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The New Plan of Operation
of the
Consolidated University of North Carolina

As we face today the crucial question of engineering education
in the Consolidated University we must come to grips with the
more fundamental matter of duplication and allocation of functions
on the upper college and graduate levels. It is well first of all
briefly to review and summarize consolidation to date and look at
the processes in the perspective of the larger purposes and values
of the whole coordinated and unified university.

The act of consolidation ratified March 27, 1931, provided:

Section 1. That the University of North Carolina, the North
Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering, and the
North Carolina College for Women are hereby consolidated into
the University of North Carolina.

Section 2. That the North Carolina State College of Agricul-
ture and Engineering shall be operated as part of the University
of North Carolina. It shall be located at Raleigh and shall be
known as the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and
Engineering of the University of North Carolina.

Section 3. That the North Carolina College for Women shall
be operated as part of the University of North Carolina. It shall
be located at Greensboro and shall be known as the Woman's Col-
lege of the University of North Carolina.

The act also provided for a commission of twelve members, six
to be representative of the three institutions and six to be repre-
sentative of the State at large. The commission was charged with
the duty to unify the executive control, to unify and coordinate the
general educational program of the University of North Carolina,
to work out a scheme in which and through which all the prob-
lems arising from the consolidation of the three existing insti-
tutions could in its opinion be best served, and to employ dis-
tinguished and competent experts in the several pertinent fields
of higher education in America. It was also provided that the
final location of all schools, departments, and divisions of work
now located at any of the three institutions should be subject to
the study and recommendations of the experts and the commission
without prejudice by any provision in the act. Provision was
made for completely safeguarding for each institution, in accord-
ance with the desires and will of the donor, any private endow-
ment and all present and future benefactions.

The able, nationally distinguished, and disinterested experts