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These facts indicate to us the desirability of changing the names of the three institutions comprising the University of North Carolina so as to identify them as component units of a single university. We have therefore, devoted much time and thought to the nomenclature problem. In our study we have welcomed the advice and criticism of students, faculty, alumnae and alumni, trustees, and many others. We have studied the systems of nomenclature used in other state-supported universities with multiple campuses or branches. From these deliberations has emerged a nomenclature for the University and its three campuses that removes the objections to the titles now in use and identifies clearly each institution as a component unit of a single University.

We recommend that the title now used to designate the single University with its three campuses, "The University of North Carolina, " be retained; that the institution at Chapel Hill be given the name, "The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"; that the institution at Raleigh be known as "North Carolina State, The University of North Carolina at Raleigh"; and that the unit at Greensboro be given the title "The University of North Carolina at Greensboro."

Here Mr. Pearsall departed from his written copy of report with the following comments:

"Now, Mr. Chairman, I would like to depart momentarily from the copy of the report to give this group some information which I am sure they are interested in and entitled to have, that is how we arrived at the name we have suggested for State College. First, I would like to give you the history of how the question arose. It's normal result - the result of a normal development of a college into a university. It's not any mischievous deed whereby any one person or any group of people wanted to deny State College the name it has enjoyed over the years and impose another name upon it; but it is recognition of a problem which normally and naturally developed from the normal and natural progress of a college from collegiate status to the status of a university.

"The first suggestion for the change of name came from the State College campus. Two years ago the Faculty Senate suggested that State College should have the liberal arts program and that it should fully be recognized as a university and that it should have a name commensurate with its status. They suggested two names: North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Raleigh, either of which would be satisfactory. That recommendation was passed on to the administrative officers of the University. It was considered by the administration and talked about by appropriate officers for over two years.

"When the Governor appointed the Commission on Education Beyond the High School one of the questions which soon came before it for discussion was the question of a name for the University that would denote that the