The University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP), also known as UNC Pembroke, is a public, co-educational, historically American Indian liberal arts university in the town of Pembroke in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States.
UNC Pembroke is a master's level degree-granting university and one of 17 schools that comprise the University of North Carolina system.
Croatan Normal School was created by the General Assembly on March 7, 1887 i...
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The University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP), also known as UNC Pembroke, is a public, co-educational, historically American Indian liberal arts university in the town of Pembroke in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States.
UNC Pembroke is a master's level degree-granting university and one of 17 schools that comprise the University of North Carolina system.
Croatan Normal School was created by the General Assembly on March 7, 1887 in response to a local petition, sponsored by NC Representative Hamilton McMillian of Robeson County. Fifteen students and one teacher composed the initial complement. With the goal of educating Native American teachers for children, enrollment was limited to the American Indians of Robeson County.
In 1909, the school moved to its present location, about a mile east of the original site. The name was changed in 1911 to the Indian Normal School of Robeson County, and again in 1913 to the Cherokee Indian Normal School of Robeson County, tracking...
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