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National League South
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The National League South, formerly Conference South, is one of the second divisions of the National League in England, taking its place immediately below the top division National League. Along with National League North it is at the level of the National League System. It was introduced in 2004 as part of a restructuring of the National League System. The champion team each year is promoted to the National League. A second promotion place goes to the winners of play-offs of the finishing in second place to fifth place. The three bottom clubs are relegated to Step 3 leagues, from the start of the 2015–16 season, the league is known as the National League South. The current champions are Sutton United, who finished 6 points ahead of second place, the current member club for the 2016–17 season are as follows, The stadiums of all teams in the league for the 2016–17 season are listed below in capacity order, ** Not promoted. In 2004–05 only three places were available to the Conference National. The third place was decided in a Playoff at Stokes Britannia Stadium, which Eastbourne lost 2–1 to the Conference North Playoff winners, Altrincham
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Conference League South
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The Conference League South is a British rugby league division in the RFLs tier 4. It is the highest level of rugby league in the South of England. It is one of the leagues that replaced the now defunct Rugby League Conference, some RLC sides joined a newly formed National Conference League Division 3 for a single season and applied for full membership of the NCL the following season. Northampton Demons and St Albans Centurions were replaced with Oxford Cavaliers, Rugby League Conference Leagues National Conference League
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Southern Conference
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The Southern Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I. Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision, member institutions are located in the states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. The Southern Conference ranks as the fifth-oldest major college conference in the United States. Among conferences currently in operation, the Big Ten and Missouri Valley are indisputably older, the Pac-12 Conference did not operate under its current charter until 1959, but claims the history of the Pacific Coast Conference, founded in 1915, as its own. The Southwest Conference was founded in 1914, but ceased operation in 1996 once the Big 12 Conference began play, the Southern Conference is considered one of the stronger football conferences in the Football Championship Subdivision and is considered a mid-major conference in basketball. In 2015, Furman defeated UCF 16–15 and The Citadel topped South Carolina 23–22 for their win over the Gamecocks in the past three meetings. The SoCon also frequently sees multiple teams selected to participate in the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship, talks of a new conference for southern athletics had started as early as fall of 1920. The conference was formed on February 25,1921 in Atlanta as fourteen member institutions split from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, in 1922, six more universities – Florida, LSU, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tulane, and Vanderbilt joined the conference. The first year of competition for the conference was in 1922, the new rules banned freshman play. Later additions included Sewanee, Virginia Military Institute, and Duke, the SoCon is particularly notable for having spawned two other major conferences. In 1932, the 13 schools located south and west of the Appalachians all departed the SoCon to form the Southeastern Conference, in 1953, seven additional schools withdrew from the SoCon to form the Atlantic Coast Conference. The SoCon became the first league to hold a basketball tournament to decide a conference champion. Although first played in 1921, it did not become official until 1922, held at the Municipal Auditorium in Atlanta from February 24 – March 2,1922, the first meeting was won by North Carolina who defeated non-member Mercer in the Finals 40-25. The SoCon Basketball Tournament continues as the nations oldest conference tournament, the next-oldest tournament overall is the SEC Mens Basketball Tournament, founded in 1933, but that event was suspended after its 1952 edition and did not resume until 1979. The all-sports membership changed to 10 schools in 2014 following the departure of Appalachian State, Davidson, Elon, and Georgia Southern, plus the arrival of East Tennessee State, Mercer, the current football membership stands at nine. UNC Greensboro does not sponsor football, while ETSU, which relaunched its previously dormant football program in 2015, on January 9,2014, the SoCon and Atlantic Sun Conference announced a new alliance in lacrosse that took effect with the 2014–15 school year. Under its terms, sponsorship of mens lacrosse shifted from the ASUN to the SoCon, bellarmine, which had announced it would join the ASUN for mens lacrosse for the 2015 season, instead joined the SoCon. The most recent additions to the associate membership came with the start of the 2016–17 school year, Full members Full members Other Conference Other Conference Due to space limitations, one portion of Washington and Lees affiliation history is not indicated in the table
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a non-profit association which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations, and individuals. It also organizes the programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2014, the NCAA generated almost a billion dollars in revenue. 80 to 90% of this revenue was due to the Division I Mens Basketball Tournament and this revenue is then distributed back into various organizations and institutions across the United States. In August 1973, the current three-division setup of Division I, Division II, under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer scholarships to athletes for playing a sport. Division III schools may not offer any athletic scholarships, generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. Division I football was divided into I-A and I-AA in 1978. Subsequently, the term Division I-AAA was briefly added to delineate Division I schools which do not field a football program at all, in 2006, Divisions I-A and I-AA were respectively renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision. Inter-collegiate sports began in the US in 1852 when crews from Harvard University, as other sports emerged, notably football and basketball, many of these same concepts and standards were adopted. Football, in particular, began to emerge as a marquee sport, the IAAUS was officially established on March 31,1906, and took its present name, the NCAA, in 1910. For several years, the NCAA was a group and rules-making body, but in 1921, the first NCAA national championship was conducted. Gradually, more rules committees were formed and more championships were created, a series of crises brought the NCAA to a crossroads after World War II. The Sanity Code – adopted to establish guidelines for recruiting and financial aid – failed to curb abuses, postseason football games were multiplying with little control, and member schools were increasingly concerned about how the new medium of television would affect football attendance. The complexity of problems and the growth in membership and championships demonstrated the need for full-time professional leadership. Walter Byers, previously an executive assistant, was named executive director in 1951. Byers wasted no time placing his stamp on the Association, as college athletics grew, the scope of the nations athletics programs diverged, forcing the NCAA to create a structure that recognized varying levels of emphasis. In 1973, the Associations membership was divided into three legislative and competitive divisions – I, II, and III, five years later in 1978, Division I members voted to create subdivisions I-A and I-AA in football. Until the 1980s, the association did not offer womens athletics, instead, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, with nearly 1000 member schools, governed womens collegiate sports in the United States
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NCAA Division I
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Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. This level was called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the lower level College Division. For football only, Division I was further subdivided in 1978 into Division I-A, Division I-AA, in 2006, Division I-A and I-AA were renamed Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision, respectively. FCS teams are allowed to award scholarships, a practice technically allowed. FBS teams also have to meet attendance requirements, while FCS teams do not need to meet minimum attendance requirements. Another difference is post season play, starting with the 2014 postseason, a four-team playoff called the College Football Playoff, replaced the previous one game championship format. Even so, Division I FBS football is still the only NCAA sport in which a champion is not determined by an NCAA-sanctioned championship event. All D-I schools must field teams in at least seven sports for men and seven for women or six for men and eight for women, with at least two team sports for each gender. Division I schools must meet minimum financial aid awards for their athletics program, Several other NCAA sanctioned minimums and differences that distinguish Division I from Divisions II and III. Each playing season has to be represented by each gender as well, there are contest and participant minimums for each sport, as well as scheduling criteria. Mens and womens teams have to play all but two games against Division I teams, for men, they must play one-third of all their contests in the home arena. The NCAA has limits on the financial aid each Division I member may award in each sport that the school sponsors. Equivalency sports, in which the NCAA limits the total financial aid that a school can offer in a sport to the equivalent of a set number of full scholarships. Roster limitations may or may not apply, depending on the sport, the term counter is also key to this concept. The NCAA defines a counter as an individual who is receiving financial aid that is countable against the aid limitations in a sport. The number of scholarships that Division I members may award in sport is listed below. In this table, scholarship numbers for head-count sports are indicated without a point, for equivalency sports, they are listed with a decimal point. An exception exists for players at non-scholarship FCS programs who receive aid in another sport, participants in basketball are counted in that sport, unless they also play football
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South Atlantic States
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The South Atlantic United States form one of the nine Census Bureau Divisions within the United States that are recognized by the United States Census Bureau. This division includes eight states and one district, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and this division is also a recognized geographical division used by the United States Geological Survey. Together with the East South Central States and the West South Central States, as of 2010, the South Atlantic States had a combined population of 61,774,970. The South Atlantic States region covers 292,589 square miles, with the exception of West Virginia, the region has seen rapid population growth and economic development in recent decades. Note, Election results for the Upper South Atlantic States are included in the table of the Mid-Atlantic states article
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Charlotte, North Carolina
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Charlotte /ˈʃɑːrlət/ is the largest city in the state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Mecklenburg County and the second-largest city in the southeastern United States, just behind Jacksonville, Charlotte is the third-fastest growing major city in the United States. In 2014 the estimated population of Charlotte according to the U. S. Census Bureau was 809,958, the Charlotte metropolitan area ranks 22nd-largest in the U. S. and had a 2014 population of 2,380,314. The Charlotte metropolitan area is part of a sixteen-county market region or combined statistical area with a 2014 U. S. Census population estimate of 2,537,990, residents of Charlotte are referred to as Charlotteans. It is listed as a global city by the Globalization. Charlotte Douglas International Airport is an international hub, and was ranked the 23rd-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic in 2013. Charlotte has a subtropical climate. The city is located several miles east of the Catawba River and southeast of Lake Norman, Lake Wylie and Mountain Island Lake are two smaller man-made lakes located near the city. The Catawba Native Americans were the first to settle Mecklenburg County and were first recorded in European records around 1567, by 1759 half the Catawba tribe had been killed by smallpox. At the time of their largest population, Catawba people numbered 10,000, Mecklenburg County was initially part of Bath County of New Hanover Precinct, which became New Hanover County in 1729. The western portion of New Hanover split into Bladen County in 1734, Mecklenburg County formed from Anson County in 1762. Further apportionment was made in 1792, with Cabarrus County formed from Mecklenburg and these areas were all part of one of the original six judicial/military districts of North Carolina known as the Salisbury District. The area that is now Charlotte was settled by people of European descent around 1755, Thomas Polk, who later married Thomas Spratts daughter, built his house by the intersection of two Native American trading paths between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers. One path ran north–south and was part of the Great Wagon Road, within decades of Polks settling, the area grew to become Charlotte Town, incorporating in 1768. The crossroads, perched atop the Piedmont landscape, became the heart of Uptown Charlotte, in 1770, surveyors marked the streets in a grid pattern for future development. The east–west trading path became Trade Street, and the Great Wagon Road became Tryon Street, in honor of William Tryon, the intersection of Trade and Tryon—commonly known today as Trade & Tryon, or simply The Square—is more properly called Independence Square. While surveying the boundary between the Carolinas in 1772, William Moultrie stopped in Charlotte Town, whose five or six houses were very ordinary built of logs, local leaders came together in 1775 and signed the Mecklenburg Resolves, more popularly known as the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. While not a declaration of independence from British rule, it is among the first such declarations that eventually led to the American Revolution
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College football
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It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States. No minor league farm organizations exist in American football and it is in college football where a players performance directly impacts his chances of playing professional football. The best collegiate players will declare for the professional draft after 3 to 4 years of collegiate competition. Those not selected can still attempt to land an NFL roster spot as a free agent. Even after the emergence of the professional National Football League, college football remained extremely popular throughout the U. S, in many cases, college stadiums employ bench-style seating, as opposed to individual seats with backs and arm rests. This allows them to more fans in a given amount of space than the typical professional stadium. College athletes, unlike players in the NFL, are not permitted by the NCAA to be paid salaries, colleges are only allowed to provide non-monetary compensation such as athletic scholarships that provide for tuition, housing, and books. Modern North American football has its origins in various games, all known as football, by the 1840s, students at Rugby School were playing a game in which players were able to pick up the ball and run with it, a sport later known as Rugby football. The game was taken to Canada by British soldiers stationed there and was soon being played at Canadian colleges, the first documented gridiron football match was a game played at University College, a college of the University of Toronto, November 9,1861. One of the participants in the game involving University of Toronto students was William Mulock, a football club was formed at the university soon afterward, although its rules of play at this stage are unclear. In 1864, at Trinity College, also a college of the University of Toronto, F. Barlow Cumberland, modern Canadian football is widely regarded as having originated with a game played in Montreal, in 1865, when British Army officers played local civilians. The game gradually gained a following, and the Montreal Football Club was formed in 1868, early games appear to have had much in common with the traditional mob football played in England. The games remained largely unorganized until the 19th century, when games of football began to be played on college campuses. Each school played its own variety of football, Princeton University students played a game called ballown as early as 1820. A Harvard tradition known as Bloody Monday began in 1827, which consisted of a mass ballgame between the freshman and sophomore classes, in 1860, both the town police and the college authorities agreed the Bloody Monday had to go. The Harvard students responded by going into mourning for a figure called Football Fightum. The authorities held firm and it was a dozen years before football was again played at Harvard. Dartmouth played its own version called Old division football, the rules of which were first published in 1871, all of these games, and others, shared certain commonalities
