HPU Draws 57,000 Visitors Over School Year
High Point University says it drew a total of 57,468 out-of-town visitors to High Point during the 2007-2008 school year, accounting to 5,350 hotel room nights and additional spending at restaurants and other businesses......Read article
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History of High Point University
To know where High Point University is headed in the future, one must have knowledge of our past.
In 1924 High Point College opened as a cooperative venture between the Methodist Protestant Church and the city of High Point. The campus consisted of three partially completed buildings, there were nine faculty members, and student enrollment was 122. Today the University has 40 buildings, is attractively landscaped, the full-time faculty numbers nearly 150, and approximately 3,300 students are enrolled in a wide variety of daytime, evening, and summer programs. Much has changed over the years. Yet the mission of High Point University may still be best expressed in the words of its founders more than six decades ago: "to help us to appreciate and to love our own, to know our needs and opportunities, and to make ourselves more efficient servants of Christ." Read more
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