The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a public research university in Greensboro,North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina system. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award baccalaureate,master's,specialist,and doctoral degrees.
Guilford College is a private liberal arts college in Greensboro,North Carolina. Guilford has both traditional students and students who attend its Center for Continuing Education (CCE). Founded in 1837 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers),Guilford's program offerings include such majors as Peace and Conflict Studies and Community and Justice Studies,both rooted in the college's history as a Quaker institution. Its campus has been considered a National Historic District by the United States Department of the Interior since 1990.
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne "Cokie" Roberts was an American journalist and author. Her career included decades as a political reporter and analyst for National Public Radio,PBS,and ABC News,with prominent positions on Morning Edition,The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,World News Tonight,and This Week. She was considered one of NPR's "Founding Mothers" along with Susan Stamberg,Linda Wertheimer and Nina Totenberg.
Elon University is a private university in Elon,North Carolina. Founded in 1889 as Elon College,Elon is organized into six schools,most of which offer bachelor's degrees and several of which offer master's degrees or professional doctorate degrees.
Bennett College is a private historically black liberal arts college for women in Greensboro,North Carolina. It was founded in 1873 as a normal school to educate freedmen and train both men and women as teachers. Originally coed,in 1926 it became a four-year women's college. It is one of two historically black colleges that enroll only women,the other being Spelman College.
Elon University School of Law is an American law school located in Greensboro,North Carolina,occupying the former downtown public library building. Established in 2006,Elon Law is one of nine graduate programs offered by Elon University. It earned full accreditation from the American Bar Association in 2011 and has announced plans to introduce a part-time program for working professionals in Charlotte,North Carolina,beginning in Fall 2024.
Michael Skube is a former journalist who is on the faculty of the Elon University School of Communications.
Michele Gillespie is the Provost and Presidential Endowed Professor of Southern History at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem,North Carolina. She specializes in American history,focusing on gender,race,class,and region in the American South. In 2005,she served as president of the Southern Association for Women Historians. She is series co-editor of New Directions in Southern History,published by the University Press of Kentucky,with William Link.
Learfield is a collegiate sports marketing company,representing more than 200 of the nation's top collegiate properties including the NCAA and its 89 championships,NCAA Football,leading conferences,and many of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the country. The company was previously known as Learfield IMG College before rebranding in 2021 to Learfield. Headquartered in Plano,Texas,Learfield employs more than 2,200 people in nearly 100 offices throughout the United States. The company was created in 2018 through the combination of Endeavor's IMG College division and Learfield Communications of Missouri,managed by the Atairos Group.
Mary Bonneau "Bonnie" McElveen-Hunter is an American businesswoman,philanthropist,and diplomat who was the first female chair of the board of governors of the American Red Cross. She is the founder and CEO of Pace Communications,a content and integrated marketing agency,and was the U.S. Ambassador to Finland from 2001 to 2003. She served as the finance chairwoman of Elizabeth Dole's campaign for the Republican nomination for U.S. president. She also started the first billion dollar women's leadership campaign in America for the United Way.
Leo Michael Lambert is the former President of Elon University. Lambert served as Elon's eighth president from 1999 to 2018 and assumed the title of President Emeritus on March 1,2018. He was succeeded by Connie Ledoux Book.
Denise M. Trauth is the ninth president of Texas State University. On June 11,2002,Texas State Board of Regents voted unanimously in favor of Trauth beginning her term as President.
The 2011–12 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team represented The Citadel,The Military College of South Carolina in the 2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bulldogs were led by second-year head coach Chuck Driesell and played their home games at McAlister Field House. They were a member of the South Division of the Southern Conference (SoCon). They finished the season 6–24,3–15 in SoCon play,to finish in last place in the South Division. They lost in the first round of the SoCon Basketball tournament to Western Carolina.
Kathryn Stripling Byer,also called Kay Byer,was an American poet and teacher. She was named by Governor Mike Easley as the fifth North Carolina Poet Laureate from 2005 to 2009. She was the first woman to hold the position.
The Citadel Bulldogs baseball represents The Citadel,The Military College of South Carolina in college baseball at the NCAA Division I level. The program was established in 1899,and has continuously fielded a team since 1947. Their primary rivals are College of Charleston,Furman and VMI.
Rebecca Todd Peters is a feminist and Christian social ethicist who serves as a professor of Religious Studies at Elon University. Peters' scholarship focuses on questions related to economics,the environmental crisis,globalization,poverty,and women's access to reproductive health care.
Justin Tornow is an American dancer,choreographer,dance scholar,and dance teacher. She is the founder and artistic director of COMPANY,a co-founder and co-organizer of Durham Independent Dance Artists,former board president of the North Carolina Dance Alliance,and producer of the PROMPTS art series in Durham,North Carolina. Tornow is trained in Cunningham technique and is a New York Public Library Research Fellow in Cunningham dance pedagogy. She serves on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro,Elon University,and the American Dance Festival.
Penelope Muse Abernathy is an American journalist,former media executive,author and researcher who specializes in the study of news deserts. In 2008,after senior management roles at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal,she became the Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2021,she was appointed a visiting professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
Ione Holt Grogan was an American academic,mathematician,and educator. She worked as a schoolteacher in North Carolina and Georgia for twenty-two years before joining the faculty at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina,where she was a professor of mathematics from 1935 to 1958. A dormitory,a residence college,and a scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro,are named after her. Grogan was also the president of the Reviewers Club,the oldest literary club for women in North Carolina.
Carolyn Hope Ringer Lepre is an American mass communication professor and academic administrator serving as the tenth president of Salisbury University since 2022. She was previously the provost and interim president of Radford University.