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North Carolina
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North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U. S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties, the most populous municipality is Charlotte, which is the second largest banking center in the United States after New York City. The state has a range of elevations, from sea level on the coast to 6,684 feet at Mount Mitchell. The climate of the plains is strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the falls in the humid subtropical climate zone. More than 300 miles from the coast, the western, mountainous part of the state has a highland climate. North Carolina is bordered by South Carolina on the south, Georgia on the southwest, Tennessee on the west, Virginia on the north, the United States Census Bureau places North Carolina in the South Atlantic division of the southern region. So many ships have been lost off Cape Hatteras that the area is known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic, the most famous of these is the Queen Annes Revenge, which went aground in Beaufort Inlet in 1718. The coastal plain transitions to the Piedmont region along the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, the Piedmont region of central North Carolina is the states most populous region, containing the six largest cities in the state by population. It consists of rolling countryside frequently broken by hills or low mountain ridges. The Piedmont ranges from about 300 feet in elevation in the east to about 1,500 feet in the west, the western section of the state is part of the Appalachian Mountain range. Among the subranges of the Appalachians located in the state are the Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, the Black Mountains are the highest in the eastern United States, and culminate in Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet, the highest point east of the Mississippi River. North Carolina has 17 major river basins, the five basins west of the Blue Ridge Mountains flow to the Gulf of Mexico, while the remainder flow to the Atlantic Ocean. Of the 17 basins,11 originate within the state of North Carolina, but only four are contained entirely within the states border – the Cape Fear, the Neuse, the White Oak, and the Tar-Pamlico basin. Elevation above sea level is most responsible for temperature change across the state, the climate is also influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf Stream, especially in the coastal plain. These influences tend to cause warmer winter temperatures along the coast, the coastal plain averages around 1 inch of snow or ice annually, and in many years, there may be no snow or ice at all. North Carolina experiences severe weather in summer and winter, with summer bringing threat of hurricanes, tropical storms, heavy rain
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South Carolina
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South Carolina /ˌsaʊθ kærəˈlaɪnə/ is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state is bordered to the north by North Carolina, to the south and west by Georgia across the Savannah River, South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U. S. Constitution, doing so on May 23,1788. South Carolina became the first state to vote to secede from the Union on December 20,1860, after the American Civil War, it was readmitted into the United States on June 25,1868. South Carolina is the 40th most extensive and the 23rd most populous U. S. state and its GDP as of 2013 was $183.6 billion, with an annual growth rate of 3. 13%. The capital and largest city is Columbia with a 2013 population of 133,358, South Carolina is named in honor of King Charles I of England, under whose reign the English colony was first formed, with Carolus being Latin for Charles. There is evidence of activity in the area about 12000 years ago. Along the Savannah River were the Apalachee, Yuchi, and the Yamasee, further west were the Cherokee, and along the Catawba River, the Catawba. These tribes were village-dwellers, relying on agriculture as their food source. The Cherokee lived in wattle and daub houses made with wood and clay, about a dozen separate small tribes summered on the coast harvesting oysters and fish, and cultivating corn, peas and beans. Travelling inland as much as 50 miles mostly by canoe, they wintered on the plain, hunting deer and gathering nuts. The names of these survive in place names like Edisto Island, Kiawah Island. The Spanish were the first Europeans in the area, in 1521, founding San Miguel de Gualdape, established with 500 settlers, it was abandoned within a year by 150 survivors. In 1562 French settlers established a settlement at what is now the Charlesfort-Santa Elena archaeological site on Parris Island, three years later the Spanish built a fort on the same site, but withdrew following hostilities with the English navy. In 1629, King Charles I of England established the Province of Carolina an area covering what is now South and North Carolina, Georgia, in the 1670s, English planters from the Barbados established themselves near what is now Charleston. Settlers built rice plantations in the South Carolina Lowcountry, east of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, settlers came from all over Europe. Plantation labor was done by African slaves who formed the majority of the population by 1720, another cash crop was the Indigo plant, a plant source of blue dye, developed by Eliza Lucas. Meanwhile, in Upstate South Carolina, west of the Fall Line, was settled by farmers and traders. Colonists overthrew the rule, seeing more direct representation
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Virginia
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Virginia is a state located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, as well as in the historic Southeast. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, the capital of the Commonwealth is Richmond, Virginia Beach is the most populous city, and Fairfax County is the most populous political subdivision. The Commonwealths estimated population as of 2014 is over 8.3 million, the areas history begins with several indigenous groups, including the Powhatan. In 1607 the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent New World English colony, slave labor and the land acquired from displaced Native American tribes each played a significant role in the colonys early politics and plantation economy. Although the Commonwealth was under one-party rule for nearly a century following Reconstruction, the Virginia General Assembly is the oldest continuous law-making body in the New World. The state government was ranked most effective by the Pew Center on the States in both 2005 and 2008 and it is unique in how it treats cities and counties equally, manages local roads, and prohibits its governors from serving consecutive terms. Virginias economy changed from agricultural to industrial during the 1960s and 1970s. Virginia has an area of 42,774.2 square miles, including 3,180.13 square miles of water. Virginias boundary with Maryland and Washington, D. C. extends to the mark of the south shore of the Potomac River. The southern border is defined as the 36° 30′ parallel north, the border with Tennessee was not settled until 1893, when their dispute was brought to the U. S. Supreme Court. The Chesapeake Bay separates the portion of the Commonwealth from the two-county peninsula of Virginias Eastern Shore. The bay was formed from the river valleys of the Susquehanna River. Many of Virginias rivers flow into the Chesapeake Bay, including the Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James, the Tidewater is a coastal plain between the Atlantic coast and the fall line. It includes the Eastern Shore and major estuaries of Chesapeake Bay, the Piedmont is a series of sedimentary and igneous rock-based foothills east of the mountains which were formed in the Mesozoic era. The region, known for its clay soil, includes the Southwest Mountains around Charlottesville. The Blue Ridge Mountains are a province of the Appalachian Mountains with the highest points in the state. The Ridge and Valley region is west of the mountains and includes the Great Appalachian Valley, the region is carbonate rock based and includes Massanutten Mountain. The Cumberland Plateau and the Cumberland Mountains are in the southwest corner of Virginia, in this region, rivers flow northwest, with a dendritic drainage system, into the Ohio River basin
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Georgia (U.S. state)
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Georgia is a state in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1733, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies, named after King George II of Great Britain, Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2,1788. It declared its secession from the Union on January 19,1861 and it was the last state to be restored to the Union, on July 15,1870. Georgia is the 24th largest and the 8th most populous of the 50 United States, from 2007 to 2008,14 of Georgias counties ranked among the nations 100 fastest-growing, second only to Texas. Georgia is known as the Peach State and the Empire State of the South, Atlanta is the states capital, its most populous city and has been named a global city. Georgia is bordered to the south by Florida, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and South Carolina, to the west by Alabama, the states northern part is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountains system. Georgias highest point is Brasstown Bald at 4,784 feet above sea level, Georgia is the largest state entirely east of the Mississippi River in land area. Before settlement by Europeans, Georgia was inhabited by the mound building cultures, the British colony of Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12,1733. The colony was administered by the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America under a charter issued by King George II. The Trustees implemented a plan for the colonys settlement, known as the Oglethorpe Plan. In 1742 the colony was invaded by the Spanish during the War of Jenkins Ear, in 1752, after the government failed to renew subsidies that had helped support the colony, the Trustees turned over control to the crown. Georgia became a colony, with a governor appointed by the king. The Province of Georgia was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution by signing the 1776 Declaration of Independence, the State of Georgias first constitution was ratified in February 1777. Georgia was the 10th state to ratify the Articles of Confederation on July 24,1778, in 1829, gold was discovered in the North Georgia mountains, which led to the Georgia Gold Rush and an established federal mint in Dahlonega, which continued its operation until 1861. The subsequent influx of white settlers put pressure on the government to land from the Cherokee Nation. In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, sending many eastern Native American nations to reservations in present-day Oklahoma, including all of Georgias tribes. Despite the Supreme Courts ruling in Worcester v. Georgia that ruled U. S. states were not permitted to redraw the Indian boundaries, President Jackson and the state of Georgia ignored the ruling. In 1838, his successor, Martin Van Buren, dispatched troops to gather the Cherokee
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New Jersey
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New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania, New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state but the 11th-most populous and the most densely populated of the 50 United States. New Jersey lies entirely within the statistical areas of New York City. New Jersey was inhabited by Native Americans for more than 2,800 years, in the early 17th century, the Dutch and the Swedes made the first European settlements. New Jersey was the site of decisive battles during the American Revolutionary War in the 18th century. In the 19th century, factories in cities such as Camden, Paterson, Newark, Trenton, around 180 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period, New Jersey bordered North Africa. The pressure of the collision between North America and Africa gave rise to the Appalachian Mountains, around 18,000 years ago, the Ice Age resulted in glaciers that reached New Jersey. As the glaciers retreated, they left behind Lake Passaic, as well as rivers, swamps. New Jersey was originally settled by Native Americans, with the Lenni-Lenape being dominant at the time of contact, scheyichbi is the Lenape name for the land that is now New Jersey. The Lenape society was divided into clans that were based upon common female ancestors. These clans were organized into three distinct phratries identified by their animal sign, Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf and they first encountered the Dutch in the early 17th century, and their primary relationship with the Europeans was through fur trade. The Dutch became the first Europeans to lay claim to lands in New Jersey, the Dutch colony of New Netherland consisted of parts of modern Middle Atlantic states. Although the European principle of ownership was not recognized by the Lenape. The first to do so was Michiel Pauw who established a patronship called Pavonia in 1630 along the North River which eventually became the Bergen, peter Minuits purchase of lands along the Delaware River established the colony of New Sweden. During the English Civil War, the Channel Island of Jersey remained loyal to the British Crown and it was from the Royal Square in St. Helier that Charles II of England was proclaimed King in 1649, following the execution of his father, Charles I. The North American lands were divided by Charles II, who gave his brother, the Duke of York, the region between New England and Maryland as a proprietary colony. James then granted the land between the Hudson River and the Delaware River to two friends who had remained loyal through the English Civil War, Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley of Stratton, the area was named the Province of New Jersey. Since the states inception, New Jersey has been characterized by ethnic, New England Congregationalists settled alongside Scots Presbyterians and Dutch Reformed migrants
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Armstrong State University
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Armstrong State University is a four-year public university, part of the University System of Georgia. It is located on a 268-acre campus on the southside of Savannah, Georgia. The campus is approximately fifteen minutes from downtown Savannah and 25 miles from Tybee Island beaches, Armstrong offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, it has a student enrollment of approximately 7,000 students, including close to 1,000 graduate students. Armstrong was founded in 1935 by Thomas Gamble, mayor of Savannah, the institution expanded into a four-year university in 1964. Fielding athletic teams known as the Armstrong Pirates, the university competes at the NCAA Division II level as a member of the Peach Belt Conference, Armstrongs official colors are maroon and gold. Armstrong State University was founded as Armstrong Junior College in 1935 by Mayor Thomas Gamble, Gamble pursued the issue during the height of the Great Depression to benefit Savannahs youth and the community, as well aid in stimulating the local economy. The college was located in the historic Armstrong House adjacent to Forsyth Park in downtown Savannah. The mansion was given to the city as a gift from the family of George F. Armstrong, the college eventually grew to encompass six buildings in the Forsyth and Monterey Square areas of Savannah. In 1959, Armstrong College of Savannah became part of the University System of Georgia as a community college, donald Livingston and the Mills B. Lane Foundation provided the college 250 acres of land on the southwest side of Savannah. Eight buildings were constructed on the property and the college moved from the Armstrong House downtown to the location in January 1966. Over the years the expanded, adding new buildings and expanding academic programs. In 1993, the college began extensive landscaping work that transformed the campus into an arboretum, Armstrong College gained state university status in 1996 and changed its name to Armstrong Atlantic State University. The following year the university opened the Liberty Center in Hinesville, the university celebrated its 75th anniversary and inaugurated Dr. Linda M. Bleicken as its seventh president in 2010. The name change became effective July 1,2014, Armstrong is celebrating its 80th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the universitys move to the Southside during the 2015-2016 academic year. On January 11,2017, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, on recommendation by Chancellor Steve Wrigley, voted to consolidate Armstrong State with Georgia Southern University. Under the consolidation plan, Armstrong State would inherit Georgia Southerns name and leadership, consolidation is expected to take a year to implement. The main campus of the university is located in a suburban setting close to downtown Savannah, just off Abercorn Expressway, Lane Library is the main academic and research library on the Armstrong campus. Lane Librarys collection comprises more than 200,000 books and printed materials as well as 18,000 audiovisual works, the university recently invested $5 million in a renovation and expansion of the facility
