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CONSOLIDATION 
 and COOPERATION 
 
 BY FRANK P. GRAHAM 
 
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CONSOLIDATION 
 and COOPERATION 
 
 <lA special report, by president 
 graham, to the board of trus- 
 tees of the university of north 
 carolina, on the occasion of 
 the board's action creating the 
 offices of chancellor at the 
 woman's college in greensboro, 
 state college in raleigh, and 
 the university in chapel hill 
 
On February 19, 1945, The Board of Trustees 
 of The University of North Carolina, meeting in 
 the Hall of the House of Representatives, in the 
 State Capitol, in Raleigh, voted to retain the title 
 of "President" for the principal administrative 
 official of the consolidated University; and, also, 
 designated the principal resident official (previous- 
 ly titled "Dean of Administration") at each of the 
 three constituent institutions as "Chancellor" of 
 the institution to which he is assigned, and "Vice- 
 President of The University of North Carolina." 
 
 Robert Burton House was elected Chancellor of 
 the University in Chapel Hill; John William 
 Harrelson, Chancellor of State College in Ra- 
 leigh ; and Walter Clinton Jackson, Chancellor of 
 The Woman's College in Greensboro. 
 
 Alexander B. Andrews, Secretary 
 of The Board of Trustees. 
 
 
CONSOLIDATION and COOPERATION 
 
 A REPORT TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA 
 BY PRESIDENT FRANK P. GRAHAM, ON FEBRUARY 19, 1945 
 
 It is well, from time to time, to report on 
 the essential nature and progress of the con- 
 solidation of our three institutions which for 
 over a decade have composed the University 
 of North Carolina. Such a time comes with 
 a new state administration or new member- 
 ship on the Board or with the rise of issues, 
 which, though not directed against consolida- 
 tion, makes timely an analysis of its nature 
 and values and thus provides some basis for 
 the consideration of the issues involved. 
 Recognizing many urgent and even desper- 
 ate needs and frustrations, I will in a sum- 
 mary of simple facts suggest some of the 
 representative achievements envisaged, pro- 
 moted, or aided in fulfillment by the coordi- 
 nated and consolidated leadership democrat- 
 ically based and variously participated in by 
 governors, legislators, trustees, controllers, 
 administrative deans, professors, business 
 managers, students, alumni, and citizens. 
 
 Values of Cooperation 
 
 What I am about to say here belongs to no 
 one person or group of persons but, in ulti- 
 mate responsibility, to the people of North 
 Carolina. I hope you will consider my state- 
 ment both as a summary of some of the 
 values of cooperation and as a recommenda- 
 tion for giving the highest possible recogni- 
 tion to the present holders of the office of 
 Dean of Administration as appropriate to 
 their high responsibilities and services. 
 
 1. At the outset of consolidation the re- 
 sponsible leadership, in the midst of the de- 
 pression and in the hour of desperate sug- 
 gestions, yet in recognition of the history, 
 traditions, alumni loyalties, precious values 
 and services of each institution, threw its 
 weight against any proposal to reduce State 
 College and the Woman's College to junior 
 college's. 
 
 2. Helped to protect and promote the 
 functional growth, values, and services of 
 each institution as a separate autonomous in- 
 stitution yet coordinated and integrated in 
 one University of the people. 
 
 3. Organized dozens of faculty commit- 
 tees in each of the three institutions to make 
 studies and recommendations which have 
 since been translated into decisive improve- 
 ments in the democratic structure of faculty 
 and student government, in the curricula, in 
 standards of scholarship, and student life and 
 welfare. 
 
 4. Recommended to the Board of Trus- 
 tees, after consultation with representatives 
 of the faculty and trustees, the election of 
 Dean J. W. Harrelson, Dean R. B. House, 
 and Dean W. C. Jackson as resident adminis- 
 trative heads of the respective institutions, 
 Charles T. Woollen and then W. D. Car- 
 michael, Jr., as controllers, all five of whom 
 have been great contributions to these three 
 institutions, to the values of consolidation, 
 
CONSOLIDATION AND COOPERATION 
 
 and to the progress of higher education in 
 North Carolina. 
 
 5. Respected and maintained the freedom 
 of teaching, research, and publication and the 
 civil and political liberties of members of the 
 University communities as citizens of the 
 state and nation under the Constitution of the 
 United States. This freedom of the mind 
 does not sanction license of the body and re- 
 quires due respect for truth, fairness, honest 
 competence, and human decency. 
 
 6. Provided procedures in each of the 
 three institutions for faculty advice to the 
 Administration on the budget, selection and 
 tenure of staff, promotions, increments, and 
 general policy through the Faculty Advisory 
 Committee, elected directly by the general 
 faculty for that purpose. 
 
