High Point University
High Point University is a non-public institution of higher education located in High Point, North Carolina. It is a congregation that is connected to the United Methodist Church. It was first established in 1924 as High Point College, then in October 1991 it was transformed into High Point University. HPU offers 61 undergraduate majors, 65 undergraduate minors, and 14 graduate programmes.
Around the middle of the 19th century, the Methodist Protestant Church in North Carolina, which is today a member of the United Methodist Church, started involved in many educational endeavours in the state. After giving the matter significant thought for a number of years, the governing body of the Methodist Protestant Church throughout the state cast a vote in 1921 to build a college. Soon after that, the church agreed to take up the inhabitants of High Point up on their offer to donate sixty acres (two hundred and forty thousand square metres) of land and one hundred thousand dollars to the project, therefore deciding to locate the new school in High Point itself. In the fashion of the English Renaissance, R. E. Mitchell of Washington, DC, and Herbert Hunter of High Point, NC, were the architects that planned the campus. In 1924, the Methodist Protestant Church and the people of High Point collaborated to establish the institution that would later be known as High Point College. The college's doors first opened to students on September 14, 1924. When the college first opened its doors, there were a total of 122 students and three buildings on the campus, which was staffed by nine teaching staff members.
The steady expansion that had been a hallmark of the early years of the institution came to an abrupt halt with the onset of the Great Depression. In 1932 and 1933, the institution went through a difficult time as a result of decreased teacher pay and the occasional bartering of expenditures. The institution filed for bankruptcy on June 15, 1934, despite having a successful fund-raising drive that brought in a total of $50,000. This was done in an attempt to cut down on the amount of money it owed. The subsequent restructuring made it possible for the institution to resume its commercial operations and continue its development.