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Georgia Southern University
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Georgia Southern University is a public university located on a 900-acre campus in Statesboro, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1906 as a land grant college, it is part of the University System of Georgia and is the largest center of education in the southern half of Georgia. It offers 117 academic majors in an array of baccalaureate degrees and masters. The university is the sixth largest in the University System of Georgia, Georgia Southern is classified as a Doctoral and Research University by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and as a comprehensive university by the University System of Georgia. Georgia Southern Universitys intercollegiate sports teams, known as the Georgia Southern Eagles, Georgia Southern University began as First District Agricultural & Mechanical School, a land grant college under federal legislation and support. It opened in 1908 with four faculty members and 15 students and its name and mission were changed in 1924 to Georgia Normal School, as a training ground for teachers. Five years later in 1929, after development of a curriculum, it was granted full-fledged senior college status by the state. Ensuing decades found more name and mission changes, to Georgia Teachers College in 1939, the university finally integrated its student body in 1965, eleven years after the United States Supreme Courts ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. It has continued program and physical expansion, with the development of graduate programs in numerous fields and associated research, the institution was granted university status in 1990 as Georgia Southern University. Since then, the University has embarked on an upgrade of facilities. Georgia Southern was named a Doctoral/Research University by Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2006, the University is recognized in publications including U. S. Additionally, Georgia Southern’s MBA program was named one of the Best 301 in the country by The Princeton Review. Since 1999, two new colleges have been established, the College of Information Technology in 2001, and the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health in 2004, additional undergraduate and graduate programs were formed, including doctorate degrees in psychology, public health and nursing. In 2011, the University established the Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Information Technology, in addition, at the same time it created the College of Science and Mathematics, previously known as the Allen E. Paulson College of Science and Technology. Online bachelors degrees are available in nursing, general studies, Additionally, the University offers masters degrees in business administration, applied economics, accounting, computer science and sport management. Georgia Southern also offers online endorsements in online teaching and learning, K-5 math, since 1999, the University has had its most significant growth in its more than 100-year history. It has grown in enrollment and physical facilities, under a Campus Master Plan, the University added the new 1, 001-bed residence hall Centennial Place. It has completely renovated and significantly expanded the Zach S. Henderson Library, recently completed was the new Eugene M. Bishop Alumni Center, a gathering place for alumni and friends of the University. The Center for Wildlife Education and the Botanical Garden have also been expanded, today Georgia Southern has more than 20,000 students, more than 2,000 faculty and staff, and 117 programs of study at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels
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Augusta State University
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Augusta State University was a public university located in Augusta, Georgia, United States. On August 10,2012, Augusta State merged with Georgia Health Sciences University to form Georgia Regents University, Augusta State University was founded as the Academy of Richmond County in 1783 as a high school. It opened in 1785 and offered classes from its earliest days. Graduates were accepted into colleges as sophomores or juniors, operation of the academy was overseen by a board of trustees until 1909, when control was passed to the Augusta Board of Education. The college-level classes continued to be overseen by a committee of the state legislature, as enrollment increased, land for a new building was purchased. In 1925, prior to completion of the new building, the Junior College of Augusta was established, in 1957, the junior college separated from the academy and moved to its present location on Walton Way. In 1958, the became a part of the University System of Georgia. It remained a college until 1963, when it attained four-year status. A second campus was added on Wrightsboro Road, which now houses athletics, kinesiology & health science, a golf house, in 1996, Augusta College was renamed Augusta State University, along with name changes mandated for most of the rest of the university system. On August 10,2012, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia approved the merger of the school by fall 2013 with nearby Georgia Health Sciences University, ricardo Azziz took the helm of ASU in summer of 2012 in preparation for the oncoming consolidation. The board named the new university Georgia Regents University, which caused local controversy. It also triggered a lawsuit for alleged infringement by Regent University in Virginia. On September 15,2015 Georgia Regents University voted and changed the name to Augusta University and this change came from years of frustration from alumni and decreased fundraising brought in following the name change to GRU. Augusta University was one of the top choices during the name change from Augusta State to GRU. Students could earn associate, bachelor, master, and specialist degrees in over 100 programs of study as well as a paralegal certificate and a cooperative doctorate. There was an Honors Program as well as a Cooperative Education program in which students alternated between classroom enrollment and real-life work experience in their field of study, Students also had opportunities for internships and study abroad programs. The James M. Hull College of Business was featured by The Princeton Review in the 2008 edition of, in May 2009 the university hosted the 25th annual National Science Olympiad tournament. Augusta States athletic programs competed at the Division II level in the Peach Belt Conference of the NCAA, except for the mens and womens golf programs, both of which were Division I Independents
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Augusta University
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Augusta University is a public academic health center with its main campus located in Augusta, Georgia, United States. It is one of the four research universities in the University System of Georgia. Augusta University comprises nine colleges and schools, the university receives over $99 million annually in total sponsored research funding. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, on January 8,2012, the Georgia Board of Regents unanimously approved the consolidation of Augusta State University and Georgia Health Sciences University. Ricardo Azziz was appointed president of the new institution, one branding issue arose while choosing a new name. A group composed of members from both institutions began the work of selecting a name for the new institution and they conducted branding studies and solicited suggestions from the community, then sent the Board of Regents three finalists, from which the regents chose Georgia Regents University. Many in Augusta opposed the name, wanting the citys name to be a part of it, in October 2012, the university added the citys name to the university name for marketing purposes, so that it became Georgia Regents University Augusta. Regent University subsequently filed a lawsuit for an infringement against the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia over the name change in August 2012. The lawsuit was settled out of court in June 2013, on September 15,2015, the Board of Regents voted to change the name to Augusta University. Chairman Neil Pruitt said the decision was made to support the strategic direction of the institution. Since consolidation, the university and its health system has made significant progress. Augusta offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate degrees through its nine colleges, post-baccalaureate programs include health information management and the Augusta Area Dietetics Internship. Clinical programs include the Clinic for Prosthetic Restoration, the Driving Simulation Laboratory, established in 1968, the college enrolled 648 students in fall 2015. The college also boasts a certificate program in European Union Studies, the Universitys Center for Public Service and Research is housed in the department of Political Science, as is Model United Nations. The James M. Hull College of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, and has been since 1999. It was given its current name in 2006 after James M. Hull and it offers undergraduate degrees in Accounting, Computer Science, Finance, Management, Marketing, and Management Information Systems, and an MBA program for graduate students. The curriculum covers oral biology, clinical sciences, behavioral sciences, a state-of-the-art building housing 10 departments, faculty and student clinical practice facilities and research laboratories opened in fall 2011. Enrollment is anticipated to increase to 400 by 2016, a newly opened dental facility will enable the states only dental college to increase its class size to 100 by 2016
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Campbell University
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Campbell University is a coeducational, private university in the US state of North Carolina. Its main campus is located in the community of Buies Creek and it is a university of the liberal arts and sciences, offering both theory and vocational education and hosting several professional schools. Campbell University was founded as a community school on January 5,1887 and it was founded by North Carolina minister James Archibald Campbell, under the conviction that no student should be denied admission because of lack of funds. In 1926, the school attained junior college status and changed its name from Buies Creek Academy to Campbell Junior College, in 1961, Campbell became a senior college. The name was changed to Campbell University on June 6,1979, the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law was founded in 1976, and the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business was begun in 1983. The Pharmacy School and School of Education were established in 1985, the Campbell University Divinity School was established in 1995. The School of Law moved from Buies Creek to its new Raleigh campus in 2009, the School of Osteopathic Medicine, North Carolinas first new medical school in more than 35 years, opened in August 2013. Since then, Campbell has opened the Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing, located in the Sandhills of southeastern North Carolina, the university is nestled in the small unincorporated village of Buies Creek near the Cape Fear River. The Buies Creek census-designated place population was only 2,215 in the 2000 census, the center of campus is Academic Circle, which fronts Leslie Campbell Avenue to the south. Rich Memorial Building, Kivett Hall, Wiggins Hall, Butler Chapel, beyond Fellowship Commons lies the north campus which contains several residence halls along with the Taylor Bott Rogers Fine Arts Center and the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business. East of Main Street are more of Campbells athletic facilities including Taylor Field, Johnson Memorial Natatorium, south of Leslie Campbell Avenue are more residence halls, including the new student apartments in Barker Hall. South of U. S. Highway 421 are athletic fields, the newly constructed 96,000 sq. ft. Leon Levine Hall of Medical Science across Highway 421 hosts the new School of Osteopathic Medicine and the Physician Assistant Program. The University also makes study abroad and other special programs available, in 2012, the undergraduate acceptance rate was reported at 40. 5%. Along with Campbells premier undergraduate programs, the school has achieved renown for its graduate programs. Since its establishment in 1986, Campbell University School of Pharmacy, in ten of the last sixteen years, Campbell Pharmacy students have achieved a 100 percent passage rate on the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination. The School of Law Class of 2006 scored a 97% passage rate on July’s North Carolina Bar Exam, Campbell University’s Norman A. Wiggins School of Law was featured in the Princeton Review’s 2007 edition of the Best 170 Law Schools publication. The Campbell University Divinity school offers undergraduate and graduate level degrees. The Divinity School officially opened on August 19,1996, thirty-five founding students enrolled the first year of the Divinity school
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Charleston Southern University
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Charleston Southern University, founded in 1964 as Baptist College, is an independent comprehensive university located in North Charleston, South Carolina. Affiliated with the South Carolina Baptist Convention, the vision is to be nationally recognized for integrating faith in learning, leading and serving. The university is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges, CSU students can choose from more than 50 undergraduate majors and graduate programs in business, criminal justice, computer science, Christian Studies, graphic design, education and nursing. Each degree program is combined with a liberal arts foundation which is designed to develop problem-solving. The College of Nursing offers a three-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing program that closely with area hospitals. Post-grad they offer a MSN with an emphasis on education, in 2010, the program was expanded to offer a 2-1 Associate degree in Nursing to BSN program with Trident Technical College. The School of Business maintains one of the larger MBA programs in the state of South Carolina, Charleston Southern is located right off Exit 205B on I-26 in North Charleston, South Carolina. It is situated on 300 acres, formerly the site of a rice, beyond the classroom, students can participate in a variety of campus activities including academic clubs, service organizations, intramural athletics and campus ministries. Intramural athletic activities include football, basketball, volleyball, ultimate frisbee. Campus ministries include Campus Crusade for Christ, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Campus Outreach, single students under 21 years of age are encouraged to live on campus. Charleston Southern fields teams in the sports, In 2008. CSU formerly fielded a soccer team
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Coastal Carolina University