 7. Established at Chapel Hill the policy 
 of having the most competent and represent- 
 ative members of the Faculty appointed by 
 the Administration to serve as special com- 
 mittees to advise both the Administration and 
 the Faculty Advisory Committee with regard 
 to the selection of deans of schools, directors 
 of divisions, and heads of departments. On 
 motion of S. B. Alexander, Jr., this policy 
 was later adopted by the Board of Trustees as 
 the policy of all three institutions. Without 
 losing the responsibility of the final recom- 
 mendation to the Board, the President thus 
 has the values and the safeguards of the sur- 
 veys and evaluations of the best composite 
 academic judgment in the special and related 
 fields in each institution. This policy has been 
 helpful in bringing to our three institutions 
 teachers and scholars, scientists and humanists 
 of the highest competence. This policy has 
 
 several times prevented the selection of a 
 well-qualified person instead of the highest 
 qualified person available anywhere for our 
 needs and purposes. The assurance of the 
 time and freedom of such a committee for 
 thorough surveys, personal interviews, com- 
 parative evaluations, patient second thoughts, 
 and reflective judgments, in which professors 
 on the Faculty Advisory Committee, directly 
 elected by the Faculty, participate through 
 discussion, judgment and advice, provides the 
 academic procedures for recommendations by 
 the Administration of the best qualified avail- 
 able persons. It also guarantees against any 
 appointment to the staff being made because 
 of, or contingent upon, any gift, grant, en- 
 dowment or foundation whatever, which 
 should make possible but should never de- 
 termine recommendations and appointments 
 and have never yet been and shall never, un- 
 der this Administration, be a condition pre- 
 cedent for a grant or an endowment. Pro- 
 cedures for the appointments and promotions 
 of professors and others below the classifica- 
 tion of head of department go through the 
 regular channels of consideration by the de- 
 partment and recommendation by the head 
 of the department, for consideration by the 
 Faculty Advisory Committee and the recom- 
 mendation of the Administration. 
 
 8. Promoted the reorganization, by policy 
 and in the budget, of the personnel advisory 
 procedures for the guidance of students in 
 the General College at Chapel Hill, in the 
 Basic Division at State College, and in the 
 four academic classes at the Woman's Col- 
 lege. 
 
 9. Excepting the deliberate design of hav- 
 ing a duplicate college of liberal arts and 
 
BY PRESIDENT FRANK. P. GRAHAM 
 
 sciences for women, eliminated all duplica- 
 tions in curricula on the upper college, pro- 
 fessional, and graduate levels; and allocated 
 graduate work in home economics and secre- 
 tarial science to the Woman's College and a 
 graduate major in elementary education at 
 the Woman's College or part of our one Uni- 
 versity Graduate School; and in agriculture, 
 engineering, textiles and in teacher training 
 in agriculture and industrial arts to State Col- 
 lege; and allocated other professional work 
 and graduate work in the natural sciences, 
 the social sciences and in the humanities to 
 the University in Chapel Hill. Over this 
 basic principle of the allocation of functions 
 occurred the crucial struggle regarding the 
 location of the engineering schools, which, by 
 this principle on the recommendation of the 
 President, were consolidated at State College 
 in Raleigh. 
 
 10. Instead of a concentration on a com- 
 petitive struggle against the sister institutions, 
 projected the ideal and set in motion a con- 
 centration on cooperation for improvement 
 of every department of each institution as 
 full members of one University family. 
 
 1 1 . Aided in raising the sights and stand- 
 ards of each institution for equalization of 
 salaries, competence of faculties, facilities, 
 and equipment, in no case depressing the 
 highest salaries (attempted only in the case 
 of the football coach whom we held should 
 not receive more than the highest academic 
 salary, but overruled by the Board) but with 
 the intent in every case to broaden the base 
 of excellence for a higher advance by all and 
 to urge the highest to yet higher reaches of 
 achievement. 
 
 12. Projected and carried through the 
 Federal PWA building program which 
 added twenty-seven new buildings (most of 
 which are now self-liquidating) and reno- 
 vated several others. 
 
 13. Cooperated through policy, budget, 
 and staff in improving the health and medical 
 equipment and services to students, provided 
 more playing fields, facilities and equipment 
 for physical training and outdoor play, espe- 
 cially in minor sports and intramural play, 
 and in increasing and improving dining rooms 
 and service, dormitories, and social facilities 
 for student life. The need is still most urgent 
 at the Woman's College for a modern college 
 hospital and at both the Woman's College 
 and State College for increased facilities for 
 physical education. 
 
 14. Attempted to prohibit special financial 
 aids to athletes from sources not only inside 
 but outside the college; failed to prohibit aid 
 from sources outside the college but require 
 all scholarships, loans, jobs, and other finan- 
 cial aid within the control of the college to 
 be awarded by the several responsible faculty 
 and administrative committees on the basis of 
 scholastic merit, financial need, and individual 
 worthiness of the student. The special scho- 
 lastic requirements and the responsibility of 
 the faculty athletic committee on eligibility 
 for inter-collegiate participation remain in 
 force. 
 
 15. Cooperated in the establishment of 
 student centers of student self-government, 
 in policies for creative participation in their 
 own self-mastery and self-development, in 
 discussion of the issues of the hour, and in 
 the understanding and improvement of the 
 
CONSOLIDATION AND COOPERATION 
 
 dynamic society as responsive to intelligent 
 enthusiasm and responsible leadership. 
 
 1 6. Made the proposal adopted by the 
 Board that the Escheats Fund, which had be- 
 longed by statute since 1789 to the Univer- 
 sity at Chapel Hill, should be available for 
 student loan funds at all three institutions 
 which now constitute the University of North 
 Carolina. 
 
 1 7. Cooperated in the Citizens Movement 
 for county-wide libraries as part of state-wide 
 adult education and a better preparation of 
 youth for college. 
 
