East Carolina University (Campus History) - Softcover

Tucker PhD, John Allen; Carlson, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1467120405 ISBN 13: 9781467120401

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

East Carolina University was founded by the State of North Carolina in 1907 as a teacher training school meant to provide professionally trained faculty for schools in the eastern part of the state. Within two decades, the school matured into a teacher's college. Although coeducational from the start, the vast majority of the student body early on was female. Following World War II and the gender transformation of higher education resulting from successive GI Bills, East Carolina emerged with increasing balance as the male student body grew to match the female population on campus. In subsequent decades, East Carolina continued to expand academically, emerging as a research university with a medical school and a dental school. Today, ECU is a leading producer of K-12 teachers in the Southeast as well as a leader nationwide in training practitioners of family medicine. The impressive development of East Carolina has flowed from its embodiment of the school's ethic of service to the local community and, in the broadest context, the best interests of humanity.

About this title

About the Author:

John Allen Tucker, PhD, is a professor of history and the university historian at ECU. Arthur Carlson is the university archives specialist at J.Y. Joyner Library at ECU.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1467120405
• ISBN 13: 9781467120401
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128