Arrangement: chronological.

Arrangement: chronological.

From 1951 until the fall of 1966, the minutes of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Faculty Council were recorded in separate volumes; those volumes are included in this subseries. Since November 1966, the Faculty Council minutes have been recorded in the same volumes as the minutes of the General Faculty. These volumes are in Subseries 1, above.

Arrangement: chronological.

This subseries includes audiocassette tapes, data compact discs, and digital video discs of meetings of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill General Faculty and of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Faculty Council, October 1984-April 2010. Recordings are audiocassette from 1984 to 2005, on audio compact disc from 2006 to 2008, and on digital video disc beginning in November 2009. The earlier audiocassettes include a complete recording of each meeting followed by a verbal summary. Note that the General Faculty meets only twice a year, in September and April, in combined session with the Faculty Council. All other meetings are of the Faculty Council alone.

This subseries contains the administrative records of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Secretary of the Faculty, including correspondence, a bound volume of faculty legislation, indexed guides to the faculty meeting minutes, and subject files documenting topics of particular interest to the faculty.

Note that materials from the Addition of January 2012 have been added at the end of the subseries (Box 2:5).

This subseries includes the records of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Secretary of the Faculty on the standing, ad hoc, and special committees of the faculty. Among the records are annual reports to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Faculty Council, special reports, committee meeting minutes, and some correspondence between committee members and other university officials. For a more complete record of the reports and resolutions presented by committees, refer to the Minutes of the General Faculty and of the Faculty Council in Series 1.

Note that materials from the Addition of January 2012 have been added at the end of the subseries (Box 2:6/6:6).

Arrangement: alphabetical.

Upon the death of a current or former employee or faculty member of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the chair of the faculty appoints a special committee to prepare a memorial statement. A brief version of this statement is read in a faculty meeting while a more detailed one is entered into the meeting minutes and sent to the family of the deceased. This subseries documents that tradition, including one or both versions of the memorial resolutionsfor various employees (including administrators, athletic coaches, and librarians) and faculty members.

As originally constituted in 1934, the university's Division of the Humanities included the faculty of the following departments in the College of Arts and Sciences: Classics, Education, English, Germanic Languages, Romance Languages, Comparative Literature, History, Philosophy, Library Science, Art, Archeology, Theater Arts, and Music. The division was administered by a chair and an elected advisory committee, whose decisions were subject to approval by the Administrative Board of the College of Arts and Sciences. Revisions in the divisional structure, particularly the creation of the Division of Fine Arts and the upgrading of Library Science and Journalism to school status, have changed the composition of the Division of the Humanities. However, it remains one of the electoral divisions of the General Faculty, sending representatives to the Faculty Council. Records, 1935-1959, consist mostly of minutes of the Advisory Committee of the Division of the Humanities; these minutes mainly concern course change approvals. Also included are minutes of the division's annual meetings and some correspondence of the division chairs.

As of 2007, the division included the following departments of the College of Arts and Sciences: American Studies, Classics, Communication Studies, English and Comparative Literature, Germanic Languages, Linguistics, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Women's Studies

Subject Headings

• Curriculum planning--North Carolina--History.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• General education--North Carolina--History.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Curricula.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Faculty.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Curricula.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). College of Arts and Sciences--History.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). General Faculty. Division of the Humanities.

The Division of the Natural Sciences, created in 1934, includes the faculty of the science departments in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's College of Arts and Sciences. Together with the Institute of Marine Sciences, it constitutes one of the electoral divisions of the General Faculty, sending representatives to the Faculty Council. Records, 1966-1972, consist mostly of minutes of meetings and reports of committees of the Division of Natural Sciences. Some correspondence is also included. Much of the material deals with course requirements and curriculum content.

The name of the division later changed to Division of Basic and Applied Natural Sciencesand subsequently to Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, but for the period covered by these records, it remained Division of the Natural Sciences. As of 2007, the division included the following departments: Applied and Materials Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Exercise and Sport Science, Geological Sciences, Marine Sciences, Mathematics, Operations Research, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, and Statistics and Operations Research.

Subject Headings

• Curriculum planning--North Carolina--History.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• General education--North Carolina--History.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Curricula.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Faculty.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Curricula.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. College of Arts and Sciences--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. General Faculty. Division of the Natural Sciences.

