Ferebee Taylor
Nelson Ferebee Taylor (1920 - 2004) was an American lawyer and educational administrator who served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1972 to 1980. Early life Taylor grew up in Oxford, North Carolina and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a bachelor's degree in American history. One of his grandfathers was politician Dennis Ferebee. During World War II, Taylor served in the U.S. Navy and was awarded the Bronze Star. After the war, he earned his law degree at Harvard Law School and earned degrees at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Career He practiced law in New York for some time, but returned to Chapel Hill in 1968 as a visiting law professor and in 1970 became vice president for administration for the University of North Carolina System. Then, he was selected as UNC-Chapel Hill's fifth chancellor in 1972, when the UNC System grew to its current size of 16 constituent institutions. Taylor joined the University of North Carolina School ...
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University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the designation is reserved for colleges that have a graduate school. The word ''university'' is derived from the Latin ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". The first universities were created in Europe by Catholic Church monks. The University of Bologna (''Università di Bologna''), founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *Being a high degree-awarding institute. *Having independence from the ecclesiastic schools, although conducted by both clergy and non-clergy. *Using the word ''universitas'' (which was coined at its foundation). *Issuing secular and non-secular degrees: grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law, notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The unive ...
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