Celebrate Fayetteville: Exploring the Greater Fayetteville Region

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The William F. Bethune Center for
Visual Arts at Methodist University.
F O R T B R A G G S C H O O L S
The Department of Defense operates schools
on Fort Bragg and Pope Army Airfield with a
focus on improving academic achievement for
all students while supporting the mission of
military families. A total of nine schools serve
on-post students in grades Pre-K through 8.
The elementary schools include Bowley,
Devers, Gordon and Shughart. Two primary
schools serve Pre-K to second grade, Butner
and Hampton. One intermediate school,
Irwin, serves grades 3-5. And Albritton and
Shughart middle schools serve grades 6 to 8.
Hampton Primary School opened in 2014
and is a state of the art facility, servicing some
620 students. The school utilizes digital
resources for students at all grade levels.
P R I V A T E
S C H O O L S
Fayetteville and Cumberland County
abound with quality private schools like
Fayetteville Academy, Village Christian
Academy, Fayetteville Christian School,
Northwood Temple Academy, Berean Baptist
Academy, Saint Patrick Catholic School,
Saint Ann Catholic School, Freedom Christian
Academy and Trinity Christian School, to name
a few. The private schools in Fayetteville have
a history of placing graduates in good colleges
and universities around the United States.
F A Y E T T E V I L L E S T A T E
U N I V E R S I T Y
Fayetteville State University is North
Carolina’s second oldest institution and a
constituent institution of the University of
North Carolina. As of Fall 2012, the university
offered Bachelor’s degrees in 38 areas, Master’s
degrees in 20 areas and one doctoral degree
in educational leadership. Total enrollment at
the same time period was 6,060, with 5,287
undergraduates. Fayetteville State conferred
1,151 degrees in December 2011 and May 2012.
The school’s history dates back to the Civil
War era, when, a year after the war ended,
the Phillips School provided primary
education to Fayetteville’s black citizens, and
the Sumner School provided intermediate
education for black citizens. The two schools
were consolidated as the Howard School. In
1877 an act of the legislature allowed for
the establishment of a teacher training school
for Black state residents. Subsequently,
the Howard School became the
State Colored Normal School,
the first of its kind in the South.
It was renamed Fayetteville
State Teachers College in 1939,
Fayetteville State College in 1963
and Fayetteville State University
in 1969.
Fayetteville State University
became a constituent institution of
the University of North Carolina
by legislative act in 1972.
In 2008, Dr. James A.
Anderson was named the
eleventh chief executive officer,
or chancellor, of Fayetteville
State University. Dr. Anderson
came to FSU from the University
of Albany in New York. He was
appointed by Erskine Bowles,
who was president of the seventeen-campus
University of North
Carolina system.
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