* The UNCG School of Nursing has received one of the top national honors by the National League of Nursing, which has listed the school as a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education.

The history of the School of Education of UNCG has its roots in the founding of the university itself.

Originally designated in 1891 as the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School, UNCG was established as a school to train women educators, based on the assumption that if women received training they would, in turn, educate their children and ultimately improve the level of education and literacy in the state.

The School of Health and Human Sciences is a school of study at UNCG.

The UNCG School of Music, Theatre and Dance is home to over 900 student majors and more than 100 distinguished faculty members.

As a crusader for women's education, he was chosen President of the State Normal and Industrial School ( now UNCG ), which opened in 1892.

Music has been a central discipline at UNCG since the University's founding.

UNCG also has a Minerva statue, donated by the Class of 1953.

In previous years, UNCG has been ranked in the top 50.

UNCG has an architecturally diverse campus with distinctively unique landmarks.

Although UNCG has no LEED-certified buildings, two members of the Facilities Design & Construction team are now LEED accredited and will be able to help steer future projects in a more sustainable direction.

The UNCG University Libraries system has six branches.

In 1963, the consolidated university was made fully coeducational, although most women still attended UNCG for their first two years, transferring to Chapel Hill as a junior, since freshmen were required to live on campus and there was only one women's dorm.

UNCG is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award baccalaureate, masters, specialist and doctoral degrees.

The move was announced by UNCG chancellor Dr. Linda Brady on December 5, 2008.

UNCG is now coached by Roxboro, Person County native and former WNBA player Wendy Palmer.

UNCG is distinguished by its five leadership areas – business, cultural leadership, education, public policy and social change, and science.

This novel joint venture between NCA & T and UNCG is designed to facilitate collaborations between world-class researchers and businesses – to move scientific discoveries from the lab to the marketplace benefitting the local community, region, and North Carolina by transforming cutting-edge intellectual properties into thriving business ventures.

* According to the 2012 US News & Report, UNCG is classified as a Tier 1 University with an overall National University rank of # 189 among public colleges and universities in the United States.

The gift was the reason why the jazz program at UNCG is named the " Miles Davis Jazz Studies Program.

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro ( UNCG ), also known as UNC Greensboro, is a public university in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States and is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina system.

However, UNCG, like all members of the UNC system, is a stand alone university and awards its own degrees.

Credit for the founding of UNCG goes mainly to Charles Duncan McIver, a crusader for the cause of women's education.

UNCG is in the midst of expanding beyond its traditional borders onto West Lee Street, a major city thoroughfare, with the construction of an 800 bed residence hall for students, and this is just the beginning of the $ 200 million dollar project on Lee Street.

UNCG is consistently ranked among the best academic institutions in terms of value, academics, and student performance.

* The Princeton Review ranked UNCG # 2 in its list of " Best Values " in public universities in the nation.

It also places UNCG in the " Best in the Southeast " category and ranks UNCG among the nation's top colleges in " The Best 373 Colleges.

* Kiplinger's ranks UNCG as one of the 100 best values among public, 4-year schools in the United States.

* UNCG was named as having the best public university chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in the country for the year 2006.

UNCG is home to a large number of diverse and active sports and student organizations from Greek life to a radio station, and some traditions unique to the school.

Today UNCG competes in the Southern Conference, which is made up of 12 schools across five states in the Southeast including Appalachian State University, Elon University, Davidson College, and Western Carolina University.

The 17 athletic teams currently at UNCG include: Baseball, Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball, Men's Cross Country, Women's Cross Country, Men's Golf, Women's Golf, Men's Soccer, Women's Soccer, Softball, Men's Indoor Track, Women's Indoor Track, Men's Tennis, Women's Tennis, Men's Track, Women's Track, Women's Volleyball.

Although not considered official sports teams, the Athletic Department also includes the UNCG Cheerleading Squad and the UNCG Dance Team, the Spartan Gs.

As a preview of things to come, UNCG hosted Davidson in its new venue two months later and drew a crowd of 11, 687.

In the Philippines, the Albertus Magnus Building at the University of Santo Tomas that houses the Conservatory of Music, College of Tourism and Hospitality Management, College of Education, and UST Education High School is named in his honor.

School of Music at ASU Tempe campus

Peter Christian Lutkin, dean of the Northwestern University School of Music, helped popularize a cappella music in the United States by founding the Northwestern A Cappella Choir in 1906.

School ( 1904 ) Sanskriti ... The School ( 2004 ) and Sophia Girls ' School ( 1918 / 1935 ) & College ( 1942 ), Rashtriya Military School Ajmer ( Since 2010-Established in 1930 as King George ’ s Royal Indian Military School ), and the historic Ajmer Music College, founded in 1942, the first accredited institution in Rajputana for teaching Hindustani classical music.

On the next block is the Manhattan School of Music.

Elwes attended Harrow School in London and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

He attended The High School of Music & Art ( New York City ), studying classical music ( clarinet ).

Active double bass ensembles include L ' Orchestre de Contrebasses ( 6 members ), Bass Instinct ( 6 members ), Bassiona Amorosa ( 6 members ), the Chicago Bass Ensemble ( 4 + members ), The Bass Gang ( 4 members ), the London Double Bass Ensemble ( 6 members ) founded by members of the Philharmonia Orchestra of London who produced the LP Music Interludes by London Double Bass Ensemble on Bruton Music records, Brno Double Bass Orchestra ( 14 members ) founded by the double bass professor at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts and principal double bass player at Brno Philharmonic Orchestra-Miloslav Jelinek, and the ensembles of Ball State University ( 12 members ), Shenandoah Conservatory, and the Hartt School of Music.

Some of the most influential contemporary classical double bass players are known as much for their contributions to pedagogy as for their performing skills, such as US bassist Oscar G. Zimmerman ( 1910 – 1987 ), known for his teaching at the Eastman School of Music and, for 44 summers at the Interlochen National Music Camp in Michigan and French bassist François Rabbath ( b. 1931 ) who developed a new bass method that divided the entire fingerboard into six positions.

Manhattan School of Music professor Timothy Cobb teaching a bass lesson in the late 2000s

He once said that the " most hopeful accomplishment " of his administration as mayor was the creation of the High School of Music & Art in 1936, now the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.

Following an unsuccessful attempt to study jazz academically, and having given recitals in the classical and jazz piano programs at Loyola University, Connick moved to the 92nd Street YMHA in New York City to study at Hunter College and the prestigious Manhattan School of Music, where a Columbia Records executive Sr. V. P.

Institutions like KM Music Conservatory founded by Oscar Winning Composer, A. R. Rahman, Calcutta School of Music, Bangalore School of Music, Eastern Fare Music Foundation, Delhi School of Music, Delhi Music Academy, and many others are dedicated to contributing to the progress or growth and supporting Western classical music.