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Coastal Carolina University, commonly referred to as CCU or Coastal, is a public, state-supported, liberal arts university in Conway, South Carolina, United States. The campus is located eight miles west of the oceanfront resort town of Myrtle Beach, founded in 1954, Coastal became an independent university in 1993. The university is a national sea-grant institution and owns part of Waties Island, Coastal Carolina Universitys Conway campus is also the home of the Horry County Schools Scholars Academy, a high school for gifted students. The college originally operated under contract as an extension of the College of Charleston, classes met at night at Conway High School and were taught by part-time faculty. After the College of Charleston closed its extension programs, Coastal became an independent community college supported by Horry County, the Horry County Educational Commission was created in 1959 to oversee some of the tax money. This body was responsible for contracting out operations to the University of South Carolina a year later under the name Coastal Carolina Regional Campus, the deal was finalized at the Chat N Chew restaurant in Turbeville, South Carolina, a town halfway between Conway and Columbia. The site of the campus was chosen in 1960, on a plot of land between U. S. Highway 501 and South Carolina Highway 544, on land owned by Burroughs Timber Company. The university officially opened 1962 under a new name, Coastal Carolina College of the University of South Carolina, the Edward M. Singleton Building was the first to open in 1963. A decade of growth led to the becoming an four-year institution in 1974. The universitys first residence halls opened in 1987, by 1991, enrollment had grown to over 4,000 students, leading the Coastal Educational Foundation and Horry County Educational Commission to seek independent status for the school. Throughout the 2010s, the University experienced a building boom achieved as a result of a local 1-cent sales tax for education-related construction, in 2014, the University established its first doctoral degree program, in coastal and coastal and marine science systems science. The business college, most commonly referred to as Wall, offers six majors, accounting, economics, finance, management, marketing and hospitality. The PGA Golf Management program is one of only 20 programs in the nation accredited by the PGA of America, Business students can also minor in business, economics, international business or marketing. The business college also offers two programs, the Master of Business Administration program and the Master of Accountancy program. The Wall College of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the Wall College is also home to several programs and centers. BB&T Grant Center for Real Estate and Economic Development Clay Brittain, beginning with the Fall 2015 semester, the College will also host Teaching Fellows cohorts. Teaching Fellows is a program of the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and it offers over fifteen undergraduate degree programs in the humanities and fine arts, as well as twenty-five undergraduate minor programs. In addition, the Edwards College offers graduate programs in Writing, the press is a student-driven publishing lab that offers students professional-level hands-on experience in authoring, designing and producing innovative stories
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Radford University
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Radford University is a co-educational, business, liberal arts, and sciences public university located in Radford in the U. S. State of Virginia. It is one of the states eight doctorate-granting public universities, founded in 1910, Radford offers curricula for undergraduates in more than 100 fields, graduate programs including the M. F. A. M. S. W. and specialized programs in health-related professions. The State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Radford was founded in Radford as a college in 1910. In 1924, the school was renamed the State Teachers College at Radford, the merger dissolved in 1964, and following a period of sustained and significant growth, Radford College was granted university status by the Virginia General Assembly in 1979. Radfords undergraduate programs emphasize the arts, business, sciences. The university has a student/faculty ratio of 18,1 with a class size of 34. More than 80 percent of faculty members hold doctorates or other degrees in their fields. S. The university used to be home to the Appalachian Regional & Rural Studies Center, for three decades, Radfords Appalachian Studies program had emphasized the importance of preserving the cultural and environmental heritage of the southern Appalachian regions. In the fall of 2013, the university administration ordered the closing of the program, the university is organized into six undergraduate colleges and a graduate college, the College of Graduate and Extended Education. The latter brings together former departments of studies and communication. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia has authorized three doctoral programs at Radford in counseling psychology, physical therapy and nursing practice, the Doctor of Psychology program in Counseling Psychology admitted its first students in the fall of 2008. The doctorate in physical therapy program was scheduled to start in the summer of 2009, the university said its first Doctor of Nursing Practice students would begin studies in an online format in the fall of 2010. Radford University is an 191-acre campus located in a area of Radford. The town is located in the Virginia Highlands, between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains at a bend in the New River. The university opened a new COBE building in 2012, in 2014 a New Student Fitness Center opened. A new Center for Sciences opened during the semester of 2016. The following fall semester, the new CHBS Building opened its doors, as of 2016, nearly all dorms at Radford have been renovated
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Winthrop University
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The school originally opened in Columbia to educate young women to teach in the public schools. Winthrop offers undergraduate and graduate degrees through five colleges and schools and has enrollment of about 6,000 students, the 100-acre main academic and residential campus is located 25 miles southwest of Charlotte, North Carolina and 71 miles north of Columbia, South Carolina in Rock Hill. Fielding athletic teams known as Winthrop Eagles, the university participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I level as a member of Big South Conference, the athletic program is known for its success in basketball and soccer. The majority of Winthrops students are from South Carolina, with out-of-state, the university offers a number of extracurricular activities to its students, including athletics, honor societies, clubs and student organizations, as well as fraternities and sororities. Alumni and former students have gone on to prominent careers in government, business, science, medicine, education, sports, Winthrop University was founded In 1886, when the Peabody Education Board, headed by Robert C. Winthrop, provided $1,500 to form the Winthrop Training School for women teachers and that year the school opened its doors to twenty-one students in Columbia, S. C. and nine years later in 1895 moved to Rock Hill, S. C. The schools name had changed in 1893 to Winthrop Normal and Industrial College of South Carolina, the college opened its admissions to minority students in 1964 and became fully coeducational in 1974. The universitys campus is in the city of Rock Hill, South Carolina, tillman Hall, Withers Building, and the Winthrop College Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Winthrop University campus also has its own zip code of 29733, Winthrops main campus has seen extensive development during the last decade. A $12 million Dalton Hall opened in 1999, the Courtyard at Winthrop, which features apartment style residences for students, opened in 2003. The Lois Rhame West Health, Physical Education and Wellness Center was opened in 2007 and serves as the new home of the Universitys physical education department, the DiGiorgio Center is connected to the West Center via an open-air plaza. In addition to hosting the universitys intercollegiate athletic facilities, the Research Complex also hosts the Piedmont Wetlands Research Project, a golf course and a world-class disc golf course. Winthrops campus has served as the location for movies, television and other video productions, including the 2008 film Asylum. Additionally, the Winthrop Coliseum has hosted numerous television tapings of various syndicated television programs, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was the first high-profile visitor to Winthrop in 1943. Winthrop University is a point for presidential elections, it is common for presidential candidates to visit the campus during election season. Most recently, a forum for the Democratic party was held on campus in 2015, barack Obama spoke at Winthrop in 2008 as a presidential candidate. Ninety-one percent of freshman and forty-five percent of all students live on-campus. In all the university offers 42 undergraduate and 26 graduate degrees, Winthrop University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate, master’s and specialist degrees
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University of North Carolina at Asheville
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The University of North Carolina at Asheville is a co-educational, four year, public liberal arts university. The university is known as UNC Asheville. Located in Asheville, Buncombe County, in the U. S. state of North Carolina, UNC Asheville is member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. In 2016, The Princeton Review ranked the university number one in its listing of Best Schools for Making an Impact, UNC Asheville was founded in 1927 as Buncombe County Junior College, part of the Buncombe County public school system. In 1930 the school merged with the College of the City of Asheville to form Biltmore Junior College, in 1934 the college was renamed Biltmore College and placed in the control of a board of trustees. 1936 brought both a change of name to Asheville-Biltmore College, and control was transferred to the Asheville City Schools. The house, no part of the college, was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 1961 Asheville-Biltmore College moved to the present UNC Asheville campus in north Asheville, in 1963 it became a state-supported four-year college, and awarded its first bachelors degrees in 1966. Its first residence halls were built in 1967 and it adopted its current name in 1969 upon becoming part of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, since 1972 called the University of North Carolina System. It is designated as one of three liberal arts universities within that system, and has classified as a Liberal Arts I institution since 1992. UNC Asheville has more than 215 full-time faculty members and an enrollment of approximately 3,600 students, the schools quality and value has drawn praise from national college guidebooks. UNC Asheville ranks eighth in the nation among liberal arts colleges in U. S. News & World Reports 2016 Best Colleges. The Princeton Review features UNC Asheville among “The Best 380 Colleges”2016 Edition, selected based on academic strength. Students quoted said, UNC Asheville’s professors “are brilliant and are invested in their students. ”“Lectures are a rarity and most time is spent in discussion. ”UNC Asheville’s environment is “incredibly welcoming and open-minded. ”“A personalized, liberal education at a public school price. ”“A smaller university in a beautiful city, ” a “perfect student town” that offers “incredible restaurants, night life, music, dancing. State University - the only North Carolina public universities to earn a place on this ranking list reflecting academic quality and affordability. For 12 consecutive years, UNC Ashevilles Environmental Studies Program has been named to the list of programs with unusual strength in preparing students for careers. UNC Asheville offers four-year undergraduate programs leading to Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, the university is led by Mary K. Grant the chief administrative officer, along with Provost Joseph Urgo and several advisory groups. The institution operates under the guidance and policies of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Asheville, sGAs authority is derived from the Chancellor and the Board of Governors
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Davidson College
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Davidson College is a private liberal arts college in Davidson, North Carolina with a historic 665-acre main campus and a 110-acre lake campus on Lake Norman. The college has graduated 23 Rhodes Scholars, Davidson annually enrolls about 1950 students from 47 states and 40 countries. Of those students, nearly 80 percent study abroad and about 25 percent participate in 21 NCAA Division I sports, students may choose from 26 majors and 17 interdisciplinary minors, as well as other interdisciplinary studies. The college is governed by a code and the majority of students, about 93 percent. Davidson is the first liberal arts college to eliminate loans in financial aid packages and it admits domestic students on a need-blind basis and meets 100 percent of all students’ calculated need through grants and work-study funds. The first students graduated from Davidson in 1840 and received diplomas with the newly created college seal designed by Peter Stuart Ney, the colleges financial situation improved dramatically in 1856 with a $250,000 donation by Maxwell Chambers, making Davidson the wealthiest college south of Princeton. The Chambers Building was erected to commemorate this gift, on November 28,1921, the Chambers Building was destroyed in a fire but was reconstructed eight years later with funds provided by a generous gift from the Rockefeller family. The Chambers Building continues to be the academic building on campus. In 1923, the Gamma chapter in North Carolina of Phi Beta Kappa was established at Davidson, over 1500 men and 500 women have been initiated into Davidsons chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1924, James Duke formed the Duke Endowment, which has provided millions of dollars to the college, on May 5,1972, the trustees voted to allow women to enroll at Davidson as degree students for the first time. Women had attended classes as early as the 1860s but did not enjoy degree privileges, the first women to attend classes at Davidson were the five daughters of its president, the Rev. John Lycan Kirkpatrick. The first women were permitted to attend classes to increase the size of the student body during the American Civil War, however, art major Marianna Missy Woodward became the first woman to graduate from Davidson. She graduated in 1973 and was the woman in a class of 217. In early 2005, the Colleges Board of Trustees voted in a 31–5 decision to allow 20% of the board to be non-Christian, Belk, however, continued his strong relationship with his alma mater and was honored in March 2006 at the Tenth Anniversary Celebration of the Belk Scholarship. On 19 March 2007, Davidson became the first liberal arts college in the country to eliminate the need for loans in financial aid packages, all demonstrated need is met through grants, student employment, and parental contribution. Princeton Review and U. S. News & World Report regard Davidsons admission process as most selective, for the class of 2018, Davidson received 5,560 applications and accepted 1,200. In terms of rank, 85% of enrolled freshmen reporting rank were in the top 10% of their high school classes. The middle 50% range of SAT scores for admitted students was 640–750 for critical reading, 650–750 for math, caucasians represented 67. 9% of the incoming class, and 38. 9% of enrolled freshmen were from the Southeast
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Liberty University
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Liberty University is a private, non-profit Christian university located in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. It is classified as a research university by the Carnegie Classification. In August 2016, Libertys enrollment was expected to include 15,000 residential students and over 100,000 online students, Libertys athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively known as the Liberty Flames. They compete in the Big South Conference, the university was founded as Lynchburg Baptist College in 1971 by Jerry Falwell, who was also Senior Pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church. The name was changed to Liberty Baptist College in 1976 before settling on its current name, Liberty University, in 1984, Liberty University describes itself as a Christian academic community. Its stated mission and aims emphasize both the intellectual and spiritual development of the institutions students, students are held to The Liberty Way, a code of conduct. Liberty Universitys Campus East housing complex consists of 30 multi-story apartment style dormitories, rooms in these dormitories have their own kitchens, living room and private baths. A clubhouse offers a pool, billiards room, and a private theater. A tunnel connecting the east and west ends of the campus was completed in 2004, a second tunnel was completed in May 2014, and provides pedestrian passage under the Norfolk Southern Railway and access to nearby shopping opportunities. The 90, 000-square-foot LaHaye Student Center, has a lounge, basketball courts, cardio and weight rooms, cafe, multi-purpose rooms, aerobic rooms and other amenities. The adjacent Tilley Center has TV lounges, game tables, pool room, tim and Beverly LaHaye, and a new indoor soccer facility. During the spring of 2007, a practice facility for the Liberty volleyball program was opened as part of a new. Construction was completed in August 2009 on the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre, a ski slope featuring Snowflex. It includes beginner, intermediate and advanced slopes, and is the first of its kind in the United States, on September 24,2010, Liberty opened the new Tower Theater, with seating for up to 640 people. For the 2010-11 theater season, the Theater Department opened with Hairspray, the theatre includes balcony seating, an orchestra pit, catwalks, a fly tower, a box office and 12,000 square feet of support area. The tower was part of a cell phone plant. BCWH Architects, which designed the adaptation of the tower as a theatre, in August 2011, Liberty announced a 120 million dollar campus expansion. The expansion includes more dorms, greener space, and more academic buildings allowing the campus to hold 20,000 resident students, in January 2012, Liberty Universitys Department of Theatre Arts announced the formation of a professional theater company to occupy the Tower Theater
