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It is important and necessary, therefore, that the University of North Carolina take steps to see that on each of its campuses opportunities are made available to provide the breadth of educational experience consistent with the standards of the University. For these reasons we recommend that a degree program in the liberal arts be authorized at the Raleigh campus. Curricula in the liberal arts already exist at Chapel Hill and at Greensboro.

4. A Plan for Future Expansion of the University

A university has responsibilities that differ in several ways from those that are characteristic of a college. Prominent among these is the emphasis given in a university to research on the part of the faculty and to the training of graduate students. Because of the wide scope of university programs and the importance attached to research, their faculties are made up of scholars and scientists in many disciplines. The existence of high levels of competence in many different fields is a source of strength to each discipline and provides opportunities for educational programs that are not possible in the more restricted offerings of a college.

North Carolina has a single state supported university with campuses at three geographical locations to provide for the citizens of the state the kind of educational opportunity that only a university can supply. As the only university supported by the state, the University of North Carolina recognizes its responsibility to meet demands for extending its educational programs to other areas in the state when the resources of its existing campus cannot meet needs that are real and pressing.

North Carolina is a vigorous and growing state. Its expanding economy is developing centers of population in areas removed from the sites of its present University campuses. The citizens of these regions feel keenly the need for the rich and varied educational programs that the University provides and which, because of distance, are denied to many of them. As these needs continue to grow, the University must be prepared to meet its responsibilities to these people by enlarging its resources even to the point of establishing new campuses when careful study warrants such action.

The intent of the report of the Carlyle Commission is to bring about in the state a well coordinated system of higher education. This requires a clearly delineated differentiation of functions between the different kinds of institutions of higher education and a sharply defined definition of the responsibilities of the University. It becomes necessary, therefore, that the University be placed in a position that will enable it to meet the needs for University type education as needs arise.

The requests of the trustees of Charlotte College, Wilmington College and Asheville-Biltmore College that these institutions become units of the University of North Carolina have been given thoughtful and sympathetic consideration. After careful study we recommend that the statutes be amended to authorize the Board of Trustees of the University to establish additional units of the University subject to applicable statutory procedures and the following conditions:

1. That the need for the development of a new unit be established by a thorough study of the area in which the new campus is proposed. Such a study is to be made under the direction of the Board of Trustees.

2. That additional funds be made available for the establishment of the new campus to insure that the quality of the instructional and research programs at the existing units of the University be maintained at the highest possible level.

3. That standards and criteria prescribed by the Board of Trustees shall prevail at the new campus in the same manner that they apply at the existing units of the University.

Your Committee recommends the foregoing as establishing a sound and stable procedure whereby new units of the University may be established in other areas of the state in the future. It is our judgment that a real need for educational programs of the kind that only a university can provide will exist in areas where rapid increases in population have occurred. Industrial