The school provided business, domestic science, and teaching instruction, with a student body of 223 and a faculty of 15 in its first year.

R. S. Pullen and R. T. Gray donated the original 10-acre (4.0 ha) site in Greensboro, where the first building was erected, with state funds totaling $30,000.

Washington Monthly assesses the quality of schools based on social mobility, research, and promoting public service.

[citation needed] The intercollegiate athletics program at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro reaches as far back as the late 1940s.

Between 1982 and 1987 the Men's Soccer team won the NCAA Division III national championship title every year except for 1984.

With Agee at the helm, UNCG became one of only 10 teams nationally (all divisions) to reach the NCAA tournament each of the first seven years it was held (1982–88).

), Queer Student Collective, The Science Fiction Fantasy Federation, and various performing arts, religious and service programs.

Student media groups also produce UNCG's newspaper The Carolinian, CORADDI fine arts magazine, and the campus radio station, WUAG.

[38] For a brief period in 1973, Nobel prize winner Louise Gluck held a position as a visiting poet.

It was founded in 1969 and is named for Joseph M. Bryan, a prominent figure in North Carolina business and philanthropy.

The first to hold the Virginia Batte Phillips professorship, Banks started his tenure as dean on July 1, 2011.

For almost a decade after the Normal was founded, the curriculum involved diplomas awarded for work that was distinctly below college level.

At the time, few public high schools turned out female graduates who were prepared to handle college-level work.

Baccalaureate degrees followed in 1903 and graduates were awarded a "diploma and life license" to teach in North Carolina.

The UNCG College of Visual and Performing Arts is home to over 900 student majors and more than 100 distinguished faculty members.

The Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering ("JSNN") is a collaborative project between North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University and UNCG.

During the early years, the university had among its faculty several noted writers, such as Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, John Crowe Ransom, Hiram Haydn, Peter Taylor, Robie Macauley and Randall Jarrell.

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