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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

stored to the college at the request of the President. The studies, already
made and being made, of engineering, education, science curricula,
industrial management, and graduate work, are not yet complete; and
these all tie together in the working out of both an educationally and
functionally sound basis of consolidation. We are making progress in
the business of trying to be fair and intelligent with an eye to the
special values and functions of each institution and the long-run educa-
tional interests of the whole state. Thus far every decision made with
regard to consolidation has been unanimous, whether recommended by
the Commission on Consolidation and adopted by the Board or made
by the Executive Committee and ratified by the Board or recommended
by the President and the Administrative Council and adopted by the
Executive Committee and ratified by the Board.

I had hoped to make a recommendation at this meeting of the
Board for a principle and long-run plan of consolidation which would
meet head on some of these remaining problems of the Departments of
Education and Science and Business, the major problem of engineering,
and those allied and basic problems of the curriculum of the first two
years, the curriculum of the second two years, and the graduate years.
These are all tied together. When we make a recommendation which we
hope is going to be so comprehensive as to include these problems, we
should know the ground on which we stand and on which the whole
University can stand in the highest and widest educational service
through the generations to come. The acting chairman of the Trustees'
Committee on Consolidation advised me that it was wise that we take
until June to make our decision. The committee studying the Depart-
ments of Education reported they needed more time for so important
a matter. The state-wide committee invited by the President to study
and advise on the question of engineering education, at first leaned
toward two engineering schools, and later recommended by a six to five
vote the consolidation of the two schools in Raleigh. The experts work-
ing with the Commission on University Consolidation had recom-
mended consolidation of upper college and graduate work in engi-
neering at Chapel Hill, along with the consolidation of all upper college
and graduate work in Chapel Hill. Committees on graduate studies are
not yet ready for their recommendation. The Administrative Council,
composed of the faculty representatives of all three institutions, recom-
mended that the decision with regard to the next step in consolidation
be made in the June meeting. As one of the faculty representatives