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High Point University New Programs May Include Law School

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High Point University leaders are considering expanding the school's professional programs.

The university says it has put together a team to explore new academic schools in nursing, optometry, and law. 

High Point has worked hard in the last five years to expand its professional program offerings. That includes the opening of a pharmacy school and an engineering program. 

Earlier this month, the university also announced plans to open a School of Dental Medicine and Oral Health in 2023. High Point is hoping to bring nearly 200 students to campus through that program.

The university has significantly boosted enrollment through its advanced degree programs. There are currently more than 1,000 graduate students enrolled, according to an HPU release.

If the law school comes through it would be the seventh in North Carolina and the third in the Triad — joining Wake Forest and Elon universities. 

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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