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programs to commuting students; the proposal to make the existing two-year community colleges at Charlotte, Wilmington, and Asheville four-year State-supported colleges; and to vest in the University, by statute, the primary responsibility among state institutions for academic research and the exclusive authority for awarding the doctoral degree.

"It seemed evident that the committee was working in a setting of climatic change for institutional arrangements for higher education made necessary by increased population, economic growth, and the changing requirements for success, not to say of survival, in an increasingly complex world. We sensed the need to recur to the basic mission of universities in society, and, more particularly, to the historic connection between the University of North Carolina and the material progress and cultural advance of the State, for we believed this should be our guiding principal in our effort to determine just what the University's responsibilities are in this critical time. We would look to this standard as we considered broadened offerings within the University as well as expansion of the University into other areas, and hope to bring before the Board of Trustees at the conclusion of our studies a recommended course of action that would comport with maximum service as well as desired excellence.

"The question of expansion to new areas of the State was a matter of clear priority. Accordingly, arrangements were made for the full committee, in company with officers of the University, to visit the campuses of Charlotte College and Wilmington College and to hold meetings with their boards of trustees. on August 21 and 22. These visits were carried out Subsequently it was decided that the committee should accept an invitation to meet in Asheville with the Board of Trustees of Asheville-Biltmore College, and this was done on October 12.

The Chairman of the Visiting Committee, Mr. Yarborough, and all members of the Board of Trustees of the University who reside in the respective areas were invited to attend these meetings. In Charlotte there was full attendance of the committee of eleven members, and twelve of the sixteen specially invited trustees from the immediate area were present. In Wilmington, only one member of the committee was absent, and he unavoidably so. In Wilmington five of eleven