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- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Albert Coates establishes the Institute of Government
UNC law professor Albert Coates began building the Institute of Government in 1931, with police schools that September and a Carolina Inn planning meeting in December, and the Institute was formally organized and named in May 1932. Working with his wife, Gladys Hall Coates, he ran it as a private enterprise until it became part of the University in 1942; it is now the UNC School of Government.
People: Albert Coates · Gladys Hall Coates
Subject: Institute of Government
- Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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Henry W. Lewis joins the Institute of Government faculty
After his discharge from the Army, Lewis joined the small faculty of the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, where he worked mainly on election law and the property tax.
People: Henry Wilkins Lewis
Subject: Institute of Government
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Albert Coates retires as director of the Institute of Government
Coates retired as director of the Institute he founded on August 31, 1962, but stayed on the law faculty, teaching full time until about 1967 and a reduced load until a stroke in early 1968.
Subject: Institute of Government
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Henry W. Lewis serves as director of the Institute of Government
Lewis succeeded to the directorship of the Institute of Government in 1973 and held it until he retired from the faculty in 1979.
People: Henry Wilkins Lewis
Subject: Institute of Government
- Recent decades · 1976–2026
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Institute of Government names a Knapp Building courtyard for Gladys Coates
After Gladys Hall Coates died at 100 at her Chapel Hill home on September 25, 2002, the Institute of Government named a garden courtyard and veranda beside the former auditorium in the Knapp Building's east wing in her memory.
Subject: Institute of Government
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The Henry W. Lewis classroom is dedicated in the Knapp-Sanders Building
The Institute of Government named a classroom for Lewis in its renovated Knapp-Sanders Building.
People: Henry Wilkins Lewis
Subject: Institute of Government
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UNC-Chapel Hill awards John L. Sanders an honorary doctor of laws
At Spring Commencement 2019 the university gave Sanders, a two-time director of the Institute of Government and former UNC vice president for planning, an honorary Doctor of Laws.
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