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In subsequent meetings of this Board, then, and in its committees, recommendations will be made that represent our best judgment on these general policies and the changes, if any, which we feel essential.

The Academic Year

While many of us have been spending a good deal of time in the work of the Governor's Commission on Education Beyond the High School and with the committees of the General Assembly concerned with higher education, the work of the University has moved forward. Later this year, full details will be furnished you in the annual reports from the Chancellors and the report from my office. But I should like to comment on several of these developments briefly this morning.

Eleven new graduate degree programs have been approved by the Trustees and by the Board of Higher Education and either are now in operation or will be active with the beginning of the fall term of 1963. One new undergraduate degree has been authorized and others have been under study during the year and will soon be ready for final consideration.

The new undergraduate degree program that has been approved will lead to the Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Operations at State College. Students seeking this degree are being trained to move directly into engineering operations rather than into graduate study and research. Most of the programs in the School of Engineering place emphasis upon research, design development, and provide a foundation for advanced study. Students receiving the new degree will be prepared to move into industry and to participate in industrial development that is becoming so much an important part of the economy of this state.

The undergraduate programs in music, fine arts, and drama at the Chapel Hill campus have also been given thorough restudy by faculty committees during this year with a view to enhancing their effectiveness. Proposals for these new undergraduate degrees have resulted from careful studies, and these are now before us for discussion.

In my report a year ago, I called attention to the establishment of the Institute of Biological Sciences at State College as an example of a growing desire for cooperation between the several disciplines in the life sciences. The Institute has been an effective agency for strengthening inter-disciplinary course work and for developing improved curricula that will add substantially to the educational effectiveness of the undergraduate and graduate work in the biological sciences.

Two new graduate degrees have been authorized at Chapel Hill--the Master of Science in genetics and the doctoral degree in this same discipline. These new degrees are inter-disciplinary in that the course work and the direction of research will be the responsibility of faculty members now affiliated with several departments. They make possible the utilization of existing resources of faculty and facilities in training advanced students in genetics and so will contribute to the number of well-trained teachers and research workers in this important and rapidly developing field of study. The work in genetics at Chapel Hill will complement rather than duplicate the strong program in this subject area on the Raleigh campus of the University.

For more than a decade the University at Chapel Hill has offered a Master of Education degree to students engaged in either of two kinds of programs. One of these is designed for students preparing themselves for administrative or other professional activities in the field of education. The other program is planned for students preparing themselves as teachers and places emphasis on a mastery of the subject matter they wish to teach rather than subjects in the field of education. To identify these two programs more effectively, the title of the degree now offered for those preparing to teach has been changed to Master of Arts in Teaching.

At State College five new graduate degrees have been authorized. Three of these, the Master of Applied Mathematics, the Master of Electrical