 18. Aided in 1933 in organizing the state- 
 wide movement of the people who them- 
 selves saved from near-destruction their pub- 
 lic schools and the state educational and hu- 
 manitarian institutions. 
 
 19. From 1934 on, cooperated in the 
 state-wide movement for the restoration of 
 depression-cut salaries in public schools, state 
 institutions and departments as essential to 
 the public service. 
 
 20. Cooperated in the movement to pro- 
 vide retirement salaries for state employees 
 and in raising the limit of participation so as 
 more justly to include full professors. 
 
 2 1 . Cooperated in action to include asso- 
 ciate and full professors who had been ex- 
 cluded from participation in the war bonus 
 with the result that they will justly share in 
 the inclusion of the war bonus as a part of the 
 regular salary. 
 
 22. Cooperated in the program and hope 
 to have the minimum wage scale in state de- 
 partments and institutions come up to the 
 
 federal minimum, and in the policy to deal 
 through responsible representatives of the in- 
 stitution with any representatives of workers 
 of their own choosing regarding wages, work- 
 ing conditions, grievances, and cooperation 
 for more efficient work and human better- 
 ment. 
 
 23. Proposed to the General Education 
 Board and Board Member R. J. Reynolds, 
 Jr., the establishment of an endowment and 
 grants for supplements to salaries for agri- 
 cultural research and teaching at State Col- 
 lege which should become a precedent for 
 use of endowments and foundations at all 
 three institutions. Cooperated with Chairman 
 J. A. Gray, the Finance Committee of the 
 Board of Trustees, and Controller C. T. 
 Woollen in working out with Mr. W. R. 
 Kenan, Jr., for himself and his sisters, Mrs. 
 Graham Kenan and Mrs. Jessie Kenan Wise, 
 a settlement and arrangement which almost 
 doubled the Kenan Endowment for the Uni- 
 versity at Chapel Hill. Cooperated with the 
 Carnegie Foundation in the establishment of 
 $100,000 for the Library School; with the 
 beloved and now lamented Burton Craige in 
 the establishment of $150,000 endowment 
 for the Craige Chair of Jurisprudence; with 
 Mr. John Sprunt Hill and family in estab- 
 lishment of the Carolina Inn as an endow- 
 ment for the University Library; and with 
 the Rockefeller Foundation in its proposed 
 endowment of $150,000 for the Department 
 of Dramatic Art. 
 
 Plans by the Controller, W. D. Carmich- 
 ael, Jr., plans by Dean W. C. Jackson and 
 alumnae exemplified by Mrs. Laura W. 
 Cone; by Dean John W. Harrelson and 
 
BY PRESIDENT FRANK P. GRAHAM 
 
 alumni led by J. M. Peden, Chairman; and 
 by Dean R. B. House, a faculty committee 
 led by Dr. Sherman Smith, and alumni led 
 by Dr. Hubert Haywood, for endowments 
 and foundations, are under way. Especially 
 at State College foundations originated by 
 the alumni undergird the work of the Textile 
 School, led by W. J. Carter, Chairman, 
 David Clark, O. Max Gardner, and other 
 distinguished textile leaders; plans also give 
 promise of the development of the Engi- 
 neering School under the leadership of for- 
 mer Governor J. M. Broughton, Chairman; 
 and re-enforce the further advance of the Ag- 
 ricultural School led by George Coble, Chair- 
 man, in dairying, in particular, and by T. J. 
 Pearsall, Chairman, in agriculture, in gen- 
 eral. These plans of alumni, alumnae and 
 institutional administration require the coop- 
 eration of us all. 
 
 We have made it clear for the Administra- 
 tion, with due appreciation of all gifts, en- 
 dowments, and foundations, that all depart- 
 ments, schools, and divisions of the threefold 
 University must, through and under the au- 
 thority of the Board of Trustees, maintain 
 their legal and moral responsibility and aca- 
 demic freedom in the use of funds granted 
 for the worthy purpose of helping to im- 
 prove any department, school, or division in 
 the whole University. 
 
 24. Promoted policies which have helped 
 to secure more professors with doctor's de- 
 grees on the faculty and more books in the 
 library at State College in the last ten years, 
 the award of more graduate degrees at the 
 Woman's College in the last ten years, and 
 the award of more Ph.D. degrees in the last 
 
 ten years at Chapel Hill than in all the pre- 
 vious history of these institutions and, at the 
 same time, made more rigorous the require- 
 ments for the bachelor's, master's, and the 
 doctor's degrees. 
 
 25. Under a resolution of the Board of 
 Trustees cooperated to the limit with the na- 
 tion for the winning of the war and made the 
 plants and resources of our institutions avail- 
 able for the Army, Navy, and Marines, and 
 at Chapel Hill became one of the four na- 
 tional bases for the Naval Pre-Flight train- 
 ing and at Raleigh one of the two national 
 training centers for Naval Diesel Engineer- 
 ing. 
 
 26. Joined In state-wide movement for 
 more adequate medical care and hospitals in 
 response to the desperate needs of the people 
 for more doctors, more hospital beds, and 
 more group insurance. When the two-year 
 medical schools were under sentence of death 
 and when the Association of American Med- 
 ical Schools, which had passed a resolution 
 petitioning reconsideration by the Council on 
 Education and Hospitals of the American 
 Medical Association but had declined to car- 
 ry the fight in person to the Chicago meet- 
 ing of the Council, this University helped to 
 enlist the National Association of State Uni- 
 versities to carry the fight to the Chicago 
 meeting of the Council which voted to stay 
 its death sentence. Dean Coy Carpenter of 
 the Wake Forest Medical School on our in- 
 vitation was included with Dr. W. de B. Mac- 
 Nider in the delegation from the National 
 Association of State Universities vigorously 
 mobilized for the decisive Chicago meeting. 
 
