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Charlotte College Resolution

President Friday read the following resolution received from the
Board of Trustees of Charlotte College:

"The Trustees of Charlotte College wish to formally endorse
and reaffirm the request of the Board of Trustees of the Charlotte
Community College System that Charlotte College become a campus
of the University of North Carolina.

"THEREFORE, the Trustees of Charlotte College hereby request
that the Trustees of the University of North Carolina approve
Charlotte College as the fourth campus of the University and recom-
mend to the General Assembly of North Carolina that adequate financing
be made available for this purpose.

"Local Support

"For seventeen years the citizens of Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County and ten surrounding counties have given time, money and
encouragement to the development of Charlotte College. In particular,
the citizens of Charlotte and Mecklenburg went to the polls four times
to vote upon themselves taxes to support the institution. Thus of the
$3 million value placed upon the campus when Charlotte College
became a four-year, state-supported institution in July, 1963, the
citizens of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County had contributed more
than $2 million and the state $1 million. Since then, the Mecklenburg
County Commissioners gave 520 acres of land to the State of North
Carolina for the use of Charlotte College. Individual citizens and
corporations of the area continue to give financial support to the
College through gifts to the Charlotte College Foundation.

"Need

"For many years Charlotte was accurately described as 'under-
colleged'. However, the 1963 General Assembly recognized and
fulfilled the need for a four-year, state-supported college in the
Charlotte area. This development, though welcome, was too little
and too late. The Charlotte area needs an institution of University
scope, an institution of equal quality and prestige with the three present
campuses of the University of North Carolina.

"The needs all but speak for themselves. Nearly a quarter of all
the State's high school graduates live in the Charlotte College commut-
ing area. Dr. C. Horace Hamilton of North Carolina State has pre-
dicted an enrollment of over 10,000 students in Charlotte by 1970, if
appropriate facilities are available. Many students in this highly
urbanized area come from families of modest means who cannot afford
to send them away to boarding institutions. The only way to provide
them with a university education is to bring the university to them.

"And why, after all, should Charlotte have a University? Why not
just a high-quality senior college?

"This urbanized, industrialized area depends to a larger extent on
a more highly educated and highly skilled manpower pool than do many
sections of the State. In today's rapidly advancing technology, this
manpower pool needs ready access to a university so that individuals
may be kept abreast of the latest developments in their fields.
Graduate training is needed in the arts, sciences, business administra-
tion, teacher education, and engineering.

"The 1963 Higher Education Act provides that the highest level of
graduate work is not available except through the University.

"Since the educational needs of the Charlotte area are becoming
more complex, more scientific and more professional, the citizens
of the area must look to the University of North Carolina.