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University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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In addition, US News & World Report has placed UMBC in the top ten for best undergraduate teaching six years in a row, being placed at #5, the second highest-ranked public university. Established as a part of the University of Maryland System in 1966, UMBC has the fourth highest enrollment of the University System of Maryland, specializing in natural sciences and engineering, as well as programs in the liberal arts and social sciences. Athletically, the UMBC Retrievers have 19 NCAA Division I teams that participate in the America East Conference. At this time, the University of Maryland, College Park was the higher education source in the region. In 1955, Governor Theodore McKeldin issued The Needs of Higher Education in Maryland, in 1963, the Maryland Legislature approved the development of several new universities throughout Maryland. By the end of year,435 acres were purchased from Spring Grove State Hospital. The new campus would be located in Southwestern Baltimore, and would be able to be accessed from Wilkens Avenue. Architectural design and planning of the new campus was completed at the University of Maryland, College Park. The first classes began on September 19,1966 with 750 students,3 buildings, and the wing of the Biological Sciences building,45 faculty members,35 support staff. As university enrollment increased drastically over the years, the university would also coincide with the turbulent changes in society in the 1960s. While undergoing the Civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, UMBC would prove to be a new and different atmosphere with open, in 1971, Albin Owings Kuhn resigned his position as UMBCs first chancellor, succeeded by Calvin B. T. Lee. Five years later in 1976, John Dorsey, Administrative Vice President at the University of Maryland, by 1980, undergraduate enrollment reached 5,800 students. Also in this year, Homecoming and Quadmania were established as cornerstone events that would become UMBC tradition for years to come, during this decade, the University Center and Sherman Hall were opened, as well as Hillside and Terrace Apartments. In addition, University of Maryland, College Park alum Jim Henson funds the establishment of the Imaging Research Center at UMBC, in 1986, Michael Hooker becomes chancellor until 1992 when he moves to president of the University of Massachusetts system. In 1988, a merger of UMBC with the University of Baltimore was considered but was voted down by the University System of Maryland Board of Regents. In 1990, undergraduate enrollment reached over 10,000 students, in 1991, a merger plan between UMBC and the University of Maryland, Baltimore was approved in the Maryland House of Delegates, but was rejected by the Senate. Throughout the last decade of the century, the university opened the Engineering and Computer Science Building. The current university president, Freeman A. Hrabowski III was appointed in 1992, the first decade of the twenty-first century featured many university developments as UMBC approached its fortieth anniversary in 2006
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University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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However, UNCG, like all members of the UNC system, is a stand-alone university and awards its own degrees. UNCG is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award baccalaureate, masters, specialist, the university offers more than 100 undergraduate,61 masters and 26 doctoral programs. The universitys academic schools and programs include the College of Arts & Sciences, the university is also home to the nationally renowned Weatherspoon Art Museum, which features one of the largest and most impressive collections of modern American art in the country. Credit for the founding of UNCG goes mainly to, a crusader for the cause of womens education, served the institution as its first chief executive officer with the title of President. This position has also seen various names, with the administrator being known as the Dean of Administration after 1934, the school was established as a womens college by legislative enactment on February 18,1891 as the State Normal and Industrial School and opened October 5,1892. The school provided instruction in business, domestic science, and teaching with a student body of 223 and a faculty of 15 in its first year. R. S. Pullen and R. T. Gray gave the original 10-acre site in Greensboro and it is the first and only public university in North Carolina founded for the purpose of educating women. In 1949, it became the largest all-female institution in the United States and it is remembered fondly by many graduates of the Womans College simply as the W. C. The new construction will be a development, with space for retail and restaurants, along with student residence halls. The project will spur economic development in the area. Projections estimate the development will generate more than $590 million in new spending between 2014 and 2023, create 945 new jobs and boost local property revenues by $7.5 million, the expansion has not been without controversy, especially the $91 million athletic center. The athletic center is financed by an annual fee of $435 charged every UNCG student. A personnel scandal erupted in 2014, on September 29, the story was broke on a local blog. University faculty and staff protested the firings and arrests, on October 30, the District Attorney dropped all criminal charges against the three former employees. UNCG defended reporting the incident to authorities, but announced that the former employees had the right to appeal their termination through the personnel grievance system. On October 20,2014, Chancellor Linda Brady announced her retirement effective July 31,2015, Brady said her retirement was not related to the ongoing personnel scandal at the University. On January 27,2015, the head of the public relations department tendered his resignation, UNCG is recognized in Forbes 2010 Americas Best Colleges. Kiplingers ranks UNCG as one of the 100 best values among public, six other North Carolina institutions made the list—Appalachian State, East Carolina, NC State, UNC-Asheville, UNC-Chapel Hill, and UNC-Wilmington
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Towson University
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Towson University, often referred to as TU or simply Towson for short, is a public university located in Towson in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is a part of the University System of Maryland, Towson is one of the largest public universities in Maryland and still produces the most teachers of any university in the state. The U. S. News & World Report ranked Towson University 8th in the Public Universities-Master’s category for its 2010 Americas Best Colleges issue, forbes included Towson University in its 2009 list of the top 100 public colleges and universities in the United States. Kiplingers Personal Finance magazine named Towson University one of the top 100 best values in public colleges for the 2008–09 academic year, located then at Red Mans Hall on North Paca Street in Baltimore, the new teachers school originally enrolled eleven students and fostered three faculty members. McFadden Alexander Newell served as the schools first principal as well as the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, as time passed, the enrollment in the school grew exponentially. The landmark mansion, which later was known as the Union Club by 1863, the following year, the General Assembly appropriated money to construct an exclusive building to house the burgeoning school. In 1876, the Normal School moved its faculty and 206 students to this new facility located in West Baltimore facing Lafayette Square on Carrollton. The demand for qualified teachers became overwhelming by the turn of the century, the Maryland Department of Education reported an annual need for 350 new teachers, but the Maryland State Normal School was graduating fewer than 100. The facilities in West Baltimore were now inadequate to meet state demands, principal Sarah Richmond, one of the original eleven graduates, began a campaign to establish a campus where the school could function more appropriately. In 1910, the General Assembly formed a committee to oversee site selection, budget, John Charles Linthicum was appointed president of the committee, alongside State Superintendent Dr. M. Bates Stephens and Sarah Richmond. The committee surveyed locations at Roland Park, Lutherville-Timonium, Mount Washington, Pimlico, Glencoe, eventually, the committee settled on an 80-acre site in Towson and the General Assembly financed the $600,000 move in 1912. Construction began in 1913 on the Administration Building, now known as Stephens Hall, in September 1915, the new campus, comprising Stephens Hall, Newell Hall, and the power plant, began classes. The following year, the changed its name to Maryland State Teachers College at Towson. As the name implied, the single purpose was to train teachers. In 1946, however, the established a junior college to offer two years of college work on a transfer basis. This expansion laid the foundation of what was later to become the art, in 1958, the college offered its first graduate program leading to a Master of Education degree. In 1960, the college expanded the art and science programs into four-year courses, due to this change in focus, the name changed once more to Towson State College. Beginning in 1964, the enrollment rates began a dramatic increase as the baby boomer generation began applying to colleges
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Elon University
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Elon University is an American private, non-sectarian, coeducational liberal arts university with a historic 636-acre campus in Elon, North Carolina. Founded by the United Church of Christ in 1889, the institution has grown to include studies in a variety of disciplines. As of 2016-2017, the university had 6,008 undergraduate students and 731 graduate students, Elon College was founded by the Christian Connection, which later became a part of the United Church of Christ. The charter for Elon College was issued by the North Carolina legislature in 1889, Long was the first president, and the original student body consisted of 76 students. In 1923, a fire destroyed most of the campus, including records, classrooms, the library. The Board of Trustees voted to rebuild immediately, many of the buildings that were erected in the years following the fire still stand and make up the bedrock of Elons campus. In the early 1970s, Elon was a college serving mainly local residents commuting from family homes. This trend continued, and by the start of the 21st century, Elon is a selective university and, as of 2013, 82% of incoming students were from out of state. The study, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, depicted how Elon successfully transformed itself from a religious college to a selective. Elon is no longer affiliated with the United Church of Christ. Many prominent figures have visited and spoken at Elon, including U. S. Presidents Lyndon B, johnson, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, former U. S. Secretaries of State General Colin L, the Elon College Historic District and Johnston Hall are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Masters programs are offered in business administration, interactive media, education and physician assistant studies, Elon operates on a 4-1-4 academic calendar, including a four-week term in January known as Winter Term. Elon is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Elon College is the largest of the universitys colleges. In 2013, the part-time MBA program was ranked 5th in the United States by BusinessWeek, according to BusinessWeek, Elon University ranked #29 on a list of top schools with undergraduate business programs in the country for the third consecutive year. The Elon School of Communications is one of 18 accredited communications programs for universities in the US by the Association for Education in Journalism. Students each complete at least one required internship, workplaces include NBC,60 Minutes, National Geographic, MTV, DreamWorks, New York Times, Vogue and the Washington Post. Some students complete an internship while enrolled in the London program, there are summer programs in Los Angeles and New York City for students to intern and take classes there
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High Point University
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High Point University is a private liberal arts university in High Point, North Carolina, U. S. affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Founded as High Point College in 1924, it became High Point University in October 1991, HPU offers 47 undergraduate majors,51 undergraduate minors and 12 graduate-degree majors. In the mid-19th century, the Methodist Protestant Church, which is now part of the United Methodist Church, in 1921, after some years of consideration, the statewide governing body of the Methodist Protestant Church voted to establish a college. Shortly afterwards the church accepted an offer from the citizens of High Point to contribute 60 acres of land and $100,000 to the project, placing the new school in the city of High Point. The campus was designed by R. E. Mitchell of Washington, D. C. assisted by Herbert Hunter of High Point, in the English Renaissance style. The school was founded in 1924 as High Point College, a joint venture between the Methodist Protestant Church and the citizens of High Point, and officially opened its doors on September 14,1924. When the college opened, the campus consisted of three buildings, attended by nine faculty members, with a student enrollment of 122, the steadfast growth that characterized the birth of the College ended abruptly with the Great Depression. This period was difficult for the College in 1932–33, as faculty salaries were cut, despite a $50,000 fund raising campaign, the College declared bankruptcy on June 15,1934 and reorganization in an effort to reduce its indebtedness. Subsequent reorganization enabled the College to move forward with business and renewed expansion, on October 9,1991, under the guidance of President Dr. Jacob C. Martinson, Jr. and the Board of Trustees, High Point College changed its name to High Point University to reflect post-graduate degree programs, martinson, Jr. stepped down as President in 2005, he was the longest serving United Methodist college president in the country. In 2005, the university was only 92 acres and landlocked with an undergraduate enrollment of 1,450. The universitys operating budget was only $35 million with approximately 100 faculty members, since Dr. Nido R. Qubein became President of High Point University in 2005 the growth of the university has had significant impact on the city, region and the state of North Carolina. Qubein is the fourth highest paid college president, paid $2.9 million a year, the Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac, April 19,2016 noted Nido R Qubein is the third highest donor university president in the country from 2006-2016. He committed $10 million to High Point University, donations from alumni, parents and supporters of HPU total about $214 million since 2006. In 2010, the university announced plans to invest about $2.1 billion in growth in the next decade. To date, High Point University has spent $1.2 billion on four new schools facilities, faculty. Ashley Furniture Industries Chairman Ron Wanek donated $10 million to High Point University in 2013 after visiting HPUs president Dr. Nido R. Qubein, waneks gift to the university is the 10th contribution of $10 million or more that Qubein has received during his tenure. On September 14,2014, the university celebrated its 90th anniversary, as part of the commemoration,90 facts about the university were featured in the News and Record on High Point Universitys Founders Day
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Virginia Military Institute