Created in 1968, the university's Division of Fine Arts included faculty of the following four departments in the College of Arts and Sciences: Art; Dramatic Art; Music; and Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures. These departments were previously part of the Division of the Humanities. Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures was discontinued in 1993, leaving three departments in the Division of Fine Arts. Fine Arts is one of the electoral divisions of the General Faculty and sends representatives to the Faculty Council. Records, 1968-1984, include minutes of the division's annual meetings and of meetings of its department chairs, as well as correspondence of the chair and vice-chair of the division. They mainly concern course approvals, the organization of the division, and cooperative efforts among its departments.

Subject Headings

• Curriculum planning--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• General education--North Carolina--History.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Curricula
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Faculty.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Curricula.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. College of Arts and Sciences--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. General Faculty. Division of Fine Arts.

The records of the Administrative Board of the Library are part of the Librarian's Records because they were originally received through the librarian's office. For a listing of them, see the finding aid for the Librarian's Records. The Administrative Board of the Library was constituted in its present form and made responsible to the Faculty Council in 1969. Prior to that time, the librarian had chaired it. The original board was established in 1935, as the Administrative Board of the Library and Library School, to replace existing library committees and the Library School Administrative Board.

The Advisory Committee was created in 1914 and continues as an elective standing committee of the faculty. Its function is to advise the chancellor in all matters deemed important by the chancellor or the committee. The chancellor presides over its meetings. Records of the Advisory Committee, 1937-1994, pertain mainly to faculty salaries and promotions. Also included are 14 audiocassette tapes of special Advisory Committee meetings related to the committee's 1978-1979 study of the university's admissions policy, with particular emphasis on minority admissions.

Subject Headings

• College teachers--Salaries, etc.--North Carolina.
• Minority college students--Recruiting.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Admission.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Faculty.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--Salaries, etc.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Faculty Council. Advisory Committee.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Admission.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty--Salaries, etc.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Advisory Committee.

The Faculty Athletics Committee was created in 1890 to supervise the participation of university teams in intercollegiate athletics, especially football and baseball. For its first 20 years, the committee was responsible for certifying athletic eligibility and scheduling games. As of 2008, the Athletics Committee continued as an elective standing committee of the faculty, advising the chancellor and the Faculty Council on athletic policy, especially regarding intercollegiate sports and the relationship of the university to the Atlantic Coast Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Records of the Faculty Athletics Committee include minutes, 1908-1913 and 1917; correpsondence and related materials, 1987-1993; and annual reports, 1985-1988. These records reflect on decisions made regarding student eligibility, game scheduling, ticketing, and other athletic policies.

Subject Headings

• College sports--North Carolina--History.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Sports.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). General Faculty. Athletics Committee.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History--20th Century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Sports.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Athletics Committee.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Faculty Athletics Committee.

The Buildings and Grounds Committee was created in 1913 as the Committee on Grounds and Buildings and was charged with preserving the natural beauty of the campus and maintaining architectural standards in the construction of buildings. As of 2008, the committee continued as a standing committee of the faculty, appointed by the chancellor, and worked closely with the university's facilities planning staff and with the Building Committee of the Board of Trustees. Records of the Buildings and Grounds Committee, 1919-2002, include minutes of meetings, correspondence with architects, and drawings of proposed construction projects. Beginning in the 1990s, records also include materials related to the development of the university's master plan and, in particular, to planning for the Horace Williams and Mason Farm properties. Reports of the committee are part of the Minutes of the General Faculty and of the Faculty Council.

Professor William Chambers Coker, who had laid out the Coker Arboretum, was the committee's first chair. He set a tone for its operation that has endured for nearly a century.

Note that materials from the Addition of January 2012 have been added at the end of this subseries (C-40106/300-301).

Subject Headings

• Campus planning--North Carolina.
• College facilities--North Carolina--Planning.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• Horace Williams Airport (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
• Mason Farm (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Buildings.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Buildings.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Planning.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Faculty Council. Building and Grounds Committee.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). General Faculty. Building and Grounds Committee.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Buildings.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Planning.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Building and Grounds Committee.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Buildings and Grounds Committee.

The Educational Policy Committee was created in 1976 as an elective standing committee of the faculty. It advises the Faculty Council on matters of educational policy that have significant impact on graduate and undergraduate instruction in the university's Division of Academic Affairs and over which the council has legislative power. Records of the Educational Policy Committee, 1975-1994, include correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and reports. A number of records pertain to the committee's study of pass/fail regulations and weighted grades, i.e., addition of pluses and minuses to letter grades.

