Thursday, June 30, 1966
THE TAR HEEL
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President Friday's Address
The University
(Editor's Note( Consolidated
University President William
C. Friday made the following
State of the University ad
dress on WUNC-TV last Thurs
day. Many educators and oth
ers interpreted F r i d a y's
speech as the go-ahead to
place the University again on
the offense after years of play
ing defense. Following is a
partial text of the speech.)
Ladies and gentlemen, I ap
preciate this opportunity to
talk with you about the work
of the University during the
academic year just closed.
This has been a year full of
important and interesting de
velopments, all of which, of
course, cannot be reviewed
here. However, there are cer
tain events and achievements
which should be noted and I
shall discuss these matters as
briefly as possible.
On January 28, this Board
approved the recommendation
that Dr. D. W. Colvard, then
President of Mississippi State
University, become the Chan
cellor of the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte.
On May 9 you approved the
recommendation that Dr. J.
Carlyle Sitterson become the
Chancellor of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. We are delighted with
these selections, and for the
first time in some months we
now have four full-time Chan
cellors guiding the work of the
campuses of the University.
The academic year 1965-66
has been characterized by an
unusual number of new grad
uate degree programs. These
reflect the widening responsi
bilities of the University in
graduate study and profession
al training and the rapidly
growing number of graduate
students. Each of the gradu
ate programs has been given
careful study by appropriate
University Boards. They have
been approved by the Execu
tive Committee of the Trus
tees. The principle that has guided
us in making decisions about
new graduate degree programs
we call the principle of com
plementary strengths. The
amount of knowledge that has
accumulated in physics or
chemistry, for example, far
exceeds the resources of any
chemistry or physics depart
ment, even those in very large
universities. No single science
can be represented in any uni
versity, still less all science.
It follows that if each campus
of our fourfold university can
develop strength in some seg
ment of physics to continue
this illustratiou-that is not
other campus, the total re
sources of the University in
strongly developed on some
physics will be strengthened
and enriched. Every campus
must teach physics every
campus of a university must
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conduct research and offer
graduate programs in physics
but this does not mean that
each campus must develop the
same area of specialization
in this or any other disci
pline. The fields of particular
interest and strength in disci
plines on different campuses
can complement rather than
duplicate one another.
While processing these mat
ters during this year, we have
given just as much time to the
future growth and development
of the fourfold University, and
I wish now to share some of
our thoughts and judgments
with you.
I shall be principally con
cerned with three things: (1)
the trends in enrollment in the
University, (2) a major revis
ion in the customary principles
of the allocation of functions
that have guided us since the
years immediately following
the Act of Consolidation, and
(3) a statement indicating the
nature of financial support that
will be necessary to provide
for the additional students and
the expanding program of the
University.
On May 2, we had received
a total of 12,364 undergradu
ate and 2,192 graduate and
postgraduate professional ap
plications to all programs and
all campuses of the University
from residents of North Caro
lina. We plan to enroll 11,135 new
students on the four campuses
this fall. These will include 8,
572 undergraduates and 2,563
graduate and postgraduate
professional students, The in
crease in new students this
fall over 1965 will be 2.3 per
cent for undergraduates and
14.3 per cent for graduate stu
dents, a trend that is in line
with the purposes of the Uni
versity. Chapel Hill plans to
enroll 4,400 new students, 35
per cent of whom will be in the
graduate and postgraduate
professional category. Raleigh
plans to enroll 3,485, of whom
14.7 per cent will be in the
graduate category. Greensboro
plans to enroll 2,060, of whom
23.5 per cent will be graduate
students. Charlotte expects to
enroll 1,150 new students, all
undergraduates.
We are projecting a total en
rollment for all campuses of
31,354 this fall as compared to
28,780 in the fall of 1965, an
increase of 2,574 or 9 per cent.
We expect the enrollment this
fall to reach 13,250 at Chapel
Hill, 10,900 at Raleigh, over 5,
000 at 'Greensboro, and about
2,200 at Charlotte.
If the present trend is per
mitted to continue, it warrants
a projected enrollment in the
University by 1976 of over 50,
000 students, at least 15,000 of
whom would be in the gradu
ate and postgraduate profes
sional category.
In summary, for each of the
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next four years we anticipate
an annual enrollment increase
of about 2,500 students. To
state the fact is to indicate
the dimension of the task for
which we must seek more good
teachers to carry the instruc
tional load and additional fa
cilities to accommodate the
growing population.
It is important to remind
ourselves again of some of the
major responsibilities of a uni
versity as we think about our
future plans. A basic respon
sibility of such a university is
good teaching. A second im
portant responsibility is to con
duct research, original cre
ative work, and graduate study
leading to the doctorate. A
third requirement of a major
university is the responsibility
for professional training. A
fourth area of increasing re
sponsibility today is in adult
education.
The legislation and the Trus
tee actions to which I have re
ferred have placed many ad-
ditional responsibilities on the
University and made desirable
a thoughtful restudy of our ac
ademic policies on allocation
of function. Accordingly, after
consultation with the Chancel
lors in October, 1964, I asked
that three senior faculty mem
bers from each campus meet
with the Vice President aca
demic Affairs to suggest guide
lines for the future develop
ment of our four campuses.
This committee met freqent
ly. It studied the responsi
bilities of university status for
each campus, the best use of
library resources, the most ef
fective use of staff and facili
ties on the several campuses
and how best td determine
where specific programs
should be located. The com
mittee agreed that it would be
unwise to set up any system
of regulations that would be
rigid and unresponsive to the
changing needs of future
years. They have recommend
ed procedures and policies
which have been discussed in
detail with the Chancellors and
with the Chancellors and with
my associates, and we have
reached agreement on the fol
lowing principles which we
recommend to the Trustees as
our basic guide lines for the
future:
1. That subject to existing
University procedures for
the approval of budgets and
campuses may provide gra
duate and undergraduate in
stuction and research op
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portunities in the basic na
tural science, the social sci
ences, the humanities, the
arts, and teacher education.
2. That insofar as practi
cable in the development of
advanced graduate work,
each campus seek to empha
size different areas of the
disciplines, thus enlarging
and enriching the education
al opportunities of the Uni
versity. 3. That highly specialized
work for which there Is a
limited demand ! i develop
ed only a specific campus
es. 4. That on all campuses
new faculty members ap
pointed to the rank of as
sistant professor and above
be chosen with their compe
tence in teaching and schol
arship and their qualifica
tions for advanced instruct
ion in mind.
5. That with reference to
advanced graduate work
(doctoral training) and par
ticularly before duplication
occurs in professional train
ing (law, medicine, engineer
ing, etc.) great care be tak
en to weigh the capacity of
society to absorb the gradu
ates, to evalute the need for
additional highly trained per
sonnel relative to the need
for persons with other quali
fications, to determine the
prospects of adequate finan
cing, and to avoid impover
ishment of programs on oth
er campuses.
I emphasize these principles
because they will govern the
direction in which we plan to
move on all four campuses.
They are necessary if we are
to progress in a sound and re
sponsible manner.
North Carolina has a lot of
unfinished business, and the
University has a major role
to play in the great future fore
seen for out state. The hour has
come for all to unite in a pos
itive and aggressive effort to
move the University and the
people that it serves forward.
For the faculty, staff, and stu
dents, I convey to you our
earnest desire to get on with
the task. And It me add that I
do not state this objective as
a desire only. It is my real
conviction that the University
is poised most favorably for
the realization of this aim and
my administrative associates
and I find genuine pleasure in
contemplating the realization
of many long cherished goals.
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