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LR offered its first graduate degree program in the 1970s, and has since expanded to over 30 master and doctorate degree program offerings with more than 900 students enrolled.

Reuters News Pictures photographer Jonathan Ernst has flown on Air Force One and covered three presidents on five continents in more than 40 states, but he learned the ins-and-outs of news coverage at Lenoir-Rhyne.

Former LR football standout Hank McCrorie is owner of Burly Wine, named after his Bears nickname, which is available at a variety of restaurants and fine wine shops in 23 states.

In the course The Meme-ing of Life: An Introduction to Visual Rhetoric, students learn communication through internet memes. Others have learned by taking the class, The Force of Star Wars: Examining the Epic.

Thompson-Ballard has 20 years of progressive experience at LR, where she has received multiple promotions and continuously increased her leadership responsibilities.

Shore is the current pastor at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepard in Brevard, North Carolina, a position she has served in since 2013. She also served 16 years at Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she held positions as a professor with tenure and associate dean.

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges looked into Lenoir-Rhyne's ability to affectively meet certain objections when determining accreditation for the university.