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whether the two committees should join in such a request to the Council of State,
carrying with it a commitment to inaugurate the doctoral program in September,
1952. The University committee expressed the view that if this objective were
achieved, the Trustees of the University would support in 1953 a request of the
Board of Trustees of the College to the General Assembly for appropriations to
advance the building program at the College, which should include buildings for
Education, Biology and Commerce. We are informed that the Board of Trustees
of the College will meet within a few days to take action upon this proposal.

"Inasmuch as the point of negotiations still unsettled is limited to graduate
work leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education, the undersigned
Committee can now report the general conclusions arrived at as to graduate work
in other fields, to-wit:

"1 . In areas in which the College is now offering standard work leading to
the Master's degree are as follows:

Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Commerce
Education
English
French

History
Home Economics
Mathematics
Psychology
Public Health Education
Sociology

Recreation Leadership

"2. No work is now offered at the College leading to the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy in any field.

"3. There is now an effective demand by Negro residents of this State for
instruction in the field of Education on the doctoral level sufficient to justify the
expenditure of funds by the State as may be necessary to provide standard instruc-
tion, facilities and buildings.

"4. Demand among North Carolina Negroes for work in other fields on the
doctoral level is not at this time sufficiently great to justify such expenditure, but
this condition may change at an early date. In certain fields, including English,
French and History, a demand for such instruction can now be forseen and the
College should make early plans for an increase in the areas of work leading to
the Doctor's degree in such fields.

"5. There is no likelihood in the presently foreseeable future of demand
for graduate work in the College in the Medical Sciences (except Public Health),
Mathematical and Experimental Statistics, or of demand for graduate work leading
to the doctoral degree in the Physical Sciences, namely, Physics, Chemistry and
Geology, or in the following fields in the Humanities - Comparative Literature,
Comparative Linguistics, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Classical Languages.
It is assumed that in these fields the University, under the Board's April resolu-
tion, will accept qualified candidates for the doctorate, regardless of race, in
fields other than Education, and such candidates for the Master's degree in areas
not included in the College instruction for that degree, until the graduate instruc-
tion at the College is broadened to include portions of those areas. No implica-
tion is intended that there should be any arbitrary limitation upon the College's
sphere of usefulness and service.

"6. The ultimate decision as to what fields of graduate instruction shall be
assigned as the sole responsibility of the University, and in what field graduate
instruction shall be offered at both institutions, is a matter of high public policy
which can be determined only by the General Assembly. The relative facts for
such decision will appropriately be presented to the General Assembly by the
budgets of the respective institutions submitted by them initially to the Budget Com-
mission. The administrative officials of the two institutions should continue their
long established cooperation with the view of providing North Carolina Negroes with
opportunity for work on the graduate level as demand may exist. Whatever may be
the extension of such work by the College in the future, the University is now
faced with the necessity of determining its present course in the light of graduate
instruction now available to North Carolina Negroes. The facts are known upon
which the University administration, under the authorization of the Board of
Trustees, shall accept Negroes in certain fields. Only the question of work
leading to the doctorate in Education remains a subject of negotiation between
the two committees.

"7. Graduate work in Education presents a special problem because of the
large number of North Carolina Negroes seeking graduate degrees in that field.
The College has a good course of instruction leading to the Master's degree, but