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John P. Evans

1937– · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Marilyn Gist joins the business school as its only active Black professor Marilyn Gist, an assistant professor of organizational behavior, came to the School of Business Administration at the start of fall 1985 as the only active Black member of its 79 full-time faculty; its other Black professor, John Cole, was on leave. Twenty of the school's 825 undergraduates were Black, and Dean John P. Evans said the school had never had more than two Black faculty at once in his 16 years there. People: John P. EvansSearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 29, 1985, p. 4

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Records of the Assistants to the Chancellor : John P. Evans, 1972-1978.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Assistant to the Chancellor · 1972

John P. Evans served as an assistant to the chancellor at UNC, and his files from 1972 to 1978 make up about 1,000 items in 1.5 linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40032. Topics include university administration and the history of higher education in North Carolina in the twentieth century, which places the papers squarely in the chancellor's office at Chapel Hill.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Evans, John P., 1937-.

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