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We could discover no evidence of the existence of factions or divisions within the faculty or the student body, nor of any dissatisfaction with the administration of the college or of the Greater University. We are inclined to think that Professor Martin's views are due, in part, to his long experience under the plan of organization and administration of the college existing prior to consolidation and his lack of understanding of the thoroughly democratic way in which all problems, such as employment of members of the faculty, promotions both in pay and in rank, are handled. We will not go into detail of the methods employed except to say that each member of the faculty knows that he or she is free to express their personal views on any and all subjects connected with the administration of the college. Faculty meetings once a month and a Faculty Advisory Committee, expressly charged with the responsibility of discussing, considering, and recommending persons to be employed in the teaching force, and promotions within the faculty, both, it seems to us, are thoroughly democratic and in keeping with the highest traditions of the University.

In closing this report the Committee urges that Woman's College should
be given the resources necessary to maintain it on a par with the other units of
our Greater University.

Respectfully submitted,
/s/ W. L. Lumpkin
Clarence Stone
Mrs. Daisy Hanes Lassiter
L. P. McLendon, Acting Chairman "

EXHIBIT 2.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD
OF TRUSTEES WHICH VISITED THE UNIVERSITY
AT CHAPEL HILL ON May 12 and 13, 1944.

TO HIS EXCELLENCY, THE GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAIRMAN
OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, AND TO THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD:

Your Committee assigned to visit the University at Chapel Hill, composed
of Messrs. Kemp D. Battle, James H. Clark, John W. Clark, Mrs. E. L. McKee,
and Victor S. Bryant, Chairman, begs leave to submit its report as follows:

The Committee on May 12th and 13th held meetings with the Dean of
Administration and the Controller, with the Advisory Committee of the faculty,
the administrative staff of Deans, heads of departments, and chairman of faculty
committees, with the faculty as a whole, and with the Student Council. It also
held private conferences with a large number of faculty members, singly and
in small groups. President Graham was in Washington, and we did not meet
with him. The other members of the Committee regretted that Mrs. McKee was
also unable to attend the meeting.

In all conferences the free expression of opinion was invited, and the
role of the Committee as a medium of communication from the University to the
Trustees was emphasized.

Our visit was welcomed by the officers and by the faculty, and hope was
earnestly expressed by many persons that the now resumed practice of sending
visiting committees would be continued. The Committee feels that its purpose
will be most usefully gained, not by reviewing by way of congratulation and ex­
pressions of satisfaction the many remarkable achievements of the University
in these trying times, but by directing the attention of the Trustees to the needs
of the institution and by the suggestion of certain remedies which we consider
advisable. It is by criticism of the weak spots that constructive aid may be
secured. This explanation should be constantly borne in mind, otherwise an
unbalanced opinion not intended might be derived from the content of this report.