Nursing, School of
The School of Nursing was founded in 1950 as the first four-year school of nursing in the state to offer a bachelor's degree. (Duke University already had a three-year degree program.) UNC had offered summer extension classes for nurses beginning in the mid-1930s and a bachelor's degree in p...
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University Day
University Day, celebrated annually on October 12, commemorates the laying of the cornerstone of Old East on that date in 1793. University Day was first held in 1877 and featured a Glee Club performance and a lecture from university president Kemp Plummer Battle on the charter and establishment of t...
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Invisible University of North
In the fall of 1970 graduate student Nyle Frank started the Invisible University of North Carolina. The (very) informal "invisible university" offered alternative classes in the style of 1960s teach-ins. Anyone interested could sign up to take a class, or to teach one. The first course, taug...
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Hyde Hall
Hyde Hall is home to the Institute for Arts and Humanities, which provides support and training for faculty through a variety of programs. The decision to place a new building for the institute in McCorkle Place, the oldest part of campus, symbolized the institute's centrality to nurturing the h...
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