{"id":355675,"date":"2026-09-24T13:24:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355675\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:24:45","slug":"elon-queens-university-take-next-step-in-merger-with-name-announcement-wsoc-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355675\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon, Queens University take next step in merger with name announcement \u2013 WSOC TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHARLOTTE \u2014 Queens University of Charlotte now has a new name.<\/p>\n

The university announced its intention to merge with Elon University<\/a> last September.<\/p>\n

The school will now be known as Elon University: Queens College.<\/p>\n

The campus will remain at its current Myers Park location and largely stay the same. However, there will be new graduate programs.<\/p>\n

The merger still has to be signed off by the U.S. Department of Education.<\/p>\n

\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE \u2014 Queens University of Charlotte now has a new name. The university announced its intention to merge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4457,132526,7773,132527,9,24,63,122,124,123,4455],"class_list":["post-355675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-elon-university","tag-elon-university-queens-college","tag-merger","tag-myers-park","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-queens-university-of-charlotte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}