisted. It was not until Charles Duncan McIver reminded the General Associates that the state'southward Constitution asserted "instruction of youth would be provided at depression prices and would exist encouraged at one or more universities." McIver argued that women were function of its youth and were, therefore, rightfully entitled to an instruction.

In addition to the constitutional footing for establishing an institution for women, several other factors came into play. First, there was an extensive need for qualified public school teachers, a career path causeless to exist especially attractive to women. Also, at that place was overwhelming prove that the public school arrangement in N Carolina was among the worst in the nation. For instance, the average national expenditure per student enrolled in the public schools was $17.62, but North Carolina spent only $three.36 per pupil. Similarly, the average national length of the school year was 135 days, but it was only 60 days in North Carolina.

Indeed, for almost a decade after the Normal was founded, the curriculum involved diplomas awarded for piece of work that was distinctly below higher level. At the time few public high schools turned out female person graduates who were prepared to handle college-level piece of work. The curriculum was gradually modified over time and the Normal School became a full-fledged College in 1897. Baccalaureate degrees followed in 1903 and graduates were awarded a "diploma and life license" to teach in North Carolina.

Higher of Visual and Performing Arts [edit]

UNCG College of Visual and Performing Arts

The UNCG College of Visual and Performing Arts is home to over 900 educatee majors and more 100 distinguished kinesthesia members. On July 1, 2010, the School of Music was combined administratively with the departments of theater and trip the light fantastic toe to create the School of Music, Theatre and Dance. In 2016, the Department of Art was transferred from the College of Arts and Sciences, thus giving way to the renaming of the unit. The offices for the new combined school remain in the current music building, with the Art Department remaining at its present location.

Educatee Organizations include:

• Delta Chi Xi, Alpha affiliate
• Mu Phi Epsilon, Blastoff-Xi chapter
• Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Iota Epsilon chapter
• Sigma Blastoff Iota, Kappa Gamma chapter
• Collegiate Music Educators National Conference
• American Choral Directors Clan
• American Cord Teachers Clan
• Graduate Music Educatee Association
• Lodge of Composers, Incorporated, Student Chapter
• Alpha Psi Omega

School of Nursing [edit]

The School of Nursing was established in September 1966 under the leadership of the first dean, Eloise R. Lewis. The first course of BSN students graduated in 1970. In 1976, the MSN program was initiated. The School began the PhD program Fall 2005. The School continues to offer both undergraduate and graduate programs with over 4,000 alumni. The School also offers an outreach plan in Hickory, Northward Carolina for RN to BSN students and a concentration in education for MSN students.

The average passage rate for the NCLEX is over 90% for prelicensure graduates and all of the graduates from the nurse anesthesia programme are nationally certified. The Developed and Gerontological Nurse Practitioner program leads to eligibility for national certification.

Students have the opportunity for clinical experiences in over 400 agencies throughout the state of Due north Carolina. The School supports four nursing clinics for the elderly as educational sites for students. All students are brash by nursing faculty.

School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering [edit]

The Articulation School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering ("JSNN") is a collaborative projection between North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University and UNCG. The mission of the JSNN is to train students to comport basic and applied research in nanotechnology.

The Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering is expected to offering Professional Chief of Science and PhD degrees in Nanoscience and Nanoengineering. Nanoscience and Nanoengineering training for scientists and engineers already in the workforce.

Programs of study focus on three main areas: nanobioscience, which emphasizes biological and chemic aspects of nanoscience; nanotechnology, which emphasizes engineering and ecological aspects; and environmental nanoscience, which will accost ethical and environmental implications of nanoscience. These programs of study lead to Professional Masters or PhD degrees. The biological and chemical inquiry emphasis offered by the JSNN is the first in the nation. The only other two existing professional primary'south programs in nanoscience and nanoengineering are at Rice University and University at Albany, SUNY, neither of which offers a biological or chemical accent.

The Graduate School [edit]

The Graduate Schoolhouse at The Academy of North Carolina at Greensboro directs and manages the graduate programs on campus for approximately 3600 graduate students from 33 states and 34 foreign countries.