 27. Cooperated with the farm cooperatives 
 
CONSOLIDATION AND COOPERATION 
 
 in forming the FCX and in maintaining their 
 values. 
 
 28. Cooperated in widening the educa- 
 tional responsibility of the services of the 
 University Extension Division to include the 
 institutes and conferences of industrial work- 
 ers as logical additions to institutes and con- 
 ferences of bankers, insurance representatives, 
 farmers, industrialists, leaders of youth 
 groups and recreation, social workers, doctors, 
 parents, teachers, librarians, pharmacists, ac- 
 countants, lawyers, women's groups, nurses, 
 public health workers, public officials, and 
 other professional and civic groups interested 
 in self-government and the improvement of 
 the State. 
 
 29. Cooperated in ending the historic and 
 destructive feud between the Department of 
 Agriculture and the School of Agriculture 
 and thus widening the base of cooperation be- 
 tween agriculture, education, business, labor, 
 health, welfare, civic and religious groups for 
 the building of a better State. In the days of 
 a large state debt, recurring annual deficits, 
 and the long depression, teamwork saved our 
 schools and institutions from direst destruc- 
 tion. In the more recent years of debt re- 
 ductions and annual surpluses, cooperation 
 has made possible decisive recovery and ad- 
 vance in the training of youth and service 
 of the people. 
 
 Not as a part of any University responsi- 
 bility but as a citizen interested in a fairer 
 America and a more stable world for the 
 University and all other free institutions of 
 the people, the President of the University, 
 with your forebearance, at the call of the 
 President of the United States, has tried to 
 
 do his bit in helping to formulate the Amer- 
 ican federal-state social security program for 
 unemployment insurance, old age insurance, 
 aid to mothers and to indigents, and for pub- 
 lic health education; in helping to formulate 
 a national policy for federal aid to the states 
 for the public schools without federal con- 
 trol; and in helping, for more than three 
 years of war, to stabilize union-management 
 relations and to hold the national line against 
 the disasters and demoralization of inflation. 
 It has also been our opportunity to cooperate 
 with the Institute of International Education 
 of the Carnegie Endowment in a southern 
 program for education in international rela- 
 tions; and in the work of the Southern Con- 
 ference for Human Welfare for the removal 
 of the poll tax as prerequisite for voting, the 
 elimination of freight rate differentials, and 
 federal aid to the State for the public schools. 
 
 Grateful Appreciation of Work of Deans 
 of Administration and All Colleagues 
 
 During the war, until the first of last 
 March, I spent every week-end possible in 
 North Carolina and since last summer, un- 
 til December, two weeks a month. Since De- 
 cember 15, I have been spending all my time 
 in North Carolina except one or two days a 
 month on call by the War Labor Board for 
 discussion or statements on general policy. 
 I cannot adequately express my appreciation 
 to Controller W. D. Carmichael, Jr., the Ad- 
 ministrative Deans, Dr. W. C. Jackson, Dr. 
 R. B. House, and Colonel J. W. Harrelson, 
 patriotically away for war service for a year 
 and a half, and their associates in the campus 
 war programs, Dr. F. F. Bradshaw, Dean of 
 
BY PRESIDENT FRANK. P. GRAHAM 
 
 the College for War Training at Chapel Hill, 
 and Dr. H. A. Fisher, Director of the War 
 Training Program at State College, Dean 
 Harriett Elliott of the Woman's College for 
 many nationally valuable war services, the 
 Faculty Advisory Committees, the Faculty 
 Council, and all the deans of schools, direc- 
 tors of divisions, all departments, business 
 managers and staffs, general and special fac- 
 ulties, who have all together done a job for 
 winning the war cited as unsurpassed by any 
 university and who yet have carried on a 
 vigorous civilian university. 
 
 The President Has Participated in All 
 Matters of Importance 
 
 Through the Controller and the Deans of 
 Administration and their advisors, by per- 
 sonal conference or by telephone, the Presi- 
 dent of the University has participated in 
 every important matter of basic policy, the 
 budget, the selection and tenure of staff, the 
 military, naval and civilian programs. He 
 has served with the Deans and the Controller 
 as mediator or as trouble-shooter for final 
 decisions on call within a day or overnight 
 trip. 
 
 For the extra and special work done by the 
 educational officers and colleagues and for 
 extra and constantly heavy loads carried by 
 business officers and associates, we are all 
 deeply grateful, especially I, whose periodic 
 absences were part of the load carried by my 
 administrative and business colleagues with 
 loyalty and devotion to the whole Univer- 
 sity. It is above the power of the highest 
 title to express the depth of our appreciation 
 
 or to recognize the heavy loads, values, and 
 services of the Deans of Administration and 
 the business officers. 
 
