Edward Kidder Graham, Jr., son of Edward Kidder and Susan Moses Graham, was born in Chapel Hill on January 31, 1911. He was a member of a prominent educational family. His father served as president of the University of North Carolina during World War I and his uncle, Frank Porter… Continue reading…
Walter Clinton Jackson was born in Hayston, Georgia, on June 28, 1879. He attended the Hayston public schools and was graduated from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia in 1900. In 1902, after teaching two years in Georgia, he came to Greensboro, N. C., where he taught and served as principal… Continue reading…
Julius Isaac Foust, son of Thomas Carbry and Mary E. Robbins Foust, was born November 23, 1865, in Graham, North Carolina. After attending Graham Academy and Graham Normal School, he entered the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1885. He received his Ph.B. (Bachelor of Philosophy) in 1890… Continue reading…
Charles Duncan McIver was born on September 27, 1860 in Moore County, North Carolina. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1881 and began teaching school in Durham and Winston. In 1886, he went to Peace Institute in Raleigh. In 1889, McIver and Edwin A. Alderman were… Continue reading…
Born in 1947, Linda P. Brady earned degrees in political science from Douglass College, the women’s division of Rutgers University (B.A., 1969), Rutgers University (M.A., 1970), and Ohio State University (Ph.D., 1974). After positions with the U.S. State Department and leadership roles at Georgia Tech, Oregon, and North Carolina State,… Continue reading…
On November 1-3, 1967, UNCG played host to a controversial Black Power Forum, organized in large part by the Student Government Association to “inform students and faculty members of this movement and its actions and to give us a chance to discuss Black Power, its history, its political and social… Continue reading…
When the doors opened at the State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG) on October 5, 1892, president Charles Duncan McIver had 15 well-qualified faculty members and nearly 200 young female students. While cooks, janitors, handymen, and others worked behind the scenes to keep the school running, McIver felt that… Continue reading…
This building was designed by Hayes Howell Architects, A.I.A. From 1983 to 1985, the building was known as the Arts and Sciences Building and was renamed on February 14, 1985 in honor of James Sharbrough Ferguson, chancellor of the University from 1967 to 1979.
This building, designed by Northrup & O’Brien of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was built in 1948 and originally housed the campus’ Soda Shop. The building was renovated as a Faculty Center in 1963 after the Soda Shop moved to the Elliott Student Union.
The terrace, or patio, opened in 1953, at the same time that the first wing of Elliott Student Union was built. Located in the area between Elliott Student Union and the Alumnae House, it included the pavers and kidney shaped fountain. In April 1974, the Elliott Student Union’s name was… Continue reading…
