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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

JAN 31 1938

To the Board of Trustees,
The University of North Carolina.

I have the honor to submit the following report:

STEPS IN CONSOLIDATION

The functional consolidation of our three institutions is mov-
ing forward in successive stages with the acceptance by the state
of complete responsibility for the consolidated library school in
the budget of the University at Chapel Hill, the completion of
the second year by a considerable number of Chapel Hill girls at
the Woman's College of the University at Greensboro, the closing
out of the School of Science and Business at State College and its
consolidation with the School of Commerce at Chapel Hill, the
complete consolidation next year of the School of Engineering at
Chapel Hill with the School of Engineering at the State College
of the University in Raleigh, the evolving coordination of the
three departments of education in an all-University Division of
Teacher Preparation, and the coordination and consolidation of
graduate work on the three fold functional basis of one University
Graduate School. The organization at State College of the Basic
Division of arts and sciences, underlying and re-enforcing the
Schools of Agriculture, Engineering, Textiles, and the Department
of Vocational Education, will get underway within the year.

SIGNIFICANCE OF CONSOLIDATION

Before the end of another year, except for the duplication
necessary to maintain and develop the Woman's College as a
coordinate college of arts and sciences for women, to which we
stand functionally committed, there will be, in the threefold Uni-
versity, no duplication in schools or curricula on the upper and
graduate levels. The significance and values of this functional
guidance, coordination, and consolidation of higher education in
North Carolina will become clearer as the years go by. Already
the tendencies toward the development of a half dozen or more
duplicating state universities in North Carolina have been checked.
North Carolina is now in position to have one pre-eminent state
university with all three of its constituent institutions stronger