James Sprunt Community College is a

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Kenansville, North Carolina Kenansville is a town in Duplin County, North Carolina, United States. Its population was 855 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Duplin County. The town was named for James Kenan, a member of the North Carolina Senate, whose family home ...

. Founded in 1960 as James Sprunt Technical Institute, the college is named for James Menzies Sprunt (1818-1884), a Scottish immigrant who became a teacher,

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minister, and the longtime pastor of Grove Presbyterian Church in Kenansville. James Sprunt Institute, active from 1897 to 1923, was also named for him. It is part of the

North Carolina Community College System The North Carolina Community College System (System Office) is a statewide network of 58 public community colleges. The system enrolls over 500,000 students annually. It also provides the North Carolina Learning Object Repository as a central loc ...

. The college's athletic program is known as the Spartans.

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