Beyond Books and Buildings: About the Project

	Beyond Books and Buildings: North Carolina's History of Higher Education Digital Project

About the Project
The purpose of this project is to bring together collections documenting the history of higher education in North Carolina. Colleges and universities have played an important role in the social and cultural history of North Carolina. From the early academies and the founding of the first public college in the United States--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-- to the present day, colleges have helped define communities, develop leaders, and encourage local and regional literature. The current participants are Brevard College, Davidson College, Fayetteville State University, Greensboro College, Johnson C. Smith University, Queens University of Charlotte, and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. The Brevard College site also includes information on Rutherford and Weaver colleges. This combination of schools includes state-supported and private institutions, colleges founded for men, for women, and for African-Americans. Each institution’s website contains collections of online documents, exhibits about the college’s history, and historical information about the college. These online collections and exhibits: • expand the cultural history resources available through NC ECHO • provide information on each institution • create opportunities for comparative research • help preserve original documents by providing online surrogates for researchers Additional collections from North Carolina colleges and universities will be added as materials are made available by the institutions. The Related Resources page on this site contains links to online exhibits about the histories of other North Carolina colleges. The original funding for the project was from federal LSTA monies made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
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