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1837 establishments in North Carolina
Educational institutions established in 1837
Private universities and colleges in North Carolina
Universities and colleges established in the 1830s

Academic major

An academic major is the academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits.

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ACT (test)

The ACT (originally an abbreviation of American College Testing) Name changed in 1996.

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Alpha Kappa Alpha

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (ΑΚΑ) is the first intercollegiate historically African American sorority.

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Alpha Phi Alpha

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (ΑΦΑ) is the oldest intercollegiate historically African American fraternity.

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The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Annapolis Group

The Annapolis Group (officially, the Annapolis Group of Liberal Arts Colleges) is an American organization of independent liberal arts colleges.

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Anthony Foxx

Anthony Renard Foxx (born April 30, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the United States Secretary of Transportation from 2013 to 2017.

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Associated Colleges of the South

The Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) is a consortium of 16 liberal arts colleges in the southern United States.

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Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities

The Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities is a private, not-for-profit organization of colleges and universities associated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), a Mainline Protestant Christian religious denomination. Davidson College and Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities are universities and colleges affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA).

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Atlantic 10 Conference

The Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I. The A-10's member schools are located mostly on the East Coast and Midwest of the United States: Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

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Battle of Cowan's Ford

The Battle of Cowan's Ford took place in the Southern Theater of Cornwallis's 1780–1782 Campaign during the American Revolutionary War.

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Belk

Belk, Inc. is an American department store chain founded in 1888 by William Henry Belk in Monroe, North Carolina, with nearly 300 locations in 16 states.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Blake R. Van Leer

Blake Ragsdale Van Leer (August 16, 1893 – January 23, 1956) was an engineer and university professor who served as the fifth president of Georgia Institute of Technology from 1944 until his death in 1956.

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Bleacher Report

Bleacher Report (often abbreviated as B/R) is a website that focuses on sport and sports culture.

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Brigadier general

Brigadier general or brigade general is a military rank used in many countries.

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Charles Wright (poet)

Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet.

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Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Mecklenburg County.

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College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur student-athletes at universities and colleges.

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Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges

The Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC) is a nonprofit organization of 75 American liberal arts colleges which formed in 1984 under the leadership of Oberlin College's president S. Frederick Starr.

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Davidson College Arboretum

Davidson College Arboretum is located on Davidson College's 600-acre campus in Davidson, North Carolina.

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Davidson Wildcats

The Davidson Wildcats are the NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletics teams representing Davidson College of Davidson, North Carolina, United States.

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Davidson, North Carolina

Davidson is a suburban town located in Iredell and Mecklenburg counties, North Carolina, United States, on the banks of Lake Norman.

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Dean Rusk

David Dean Rusk (February 9, 1909December 20, 1994) was the United States secretary of state from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the second-longest serving Secretary of State after Cordell Hull from the Franklin Roosevelt administration.

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Delta Sigma Theta

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (ΔΣΘ) is a historically African American sorority.

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Douglas A. Hicks

Douglas A. Hicks is an American theologian who is president of Davidson College.

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Duke University

Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Davidson College and Duke University are Need-blind educational institutions, private universities and colleges in North Carolina and universities and colleges accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, the Fringe or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest performance arts festival, which in 2018 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 different shows across 322 venues.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Fulbright Program

The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.

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Georgia Tech

The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech and GT or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or the Institute) is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Davidson College and Georgia Tech are Need-blind educational institutions and universities and colleges accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

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Greg Murphy (politician)

Gregory Francis Murphy (born March 5, 1963) is an American politician and urologist representing North Carolina's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2019.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.

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James G. Martin

James Grubbs Martin (born December 11, 1935) is an American chemist and politician who served as the 70th governor of North Carolina from 1985 to 1993.

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James Holshouser

James Eubert Holshouser Jr. (October 8, 1934 – June 17, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 68th Governor of North Carolina from 1973 to 1977.

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John M. Belk

John Montgomery Belk (March 29, 1920 – August 17, 2007) was head of the Belk, Inc. department store chain and member of the Democratic Party, he served as the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina for four terms (1969–1977).

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John Rood Cunningham

John Rood Cunningham (July 3, 1891 – June 15, 1980) was the 12th president of Davidson College.

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Julius Caesar (play)

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar), often abbreviated as Julius Caesar, is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare first performed in 1599.

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Kappa Alpha Psi

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. (ΚΑΨ) is a historically African American fraternity.

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Kappa Sigma

Kappa Sigma (ΚΣ), commonly known as Kappa Sig or KSig, is an American collegiate social fraternity founded at the University of Virginia in 1869.

