Reply #30: UNC-Greensboro [View All]

[supernova]

Founded at the end of the 19th Century, it used to be the "North Carolina Normal and Industrial School for Women." That's a long-winded way of saying it was a kind of finishing school for teachers. :P

But in 1963 (IIRC) it turned coed and became part of the UNC campus system. It has since gone on to become a great place for learning teaching and education (still), theatre arts, English and writing. My former advisor in the English Dept is now a former poet Laureate of NC. :-) There is a good business school too, but I wasn't crazy about that. There's plenty of time to learn business. I don't think you have to go to school for it, unless you want to study something like Economics.

It's great for campus life too. All kinds of people, lots of artsy types because while UNCG has an athletics dept, sports ARE NOT the primary draw they are in other places. But the soccer team has been pretty great over the years. In fact, UNCG and UNC Asheville are the schools with the nerdy reps among the UNC system.

My sister went there as an adult (BA Phsych/Business Admin), me (English Literature & Rhetoric), my niece (Busines Admin -- I think) , and now my nephew is a sophmore there. Not sure what he will major in.

edit: History footnote: Women from UNCG (then "Women's College") lent their support and participated in the Greensboro lunch counter sit ins alongside their A&T and Bennett College (small historically black women's college) neighbors. http://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhis60.htm

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