 The Example and Value of the Reynolds 
 Endowment and Other Foundations 
 
 This more than a score of examples of co- 
 operation outlined above show the value of 
 unity and common action not implicit in any 
 persons but in the fact of union for coopera- 
 tion. We shall not here recapitulate the dis- 
 tinctive achievements set forth for the Wom- 
 an's College, State College, and the Uni- 
 versity at Chapel Hill in our four reports last 
 June for the decade, 1934-1944. We shall 
 emphasize a precedent set at State College. 
 Of potential value to all three institutions is 
 the example of using the income from the 
 Richard J. Reynolds, Jr., Foundation to sup- 
 plement the salaries provided by the State. 
 Together with the matching grants from the 
 General Education Board, these salary sup- 
 plements on top of the regular salary brought 
 to the Experiment Station and the School of 
 Agriculture young men and women of distin- 
 guished ability who, in turn, caught the imag- 
 ination of the farm leaders and the legislators 
 who in a few years more than quadrupled the 
 appropriation to State College for agricul- 
 tural research. This annual state appropria- 
 tion, together with the federal appropriations, 
 now constitute a total fund a year for agri- 
 cultural research at State College which is 
 equivalent to an annual income from $11,- 
 000,000. The coming of these young scien- 
 tists to State College, says former Senator 
 William B. Rodman, is the agricultural event 
 
CONSOLIDATION AND COOPERATION 
 
 of his generation in North Carolina, and, 
 with wise management and relentless drive, 
 can become one of the most revolutionary 
 events in the economic history of North Caro- 
 lina in its value to our agricultural people, to 
 all our institutions, and to the whole State. 
 
 The examples of the Reynolds Founda- 
 tion, the Textile Foundation, the Engineer- 
 ing Foundation, and the several agricultural 
 foundations for State College emphasize the 
 need both ( 1 ) for endowments at the Wom- 
 an's College for the full development of 
 the coordinate college of arts and sciences for 
 women and for graduate work and research 
 in home economics, secretarial science, and 
 graduate major in elementary education; 
 and (2) for endowments at the University in 
 Chapel Hill for the full development of a 
 college of arts and sciences, professional and 
 graduate schools, and for research and service 
 in business administration, industrial rela- 
 tions, the biological and physical sciences, the 
 social sciences, the humanities, and all di- 
 visions of teacher training at the Woman's 
 College, State College, and the University at 
 Chapel Hill to be more coordinated parts of 
 the one Graduate School of the one Univer- 
 sity. 
 
 The Needs of the Three Institutions 
 
 Among the most urgent needs for build- 
 ings at State College is for the engineering 
 laboratories, mechanical engineering, biology, 
 agronomy, poultry, horticulture, forestry, 
 the stock barns, four dormitories, early addi- 
 tions for textiles, ceramics, and civil engineer- 
 ing, and early renovation of Winston Hall 
 and Thompson Gymnasium. At the Woman's 
 
 College the most pressing building needs are 
 for a modern college hospital, physical edu- 
 cation, gymnasium, laundry and shop, student 
 union, library, classroom buildings, dormi- 
 tories, religious center, additions to the din- 
 ing rooms, home economics, the science and 
 music buildings, and renovation of the plant. 
 The crying needs at the University at Chapel 
 Hill are the completion of the Library, be- 
 ginning with two wings for the Library 
 School, the Southern Historical Collection, 
 stacks, cubicles, and seminar rooms, a modern 
 high school building for teacher training, soot 
 elimination at the power plant in defense of 
 nearby houses, buildings for commerce, lan- 
 guages, pharmacy, botany, geology, religious 
 center, playmakers, naval armory, utilities, 
 sewage disposal, and five dormitories. 
 
 We need $100,000 a year for books at the 
 University in Chapel Hill to serve the Uni- 
 versity and the State, and to carry a corre- 
 sponding part of the responsibility for grad- 
 uate and inter-library cooperation with Duke 
 University. As an integral part of this de- 
 velopment and interchange, we need propor- 
 tionate increases at the Woman's College and 
 at State College in the annual book funds for 
 these libraries which are the reservoirs in 
 which is stored up the accumulated learning 
 of all peoples in all ages, and which are also 
 the dynamos from which flow the currents 
 of power for the making of youthful lives 
 and the remaking of an old commonwealth. 
 
 We have in mind for our one Graduate 
 School further provisions, not only for an in- 
 terchange of books, but also of staff and stu- 
 dents; plans for strengthening and enriching 
 the three divisions of teacher training; and 
 plans for cooperation between the new center 
 
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BY PRESIDENT FRANK. P. GRAHAM 
 
 of Experimental Statistics at State College 
 and the group giving courses in Statistics at 
 the University in Chapel Hill. The Institute 
 of Experimental Statistics at State College is 
 now serving the whole South, more especially 
 in agriculture and will increasingly in engi- 
 neering and textiles, in a distinguished way 
 and is to become one of the chief centers of 
 the nation. Plans should proceed for the ful- 
 fillment of the great possibilities of one three- 
 fold University Graduate School and one 
 threefold University Council for Research. 
 Plans are in progress on the undergraduate, 
 professional, and graduate levels for the mo- 
 bilization of the whole University for under- 
 standing and serving the widely various needs 
 of the veterans of the war. 
 
 In the presence of such urgent needs and 
 many more no less insistent and in such an 
 hour, it would be tragic to break our united 
 front for cooperation by any wide difference 
 over the titles for the four chief administra- 
 tive officers of our three institutions. Let us 
 think and work together to compose any dif- 
 ferences over titles so that we can stay united 
 for the three institutions which must, in the 
 interest of the people, compose our one Uni- 
 versity. 
 
