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in the budget for certain needed equitable adjustments in salaries and
the salary scale.

The faculty of the three institutions, through their direct repre-
sentatives on the administrative council of the consolidated university,
are also participating in the discussions and policies of consolidation.
We have tried, without abdicating executive function or responsibility,
to encourage the development in all divisions of the university of as
much faculty self-government and advisory representation as we con-
sider true to democratic university government within the framework
of a state university, administrative responsibility to the trustees, and
to the representatives of the people.

At the very heart of the process of consolidation has been the fact
that Dr. W. C. Jackson last year, while a member of the faculty at
Chapel Hill, taught a history class at the Woman's College. Professor
S. H. Hobbs, of Chapel Hill, filled in a gap in the faculty at State
College. This year Dr. Hugh T. Lefler, of State College, is helping to
All the big gap left in the History Department at Chapel Hill. An
increasing number of students are using the combined resources of the
institutions for the courses they need. Along with this mobility of
students, this combination of courses, this interchange of professors,
goes a cross-fertilization of ideas and suggestions which are translated
into university policy. For example, the Dean of Administration at State
College suggested to the President that the regular college and univer-
sity organization and curriculum, as far as practicable, be continued
into the summer session. The president shared this suggestion with the
administrative council with the result that the Deans of Administration
and the Controller, with the one Director of the Summer Session, will
organize and administer the summer school. We will thus no longer
have the three associate directors of the summer schools. This is the
most recent step in consolidation.

Three consolidation problems under special consideration now are
the engineering schools at Chapel Hill and Raleigh, the departments
of education at all three institutions, some curricula of the school of
science and business at State College, and the graduate school. Under-
graduate elementary education at Chapel Hill has been eliminated.
The School of Science and Business as a school at State College has
two more years to run. Registration in the school ceased last year. The
Library School at the Woman's College has been abolished but two
vitally needed courses in library materials and methods have been re-