The Business Education and Secretarial Science Department was established in 1932. The degree confirmed by the department was referred to as a Bachelor of Science in Secretarial Administration. In 1940 the title of the department changed to the Department of Business Education and Secretarial Administration. Up until 1941, a student… Continue reading…
The Joseph M. Bryan School of Business and Economics began in 1892 when the Commercial Department was established as one of the three original departments of the State Normal and Industrial School. In 1918, the Department of Economics and Sociology was founded. In 1919, it was renamed the Department of… Continue reading…
Located in Mary Foust Residence Hall, the Warren Ashby Residential College is among the oldest continually operating living-learning communities in North Carolina. Wanting to keep the intimate academic experience at the university, “Residential College” was founded in 1970 by the Dean of Arts and Sciences Robert Miller and Professor of… Continue reading…
On July 21, 1947, the curtains opened on a new venture for the Woman’s College – the Burnsville School of Drama. Running for six weeks in the North Carolina mountain town of Burnsville (about 40 miles northwest of Asheville), the school was a partnership between WC and Burnsville Playhouse, Inc.,… Continue reading…
Dr. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson attended Tuskegee Institute (Now Tuskegee University) in Alabama were she received her B.A. in Sociology in 1970. She later received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University. In 1988, Dr. Dilworth-Anderson was hired by the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and taught classes… Continue reading…
