To further racial integration, the University actively seeks to recruit and enroll a greater number of black students. Designated Western Carolina Teachers College in 1929. Renamed Western Carolina College in 1953 and designated a regional university in 1967. Merged into the University of North Carolina in 1972. Its setting at the southern end of Cullowhee Valley along the Tuckasegee River is unusually attractive.
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