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The Birth of the Spartans

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by Erin Lawrimore One year after the era of co-education was ushered in with the enrollment of male undergraduates in 1964, Frank Pleasants was hired to coordinate competitive athletics for male students at UNCG. Campus administrators saw a robust athletic program as a significant way of encouraging male enrollment. UNCG men’s basketball head coach Jim […]

Co-education: Through a Woman’s Eyes

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by Brittany Hedrick This blog post was written by Brittany Hedrick, an undergraduate history department intern who worked in University Archives in Fall 2015. As part of her internship, she also conducted two oral history interviews — one for the University Archives’ Institutional Memory Project and one for the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical […]

Celebrating 50 Years of Coeducation at UNCG

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by Erin Lawrimore On July 1, 1963, the North Carolina State Legislature officially renamed Woman’s College to The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the decision was made that all UNC system schools would now be co-educational. But male undergraduates did not immediately arrive on the Greensboro campus. Instead, it was not until the […]

1932: The Year of the Co-eds at Woman’s College

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by Erin Lawrimore Until it was made co-educational in 1964, Woman’s College (now UNCG) was pretty clear in the fact that it was a single-gender institution. Male students were allowed to enroll in summer school courses and graduate programs (at least until the 1950s and 1960s when the UNC system asserted limitations over male enrollment […]

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