Some of the activities coordinated by The Graduate School Staff:

• Disseminate program and admission information to prospective students
• Collect and process application materials submitted to the university
• Coordinate the admission procedure with academic departments
• Assistance students with estimation of policy, class registration and withdrawal
• Monitor bookish eligibility
• Review theses/dissertations for formatting requirements
• Process applications for Graduation
• Process degree audits/caste clearances
• Piece of work with the Graduate Studies Commission to approve all new/revised graduate programs, curricula, and policy

Other notable bookish units [edit]

MFA Writing Programme [edit]

During the early years, the university had among its kinesthesia a number of noted writers, such as Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, John Crowe Bribe, Hiram Haydn, Peter Taylor, Robie Macauley and Randall Jarrell. They invited other distinguished writers to campus to read from their piece of work and to meet with students; these writers included Robert Lowell, Robert Frost, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Nobel prize winner Louise Glück and Saul Bellow. In 1965, under the leadership of Robert Watson, creative writing offerings were formalized. Since that time, enrollment has grown, but the faculty has intentionally kept the MFA program small, enabling students to have individual conferences with faculty. Notable faculty members accept included Fred Chappell, H.T. Kirby-Smith, Michael Parker, Craig Nova, Stuart Dischell, Jennifer Grotz and David Roderick. Notable graduates include Claudia Emerson, Steve Almond, Keith Lee Morris, Lee Hadaway, Wiley Cash, Linda Carter Brinson, Kelly Cherry, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Robert Morgan. and Rodney Jones.

Gateway University Research Park [edit]

Gateway University Research Park is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit entity created to manage and operate the joint collaboration betwixt North Carolina A&T State University and UNCG for the purposes of supporting enquiry and economic evolution within the Triad. Gateway University Research Park aims to attract and retain educational, corporate and customs service agencies which accelerate scientific and educational research in technology. The park consists of two campuses.

A$400 million master plan has been developed for the ii campuses of Gateway Academy Research Park and when fully developed, the enquiry park is anticipated to generate an economic touch of $l million per year in the Triad. Upon total build out of the project, it is further anticipated that companies and agencies located at the Gateway Academy Inquiry Park will comprehend more than 2,000 employees. The Southeast campus of the inquiry park already houses the aforementioned School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering.

Residential colleges [edit]

UNCG is home to three residential colleges, besides as an arts-specific dormitory customs.

Cornelia Strong College [edit]

Cornelia Strong College Arms

Cornelia Strong Higher was founded in 1994, and was originally housed in Moore-Stiff Hall. Information technology is named for Cornelia Strong (1877–1955), professor of mathematics and astronomy in the university from 1905 to 1948.^[55]

Cornelia Strong College provides a social and academic community within the context of the larger academy. Strong College has a curriculum focused on sustainability. The college is a two-twelvemonth program, like to that of Ashby Higher. Subsequently two years at Strong College students take a fieldwork capstone course to "graduate" from the program. Potent College fellows are faculty members who take an agile role in the evolution of Potent College's student members.

Grogan College [edit]

Ione Grogan College, established in 1997 and named after alumna and former professor Ione Grogan, is limited to freshman and serves most 300 students per year. The higher is divided into smaller learning communities, each headed by a faculty fellow. The higher offers classes that see full general requirements, and ease freshman into the college experience.

Ashby Residential College [edit]

The Warren Ashby Residential College at Mary Foust, established in 1970, is a community of freshman and sophomore students, kinesthesia and staff who alive or work in Mary Foust Hall. Also known as RC (or ARC), the college offers small classes, close student and faculty interaction and a rich community living experience.

In addition to freshmen and sophomores, those who accept graduated from the programme and are ascension juniors or seniors may use to exist Mary Foust upperclassmen. Typically 8–12 or so juniors and seniors are selected each yr to continue living in Mary Foust as mentors. Each upperclassman is required to complete an "upperclassman project." These projects are typically activities that support customs interaction within Mary Foust.

Many Mary Foust alumni go along to support and participate in Ashby Residential Higher. Many of the staff are alumni.

Studio 91 [edit]

Studio 91, established in 2018, is a residential customs of students pursuing artistic disciplines. Also known as Cone Dormitory, Studio 91 offers seminars, activities, and unique access to arts faculty in a rich community living experience. Studio 91 contains exercise rooms, dance studios, and spaces for creating visual art. Cross-disciplinary piece of work is besides encouraged.

