and intercollegiate athletics became a part of campus life when the Rebels, an all-male basketball team, was formed.
In 1953 VSC acquired the property of the former Emory Jr. College, a private all-male school that operated from 1928 to 1953, less than a mile away, and the facilities became the north campus which now house the College of Business, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and Air Force ROTC.
Under Thaxton's tenure, the college integrated in 1963. Over the next decade, the college added African-American students, faculty and administrators.
Thaxton retired in 1966, and S. Walter Martin, former president of Emory University and Vice Chancellor of the University System of Georgia, assumed the presidency. He presided over a time of physical expansion of the school, including the construction of such buildings as the Odum Library, the Education Center, The Fine Arts Building, the College Union, a Science Administration Building and six dormitories. The student body grew, the School of Nursing was established, …
SAT EBRW 25%
490
SAT EBRW 75%
580
SAT Math 25th %
460
SAT Math 75th %
550
ACT Composite 25th %
17
ACT Composite 50th %
20
ACT Composite 75th %
23
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