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Commission on University Consolidation, Report of Commission on University Consolidation (1932).Open the sourceAll sources
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- Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
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The General Assembly gives free university tuition to future teachers
An act of 1887 let North Carolina students who agreed to teach two years in the state attend the university without tuition. By 1931 almost every prospective high school teacher at Chapel Hill used it, saving $75 a year, and the consolidation survey urged its repeal.
- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Engineering and mathematics grow into a Department of Applied Sciences
The university's Department of Engineering and Mathematics, which had set a definite engineering course in 1890, was expanded into a Department of Applied Sciences in 1904. It became a separate school in 1908 and was replaced by the School of Engineering in 1922.
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The High School Debating Union is organized at the university
Out of student interest in the two literary societies, the university organized a High School Debating Union in 1913, beginning its long leadership of high school debating. In 1930-31, 218 schools took part and the 52 winning schools sent their teams to Chapel Hill for the finals.
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The university reorganizes its Extension Bureau as an Extension Division
The university turned its Extension Bureau into an Extension Division in 1921. Its yearly appropriation grew from $600 in 1912-13 to $66,111 in 1928-29, and by 1930-31 fees covered more than half the cost of its classes, correspondence courses and library service.
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The university counts 2,825 students at Chapel Hill
Figures gathered for the consolidation survey showed 2,825 students at Chapel Hill on November 2, 1931, 246 of them women, against 1,793 at Raleigh and 1,437 at Greensboro. Chapel Hill admitted women freely above the junior-college level and in small numbers in the first two years.
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The university library counts 236,162 volumes
The survey committee reported 236,162 volumes in the library at Chapel Hill, 41,432 of them bound periodicals, with strong holdings in chemistry, zoology and botany. It credited two decades of building by the librarian and contrasted State College's 29,023 volumes in 1930.
Subject: UNC Libraries
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The consolidation commission adopts its plan for one university under a single head
After hearing the survey committee's report, the Commission on University Consolidation voted unanimously to recommend one executive for the Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Greensboro units, in office by July 1, 1933 if possible, with the three presidents acting as a directorate until then. It also called for an eight-member executive committee, one comptroller, single directors of summer school, extension and graduate study, uniform fees, and free tuition on merit only.
People: O. Max Gardner · Frank Porter Graham
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The consolidation commission concentrates library training at Chapel Hill
The commission voted that the training of librarians move from the Greensboro college to Chapel Hill beginning in the fall of 1933. The survey had found Chapel Hill's new library building and book collections far stronger, and its school trained for public and college libraries as well as schools.
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The consolidation commission leaves business education to the School of Commerce at Chapel Hill
The commission voted that State College's School of Business admit no new students from 1933-34. The survey had found the Raleigh and Chapel Hill business schools duplicated each other and recommended a single school of commerce at Chapel Hill, where economics, the library and the liberal arts were stronger.
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The consolidation commission sends elementary teacher training from Chapel Hill to Greensboro
The commission voted to move the training of elementary school teachers to Greensboro from 1933-34 and to make every school of education, Chapel Hill's included, a department, with a joint council on education for the three units. The survey had counted only fifteen seniors preparing for the elementary grades at Chapel Hill.
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The consolidation survey proposes moving State College's engineering and agriculture to Chapel Hill
The survey committee of George A. Works, Frank L. McVey and Guy Stanton Ford recommended moving State College from Raleigh to Chapel Hill over time, leaving a junior college at Raleigh, and moving Greensboro's professional programs other than teacher and secretarial training to Chapel Hill as well. It held that engineering and agriculture needed Chapel Hill's stronger science departments and that the state could afford only one graduate center.
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