On 19 September 1975, the General Faculty approved the creation of one or more committees on educational policy and referred implementation of this decision to the Committee on University Government. During the 19 March 1976, General Faculty session, J. Dickson Phillips, chair of the Committee on University Government, presented a proposal for the establishment of the Educational Policy Committee. The proposal, which was approved without amendment, called for the appointment of a standing committee to advise the Faculty Council on matters of educational policy having an impact upon graduate and undergraduate instruction within the Division of Academic Affairs. While the committee was granted the authority to initiate consideration of educational policy concerns, the majority of its work originated in referrals from the Faculty Council. The committee was instructed to include interested faculty, administrators, administrative boards, and students in its deliberations and to incorporate the opinions of such groups in its reports to the Faculty Council.

Since educational policy was not defined in the resolution of establishment, the committee's scope of action is potentially a very broad one. From its creation through the 1981-1982 academic year, the committee studied the impact of weighted grades (the addition of pluses and minuses to letter grades), amendments to the university's pass/fail regulations, and the Instrument of Student Judicial Governance in addition to matters of curriculum and degree requirements.

Committee chairs and their tenures, 1975-1983 and 1990-1994 are listed below.

The archival records of the Educational Policy Committee consist of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and reports for the period 1975-1983 and 1991-1994.

Subject Headings

• College students--Rating of--North Carolina--History.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• Grading and marking (Students)--North Carolina.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Curricula.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Curricula.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Examinations.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Educational Policy Committee.

The English Composition Committee was created in 1918 to examine the problem of "illiteracy" at the university, "especially as it reflects itself in the habitual use of poorly written English." The committee established a program under which students deemed deficient in writing were given grades with a composition condition (or CC) attached. Removal of the condition was a requirement for graduation. The program continued into the mid-1960s. Records of the English Composition Committee, 1927-1950, include minutes of meetings, reports, composition condition (CC) regulations, and general correspondence.

Subject Headings

• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• Grading and marking (Students)--North Carolina.
• Literacy programs--North Carolina.
• Literacy--North Carolina.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Curricula.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Curricula.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). General Faculty. English Composition Committee.

The Established Lectures Committee was created in 1946 as the All University Committee on Convocations and Lectures and was given the responsibilities of the earlier, separate Weil and McNair Lecture Committees. Other duties included distributing funds provided by the Alumni Giving Council to the academic departments and schools for alumni lectures. In 1949 the committee's name changed to Committee on Established Lectures. A standing committee of the faculty, it was appointed by the chancellor to select speakers and make arrangements for the John Calvin McNair Lectures, which focus on science and human values; the Martin Luther King, Jr., Lectures on Human Rights; and the Weil Lectures on American Citizenship. In April 1999 the Faculty Council abolished the committee and voted to assign responsibility for the three lectures to other offices. Records of the Established Lectures Committee, 1919-1998, include general correspondence, annual reports, and materials pertaining to specific lectures. The latter include invitations to speakers, correspondence about arrangements, and in some cases copies of speeches. Also included are audio tapes of three lectures.

Note that the committee's records consist of general files and files specifically relating to each of the three established lectures. The general files are dated 1919-1924 and 1950-1998; they include internal committee memoranda, administrative correspondence, annual reports, and materials related to the alumni lectures. The pre-1950 materials consist of a few items from the McNair Lecture Committee. The lecture files cover the period 1950-1998 and include speaker invitations, correspondence about the lectures, arrangements, and in some cases, copies of lectures. Annual reports of the committee are also found in the faculty meeting minutes in Series 1. Responsibility for the three lecture series was reassigned as follows: the McNair Lectures to the Department of Religious Studies; the King Lectures to the Office of the Chancellor; and the Weil Lectures to the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

A listing of the lectures (by date, speaker, and title) in each series is given below.

KING LECTURES

MCNAIR LECTURES

These lectures were established through a bequest made by the Reverend John Calvin McNair of the Class of 1849. Inaugurated in 1906, they are broadly concerned with the relationship of science and theology and have been published when feasible. (No lectures were given in the years omitted from the following list.)

WEIL LECTURES

In 1914 the university established an unendowed lectureship on American citizenship. The following year the families of Henry and Sol Weil of Goldsboro, N.C., created a permanent endowment for it; and it was named the Weil Lectures on American Citizenship. (No lectures were given in the years omitted from the following list.)

Subject Headings

• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• John Calvin McNair Lectures.
• Lectures and lecturing--North Carolina--History.
• Martin Luther King, Jr., Lectures on Human Rights.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Public services.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Public services.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Faculty Council. Established Lectures Committee.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Public services.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Established Lectures Committee.
• Weil Lectures on American Citizenship.

