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WINSTON-SALEM TEACHERS COLLEGE
WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA
BRIEF SUBMITTED AT HEARING OF COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1953

TO THE COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION

Lady and Gentlemen:
First of all we should like to express appreciation for the opportunity of appearing before the Commission on Higher Education to acquaint the Com-mission with the work of Winston-Salem Teachers College.
Historical Background
The Winston-Salem Teachers College was founded as the Slater Industrial Academy on September 28, 1892; and classes were begun with twenty-five pupils and one teacher, all in the elementary grades, in a one-room frame building which still stands on the original site two blocks west of the present college campus.
The first support from the State of North Carolina came to the school by Act of the General Assembly of 1895, which authorized the State Board of Education to establish at the institution a normal school for the training of teachers. This Act also made a special annual appropriation of $1,000 upon condition that the school itself should raise a like amount.
Prior to 1905 the Slater School was operated as a private institution, with an independent Board of Trustees of the Slater School, the Trustees transferred the school and its property to the State Board of Education. The State of North Carolina then became solely responsible for the control and operation of the institution.