The first social work class at UNCG was offered in 1935 through the Department of Sociology. Social work classes continued in the Department of Sociology even when, in 1958, the department changed its name to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. In 1973, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology separated,… Continue reading…
Dale Schunk is a professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) and served as Dean of the School of Education at UNCG from 2001 to 2011. Schunk received his B.S. in psychology from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1968, his M.Ed. from… Continue reading…
The Department of Sociology and Economics was established in 1917 and in 1931, separated into two individual departments of Department of Sociology and Department of Economics. Roughly 20 years later, in 1958, the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology merged to create the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. In 1973, the… Continue reading…
The Service League was established in 1942 as a student organization at the Woman’s College (later known as UNCG) to help U.S. troops during World War II. That year, according to the Greensboro Daily News, more than 100 students from the college volunteered for secretarial and lab work at the… Continue reading…
The University’s music library (located on the second floor of the Music Building) was renamed the Harold Schiffman Music Library in 2012 for the Greensboro born composer Harold Schiffman, after he and his wife, music educator and pianist Jane Perry-Camp, gave a 2 million dollar gift to UNCG to provide… Continue reading…
The first instances of student government at the State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG) began in the 1890s when individual students, called marshals, were selected from the two literary societies along with one chief marshal. In 1910, a student council was created to act as an advisory group for… Continue reading…
The “Winged Victory” statue stands in the lobby of the Forney Building at UNCG. “Winged Victory” is a statue of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, and was a gift to the then State Normal and Industrial College (later UNCG) by the Class of 1915. The statue underwent a significant… Continue reading…
David Armstrong was the Dean of the School of Education at UNCG from 1997 until his retirement in 2001. Armstrong arrived at UNCG from Texas A&M University, where he had served as Associate Dean of the College of Education from 1991 to 1995. He received his bachelor’s degree in political… Continue reading…
Timothy Johnston is a professor of psychology at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), where from 2002 to 2016, he served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Johnston was born in Manchester, England, in 1949. He received his B.Sc. degree in Ecology from the University… Continue reading…
Dr. Robert (Bob) Christina was hired as Dean of the School of Health and Human Sciences and professor of Kinesiology at UNCG in 1992. Prior to coming to UNCG, he was chairman of the Department of Physical Therapy and Exercise and faculty member at the State University of New York… Continue reading…
