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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

looking to the consolidation and coördination of the inner resources
of mind and spirit, standards and quality of work, libraries and lab-
oratories, departments, courses, and research, and the intellectual
and spiritual exchange between trustees, alumni, faculties, students,
and citizens in a cooperative state plan for University education.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW
TYPE OF STATE UNIVERSITY

In addition to this view of the studies within our three institutions
and to this regard for the contemporary experiences in consolidation
in other states, we should consider consolidation against its historic
background of a threefold development.

In many of the oldest American states and in some of the youngest
the traditional university, the college of agriculture and engineering,
and the woman's college, were founded separately, grew to maturity
independently and sometimes with antagonisms and cross purposes.
In many of the younger states and in a few of the older ones the
three types of institutions were from the beginning joined in one
all-embracing state university on one campus. It is not our purpose to
judge between these two different developments but to search for
the values of both so that we can play our part more understandingly
in a third development now under way in some of the oldest and
some of the youngest American states. While based on a recognition
of separate and independent foundations, their functional values,
and their large capital investments in separate localities, this third
movement in state higher education would consolidate their support,
control, and direction in an intelligent plan for the differentiation and
coordination of functions and consolidation of values in one greater
state university. We have now emerging this third and new type of
a state university to make its coordinated and consolidated contribu-
tion to the variety of higher education and to the vigor of American
democracy.

THREE IN ONE AND ONE IN THREE

Our work is not a theoretical problem to be worked out on a clean
sheet of paper unmarked by lines of investments, functions, history,
traditions, loyalties, and spirit. We start with the fact that the Uni-
versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the State College of Agri-
culture and Engineering at Raleigh, and the Woman's College at