Notable alumni [edit]

• Steve Almond – Writer of Candyfreak, My Life in Heavy Metallic, and The Evil B.B. Chow.
• Norman Anderson – CEO of the American Psychological Association (PhD in clinical psychology from UNCG)^[56]
• Gerald Austin – NFL referee
• Jim Avett – musician and father of Scott Avett and Seth Avett of The Avett Brothers^[57]
• DaBaby, American rapper
• Tyler Barnhardt, American player
• Ruth Bellamy (1906-1969), American writer
• Chrystelle Trump Bail, American dancer, choreographer, and dance historian
• Linda Carter Brinson, American editor, writer, and announcer
• Carrie Lougee Broughton, American librarian
• Kathryn Stripling Byer (born 1944) – American poet and instructor; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2005–2009
• Andy Cabic – vocaliser-songwriter for the band Vetiver
• Wiley Cash – author
• J.P. Carter – American politician, educator, and military officer
• Chris Chalk – actor in the Fox show Gotham and the movie 12 Years a Slave.
• Paul Chelimo – 2016 Olympic silver medalist at 5000 meters in track and field.
• Kelly Cherry - Poet Laureate of Virginia 2010-2012
• Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut – Actress and writer
• The Darlinettes – vocal grouping
• James L. Dickey Three (built-in 1996) - basketball actor for Hapoel Haifa of the Israeli Basketball game Premier League
• Tracy Ducar – professional soccer actor
• Claudia Emerson – Pulitzer Prize-winning writer
• Sue Ramsey Johnston Ferguson, N Carolina state senator
• Ben Folds - Singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and record producer. Frontman and pianist of the culling rock band Ben Folds Five.
• Dale Folwell – North Carolina House of Representatives (R), District 74 (2004–present)
• Virginia Foxx – U.S. Representative (R), District 5-NC (2005–present)
• Lee Hall (1934–2017), Painter, writer, educator, and a academy president; BFA 1955.^[58]
• Daisy Hendley Aureate – author, poet, and journalist
• Emily V. Gordon – writer and producer, University-Award nominated for her autobiographical film The Big Sick.
• Melanie Greene – dancer and choreographer
• Ione Grogan – academic and educator
• Bertha Harris – Lesbian feminist author
• Emmylou Harris – Grammy-winning Country music/folk vocaliser-songwriter
• Barbara Hervey – Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals; resides in San Antonio
• Ricky Hickman – professional basketball game histrion in Israel for Maccabi Tel Aviv^[59]
• Kyle Hines – basketball player who is 1 of only six men'southward players in NCAA history to score 2,000 points, grab 1,000 rebounds and block 300 shots in a career^[60]
• Lauren Holt – actress, comedian, and former bandage member of Saturday Nighttime Alive
• Beth Leavel – Tony Honor-winning Broadway actress
• Carol Mann – LPGA Hall of Fame golfer
• Jaylee Burley Mead – astronomer at Goddard Infinite Flight Center
• Beth Mitchell – competitive shag dancer
• Nadia Moffett – Miss Northward Carolina U.s.a. 2010
• Keith Lee Morris – writer of The Sprint League King, The Greyhound God, and The Best Seats in the House
• Alejandro Moreno – retired Venezuelan international soccer player and MLS forward and ESPN soccer analyst
• Robert Morgan – poet, author of Gap Creek, selected by Oprah's Book Society
• Kevin Nanney – professional Super Smash Bros. thespian (B.A. in Psychology)
• Anne-Claire Niver – vocalizer and songwriter
• Genevieve Oswald – trip the light fantastic toe archivist at the New York Public Library
• Samwell – cyberspace celebrity fabricated famous past his video "What What (In the Butt)"
• Jessie Rae Scott - First Lady of North Carolina
• Tom Smith – musician, inductee into Jazz Education Hall of Fame
• Mary Ellen Snodgrass – author and ii-fourth dimension New York Public Library award winner
• Emily Spivey – television writer and producer
• Justin Tornow – dancer and choreographer
• Celeste Ulrich (1924–2011) (course of 1946) – educator in concrete teaching
• Danny Valencia (born 1984) – American-Israeli major league baseball player
• Kate Wagner - architecture and civilisation critic

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External links [edit]

• University of North Carolina at Greensboro at College Navigator, a tool from the National Centre for Teaching Statistics

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