 Titles and the Framework of Consolidation 
 
 With regard to the change in titles of the 
 chief administrative officers of the threefold 
 University of North Carolina I have felt that 
 since my own title was involved that it was 
 not proper for me to inject myself into the 
 consideration of the matter. In answer to di- 
 rect questions from a few people I have made 
 
 the following answers: (1) I was not con- 
 cerned about any change in title and would 
 accept any title which the Trustees in their 
 wisdom found appropriate to the present re- 
 sponsibilities and authority of the office I 
 hold; (2) that the title, "Dean of Adminis- 
 tration," was not adequate to designate the 
 growing responsibilities and increasing com- 
 plexities of that office and that a change in 
 title was especially due the three able, dedi- 
 cated and loyal administrators who now hold 
 that office; (3) that this matter should be de- 
 cided by the Board of Trustees; and (4) that 
 whatever be the titles chosen by the Board, 
 that the unity of administration and the au- 
 thority of the chief executive office be sus- 
 tained so that the integration of the values 
 and services of the threefold University shall 
 be advanced in the interest of the three insti- 
 tutions and all the people of North Carolina. 
 
 With regard to the present administrative 
 framework, the four of us without a blue- 
 print from the Board have worked it out so 
 that the Dean of Administration is not only 
 the resident representative of the office and 
 authority of the President, but is also chair- 
 man of the Faculty and a member ex officio of 
 all committees of the institution and, as rep- 
 resentative of the President, he is responsible 
 to the President in matters affecting policy, 
 the budget, the staff, the general welfare of 
 the students, and the whole institution, and 
 for the observance of the educational and 
 fiscal charters of consolidation. He reports to 
 the President and through the President to 
 the Board of Trustees and other official 
 bodies. 
 
 This framework of working relations in no 
 
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CONSOLIDATION AND COOPERATION 
 
 way cuts across the freedom of personal and 
 routine relations, complete freedom of ex- 
 pression on the part of all, the democratic 
 structure and responsibility of faculty gov- 
 ernment and student self-government. In all 
 matters of faculty jurisdiction and responsi- 
 bility all three faculties now include all mem- 
 bers of professorial rank. Their freedom and 
 jurisdiction have the protection and respect of 
 the administration. In matters of administra- 
 tive responsibility and jurisdiction in each in- 
 stitution provision is made for representatives 
 elected directly by the whole faculty to par- 
 ticipate through the Faculty Advisory Com- 
 mittee. In setting up the threefold Univer- 
 sity budget the President was against setting 
 up one appropriation for flexible allocation 
 after the appropriation act and decided in 
 favor of a threefold University appropriation 
 allocated in the budget act of the legislature. 
 In setting up the Administrative Council of 
 the Consolidated University all members as 
 recommended by the Commission were to 
 have been appointed by the President but the 
 Board of Trustees adopted the recommenda- 
 tion of the President that half of the repre- 
 sentatives from each institution be elected by 
 the general faculty. Before the war this 
 Council had quarterly meetings and special 
 meetings on call. We have now resumed 
 having regular meetings and plan to have all 
 faculty members elected by the respective 
 faculties and to have regular meetings once 
 a month. These meetings are, of course, to 
 be in addition to the conferences between the 
 administrative, educational and business offi- 
 cers of the institutions on call for any special 
 purposes at any time. My release from the 
 War Labor Board except for one or two days 
 
 a month on policy matters enables me to give 
 practically all my time to the three institu- 
 tions and more especially, lately, here in Ra- 
 leigh. However, during the recent legislative 
 discussion of the present matter I have stayed 
 away from the legislature but hope, with its 
 settlement, to be back here from day to day. 
 
 As I understand it, the concern expressed 
 by some is not related to the mutual under- 
 standing, good will, loyalty, devotion to con- 
 solidation of the present chief administrative 
 and business officers of our three institutions 
 of our one University but has to do with 
 future developments. If the framework of 
 responsibility and authority outlined above as 
 now prevailing among all of us is continued 
 by the Board, then the structure of the unified 
 administration of three coordinated institu- 
 tions in one integrated University of North 
 Carolina is re-enforced against future disin- 
 tegration and decline of its great potentialities 
 for larger development and wider service to 
 all the people. I am sure the four of us 
 within such a framework will accept any 
 titles, in the wisdom of the Board, found to 
 fit our responsibilities. 
 
 Charter of Educational Consolidation 
 
 The Board of Trustees once gave me the 
 responsibility of writing the charter of edu- 
 cational consolidation. It was a tough job. 
 The principles of that charter, sustained by 
 the decisive vote of the alumni of the Uni- 
 versity at Chapel Hill on this Board, moved 
 the Engineering School at Chapel Hill and 
 consolidated it with the Engineering School 
 at State College. Consolidation on the fine 
 
