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2. Coeducation on all Campuses

The Woman's College of the University has, as its name suggests, largely restricted its programs to young women. At times in the past, men have been accepted as students, particularly at the graduate level, and at present men are admitted as graduate students. No dormitory facilities have ever been made available to men so the men who attend this unit of the University have done so on a commuting basis.

Although there has been a branch of the University in Greensboro since 1931, there is no university program open to men in the Greensboro area at the undergraduate level at this time. The population of the region in and immediately surrounding the city of Greensboro has reached such dimensions that the wisdom of restricting university programs in this branch of the University to women must be re-examined. To hold to such a restriction would be to fail to use educational facilities that are already in being at the same time that we are striving to secure additional facilities. University education is being denied many young men in this populous area of the state because of their inability to afford the costs of attending the University at Chapel Hill or State College.

The definition proposed for the University and the change in name proposed for the Woman's College emphasize our responsibility for enlarged and improved programs on the Greensboro campus. It is difficult to conceive of a full-fledged university program at that institution restricted to women, for such restrictions are intrinsically inconsistent with the concept of a modern university. Opening the campus of the University at Greensboro to men will greatly strengthen that institution's opportunities to obtain faculty members of distinction and so to develop research and creative work to the levels expected of a university.

Although no dormitory facilities have been provided for men on the campus at Greensboro and none are being planned for the immediate future, we recognize that it may become desirable to provide such facilities when the full utilization of the resources of that institution warrant this action.

For much the same reasons it is considered advisable to open the institutions at Raleigh and Chapel Hill more widely to women and to commuting students. The first step in broadening educational opportunities should be the greater utilization of existing institutions. The University at Chapel Hill does not now admit women at the freshman and sophmore levels. This limitation imposes hardships for certain programs, particularly the fine arts and those in music where women's voices are necessary in developing choral work. They are unduly restrictive in other programs and are inconsistent with the full utilization of the educational resources of the University to meet the needs of the people of the state.

We recommend, therefore, that the campuses of the three units of the University be authorized to admit men and women at all levels.

3. Broader Undergraduate Education

The recommendation of the Governor's Commission on Education Beyond the High School that existing community colleges at Charlotte, Wilmington, and Asheville be expanded to four-year, non-resident colleges has been noted earlier in this report. The Board of Trustees of the University strongly endorses this recommendation and commends the full support of the University to the development of these institutions to maximum usefulness.

The resources of a university must be such as to provide those who seek education at its hands with some understanding of the richness of man's intellectual achievements. It is not enough to train young men and women in the arts and skills of a profession; it is not enough to produce highly trained specialists in narrow disciplines. A university education must combine the training essential for the scientist, the lawyer, the engineer, the medical doctor with some appreciation of the traditions of the past, with some understanding of the ideas which have made the world what it is today. A university cannot be a university and discharge its responsibilities as an educational institution unless it offers its students an education of sufficient breadth to insure their participation in society as well-informed, thoughtful citizens.