In 1930, North Carolina Governor O. Max Gardner proposed bringing together the state-sponsored institutions at Chapel Hill, Raleigh (then State College), and Greensboro (then the North Carolina College for Women) into a single consolidated university system, sharing a single president and board of trustees. The 1931 legislature passed the consolidation bill, and the University of […]
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On June 26, 1963, just before session adjournment, the North Carolina legislature ratified H.B. 1395, titled “an act to regulate visiting speakers at state supported colleges and universities.” This bill decreed that no college or university receiving state funding in North Carolina was allowed to host a speaker who “(A) is a known member of […]
During the period of the Consolidated University of North Carolina (1931-1971), a seal for the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) appeared featuring an image of Minerva quite different from those previously used for the school’s seal. Letterhead from Consolidated University period The seal appeared […]
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Computing on Campus
Roscoe Allen, head of the campus’s first computer center, a position he held from 1967-1982 Computers seem ubiquitous on campus today, that hasn’t always been the case. While a campus network of computers wasn’t in place until the 1990s, faculty and staff have made use of computers and computing services offered on campus since 1959. […]
On Friday, October 12, 2012, former UNC President William (“Bill”) Friday passed away at the age of 92. He had a great impact on all aspects of education in North Carolina, including the institution we now know as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Friday’s relationship with UNCG (at the time, it was Woman’s […]