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The Virginia Military Institute is a state-supported military college in Lexington, Virginia, the oldest such institution in the United States. Unlike any other Senior Military College in the United States, and in keeping with its principles, VMI enrolls cadets only. VMI offers cadets strict military discipline combined with a spartan, physically and academically demanding environment, the Institute grants degrees in 14 disciplines in engineering, the sciences, and the liberal arts. While VMI has been called the West Point of the South, for example, the living conditions at VMI are far more austere than at the service academies. S. military branches upon graduation. The Board of Visitors is the board of the Virginia Military Institute. The Board appoints the Superintendent and approves appointment of members of the faculty, Code §2. 2-4002, some of its regulations are codified at 8VAC100. The Executive Committee conducts the business of the Board during recesses, the Board has 17 members, including ex officio the Adjutant General of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Regular members are appointed by the Governor for a four-year term, the Executive Committee consists of the Boards President, three Vice Presidents, and one non-alumnus at large, and is appointed by the Board at each annual meeting. Current law makes provision for officers of the Virginia Militia to be subject to orders of the Governor, the cadets are a military corps under the command of the Superintendent and under the administration of the Commandant of Cadets, and constitute the guard of the Institute. In the years after the War of 1812, the state of Virginia built, in the 1830s Lexington attorney John Thomas Lewis Preston belonged to a debate club known as the Franklin Society. After debate and revision of the proposal, the Franklin Society voted in favor of Preston’s concept. Crozet was also the Chief Engineer of Virginia and someone whom Thomas Jefferson referred to as, the board delegated to Preston the task of deciding what to call the new school, and he created the name Virginia Military Institute. Preston was also tasked with hiring VMI’s first Superintendent and he was persuaded that West Point graduate and Army officer Francis Henney Smith, then on the faculty at Hampden–Sydney College, was the most suitable candidate. Preston successfully recruited Smith, and convinced him to become the first Superintendent, after Smith agreed to accept the Superintendent’s position, Preston applied to join the faculty, and was hired as Professor of Languages. Classes began in 1839, and the first cadet to march a sentinel post was Private John Strange, with few exceptions, there have been sentinels posted at VMI every hour of every day of the school year. The Class of 1842 graduated 16 cadets, living conditions were poor until 1850 when the cornerstone of the new barracks was laid. In 1851 Thomas Stonewall Jackson became a member of the faculty, under Jackson, then a major, and Major William Gilham, VMI infantry and artillery units were present at the execution by hanging of John Brown at Charles Town, Virginia in 1859. VMI cadets and alumni played instrumental roles in the American Civil War, on 14 occasions, the Confederacy called cadets into active military engagements
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Presbyterian College
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Presbyterian College, commonly known as PC, is a four-year, private liberal arts college located in Clinton, South Carolina, United States and affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. The college’s president is Bob Staton, Presbyterians undergraduate and graduate programs emphasize small class sizes, a congenial atmosphere between professors and students, and a commitment to service. PC is also home to Cyrus, the largest bronze statue of a Scotsman in the world, Presbyterian College was founded in 1880 by the Rev. William Plumer Jacobs. He had served as the pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Clinton since 1864, originally called Clinton College, its first class graduated in 1883. In establishing PC, his “tree of knowledge”, Jacobs’ goal was to young people for lives of service to church and society. By the time of Jacobs death in 1917, the college had grown considerably in size and resources, neville Hall, PCs most recognized structure, was constructed in 1907. After weathering the storms of the Great Depression and Second World War and it became fully co-educational in 1965. In 1969, it began admitting African-American students, Presbyterian College is a Carnegie One Liberal Arts College and is fully accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The School of the Liberal Arts confers B. A. and B. S. degrees in 30 courses of study and 9 pre-professional programs including Pre-Law, Pre-Med, Pre-Theology, and Pre-Pharmacy. PC also offers a program in Engineering and minor fields in an additional 13 disciplines such as Africana Studies, Media Studies. The liberal arts program has small class sizes, and has six Carnegie/CASE South Carolina Professor of the Year Award winners. PC is one of two South Carolina colleges or universities with a Confucius Institute, which fosters economic connections and cultural interaction between the US and China, through the Institute, Presbyterian participates in a partnership and exchange program with Guizhou University, located in Guiyang, China. The Confucius Institute sponsors cultural events on PCs campus and offers elementary, intermediate, a 54,000 square-foot facility, its doors opened in the fall of 2010 with an inaugural class of 80 students. The School of Pharmacy was fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education in July 2014, the 2014 edition of U. S. News and World Report regards Presbyterian College as a selective institution that accepted 57. 8% of applicants in the fall of 2012. Of PCs 1,172 undergraduates, 44% are male and 56% are female, students at PC have many options for extracurricular activities. In addition to athletics, Greek life is an important part of campus life and culture. For men, there are seven North-American Interfraternity Conference organizations, Alpha Sigma Phi, Kappa Alpha Order, Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Nu, Omega Psi Phi, and Theta Chi. For women, there are three National Panhellenic Conference organizations, Alpha Delta Pi, Sigma Sigma Sigma, and Zeta Tau Alpha, there are also many religious ministries, including the Presbyterian Student Association, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and Campus Outreach
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NCAA Division II
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Division II is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. It offers an alternative to both the larger and better-funded Division I and to the scholarship-free environment offered in Division III, before 1973, the NCAAs smaller schools were grouped together in the College Division. In 1973, the College Division split in two when the NCAA began using numeric designations for its competitions, nationally, ESPN televises the championship game in football, CBS televises the mens basketball championship, and ESPN2 televises the womens basketball championship. CBS Sports Network broadcasts six football games on Thursdays during the regular season, the official slogan of NCAA Division II, implemented in 2015, is Make It Yours. There are currently 300 full and 20 provisional members of Division II with seven institutions moving to full membership in September 2015, Division II schools tend to be smaller public universities and many private institutions. A large minority of Division II institutions have fewer than 2,499 students, only six institutions have more than 15,000 students. Division II has a membership, with two active member institutions in Alaska and four in Hawaii. Additionally, it is the division that has member institutions in Puerto Rico. Simon Fraser University became the first institution outside the US to enter the NCAA membership process and this occurred after the Division II Membership Committee accepted the institutions application during a July 7–9 meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. Simon Fraser, located in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby, British Columbia, prospective members also must complete at least one year of provisional status before being accepted as full-time Division II members. In the fall of 2012, the NCAA Presidents Council officially approved Simon Fraser University as the organizations first international member. Division II institutions have to sponsor at least five sports for men and five for women, for sports other than football and basketball there are no scheduling requirements. There are not attendance requirements for football, nor arena size requirements for basketball, there are maximum financial aid awards for each sport, as well as a separate limit on financial aid awards in mens sports, that a Division II school must not exceed. Division II teams usually feature a number of local or in-state student-athletes, many Division II student-athletes pay for school through a combination of scholarship money, grants, student loans and employment earnings. Division II athletics programs are financed in the institutions budget like other departments on campus. Traditional rivalries with regional institutions dominate schedules of many Division II athletics programs, Athletic scholarships are offered in most sponsored sports at most institutions, but with more stringent limits as to the numbers offered in any one sport than at the Division I level. For example, Division II schools may give financial aid in football equivalent to 36 full scholarships, two exceptions to this rule currently exist. First, football players transferring from a Division I FBS school to a Division I FCS school do not have to sit out a year
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Longwood University
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Longwood University is a four-year public liberal arts university located in Farmville, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1839 as Farmville Female Seminary Association, it is the third-oldest public university in Virginia, Longwood became a university on July 1,2002. The university occupies a unique place in history, in early April 1865 both Gens. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Board of Education decision, and Israel Hill, Longwood was founded in 1839 as the Farmville Female Seminary Association. Led by Solomon Lea, a Methodist Minister who had taught at Randolph–Macon College, Lea left to become the first president of Greensboro Female Seminary in his native North Carolina, and several presidents and name changes followed in the subsequent decades. Led by a number of Methodist ministers, the school offered English, Latin, Greek, French, as was common among female seminaries during Reconstruction, Farmville Female College, as the institution was then known, fell into a period of deep financial difficulty. The decade following the Civil War saw many seminaries around the South shutter their doors, the college was given new life on June 5,1875, with a new charter granted and the college renamed Farmville College. Rev. Paul Whitehead, a minister from nearby Nelson County, Virginia who had been president of Wesleyan Female College at Murfreesboro, under Whitehead, enrollment grew by nearly half, topping 100 students in 1876. Whitehead resigned in 1872 to return to full-time ministry, Farmville College was reinvented once again on March 7,1884 as the State Female Normal School—the brainchild of Dr. William Henry Ruffner, the first Virginia State Superintendent of Instruction. In 1902, Joseph L. Jarman was named president of the State Female Normal School, Jarman reshaped the physical campus from a single Victorian structure to a row of colonnaded Jeffersonian brick buildings that forms the core of todays campus. Jarman instituted the Honor Code, which survives to day. During Jarmans presidency, the college purchased in 1928 the nearby estate of the Longwood House, longwood—with a focus still very much on teacher preparation—expanded its academic degrees, and in 1954 was authorized to issue graduate diplomas. In 1964, the issue of coeducation arose but the Board of Visitors rejected the notion, the tide swung four years later, when Longwood began to admit male summer school transfers, and then junior and senior transfers in 1971. Men were admitted as day students in 1973, by order of the Virginia Department of Education until Longwood went fully coeducational in 1976, in 1981, Dr. Janet Greenwood became the first woman president in the modern history of Longwood. In one of the events in the college’s recent history. The building was undergoing renovations at the time, and no one was injured in the blaze, though the rotunda. Then-President Patricia P. Cormier said at the time that “university is a reflection of the type of institution that Longwood is today. We are an entity with a broad array of undergraduate majors and minors as well as graduate programs. ”Since becoming a university, Longwood has expanded its physical campus
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NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
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Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. This level was called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the lower level College Division. For football only, Division I was further subdivided in 1978 into Division I-A, Division I-AA, in 2006, Division I-A and I-AA were renamed Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision, respectively. FCS teams are allowed to award scholarships, a practice technically allowed. FBS teams also have to meet attendance requirements, while FCS teams do not need to meet minimum attendance requirements. Another difference is post season play, starting with the 2014 postseason, a four-team playoff called the College Football Playoff, replaced the previous one game championship format. Even so, Division I FBS football is still the only NCAA sport in which a champion is not determined by an NCAA-sanctioned championship event. All D-I schools must field teams in at least seven sports for men and seven for women or six for men and eight for women, with at least two team sports for each gender. Division I schools must meet minimum financial aid awards for their athletics program, Several other NCAA sanctioned minimums and differences that distinguish Division I from Divisions II and III. Each playing season has to be represented by each gender as well, there are contest and participant minimums for each sport, as well as scheduling criteria. Mens and womens teams have to play all but two games against Division I teams, for men, they must play one-third of all their contests in the home arena. The NCAA has limits on the financial aid each Division I member may award in each sport that the school sponsors. Equivalency sports, in which the NCAA limits the total financial aid that a school can offer in a sport to the equivalent of a set number of full scholarships. Roster limitations may or may not apply, depending on the sport, the term counter is also key to this concept. The NCAA defines a counter as an individual who is receiving financial aid that is countable against the aid limitations in a sport. The number of scholarships that Division I members may award in sport is listed below. In this table, scholarship numbers for head-count sports are indicated without a point, for equivalency sports, they are listed with a decimal point. An exception exists for players at non-scholarship FCS programs who receive aid in another sport, participants in basketball are counted in that sport, unless they also play football
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Sun Belt Conference
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The Sun Belt Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAAs Division I since 1976. Originally a non-football conference, the Sun Belt began sponsoring football in 2001 and its football teams participate in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The 12 member institutions of the Sun Belt are distributed primarily across the southern United States, over the next ten years the conference would add Western Kentucky University, Old Dominion University, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Virginia Commonwealth University. New Orleans was forced out of the league in 1980 due to its small on-campus gymnasium that the Conference did not deem suitable for Conference competition, UNO competed as an independent before joining the newly formed American South Conference in 1987. After the 1990-91 basketball season, all members of the Sun Belt, except Western Kentucky, South Alabama, although the American South was the larger conference, the merged league retained the Sun Belt name. Central Florida left the following the 1991-92 academic year. Lamar, Texas–Pan American, and Jacksonville departed at the end of the 1997-98 academic year, Florida International University joined the Sun Belt in 1998, and the University of Denver was added in 1999. Louisiana Tech departed after the 2000-01 academic year and these new members gave the Sun Belt seven football playing members in their first season, as Arkansas State and Louisiana–Lafayette were already full members which sponsored football. Another Big West school, Utah State University, was added as a member in 2003, then departed in 2005 with Idaho. In 2004, Troy University became a member until the Trojans joined the conference in all sports. In 2005, Florida Atlantic became a member until the Owls joined the conference in all sports. In 2006, Louisiana–Monroe joined the conference as a full member when the Warhawks left their former home. Longtime Sun Belt member Western Kentucky joined the Sun Belts football conference in 2009 after its Board of Regents voted to upgrade the schools program to Division I FBS. On November 11,2009, New Orleans announced they were investigating a move from Division I to the NCAAs Division III, in order to maintain athletic scholarships, UNO instead opted for entry into Division II. On April 20,2011, UNO officially received approval from the NCAA Division II Membership Committee. On April 9,2012, Georgia State, one of the members of the Sun Belt Conference. On May 2,2012, Texas State University announced it would leave the WAC after just one year, at the press conference to announce Texas States addition, Sun Belt Commissioner Karl Benson also hinted that more changes could be on the way for the conference. On May 25,2012, the announced that the University of Texas at Arlington had accepted an invitation to join the conference
