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"It is clear that the University will not be able to accept all applicants, including some who stand above minimum requirements for admission based on class standing and college board scores. We do not have the necessary dormitory, classroom, or laboratory space to accommodate all applicants, and we fear that this problem will worsen in the next several years.

"Not enough North Carolina youths of college age continue their education beyond the 12th grade. We shall do the best we can with the personnel and facilities now available and currently authorized. However, the facts that I have given you simply confirm the urgent necessity to get on with the job of establishing more comprehensive community colleges in our cities and counties; the expansion of Asheville, Charlotte, and Wilmington to four-year status; and encouraging our church-related and private institutions as they seek to grow and expand.

Gardner Award Dinner

"You will soon receive an invitation to attend the sixteenth annual O. Max Gardner Award Dinner which will be held on the Raleigh campus on March 22.

"Several years ago we instituted the practice of inviting a distinguished educator to address the faculties on this occasion. This year we are particularly fortunate in having Dr. Logan Wilson, President of the American Council on Education, as the speaker. You will recall that Dr. Wilson was Provost in the University during President Gray's administration. He left North Carolina to accept the Presidency of the University of Texas. After a tenure of seven years at Texas, he assumed the Presidency of the American Council on Education, and in that position he is one of the leaders in higher education in America. I hope you will make a special effort to be with us on March 22.

The Expansion of the University

"Under the terms of the higher education bill enacted by the 1963 General Assembly, provision was made in Section 116 for the establishment of additional campus of the University of North Carolina in other areas of the state, provided certain prescribed conditions were met.

"The first of these conditions is that a thorough study be made of the relevant educational needs of areas of the state designated for such study and that a full report be made to this Board of Trustees for your careful consideration.

"The Charlotte-Mecklenburg area has been designated for such a study, and the University is now at work examining the educational needs of this area.

"Because it is essential that the faculties of the University participate in this study, I asked each campus for faculty representation to serve with the Chancellors on an Advisory Council on Educational Policy. On February 12 the members of this Advisory Council and University officers visited the campus of Charlotte College to see the facilities and to inspect plans for buildings authorized for construction; to meet and talk with the faculty members, students, administrative officers, and trustees of the College. It was a full and informative day.

"The Advisory Council on Educational Policy will meet again right away to consider impressions drawn from the Charlotte trip and to plan the detailed studies which must now be made. Attention will be given to the program needs in the undergraduate and graduate and professional areas of study training.

"This Board of Trustees will receive statements at appropriate intervals on the progress of this study, and, hopefully, in the fall of this year we shall be able to present for your consideration a comprehensive report with recommendations.

The North Carolina State Alumni Proposals

"On December 14, 1963, Mr. Edmund Aycock, the President of the North Carolina State Alumni Association, and Mr. Charles Reynolds, the

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