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Elisabeth Zinser was Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1983 to 1989. Zinser came to UNCG from the University of North Dakota, where she had been Dean of the School of Nursing from 1977 to 1981, and then Provost briefly in … Continued
Philip Friedman was a Professor of Economics and Dean of the School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1984 to 1990. Friedman came to UNCG from Boston University, where he had been Chair of the Department of Finance and Economics since 1980. … Continued
Mariana Newton was a professor of Speech Pathology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1969, until her retirement in 2000. A native of California, Newton received both her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Redlands, in Redlands, California, in 1960 and 1963, respectively. She … Continued
Katharine Smith Reynolds Johnston was born and raised in Mount Airy, North Carolina. She attended the State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG) from 1897 to 1899 but did not graduate. Katharine left the campus after the typhoid epidemic of 1899, transferring to Sullins College in Bristol, Virginia, where she … Continued
Robin Remsburg is a Professor of Nursing and the current Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Remsburg received her BSN from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1978, and her MSN in nursing education from UNCG in 1992. She received … Continued
Edward Uprichard was Provost at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1995 to 2007, and Dean of the School of Education at UNCG from 1988 to 1995. Uprichard received his B.A. in mathematics education from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 1964, and his … Continued
Lynne Pearcey was Dean of the School of Nursing at UNCG for 23 years, from 1990 until her retirement in 2013. During her time as Dean, the School of Nursing established a Ph.D. in nursing, and became a highly selective and rigorous nursing school. Pearcey arrived at UNCG in 1989 … Continued
Robert L. Miller was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1968 to 1985. Miller was born and raised in Chicago, and received his B.S. in biochemistry and his M.S. in biology from the University of Chicago, in 1949 … Continued
David H. Perrin was Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 2007 to 2014, and Dean of the School of Health and Human Performance at UNCG from 2001 to 2007. Under Perrin’s leadership as Dean of the School of Human Performance, a … Continued