After 157 years as a designated college, one of Western North Carolina’s oldest institution of higher learning will officially change its title from Mars Hill College to Mars Hill University in August, a move administrators say they hope will attract more students locally and from abroad.
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Over/under on the amount of people likely to be upset about this?