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9. A joint directorate of university extension work preliminary
to the appointment of a single director and the development of the
great held of adult education.
10. No men students at the Woman's College, in accordance with
its purpose and the need in the state plan of higher education for this
distinctly and preëminently woman's college of liberal arts and
sciences.
11. One director of the coördinated and consolidated summer
schools.
12. The beginning of the coördination of departments and the
mobility of staffs.
13. The appointment of intra-institutional, inter-institutional, and
state-wide committees on basic and moot questions for study and
recommendations to the faculties, the administrative council, and the
trustees.
14. The plans for the correlation of the research projects of the
Central Agricultural Experiment Station at State College and the
Institute for Research in Social Sciences at Chapel Hill with the
extension work of all three institutions, the Department of Home
Economics at the Woman's College, the several state departments,
and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
15. The beginning of the coördination and consolidation of grad-
uate work in one graduate school under one dean.

EXAMPLE OF THE BOTANY DEPARTMENTS IN COÖRDINATION OF WORK
AND CONSOLIDATION OF VALUES

The possibilities of combinations in graduate work in one graduate
school are now being illustrated in the coöperation of the botany
departments of State College and the University at Chapel Hill.
Each department is separately a strong department, with special
excellence at State College in plant physiology, pathology, and
ecology, and at Chapel Hill in plant classification, morphology, and
mycology. An M.A. graduate student from another state found in
North Carolina the botanical combination suited to his needs. Guided
by the heads of the two departments and the dean of the Graduate
School, he registered at Chapel Hill, paid his fees at State College,
and entered upon graduate work there for the fall and winter quar-
ters. In the spring quarter he will enter upon his graduate work at
Chapel Hill. He will write his thesis under the professor of his choice