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its meetings. In keeping with this, you have received from us voluminous materials pertaining to our study through the mail. (I hope they have not been too voluminous). Also a number of trustees, in addition to the special committee, have taken part in the actual proceedings. Because of this much of what I shall say will be familiar to many of you. But I trust that the importance of the subject fully warrants some repetition and a widely shared knowledge of the processes and tendencies of our study.

"I wish to say a word about how the special committee came into being. On September 15, 1961, Governor Sanford appointed the Commission on Education Beyond the High School which he requested, among other things, 'to identify and define the State's needs in higher education and other education beyond or in lieu of the high school, and to recommend the most efficient plans and methods of meeting those needs.' Mr. Irving Carlyle was appointed chairman of the commission, and its members included representatives of institutions of higher education, both public and private, as well as representatives of other educational agencies and outstanding laymen - 25 in number.

"To advance the work of the Commission, Mr. Carlyle appointed several subcommittees including a Committee on the Development of a System of Higher Education and a Committee on Community Colleges and New Colleges. In the course of the work of committees, proposals that a fourth campus of the University of North Carolina be established at Charlotte College and that campuses of the University be established in other areas were considered. President Friday, who was a member of the Carlyle Commission, suggested that this was properly a question for the trustees of the University. Accordingly, he was requested, as President, to bring the proposals before the trustees of the University and ascertain their views.

"Since the Board of Trustees had just met on May 28 and the next regular meeting would not be held until February, 1963, a special meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees was called on June 15 to consider the request of the joint committees of the Carlyle Commission on Education Beyond the High School and related matters. The Executive Committee authorized President Friday to request the Governor, as ex-officio chairman of the Board of Trustees, to appoint