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October, 1986 The Compass - page 3 Former businessman New UNC president installed Clemmie Dixon Spangler Jr. was installed officially as the second president of the 16- canipus ‘University of North Carolina system October 17. He pledged to keep tuition low and access open to UNC cam puses. “We must find ways to re duce graduate students’ costs to hold the line on in-state, un dergraduate costs, and to make absolutely certain that no one in our state is denied a college education because of lack of money,” he said. The two-hour ceremony took place before 506 faculty and administrators, many wearing multicolored aca demic gowns and hoods, from the 16 UNC campuses and 107 universities from other states and abroad. Members of the UNC Stu dent Anti-Apartheid Support Group attempted to march by the podium while Spangler spoke,, but were stopped by UNC Chapel Hill security guards. After the speech they were allowed to walk by the podium and down the center aisle,, carrying signs with slo gans such as “Spangler Take a Stand,” and “Pres. Span- gler-No Blood Money.” Until March, when he as sumed the presidency of the University of North Carolina, Spangler was a businessman for whom public service in ed ucation had been a longtime avocatioin. In 1973, while continuing to serve as president of the rap idly expanding family con struction company, Mr. Span gler became chariman of the Bank of North Carolina, then a troubled 70-branch institu tion. Under his leadership the bank prospered, and in 1982 it was merged into NCNB Cor poration. Spangler was subse quently elected a director of NCNB and served until he ac cepted the leadership of the University. From 1982 until early this year Spangler was chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Education, which has responsibility for setting policies for the state’s 2,000 primary and secondary pub lic schools. In 1984 he co chaired Governor James B. Hunt’s Commission on Edu cation for Economic Growth. In both roles he advocated a return to emphasis on teach ing the basics, higher salaries for teachers, and programs for* training high school prin cipals for their challenging jobs. Last year he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Queens College and earlier this year and hon orary Doctor of Laws from Davidson College. Both he and Mrs. Spangler are mem bers of the board of directors of Union Theological Semi nary in New York City. From 1977 to 1981 Mrs. Spangler was also a trustee of the Uni versity of North Carolina at Charlotte. Currently she is a trustee of Johnson C. Smith University. I C.D. Spangler Jr., newly elected UNC president. Photo by Ron Townsend The University Choir, under the direction of Billy C. Hines, per forms on the steps of the Morehead Planetarium on the UNC Chapel Hill Campus. The choir performed as a part of the festivi ties for the inauguration of C.D. Spangler Jr. as UNC president October 17. UNC System includes ECSU Reminder: UNC refers to all 16 constituent institutions. With some 130,000 students on its 16 campuses, the Uni versity of North Carolina is the sixth largest state-sup ported university system, ranked by student population, in the United States. It em ploys about 25,000 people. UNC alumni, numbering nearly half a million, contrib ute richly to the life and econ omy of the state. More than 70 percent of UNC alumni re main in North Carolina to live and work. UNC’s 16 campuses enroll approximately 75 percent of all students currently attend ing four-year colleges in North Carolina. More than 70 percent of black students enrolled in col leges in North Carolina are attending a UNC institution. The most popular under graduate majors among UNC students in recent years have been, in order: (1) business and management, (2) educa tion, (3) engineering, (4) so cial sciences, and (5) health professions. Most graduate degrees awarded by the Uni versity are in education; business ranks second. Tuition and fees at UNC campuses range from $650 per year at Pembroke State University to $1,050 per year at the North Carolina School of the Arts. The average for the 16 constituent institutions was $788 for the 1985-86 school year. This compares favor ably with in-state charges aj; other public universities: about $1,300 at the University of California, Berkely, and about $1,600 for the Univer sity of Virginia at Charlottes ville. (Tuition and fees for » year at Duke University now exceed $9,000 and Harvard- charges more than $12,00(P each year.) ' Artists exhibit at inauguration Two ECSU Art Majors, Nancy Sewell and Vickie Strickland, had works se lected for exhibition at UNC-Chapel Hill during the inauguration of the new UNC president C.D. Spangler. Their art was selected from among en tries from the 16 campuses of the UNC system. Strick land’s brush and ink draw ing is entitled “Dancer.” Sewell’s watercolor is a scene “Waterfront Shoppe” in Elizabeth City. The competition was su pervised by the Ackland Art Museum staff. The works went on display the beginning of this month at the Morehead Planetar ium and Person Hall on the Chapel Hill campus. “Dancer” by Nancy Sewell ir**rr ‘Waterfront Shoppe” by Vickie Strickland Comparative UNC statistics: (Today versus 1972, the year the University of North Carolina was expanded to 16 cam puses.) The 16 constituent institu tions of the Univeristy of North Carolina enrolled about 88,000 students in 1972. Today some 130,000 are attending, an increase of about 48 per cent. In 1972, men were in the majority on the campuses, accounting for 56 percent of students. Today women have the lead-about 52 percent of UNC students are women. This changing distribution ex tends to graduate programs and professional schools. Out-of-state enrollment has remained fairly constant over the years. In the fall of 1972, 14.6 percent of UNC students came from outside North Car olina. The figure for last fall is 15.8 percent. The number of foreignstu- dents at UNC has risen from about 1,040 in 1972 to about 2,700 last fall. Foreign stu dents as a percntage of total students has jumped form 1 percent to 2 percent. In 1972, black students ac counted for about 16 percent of UNC students. In 1985, they accounted fot- about 19 per cent, but racial distribution of individual campuses has changed: -Black enrollment at tradi tionally white institutions has risen from three percent in 1972 to over eight percent in 1985. -White enrollment at tradi-* tionally black institutions has I increased from about five' percent in 1972 to more than 15 percent in 1985. J \ Since 1972 the proportion of J University faculty members with doctoral or first profes sional degrees has risen dra matically. From 1972 to 1985, Ph.D.-level faculty increased from 60 percent of the toal to 76 percent. ''UNC has become one of the two or three best models for the nation as a whole, and perhaps the best of them all. Clark Kerr, president emeritus of the University of California.
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