Welcome to Lees-McRae College! Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Lees-McRae offers exceptional educational opportunities for students interested in arts and humanities, business and management, education and social sciences, and natural and health sciences. Along with a live Open House presentation, this site will give you information about Lees-McRae academics, athletics, campus life, financial aid, student experiences, and more!
Highest elevated campus east of the Mississippi River
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Judicial Process and Court Ethics is a required class for all Criminal Justice majors and minors. According to Hoilman, all students who plan to work in the United States criminal justice system need to be familiar with how the court system works, even if they don’t plan to pursue a legal career. The mock trial provides that familiarity as well as an opportunity to build other valuable skills like research and public speaking.
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Each year, the Land and Environmental Art course (ART-130) at Lees-McRae seeks to address a global issue that becomes more and more pressing with each new cohort of students: climate change. In each class, Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Design Michael Iauch guides students through that year’s Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a lengthy annual report that, according to the report itself, “summarizes the state of knowledge of climate change, its widespread impacts and risks, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.”
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On Wednesday, Oct. 18, students, faculty, and staff participated in a record-breaking Mountain Day of Service. The annual Lees-McRae tradition is a time for everyone at the college to come together and give back to their community through a day of volunteering. With a record-setting 37 sites and 492 volunteers, Mountain Day of Service was able to spread farther and wider than ever before.
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