Qualla: Chowan University https://qualla.com/chowan-university en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Chowan University https://qualla.com/chowan-university Chowan University: Introduction https://qualla.com/chowan-university/ The McDowell Columns building has been standing on the campus since 1851, six tall white columns at the top of a long flight of brick steps, and a generation of college students passing under them. Behind the columns is a school that has been a women's college, a Baptist institute, a junior college, a four-year liberal arts college, and finally a university - usually all of those, in sequence, on the same patch of ground in Murfreesboro, North Carolina. The school is small. It has fewer than 1,500 students. But it has been here since 1848, surviving the Civil War, the Great Depression, the slow collapse of many small Southern private schools - and in March 2024 it installed its first woman president in 176 years of operation.

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