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Atlantic Sun Conference
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The Atlantic Sun Conference, branded since the 2016–17 school year as the ASUN Conference, is a collegiate athletic conference operating mostly in the Southeastern United States. The league participates at the NCAA Division I level, and does not sponsor football, originally established as the Trans America Athletic Conference in 1978, its headquarters are located in Macon, Georgia. Northern Kentucky had replaced Belmont University, which moved to the Ohio Valley Conference, the 2014 departure of East Tennessee State University and Mercer University to the Southern Conference left the ASUN with its current membership number of eight. The ASUN will add a member in 2018 with the arrival of the University of North Alabama from the Division II Gulf South Conference. Notes School names and nicknames listed here reflect those used during the time in the TAAC/ASUN. One school has changed both its name and nickname, and three others have changed only their nicknames, Northeast Louisiana became the University of Louisiana at Monroe in 1999. Pan American, later known as Texas–Pan American or UTPA, merged with the University of Texas at Brownsville in 2015 to create the new University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, the new school inherited UTPAs athletic program. The ASUN sponsors championship competition in eight mens and eleven womens NCAA sanctioned sports, for the past several years, the ASUNs Commissioner has served as the president of what was initially a swimming & diving-only conference. Currently the conference has 22 member schools, with eight mens swimming and diving teams,11 womens swimming & diving teams, the most recent change to the roster of ASUN sports took place after the 2013–14 school year. Under a cooperative agreement between the ASUN and SoCon, the two agreed to split lacrosse sponsorship. The SoCon took over the ASUN mens lacrosse league, while womens lacrosse sponsorship remained with the ASUN, at the time of announcement, the only ASUN member with a scholarship football program, Kennesaw State, was already a Big South football member. Should any ASUN member add scholarship football, or any non-scholarship football program of an ASUN school upgrade to scholarship football, ‡ = Starting in 2014-15, mens lacrosse is sponsored by the Southern Conference and womens by the ASUN. * = Beach volleyball is a fully sanctioned NCAA sport which held its first national championship in the spring of 2016, the ASUN was the first conference to sponsor a championship in the sport. Wofford will join for the 2018 season, ** = Associate members Mercer and Coastal Carolina. Womens varsity sports not sponsored by the league which are played by ASUN schools, fletcher and Sherman Day Trophies are awarded each year to the top mens and womens program in the conference. The Bill Bibb Trophy, combining the mens and womens results for the best overall program, was first awarded in 2006–07, East Tennessee State won this overall trophy seven of the nine years it has been awarded, Florida Gulf Coast won in 2012–13, 2014–15 and 2015-16. Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball Tournament Official website
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Pioneer Football League
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The Pioneer Football League is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the United States. The conference participates in the NCAAs Division I Football Championship Subdivision as a football-only conference and it has member schools that range from New York, North Carolina, and Florida in the east to California in the west. It is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri, in the complex that also contains the offices of the Missouri Valley Conference. Unlike most other Division I FCS conferences, the Pioneer League consists of institutions that not to award athletic scholarships to football players. Most of the PFLs members are private schools, morehead State University is currently the only public school in the conference. The University of San Diego joined in 1992, and the league played its first season in 1993, the six original schools which played in the 1993 season had previously sponsored football at the Division I, Division II and Division III levels. The reorganization spawned a new system in which the best record holders from each division would play in a title game for the conference championship. As a result, the conference reverted to play, the divisions. On April 7,2006, Campbell University announced the reinstatement of football effective in 2008, in February 2008, Marist College announced that it would join the PFL for the 2009 season, after the MAAC stopped sponsoring football. In addition, as of 2013, the league has a bid into the FCS division I playoffs. Soon after its PFL membership was announced, Mercer accepted an invitation to join the Southern Conference effective July 1,2014, on July 1,2014, Mercer University joined the Southern Conference for all sports, including football. Campbell University has competed in the Big South Conference in non-football sports since 2011, note Evansville dropped football following the 1997–98 season. Two in-state rivalries currently exist in the PFL. Butler and Valparaiso first played in 1927 and that year, the two teams began playing every year, and in 2006 began playing for the Hoosier Helmet Trophy. The two schools had a rivalry as well when both were in the Horizon League together from 2007–2012. Campbell and Davidson began their rivalry in 2008 when the Fighting Camels joined the PFL, Campbell and Davidson are tied 4–4 all-time through the 2016 season. Jacksonville and Stetson will begin their football rivalry in 2013 when Stetson begins PFL play, Butler and Dayton also have a rivalry based on proximity to each other. The teams have met every year since 1977 with the exception of 1991 and 1992, * – Won at PFL Championship Gameco-champions The Pioneer Football League has had alliances with the Gridiron Classic and the Sports Network Cup. In addition, league members are allowed to accept invitations to other college bowl games and teams are eligible to compete in the FCS playoffs
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University of South Carolina Upstate
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The University of South Carolina Upstate is a public university located in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States. Formerly known as the University of South Carolina Spartanburg, the changed its name in the summer of 2004. The University of South Carolina Upstate is the fastest growing university in South Carolina offering both undergraduate and graduate programs for students in the Upstate and surrounding areas. One of four accredited four-year schools in the University of South Carolina System and it is fully accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. After the Spartanburg General Hospital decided to discontinue its degree program for nurses, local politicians, hodge, decided to create a separate University for the region. In 1967 the Spartanburg Regional Campus was opened as a college with an initial enrollment of 177 students. Because of increased popularity, the became a four-year institution in 1975 and was renamed the University of South Carolina Spartanburg. During the following years, both the campus and the scope of the University expanded, in the summer of 2004 the USC Board of Trustees voted to change the name to University of South Carolina Upstate to better reflect its mission to educate the people of South Carolinas upstate region. College of Arts and Sciences Mary Black School of Nursing George Dean Johnson Jr, the Chemistry Club strives to stimulate and maintain an interest in the field of chemistry through monthly meetings. The Marketing Club, which students with resume workshops, company visits. The Forensics Team, led by coach and director, Dr. Kevin Sargent, has proved to be able to compete with top universities. The Mock Trial Team competes nationally alongside local rivals, Furman, Duke, the team has been gaining in experience and in wins since being taken over by Sargent. Impact, a community organization on campus. The Shoestring Players theater group presents several productions each year, plus smaller presentations. Membership is open to all interested in theatrical performance and production. College Republicans College Democrats CAB The Carolinian - Student run publication on campus, pi Sigma Alpha - Political Science honor society. The University of South Carolina Upstates Honors Program, actively encourages academic enrichment and achievement by providing superb coursework, the program also encourages community service and intellectual betterment by placing high standards for honors graduation which include community service and predetermined honors seminars. The Honors Program organizes trips abroad annually, University of South Carolina Upstate sponsors 13 collegiate teams known as the Spartans
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Hampton University
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Hampton University is a private historically black university located in Hampton, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1868 by black and white leaders of the American Missionary Association after the American Civil War to provide education to freedmen, in 1878, it established a program for teaching Native Americans, which lasted until 1923. These facilities represented freedom to slaves, who sought refuge with Union forces during the first year of the war. She first taught for the AMA on September 17,1861 and was said to gather her pupils under a large oak, after the tree was the site of the first reading in the former Confederate states of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, it was called the Emancipation Oak. The tree, now a symbol of the university and of the city, is part of the National Historic Landmark District at Hampton University and it was first led by former Union General Samuel Chapman Armstrong. Among the schools famous alumni is Dr. Booker T. Washington, during the American Civil War, Union-held Fortress Monroe in southeastern Virginia at the mouth of Hampton Roads became a gathering point and safe haven of sorts for fugitive slaves. The commander, General Benjamin F. Butler, determined they were contraband of war, to them from being returned to slaveholders. This area was later called Slabtown, the newly issued Emancipation Proclamation was first read to a gathering under the historic tree there in 1863. After the War, a school was formalized in 1868. The new school was established on the grounds of a plantation named Little Scotland. The original school buildings fronted the Hampton River, legally chartered in 1870 as a land grant school, it was first known as Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. One of the many Civil War veterans who gave substantial sums to the school was General William Jackson Palmer and he later built the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, and founded Colorado Springs, Colorado. As the Civil War began in 1861, although his Quaker upbringing made Palmer abhor violence and he was awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery in 1894. Unlike the wealthy Palmer, Sam Armstrong was the son of a missionary to the Sandwich Islands and he also had dreams for the betterment of the freedmen. He patterned his new school after the model of his father and he wanted to teach the skills necessary for blacks to be self-supporting in the impoverished South. Under his guidance, a Hampton-style education became well known as an education that combined cultural uplift with moral and manual training, Armstrong said it was an education that encompassed the head, the heart, and the hands. At the close of its first decade, the school reported a total admission in the ten years of 927 students, with 277 graduates, many of them had bought land and established themselves in homes, many were farming as well as teaching, some had gone into business. Only a very small proportion failed to do well, by another 10 years, there had been over 600 graduates
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Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
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The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference whose full members are historically black colleges and universities in the Southeastern and the Mid-Atlantic United States. It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Associations Division I, and in football, currently, the MEAC has automatic qualifying bids for NCAA postseason play in baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, football, softball, men and women’s tennis, and volleyball. Bowling was officially sanctioned as a MEAC governed sport in 1999, before that season, the MEAC was the first conference to secure NCAA sanctioning for women’s bowling by adopting the club sport prior to the 1996-97 school year. In 1969, a group, whose members were associated with interscholastic athletics, met in Durham. The conference was confirmed in 1970, and had its first season of competition in football in 1971, the MEAC has had to date, three full-time commissioners. In 1978, the MEAC selected its first full-time commissioner, Kenneth A. Free and he was succeeded by Charles S. Harris, who served at the position until 2002. On September 1,2002, Dennis E. Thomas became the conference’s commissioner, the MEAC experienced its first expansion in 1979 when Bethune–Cookman College and Florida A&M University were admitted as new members. That same year, founding members Morgan State University, North Carolina Central University and University of Maryland Eastern Shore withdrew from the conference. All three schools eventually returned to the conference, Maryland Eastern Shore rejoined in 1981, Morgan State in 1984, on June 8,1980, the MEAC was classified as a Division I conference by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Prior to that year, the league operated as a Division II conference, the following month the MEAC received an automatic qualification to the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Championship. In 1984, membership in the MEAC again changed as Florida A&M chose to leave, the university would return to the conference two years later. Coppin State College, now Coppin State University, joined the conference in 1985, the MEAC would find stability in membership with the addition of two HBCUs in Virginia, Hampton University and Norfolk State University in 1995 and 1997 respectively. For the next 10 years, the MEAC would remain an 11-member conference, North Carolina Central University rejoined the conference effective July 1,2010. Savannah State originally applied for membership into the MEAC in 2006, membership was then deferred until the completion of the imposed probation period, which ended in May 2009. Savannah State then resubmitted their application for membership again in 2009 and was finally granted probationary membership status, on September 8,2011, the university was confirmed as a full MEAC member. Augusta became the MEACs first associate member and first non-HBCU with any type of membership and they were scheduled to begin full membership and gain access to NCAA tournaments in 2011. Full members Full members Associate members Other Conference Other Conference Maryland Eastern Shore was a member of the MEAC in 1970. In 1980, UMES dropped football, and returned to the MEAC the next year as a member that no longer had a football program
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Buies Creek, North Carolina
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Buies /ˈbuːiːs/ Creek is a census-designated place located in the Neills Creek Township of Harnett County, North Carolina, United States and is the home of Campbell University. The population was 2,942 at the 2010 census, up from 2,215 in 2000, Buies Creek is a part of the Dunn Micropolitan Area, which is also a part of the greater Raleigh–Durham–Cary Combined Statistical Area as defined by the United States Census Bureau. The James Archibald Campbell House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, the tiny wooded hamlet of Buies Creek was incorporated by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1914. The town charter was repealed in 1967, according to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.28 square miles, of which,2.27 square miles of it is land and 0. 44% is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 2,942 people,577 households, the population density was 1,296.0 people per square mile. There were 699 housing units at a density of 307.9 per square mile. The racial makeup of the CDP was 78. 3% White,14. 8% African American,0. 7% Native American,2. 2% Asian,0. 0% Pacific Islander,1. 9% from other races, and 2. 2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3. 6% of the population,36. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.07 and the family size was 2.73. The median age was 21 years, for every 100 females there were 80.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 80.1 males, as of the 2014 American Community Survey, the median income for a household in the CDP was $31,959, and the median income for a family was $51,106. Males had an income of $9,625 versus $11,908 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $8,301. As of the 2010 ACS, about 12. 0% of families and 38. 0% of the population were below the poverty line and it is also the home of many farms. Campbell University Central Carolina Community College Paul Green, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Burren Morgan, United States Senator, the Internetainment and advertising duo Rhett and Link
