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University of North Carolina School of the Arts

University of North Carolina School of the Arts
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Former names
North Carolina School of the Arts (1963-2008)
Type Public
Established 1963
Endowment $27.7 million
Chancellor M. Lindsay Bierman
Academic staff
186
Students 1,144
Undergraduates 739
Postgraduates 124
Other students
276 (high school)
5 (special)
Location Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Campus Urban
Colors

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Affiliations University of North Carolina
Website www.uncsa.edu
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The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) is a public coeducational arts conservatory in Winston-Salem, North Carolina that grants high school, undergraduate and graduate degrees. It is one of the seventeen constituent campuses of the University of North Carolina. Founded in 1963 as the North Carolina School of the Arts by then-Governor Terry Sanford, it was the first public arts conservatory in the United States. The school owns and operates the Stevens Center in Downtown Winston-Salem and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

The school was created by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1963 and opened in 1965.

The school consists of five professional schools:

The idea of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts was initiated in 1962 by Vittorio Giannini, a leading American Composer and teacher of Composition at Juilliard, Curtis and Manhattan, who approached then-governor Terry Sanford and enlisted the help of author John Ehle to support his dream of an arts conservatory. State funds were appropriated, and a North Carolina Conservatory Committee was established to recommend to the governor a site for the School. In preliminary reports, the committee recommended that "the host city should obligate itself to support the school." In return, "the school must serve the city as an arts center." There was considerable rivalry among the major cities of the state. The citizens of Winston-Salem, home of the first arts council in the nation, vied for the School with particular zeal. In a two-day telephone campaign, volunteers raised nearly a million dollars in private funds to renovate the old Gray High School building – the city's contribution to the effort. An enticing incentive to the final host city was a challenge grant from the Ford Foundation which prompted the Legislature to appropriate public dollars to support the operation of the arts school. In 1972, the School of the Arts became a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina.


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