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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

people of the state, is to be in the threefold university a liberal
arts college distinctly for women, with a dignity and eminence of its
own second to none—the rising sun of a greater day, we devoutly
trust, for women in North Carolina. As expressive of that day, the
members of the faculty of the Woman's College recently held a meet-
ing in which the several chairmen of the faculty committees made
preliminary reports of their studies of the College. This meeting, and
the meetings of the faculty at State College, and the many discussions
at Chapel Hill on the nature, needs, and opportunities of education,
have been an inspiring source of faith and courage to many of us as
we stumble on our way toward the light for the reconstruction of our
education and our civilization.

SUMMARY OF ACTIONS IN CONSOLIDATION TO DATE

Though the inner processes are and will continue to be the
subject of much faculty study and thought inside the institutions, we
shall give illustrations of coördination and consolidation in a summary
of results already in force by the original action of the legislature
and the continuing actions of the Board of Trustees. The Board, in
the first phase, based their action on some of the recommendations of
the experts and the consolidation commission; in the second phase, on
studies of their own together with consultations with members of the
faculty; and more lately on the recommendations of the president,
who has set up the policy of studies by faculty committees. This is
the summary to date:

1. One board of trustees.
2. One president.
3. One administrative council.
4. One comptroller and one uniform system of cost accounting.
5. Transformations of the school of education into departments.
6. No new registrations for the School of Science and Business
at State College after the year 1932-33, with provisions for basic
scientific, social-scientific, and cultural courses in the service depart-
ment for agriculture, engineering, textiles, and vocational education.
7. No new registrations for elementary education in the college
of the University at Chapel Hill.
8. The discontinuance of the Library School at the Woman's
College in 1933, with provision for two library courses for teachers
in the Department of Education at the Woman's College.