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UNC Charlotte is working to provide the scientific and technical research, mostly at the graduate level, that will stimulate new businesses, create new jobs, and improve the overall quality of life for the citizens of Charlotte. Reynolds, associate provost and dean of the Graduate School. But first, a bit of historical perspective. “Higher education hasn’t always been terribly important in Charlotte; instead, we were a service center for labor-intensive manufacturing that went on around us,” Reynolds continued. “In those days, people who went to graduate school were studying to be physicians or lawyers, or to earn a Ph.D. that would enable them to be college professors.
From around 1950 to 1985, the rise in technology made a baccalaureate degree more essential for success.” Since then, Reynolds said, at the accelerating speed of computers and the Internet, there has been an increasing demand from public, private and government sectors for men and women with graduate degrees in disciplines such as health informatics, business analytics, Continued on p. 24
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