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The Schools of North Carolina

University of Duck Seal

Appalachian State University
Founded:	1899
Nickname/Mascot:	Mountineers/ Yosef
Colors:	Black, Gold
Motto:	Esse quam videri (To be, rather than to seem)
Nestled in the mountains of the western part of the state, Boon is home to Appalachian State, a Division II Football powerhouse and one of the more beautiful campuses NOT has visited.

Bennett College for Women
Founded:	1873
Nickname/Mascot:	Belles
Colors:	Blue, White
Locaton:	Greensboro
An Historically Black College, Bennett began as a normal school, to educate teachers. In 1926 the school reorganized as a college for women, a designation it still holds today.

Brevard College
Founded:	1934
Nickname/Mascot:	Tornados
Colors:	Blue, White
Motto:	Cognosce ut prosis (Learn in Order to Serve)

Duke University
Founded:	1838
Nickname/Mascot:	Blue Devils
Colors:	Duke Blue, White
Motto:	Erudito et Religio (Knowledge and Faith)
Famed as a men's basketball powerhouse, the schools gothic cathedral is almost as well know as a symbol of Duke.

East Carolina University
Founded:	1907
Nickname/Mascot:	Pirates
Colors:	Old Gold, Royal Purple
Motto:	Servire (To Serve)
ECU is the fastest growing campus in the University of North Carolina System. Located in Greenville, many of the main campus buildings boast Spanish-Mission style architecture, inspired by original Chairman of the Board of Trustees Thomas Jarvis' experience as ambassador to Brazil.

Elizabeth City State University
Founded:	1891
Nickname/Mascot:	Vikings
Colors:	Royal Blue, White
Motto:	To Live is To Learn
Located near the outer banks, the Historically Black University began life as a normal school chartered by the state legislature to train educators.

Fayetteville State University
Founded:	1867
Nickname/Mascot:	Broncos
Colors:	White, Blue
Motto:	Res Non Verba (Deeds Not Words)
Found in Fayetteville. Who would have guessed.

Greensboro College
Founded:	1830
Nickname/Mascot:	The Pride
Colors:	Green, White, Silver
Location:	Greensboro
Greensboro College began life as a women's college, one of the oldest women's colleges in the country.

Livingstone College
Founded:	1879
Nickname/Mascot:	Blue Bears
Colors:	Columbia Blue, Black
Motto:	A Call to Commitment. Taking Livingstone College to the next level
An Historically Black College, Livingstone was founded by the African Methodist Episcopal Church for the training of ministers for the area around Salisbury, in the middle of North Carolina.

North Carolina A & T University

Founded:

1891

Nickname/Mascot:

Aggies

Colors:

Blue, Gold

Motto:

Mens et Manus
(Mind and Hands)

NCA&T is one of the largest producer of African American engineers in the country. Located in Greensboro, four of the schools freshmen, Ezell Blair (Jibreel Khazan), Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond, started one of the first actions of the civil rights movement, "sitting-in" at the downtown Woolworths.

North Carolina Central University
Founded:	1909
Nickname/Mascot:	Eagles
Colors:	Maroon, Gray
Motto:	Truth and Service

North Carolina State University
Founded:	1887
Nickname/Mascot:	Wolfpack
Colors:	Maroon, Gray
Motto:
The largest campus in the University of North Carolina system, NCSU is the chief technological campus in the system. The school was originally founded as the "North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts."

Saint Augustine's College
Founded:	1867
Nickname/Mascot:	Falcons
Colors:	Blue, White
Motto:	Veritas vos liberabit (The Truth Will Set You Free)
Nowhere near the city in Florida, this Saint Augustine's can be found in Raleigh

Salem College
Founded:	1772
Nickname/Mascot:	Spirits
Colors:	Blue, Yellow (?)
Motto:	Esse Quam Videri
Salem College holds the distinction of being the oldest institution founded for women that has remained a women's college in the nation. Founded by the Moravians, it sits in the historic Moravian community of New Salem in Winston-Salem.

Shaw University
Founded:	1865
Nickname/Mascot:	Bears
Colors:	Maroon, White
Motto:	Pro Christo Et Humanaitate (For Christ and Humanity)
An Historically Black University in Raleigh, it was at Shaw that the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded at a conference in 1960.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Founded:	1795
Nickname/Mascot:	Tarheels
Colors:	Carolina Blue, White
Motto:	Lux libertas (Light and Liberty)
The flagship of the University of North Carolina System, it is the oldest public university in the U.S. While chartered after the University of Georgia, it was the first to admit students.

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Founded:	1946
Nickname/Mascot:	Forty-Niners/Norm the Niner
Colors:	Green, White
Location:	Charlotte
Founded in the post-WWII era to educate returning G.I.s, UNC Charlotte the athletic team are the Fourty-Niners refers to the fact that Charlotte was almost closed down in 1949 when the University System closed down the G.I. bill Charlotte Center, and the city took over Charlotte College.

University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Founded:	1891
Nickname/Mascot:	Spartan & Minerva
Colors:	Gold, White, Navy Blue
Location:	Greensboro
Starting life as a public women's college, the school became a State Normal and Industrial School, and several more incarnations and names before 1963 when men were admitted and the school became UNC Greensboro.

Wake Forest University
Founded:	1834
Nickname/Mascot:	Demon Deacons / The Demon Deacon
Colors:	Old Gold, Black
Motto:	Pro humanitate (For Humanity)

The school was originally named the "Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute," because students and staff were required to spend half of each day doing manual labor on the plantation