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if the economic struggle is not to be lost by default. It is certain that high wage industries requiring technically trained personnel, are not going to concentrate in a region lacking in scientific development. At this moment, only disaster can follow a failure to recognize the steady increase in the frequency and intensity of the raids being staged upon our University science faculty. Though the effects of this tremendous expansion now occurring in scientific endeavor are most evident in the fields of mathematics and physics, there is evidence of increasing activity in other phases of the natural sciences. In taking acting to remedy the situation it therefore seems advisable to consider all the natural sciences as a group.
This proposal is put forward with the objective of creating an organization within the framework of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill which will enable the University not only to maintain but to develop its scientific facilities in the critical years ahead, and to provide in Chapel Hill the leadership in scientific research and teaching in the basic natural sciences which is not only expected but is demanded from us if this State is to benefit to the full from the new discoveries and developments which are so profoundly affecting our society.
This Institute, unique in its broad emphasis on the development of teaching and research, and in its organization with control vested in the Natural Science Departments, is the best possible answer to our critical problems.
Proposed Organization of the Institute of Natural Sciences at Chapel Hill:
1. The Institute of Natural Sciences operates within the framework of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is responsible to the Chancellor of that institution. The objectives of the Institute are two-fold:
a. To promote basic research in the Natural Sciences; b. To assist the University in the strengthening of teaching in the Natural Sciences.
The Institute as conceived and projected is to be an agency of the University for the promotion of research, for engagement in public interests and public services having to do with education in science, and for securing and executing relevant contracts. It is in these areas of activity that its role will be cast; it is clearly recognized that the Institute has no proper function to perform in the administrative participation in or control of matters of instruction, curriculum, or the selection of faculty personnel.
2. The disciplines included in the term Natural Science are astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology-geography, mathematics, mathematicsl statistics, physics, psychology, zoology.
3. The Institute of Natural Sciences achieves its aims through the proper use of funds provided from:
a. A portion of overhead on research contracts in the field of the Natural Sciences.
b. Grants, bequests and donations from individuals, industries, and foundations;
c. State appropriations;
d. Income from patients developed through the Institute.
4. The funds of the Institute will be used to attain its objectives in ways such as the following:
a. The strengthening of the teaching of natural sciences in the high schools and small colleges of the state by developing close contact of the University science faculties with such institutions, by the summer employment of teachers from these institutions in university research programs, and by the encouragement of activities such as the North Carolina Academy of Science and the High School Science Fair.
