DUKE UNIVERSITY

American private coeducational institution of higher learning in Durham, N.C., affiliated with but not controlled by the United Methodist Church. In 1838 the Union Institute Society was established in Randolph county, N.C., and in 1859 was reorganized as Trinity College. In 1892 the college moved to Durham. When a new charter was issued in 1924, the college became, under an endowment from the tobacco magnate James B. Duke, Duke University. Duke maintained separate campuses for undergraduate men and women, Trinity College and Woman's College, until they were merged in the 1970s into Trinity College. Besides Trinity (liberal arts), the university includes schools of engineering, law, business, nursing, and forestry. Cooperative programs are conducted with other North Carolina universities.