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BY PRESIDENT FRANK P. GRAHAM 
 
 foundations already there became a decisive 
 step in united concentration for building at 
 State College an Engineering School to be- 
 come unsurpassed in meeting modern needs 
 and in high service to the State and nation. 
 With the proper support of foundations for 
 the School of Agriculture, Textiles, and En- 
 gineering, State College recently honored by 
 Sigma Xi, can, within, and because of, the 
 non-duplicating framework of three mutually 
 developing institutions in one re-enforcing 
 University fulfill its highest functions as a 
 great College of Technology because it is 
 now the only college of agriculture, textiles 
 and engineering of, by, and for the people of 
 North Carolina. With salaries equalized at 
 the Woman's College, with a building pro- 
 gram to bring the Woman's College alongside 
 the buildings built at Chapel Hill and at 
 State College in connection with the naval 
 programs, in addition to a fair share of the 
 state building program as planned for all 
 three institutions, the Woman's College, as a 
 distinctly woman's college of arts and sci- 
 ences, recently honored by Phi Beta Kappa 
 and the Association of American Universities, 
 will continue its fulfillment in the service of 
 the people as one of the half dozen great col- 
 leges for. women in America. The University 
 at Chapel Hill for its functions as a college 
 of arts and sciences, professional schools of 
 law, medicine, pharmacy, commerce, library 
 science, the Institute of Research in Social 
 Science, the Institute of Government, now 
 happily a part of the University, and the Ex- 
 tension Division, and as a graduate center of 
 the natural sciences, social sciences, education 
 and the humanities, has been rated by surveys 
 as first in the Southeast in humanistic and 
 
 social studies, the natural sciences, physical 
 education, dramatic art, public health, grad- 
 uate work, research, and the University Press. 
 
 Consolidation of the Spirit 
 
 Within the framework of the educational 
 charter of consolidation written by me at your 
 request, within the charter of fiscal consolida- 
 tion written with wisdom and foresight by 
 the Controller and approved by us all, and 
 within the charter of administrative consoli- 
 dation evolved in practice by administrators 
 of good will and devotion, we have the re- 
 sources for the consolidation also of the spirit 
 of three institutions as different in functions 
 but united in the common objective of mak- 
 ing all three equal in standards, salary scales, 
 competence of faculties and adequacy of 
 equipment, in time second to none anywhere, 
 and all combined to be one increasingly great 
 University of the people of North Carolina. 
 
 Every advance of any department in the 
 threefold University is becoming an achieve- 
 ment not to be begrudged by the few of little 
 faith but to be increasingly rejoiced in by all, 
 not only for its own sake, but as a spur to go 
 forward in all departments of the whole Uni- 
 versity. An advance on one front should lift 
 the morale on all fronts. The leadership of 
 the University at Chapel Hill does not con- 
 sider that the establishment of financial foun- 
 dations as supplementary support for the 
 Schools of Agriculture, Textiles and Engi- 
 neering at State College will result in the 
 decline of the University at Chapel Hill. 
 The leadership at the Woman's College does 
 not consider that, because buildings were 
 
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 added at State College and at Chapel Hill 
 for war purposes, therefore the Woman's 
 College is going into a decline. The leader- 
 ship at State College does not hold that the 
 development of the University four-year 
 Medical School as a necessary part of the 
 State Medical Care and Hospital Program 
 will result in any neglect of the building of 
 a great Engineering School at State College. 
 The plans for buildings desperately needed 
 at all three institutions and for the medical 
 program will be ready before the war policies 
 of the nation and the fiscal policies of the 
 State make funds available for the building 
 program. Not distrust but faith, not impa- 
 tience but with respect for the channels and 
 soundness of free academic procedures, not 
 institutional jealousies or historic grudges but 
 a sincere joy in the progress of one, as part 
 of the progress of all, is the spirit in which 
 we would all together build nobler mansions 
 of the soul for all three institutions in their 
 united and happy service of North Carolina 
 and the South as the basic parts of a new and 
 fairer America. 
 
 The Challenge of the People and the Times 
 
 to One Great University of the People 
 
 of North Carolina 
 
 Too long has the South been the depend- 
 ent colonial province of a financial industrial 
 empire reaching from Boston to Chicago. 
 The South, through the agricultural, indus- 
 trial, commercial, political, legal, intellectual, 
 civic, and spiritual statesmanship of leaders, 
 some of whom are included in this Board, and 
 through the work of millions in the fields 
 
 and factories, is moving up! Rising now to 
 something like independence and power is a 
 new industrial region reaching across the old 
 South from the Chesapeake to the Gulf. In 
 this risen South, North Carolina is situated 
 in a position of potential and strategic leader- 
 ship — educational, agricultural and industrial. 
 What North Carolina does agriculturally and 
 industrially depends, in intelligent part, on 
 what North Carolina does educationally. 
 What North Carolina does for educational 
 leadership depends in vital part on what our 
 three institutions do first in their own coop- 
 erative leadership and then in their united 
 cooperation with all the institutions, agencies, 
 enterprises, and forward movements of the 
 people. As part of this larger cooperation and 
 on the merits of the high distinction and 
 service of Duke University, we, through and . 
 in cooperation with Dean W. W. Pierson, Jr., 
 championed the admission of Duke Univer- 
 sity into the Association of American Univer- 
 sities, the fourth university admitted between 
 the Potomac and the Rio Grande. 
 
