John L. Sanders

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1. 1956 John L. Sanders joins the Institute of Government After a year as a federal appeals court clerk and a year at a Raleigh law firm, Sanders returned to UNC in 1956 as an instructor and assistant director of the Institute of Government. He was named assistant professor of public law and government in 1957 and full professor in 1965. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: John L. Sanders Papers, 1915-2005
2. 1959 The law faculty and the Institute staff vote against merging the Institute into the law school When Albert Coates pressed again to fold the Institute of Government into the UNC law school, both the law faculty and the Institute's own staff voted the idea down. Assistant director John Sanders warned that the Institute's service work would be subordinated to the law school and its identity lost. People: Albert Coates, John L. Sanders Place: School of Law and Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: John SandersSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 262
3. July 1, 1962 Chancellor Aycock chooses John Sanders to succeed Albert Coates as director of the Institute After Coates would not name a successor through months of talks, Chancellor William B. Aycock picked assistant director John Sanders, then thirty-five, who accepted in a short meeting with Aycock and Dean of Faculty James Godfrey. Sanders, on the staff since October 1956, took over when Coates left the post on August 31, 1962. People: William B. Aycock, Albert Coates, John L. Sanders, James L. Godfrey Place: Chancellor's office, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: John Sanders, James GodfreySearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 265-267
4. January 1964 Institute of Government delivers its report on Chapel Hill's power to pass a public accommodations law A report prepared by George Esser at the aldermen's request, gathering cases from all fifty states on a town's power to pass a public accommodations law, was completed and handed to Town Manager Robert Peck for the aldermen days before their vote. Esser said it showed the probable attitude of North Carolina courts toward a town using its general welfare power for that purpose. People: George H. Esser Jr., John L. Sanders Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Robert PeckIn the index: Institute of Government (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · The Daily Tar Heel, January 12, 1964, p. 1
5. 1973 to 1978 John L. Sanders leaves the Institute to become the University of North Carolina's vice president for planning Sanders gave up the directorship of the Institute of Government in 1973 to become vice president for planning of the University of North Carolina system, where he helped draft its first long-range plan. Henry W. Lewis directed the Institute in his absence. People: Henry W. Lewis Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Institute of Government, University of North Carolina systemSearch the index · UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: John L. Sanders Papers, 1915-2005
6. by April 2, 1973 Chancellor Taylor names an affirmative action committee headed by John L. Sanders Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor set up an Affirmative Action Committee, chaired by Institute of Government director John L. Sanders, to study the campus's hiring and employment of women and report to President William Friday by April 20, ahead of the sixteen campus plans due at HEW by May 1. University Women for Affirmative Action said it was disappointed that only two of the seven members were women and that all held administrative posts. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, John L. Sanders Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: William Friday · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 2, 1973, p. 1
7. January 21, 1974 Federal civil rights officials meet privately with UNC officials and student leaders on desegregating the University system Seven officials of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare met separately with Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor's administration and six student leaders, part of a review of desegregation efforts in ten states. No public notice was given; University officials said HEW asked for no newspaper publicity, while HEW staff gave differing accounts, and Black Student Movement chairman Willie Mebane said afterward the administration painted a positive picture that the students countered. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, John L. Sanders Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Willie MebaneSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 22, 1974, p. 1
8. February 8, 1974 The UNC Board of Governors approves a revised plan to desegregate the state's public universities The plan, drafted by a biracial committee at the suggestion of HEW civil rights director Peter Holmes after HEW rejected the state's first plan in November 1973, relied on persuasion rather than coercion and projected 30 percent white enrollment at the historically Black campuses and 10 percent Black enrollment at the historically white ones. Studies of admissions bias, remedial programs and student aid were proposed, and enrollment impact figures were still to be added before submission to HEW. People: John L. Sanders Place: UNC General Administration, Chapel Hill · Also named: Peter HolmesSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 11, 1974, p. 1
9. March 8, 1974 The UNC Board of Governors sets four-year minority enrollment goals for its desegregation plan Completing the desegregation plan HEW required after rejecting the state's first plan in November, the Board of Governors approved four-year enrollment goals of doubling white enrollment at the historically Black campuses and raising Black enrollment at Chapel Hill from 5.1 to 7.1 per cent, about 410 more Black students, with at least one minority faculty member on every campus's recruiting staff. Richard Epps, assistant director of undergraduate admissions, told the Daily Tar Heel the goals for the white campuses showed no real commitment to recruiting Black students. People: John L. Sanders Place: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Board of Governors plan for the 16 campuses) · Also named: Richard EppsSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 19, 1974, p. 1
10. 1979 to 1992 John L. Sanders returns as director of the Institute of Government Sanders resumed the directorship of the Institute of Government in 1979 and held it until 1992, a second term of thirteen years after his first of eleven. He retired from the faculty in the mid-1990s. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: John L. Sanders Papers, 1915-2005
11. 1984 to 1994 John L. Sanders chairs the UNC-Chapel Hill Buildings and Grounds Committee For ten years Sanders chaired the Chapel Hill campus committee on buildings and grounds. He also sat on the university's Bicentennial Observance Planning Committee and the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Historic Properties. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: John L. Sanders Papers, 1915-2005
12. 1992 Michael R. Smith becomes director of the Institute of Government Smith, who had found the Institute by chance as a law student in 1978, was named director in 1992, the third after Coates to lead it, following John Sanders and Henry Lewis. He later headed it with the title of dean once it became the UNC School of Government. People: John L. Sanders Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Michael R. Smith, Henry Lewis, John SandersSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 285, 283-284