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Baptists
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Other tenets of Baptist churches include soul competency, salvation through faith alone, Scripture alone as the rule of faith and practice, and the autonomy of the local congregation. Baptists recognize two ministerial offices, elders and deacons, Baptist churches are widely considered to be Protestant churches, though some Baptists disavow this identity. Historians trace the earliest church labeled Baptist back to 1609 in Amsterdam, in accordance with his reading of the New Testament, he rejected baptism of infants and instituted baptism only of believing adults. Baptist practice spread to England, where the General Baptists considered Christs atonement to extend to all people, while the Particular Baptists believed that it extended only to the elect. Thomas Helwys formulated a distinctively Baptist request that the church and the state be kept separate in matters of law, Helwys died in prison as a consequence of the religious persecution of English dissenters under King James I. In 1638, Roger Williams established the first Baptist congregation in the North American colonies, in the mid-18th century, the First Great Awakening contributed to Baptist growth in both New England and the South. Baptist missionaries have spread their church to every continent, the largest Baptist denomination is the Southern Baptist Convention, with the membership of associated churches totaling more than 15 million. Modern Baptist churches trace their history to the English Separatist movement in the century after the rise of the original Protestant denominations and this view of Baptist origins has the most historical support and is the most widely accepted. Adherents to this position consider the influence of Anabaptists upon early Baptists to be minimal and it was a time of considerable political and religious turmoil. Both individuals and churches were willing to give up their theological roots if they became convinced that a more biblical truth had been discovered, during the Protestant Reformation, the Church of England separated from the Roman Catholic Church. There were some Christians who were not content with the achievements of the mainstream Protestant Reformation, there also were Christians who were disappointed that the Church of England had not made corrections of what some considered to be errors and abuses. Of those most critical of the Churchs direction, some chose to stay and they became known as Puritans and are described by Gourley as cousins of the English Separatists. Others decided they must leave the Church because of their dissatisfaction, historians trace the earliest Baptist church back to 1609 in Amsterdam, with John Smyth as its pastor. Three years earlier, while a Fellow of Christs College, Cambridge, reared in the Church of England, he became Puritan, English Separatist, and then a Baptist Separatist, and ended his days working with the Mennonites. He began meeting in England with 60–70 English Separatists, in the face of great danger, Smyth and his lay supporter, Thomas Helwys, together with those they led, broke with the other English exiles because Smyth and Helwys were convinced they should be baptized as believers. In 1609 Smyth first baptized himself and then baptized the others, in 1609, while still there, Smyth wrote a tract titled The Character of the Beast, or The False Constitution of the Church. In it he expressed two propositions, first, infants are not to be baptized, and second, Antichristians converted are to be admitted into the true Church by baptism. Hence, his conviction was that a church should consist only of regenerate believers who have been baptized on a personal confession of faith
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Campbell Fighting Camels and Lady Camels
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The Campbell University Fighting Camels and Lady Camels are the nicknames of the schools 18 teams that compete at the Division I level of the NCAA. The University, however, fields teams as members of other conferences for sports the Big South doesnt sponsor. Campbell is a member of the Southern Conference for wrestling. Campbell does not currently field a mens swimming team, the Fighting Camels football team began play in 2008 and is a member of the Pioneer Football League. Campbell launched a varsity lacrosse team in 2012-13. Campbell University became a college in 1961 and began competing athletically in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. In 1977, the Fighting Camels program joined the NCAA Division I level, Campbell was a charter member of the Big South Conference in 1983, before leaving to join the Trans-America Athletic Conference, which is now the Atlantic Sun Conference, in 1994. Campbell returned to the Big South on July 1,2011 and competes in all sports, except for football, wrestling, the school will join Big South football in 2018. Campbells basketball teams play their games in the newly constructed,3, 100-seat John W. Pope, Jr. Convocation Center which opened in 2008. This win placed Campbell in the 1992 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament and 1992 is still the schools only NCAA appearance, the 16th seeded Fighting Camels were defeated by the top-seeded Duke Blue Devils in Greensboro, North Carolina 82-56. The Lady Camels have two conference championship seasons, Campbell won the Big South Conference tournament in 1989 defeating Radford University 58-53 in Radford, Virginia. However, Campbell lost in the round to the 2nd seeded Duke Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham. Ronny Fisher is in his first season as the coach of the Lady Camels in 2016-17. The Fighting Camels baseball team plays its games at the on-campus Jim Perry Stadium. Jim Perry was a baseball and basketball player at Campbell prior to playing in Major League Baseball, Campbell won the Big South Conference titles in 1988,1990 and 2014. The last appearance by the Fighting Camels in the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was also in 2014 when the played in the Columbia Regional in Columbia. Former Major League Baseball pitcher Jim Perry played college ball for the Fighting Camels from 1955 to 1956, jims Hall of Fame brother, Gaylord, also went to Campbell from 1958 to 1960 but didnt play baseball. Karl Herrmann played for the Camels in the 1982-83 season then went on to a New York Mets farm club
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North Charleston, South Carolina
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North Charleston is the third-largest city in the U. S. state of South Carolina, with incorporated areas in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties. On June 12,1972, the city of North Charleston incorporated and was the ninth-largest city in South Carolina. As of the 2010 Census, North Charleston had a population of 97,471, growing to a population of 108,304 in 2015. North Charleston is one of the major industrial centers and is the states top city in gross retail sales. From the 17th century until the Civil War, plantations cultivated commodity crops, such as rice, some of the plantations located in what is now North Charleston were, Archdale Hall Plantation – dating from 1680, Archdale Hall was located on the Ashley River. By 1783, it had grown to almost 3,000 acres and its primary crops were indigo and rice. The plantation was the longest family-owned plantation in South Carolina and it has since been redeveloped into the Archdale subdivision. Camp Plantation – dating from 1705, Camp Plantation covered around 1,000 acres, Elms Plantation – dating from 1682, Elms Plantation was founded by Ralph Izard. It covered nearly 4,350 acres, stretching across parts of what are now the cities of Goose Creek, Charleston Southern University is located on part of the original plantation lands. French Botanical Garden – established between 1786 and 1796, this small area of 111 acres was owned and maintained by the French botanist André Michaux. It was closed by Michauxs son in 1803, the garden was located near what is today the Charleston International Airport, and the parkway connecting Dorchester Road with International Boulevard is named in his honor. Marshlands, Mons Repos and Retreat plantations – the Retreat Plantation dates from 1672, Mons Repos was developed around 1798. The land from all three plantations was acquired by the government for development of the Charleston Naval Base and Charleston Naval Shipyard. The Marshlands Plantations main house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, To preserve the house, Oak Grove Plantation – dating from 1680, Oak Grove originally covered 960 acres along the Cooper River. By 1750, its owners had expanded the plantation to about 1,127 acres, Tranquil Hill Plantation – started in 1683, Tranquil Hill was originally known as White Hall Plantation, a name it would keep until 1773. Since the late 20th century, it was redeveloped as the Whitehall residential subdivision, General William Moultrie, victor at the Battle of Sullivans Island in 1776 and governor from 1785–87 and 1792–94, was originally buried here. His remains were exhumed and reburied at Fort Moultrie on Sullivans Island in 1977, the Windsor Hill Plantation subdivision was developed on a portion of the eponymous plantations property. The large plantations were subdivided into farms in the late 19th century as the urban population began moving northward
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Southern Baptist Convention
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The Southern Baptist Convention is a Christian denomination based in the United States. It is the worlds largest Baptist denomination and the largest Protestant body in the United States and this also makes it the second-largest Christian body in the United States, after the Catholic Church. Members at a convention held in Augusta, Georgia, created the SBC in 1845. After the American Civil War, another split occurred when most freedmen set up independent congregations, others joined new African-American denominations, chiefly the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Since the 1940s, the SBC has moved away from some of its regional and historical identification, especially since the late twentieth century, the SBC has sought new members among minority groups and become much more diverse. In addition, while still heavily concentrated in the Southern US and it should be noted that some State convention comprise more than one State - for example the New England Baptist Convention is comprise of the six New England states. North and South Dakota comprise the Dakota Baptist Convention, in addition - Northern New Jersey is part of the Baptist Convention of New York and Southern New Jersey is part of the Baptist Convention of Pennsylvania. At its annual convention in 2012, the SBC elected as president Fred Luter Jr. the first African American to hold the position, an SBC presidential term is for one year, with a term limit of two terms. Each president is elected by Messengers sent by local church at the SBC annual meeting. Since Luter ran unopposed, per the by-laws of the convention, because of the historic nature of the vote, the assembly was asked to rise in support of the vote, which the messengers did enthusiastically. Luter was re-elected president for a term at the 2013 meeting. The current president in 2016 is Steve Gaines, Southern Baptists emphasize the significance of the individual conversion experience which is affirmed by the person having complete immersion in water for a believers baptism. As a result, they reject the practice of infant baptism, SBC churches are evangelical in doctrine and practice. Specific beliefs based on biblical interpretation can vary due to their congregational polity which allows autonomy to each individual local church. Most early Baptists in the British colonies came from England in the 17th century, the oldest Baptist church in the South, First Baptist Church of Charleston, South Carolina, was organized in 1682 under the leadership of William Screven. A Baptist church was formed in Virginia in 1715 through the preaching of Robert Norden, the Baptists operated independently of the state-established Anglican churches in the South, at a time when non-Anglicans were prohibited from holding political office. By 1740, there were about eight Baptist churches in the colonies of Virginia, North Carolina, as a result, black congregations and churches were founded in Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia before the American Revolution. Some black congregations kept their independence even after whites tried to exercise more authority after the Nat Turner slave rebellion of 1831
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Charleston Southern Buccaneers
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Charleston Southern Buccaneers are the athletic teams that represent Charleston Southern University. They participate in Division I of the NCAA as a member of the Big South Conference, Charleston Southern fields varsity teams in 16 sports,7 for Men and 9 for Women. The football team competes in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision, CSU competes in the NCAA in the following sports, In 2008, CSU closed its highly successful mens tennis program to reallocate funds to other sports. CSU formerly fielded a soccer team. Buccaneer Field - home of the Football program and it opened in 1970 and has a capacity of 4,000 spectators. CSU Field House - home of the Mens and Womens Basketball teams and it has a capacity of 881 spectators. It is the 2nd smallest arena in Division I basketball, buccaneer Ballpark - home of the Baseball program. It has a capacity of 1,500 spectators, CSU got the first shutout of the series with their 24-0 win in 2008. Currently, Charleston Southern has a winning streak over Coastal Carolina with Charleston Southern winning 59-58 in 2016. Charleston Southern won a share of the 2016 Big South Championship, Coastal Carolina leads the series 8-6
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Boiling Springs, North Carolina
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Boiling Springs is a town in Cleveland County, North Carolina in the United States and is located in the westernmost part of the Charlotte metropolitan area located about 50 miles away from the city. As of the 2010 census, the population was 4,647. It is home to Gardner–Webb University, the town is named after the natural spring that is found on University property and which feeds a small lake. Boiling Springs is located in southwestern Cleveland County at 35°15′6″N 81°39′51″W, North Carolina Highway 150 passes through the town, leading east 9 miles to Shelby, the county seat, and south 13 miles to Gaffney, South Carolina. The South Carolina border is less than 6 miles south of the town, Charlotte, about 50 miles east, is the closest major city. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 4.4 square miles. The Broad River runs 3 miles south of the town, and is the location of the Broad River Greenway, providing facilities, activities. People began settling the area around the boiling springs in 1843. The first families to settle were the Hamricks, the Greenes and it was only appropriate that the settlement be named Boiling Springs. One of the first buildings was Boiling Springs Baptist Church, built in 1847 about 100 yards from the springs, Boiling Springs was known as a sleepy community, with no railroads, no industries, few stores and no paved streets. The Boiling Springs High School boarding institution opened for business in 1905, School authorities felt that neither intoxicating drinks nor cigarettes should be sold near the school, so in 1911 the town was incorporated in order to ban the sale of such items. Town limits were decided by drawing a mile and a radius from the schools original bell tower. Hamrick Hall and the Irvin-Hamrick Log House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Town of Boiling Springs Council-Manager form of government with a Mayor and five Councilmen who are each elected at-large in staggered four year terms. The Town Council appoints a town attorney and town manager to advise the Town Council, all other staff report to the town manager who manages that day-to-day operations. As of the census of 2000, there were 3,866 people,1,117 households, the population density was 891.7 people per square mile. There were 1,184 housing units at a density of 273.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 89. 29% White,8. 67% African American,0. 13% Native American,0. 78% Asian,0. 41% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 40% of the population. 21. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 3.02
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