 The State and the South, the times and the 
 people, are calling to North Carolina. Let 
 us resolve here today that whatever is done 
 about titles that we will all join hands and 
 rise to the call of our State, our beloved 
 South and our people. It will take all that 
 all of us can do in cooperating, pulling to- 
 gether, struggling, and hoping, sharing any 
 set-back, rejoicing together at any advance, 
 and staying united for the next advance so 
 that all three of our institutions, so that our 
 whole University and our whole State keep 
 ever moving forward together. With the co- 
 ordination of our three institutions in re- 
 search, in inter-library exchange and cooper- 
 
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BY PRESIDENT FRANK P. GRAHAM 
 
 ative graduate and research programs in 
 cooperation with Duke University, and with 
 the functional cooperation of all our institu- 
 tions and agencies, public, private, and de- 
 nominational, white and Negro, North Caro- 
 lina can help to lead the Southern people to 
 a fairer deal and a better day. 
 
 The states of the South have come to grips 
 with all the mighty possibilities of the indus- 
 trial revolution. The people of this section 
 have the opportunity to make a joint and wise 
 utilization of their geographic, economic, 
 educational, and human resources in coopera- 
 tion with its marvelous mechanical energies. 
 Through the very value of intelligent social 
 regulations and high human standards the 
 South could give attractive economic and so- 
 cial welcome to highly skilled, highly waged, 
 and highly productive new and diversified 
 industries. The lists of crops and industries 
 still missing from our economic structure are 
 appalling. Clear-headed, scientific, humanly 
 disposed men and women in the South from 
 within the industries and from within the 
 commonwealths are pounding away at such 
 fundamental things as pedigreed seeds, engi- 
 neering skill, balanced production, scientific 
 marketing, economic diversification, balanced 
 nutrition, homemaking, more dedicated pro- 
 fessions, more creative schools and more spir- 
 itual churches. Diversified agriculture, sup- 
 plementing staple crops, and diversified 
 industries, supplementing basic manufactures, 
 and nine-months' schools and county-wide li- 
 braries, supplementing both, with the liberal 
 arts and sciences under-guiding them all, 
 make up the groundwork upon which to build 
 nobler commonwealths in the risen South. 
 
 In this region of the Old South, where 
 human slavery made its last stand in the 
 modern world, industrialism makes fresh be- 
 ginnings on virgin soil. We have the lessons 
 in the tragedies of one and the opportunities 
 in the power of the other to make a contribu- 
 tion to the cause of mankind and the history 
 of civilization, distinctive and rich in a deeper 
 sense of human personality and social rela- 
 tions to be worked out on the basis of free- 
 dom and justice by a friendly folk who live 
 under the southern sun in a pleasant land be- 
 tween the mountains and the sea. We have 
 the opportunity not only to install the new 
 machinery seen on all sides and to utilize the 
 new techniques of our agricultural, textile, 
 and engineering schools of our State College, 
 the arts and sciences of our Woman's College 
 and our University at Chapel Hill, but also 
 to develop with intellectual freedom nobler 
 human attitudes than have yet characterized 
 the history of any people. 
 
 The University of the People of 
 North Carolina 
 
 We stand at the gateways of industry 
 through which increasing thousands of our 
 people and mounting millions of our wealth 
 will pass for the potential production of a 
 fairer life. Out into the waste places and up 
 the hillsides move the mills and factories 
 with creative power. Down from the moun- 
 tains, the rivers come rushing with the power 
 for the electrification of our civilization 
 cleanly charged with something more of the 
 good life for all our people. As we do our 
 
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 day's work and dream our dream that the 
 farms and factories, printing presses and dy- 
 namos, schools and churches will all join in 
 the building of a more economically produc- 
 tive and spiritually beautiful civilization we 
 will find near the center of it all the Univer- 
 sity of the people of North Carolina calling 
 to youth standing with inquiring minds and 
 stout hearts along the frontiers of the vast 
 wilderness of our yet unmastered civilization. 
 
 Great teachers, libraries, and laboratories, 
 patient and profound research, generous and 
 free publication in a community of scholars 
 devoted to truth, goodness and beauty, and 
 through youth dedicated to make them in- 
 creasingly prevail in a world desperately in 
 need of the best which youth has to give — 
 these are the stuff of the conviction, purpose, 
 and spirit which we need and for which we 
 pray God for the whole University of North 
 Carolina. 
 
 In this tragic hour we stand committed, 
 with all our resources, to winning the war for 
 human freedom; to the improvement of the 
 productive resources of our free economic so- 
 ciety so that every human being, regardless 
 of race, color, or creed, has a fair chance to 
 earn a decent living; and to the organization 
 
 of a society of nations for the international 
 guarantee of liberty, justice and peace in the 
 world. North Carolina by courageous lead- 
 ership is becoming an example of cooperation 
 and sharing on a state-wide basis of more 
 equal opportunity in schools, roads, libraries, 
 suffrage, health, medical care and the welfare 
 of all in our great family of people called 
 North Carolina. 
 
 The broad democratic base of this family 
 of people who inherit the beautiful earth 
 from the mountains to the sea are the public 
 schools which should be always the chief con- 
 cern of the people because they are the chief 
 source of our democracy. Their great central 
 heart is the University of the people of 
 North Carolina. In cooperation with our 
 neighbor University and with all our colleges 
 we would build one of the great university 
 centers of the world with all its values to our 
 State, our section and our country. Let us 
 challenge our State and generation with plans 
 for a cooperative University of North Caro- 
 lina which the people, free and unafraid, will 
 rejoice to build and which itself, free and 
 unafraid, will rejoice to serve all together all 
 the needs of all the people more wisely and 
 nobly from generation to generation. 
 
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