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A great many matters were called to our attention, and perhaps at some
future meeting of the Board some of these should be called to the Trustees' attention.
However, for the sake of brevity and emphasis we shall make reference in this report
only to those matters which we feel to be most urgent. These are as follows:

1. Full Time Services of the President, and General Administration.

The opinion was unanimous among all those who expressed themselves that
President Graham's full time services are now needed by the University. While
a member of the War Labor Board and in part time residence in Washington, Dr.
Graham has accomplished an astonishing work in relation to the University, not
nnly during the periods of time he could be in Chapel Hill, but from Washington,
by telephone and telegraph, in the hours of the evening when away from his office.
Without any disposition to begrudge the sacrifice which the University has made
in lending him to the war effort, and with personal sympathy for the strain and the
exacting demands upon his time and energy caused by this dual responsibility, it
is the unanimous conviction of the Committee that he should now return to North
Carolina on full time duty with the University. It is believed that the War Labor
Board has substantially passed from the stage of policy making and that, with its
principles formulated and tested, Dr. Graham's services are not now so much
needed as heretofore. By the same reasoning, we believe that the time for policy
making for the University with reference to critical problems of the post-war era
has arrived, in which fateful choices and decisions are to be made.

Many members of the faculty feel that with the President absent part of the
time administration of affairs is unduly and inevitably retarded. Some members
of the faculty, more vigorously critical, feel that, with the President absent most
of the time, the recommendations of faculty committees are often left without
action and the work of the faculty lacks cohesion and direction. We also heard
those who think of the University as having a complicated administrative system,
a system which as yet is lacking in definition as to authority and jurisdiction.
However smoothly this system might operate in the presence and under the
personal direction of the President, some thought that in his absence it falls into
confusion. Some were troubled by what they regarded as the lack of definition
of the respective duties and authorities of the President and the Dean of Admin­
istration. Members of the faculty referred to the confusion in their own minds
as to which decisions can be made by the Dean and to which must be made by
the President. They have impressed the Committee with the idea that efficiency
of administration and faculty morale would be greatly improved if the President
would clearly define the spere of the Dean of Administration's authority and
make that definition readily accessible in written form to the faculty. No word
of this came from Dean House.

Some members of the faculty go further and maintain that the University,
considering its present growth and its complex organization, stands in need of
a codification of administrative law, which should in written form establish the
metes and bounds of the authority by whomsoever exercised. This would in­
clude the powers and duties of faculty committees, administrative boards,
heads of departments, directors, and deans of every category. There is much
divergence of thought on the part of faculty members. We understand that it
is the purpose of the members of the faculty to give further thought to the
matter, and perhaps offer some concrete suggestions to the Trustees at a
future date. We hope they will do this. We also found a strong belief on
the part of the faculty that it would be extremely helpful if the President's
annual report to the Trustees, recently discontinued in its published form in
the interest of economy, could be resumed as a yearly publication. We feel
that it would be well if this could be done.

There was also a definite feeling on the part of certain of the deans that they
should be consulted more freely with regard to changes in the personnel and
promotions of the faculty in their respective departments. Some felt that changes
were made and vacancies filled in their own departments without the heads of the
departments being consulted. We recommend participation of appropriate deans
in selection and promotion of faculty members having to do with the academic
interests under the administrations of the deans in question. We further recommend
that this be done a sufficient length of time in advance to allow an opportunity for
the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees to give careful and mature

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