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Kiplinger's Personal Finance

Kiplinger's Personal Finance is an American personal finance magazine published by Kiplinger since 1947.

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Kurt Biedenkopf

Kurt Hans Biedenkopf (28 January 1930 – 12 August 2021) was a German jurist, academic teacher and politician of the Christian-Democratic Union (CDU) party.

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Lake Norman

Lake Norman is the largest man-made body of fresh water in North Carolina.

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Lambda Pi Chi

Lambda Pi Chi Sorority, Incorporated (ΛΠΧ) (also known as Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad/Lambda Pi Chi Sorority, Inc.) is a Latina-based, but not Latina-exclusive Greek letter intercollegiate sorority founded on April 16, 1988, at Cornell University by five women.

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Lambda Theta Phi

Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Inc. (ΛΘΦ) is a Latino non-profit social fraternity in the United States.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Liberal arts colleges in the United States

Liberal arts colleges in the United States are undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States that focus on a liberal arts education.

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Liberal arts education

Liberal arts education (from Latin 'free' and 'art or principled practice') is the traditional academic course in Western higher education.

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Michel Ney

Michel Ney, 1st Prince de la Moskowa, 1st Duke of Elchingen (10 January 1769 – 7 December 1815), was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

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National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities

The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) located in Washington D.C. It is an organization of private American colleges and universities.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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National Pan-Hellenic Council

The National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) is a collaborative umbrella council composed of historically African American fraternities and sororities, commonly called the Divine Nine, and also referred to as Black Greek Letter Organizations (BGLOs).

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NCAA Division I

NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally.

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Need-blind admission

Need-blind admission in the United States refers to a college admission policy that does not take into account an applicant's financial status when deciding whether to accept them.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Oberlin Group of Libraries

The Oberlin Group of Libraries is a consortium of American liberal arts colleges, led by a board elected from its members' libraries' directors.

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Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell (born Patricia Carroll Daniels; June 9, 1956) is an American crime writer.

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Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio.

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Phi Beta Kappa

The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States.

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Phi Delta Theta

Phi Delta Theta (ΦΔΘ), commonly known as Phi Delt, is an international secret and social fraternity founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1848.

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Phi Gamma Delta

Phi Gamma Delta (ΦΓΔ), commonly known as Fiji, is a social fraternity with 139 active chapters and 13 colonies across the United States and Canada.

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The Pioneer Football League (PFL) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the United States.

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Presbyterian Church (USA)

The Presbyterian Church (USA), abbreviated PCUSA, is a mainline Protestant denomination in the United States.

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Presbyterian College

Presbyterian College (PC) is a private Christian liberal arts college in Clinton, South Carolina, United States. Davidson College and Presbyterian College are universities and colleges accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and universities and colleges affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA).

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Davidson College and Princeton University are Need-blind educational institutions.

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Private university

Private universities and private colleges are higher education institutions not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments.

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Rhodes Scholarship

The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom.

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Rockefeller family

The Rockefeller family is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world's largest fortunes.

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Rona Munro

Rona Munro (born 7 September 1959) is a Scottish writer.

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Roy Williams (playwright)

Roy Samuel Williams is a British playwright.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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SAT

The SAT is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States.

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Sigma Alpha Epsilon (ΣΑΕ) is a North American Greek-letter social college fraternity.

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Sigma Phi Epsilon

Sigma Phi Epsilon (ΣΦΕ), commonly known as SigEp, is a social college fraternity for male college students in the United States.

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Sophie's Choice (novel)

Sophie's Choice is a 1979 novel by American author William Styron.

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Southern Conference

The Southern Conference (SoCon) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I. Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-AA).

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Stephen Curry

Wardell Stephen Curry II (born March 14, 1988) is an American professional basketball player and point guard for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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The Confessions of Nat Turner

The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1968 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by American writer William Styron.

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The Duke Endowment

The Duke Endowment is a private foundation established in 1924 by industrialist and philanthropist James B. Duke.

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The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review is an education services company providing tutoring, test preparation and admission resources for students.

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1589 and 1593.

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The Winter's Tale

The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623.

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Tony Snow

Robert Anthony Snow (June 1, 1955 – July 12, 2008) was an American journalist, political commentator, anchor, columnist, musician, and the 25th White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush, from May 2006 until his resignation in September 2007.

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References

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1837 establishments in North Carolina

Educational institutions established in 1837

Private universities and colleges in North Carolina

Universities and colleges established in the 1830s

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