The Faculty Grievance Committee, an elective standing committee of the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was created in 1970 "to hear, mediate, and advise with respect to adjustment of grievances of members of the faculty." Files of the Faculty Grievance Committee, 1970-1996, include correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, and annual reports to the Faculty Council. They include no specific information on individual grievance cases.

Subject Headings

• College teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Grievance arbitration--North Carolina.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Faculty.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Faculty Grievance Committee.

The Faculty Welfare Committee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a standing committee of the faculty. As of 2008, it was appointed by the chair of the faculty and charged with working toward the improvement of faculty working conditions, including salaries and benefits. It was established in 1950 on the recommendation of the faculty's Committee on University Government to continue the work of the Committee on Faculty Living Conditions, which had been discharged in 1949. The records of the Faculty Welfare Committee, 1981-2000, include correspondence and reports, chiefly relating to the university's benefits, retirement plans, and salaries for faculty.

The original Faculty Welfare Committee, established by the General Faculty on 17 May 1950 and appointed by Chancellor Robert B. House, was charged with addressing problems of faculty housing, facilitating the extension of services of the university's new hospital to members of the faculty, and answering complaints of "salesmen and solicitors harassing the members of the faculty in their offices."

Subject Headings

• College teachers--North Carolina--Economic conditions.
• College teachers--Pensions--North Carolina.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty--Pensions.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Faculty Welfare Committee.

The Plans and Projects Committee was a committee of the faculty created in 1951 in conjunction with the establishment of the university's Development Program. Appointed by the chancellor, the committee was charged with soliciting proposals from within the university for strengthening campus facilities, services, and faculty. The committee recommended to the chancellor's Development Council the proposals it considered worthy of funding. The records of the committee, 1951-1960, include correspondence, minutes of meetings, and proposals submitted to it.

Subject Headings

• Campus planning--North Carolina.
• College facilities--North Carolina--Planning.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--Planning.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Planning.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Faculty Council. Plans and Projects Committee.

As of 2008, the Scholarships, Awards, and Student Aid Committee was a standing committee of the Faculty Council, appointed by the university's chancellor and charged with setting policy on scholarship and student aid funds, monitoring the operations of the Office of Scholarships and Student Aid, and advising the chancellor on matters regarding student aid. Established in 1951 as the Committee on Endowed Scholarships, Loan Funds, and Self-Help Work, it soon changed its name to Scholarship and Student Aid Committee. Records, 1982-1993, of the committee include its annual reports, minutes of meetings, correspondence, and reports. Of particular interest in the records are the committee's efforts to adapt to cuts in federal aid to students during the 1980s and to comply with the 1983 federal law linking the receipt of federal financial aid with registration for Selective Service.

The committee also has sought to ensure that funds from the federal and state governments are expended according to regulations and that athletic grants-in-aid are administered according to the policies of the university, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Subject Headings

• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Student aid--North Carolina.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Faculty.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Funds and scholarships.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Scholarships, Awards, and Student Aid Committee.

The Committee on the Status of Minorities and the Disadvantaged originated in the summer of 1968 as a special committee appointed by Chancellor Sitterson. The committee was charged to study the experiences of minority and disadvantaged students at the university and to recommend ways to increase minority recruitment and improve student satisfaction. In December 1968 it became a standing committee of the Faculty Council and continued to focus on the recruitment and performance of minority and disadvantaged students. Later it was charged with addressing the ongoing needs and concerns of all minority and disadvantaged students, faculty, and staff. In 1997 it was replaced by the Committee on Community and Diversity. Records of the Committee on the Status of Minorities and the Disadvantaged consist of annual reports, meeting minutes, and general correspondence, 1972-1994.

In 1971, four student representatives were appointed to the committee. Included in the general correspondence are some documents relating to the Committee for the Advancement of Minority and Disadvantaged Students, a student activist group formed in fall 1968, which organized the first Project Uplift program in the summer of 1969.

Subject Headings

• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• Minority college students--Recruiting--North Carolina.
• Minority college students--Recruiting.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Admission.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Employees.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Faculty.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Admission.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Employees.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty. Committee on the Status of Minorities and the Disadvantaged.

The Status of Women Committee, created in 1973, is a standing committee of the university's faculty. It is appointed by the chair of the faculty and is responsible for investigating and making recommendations on problems affecting women faculty members. Records of the committee, 1973-1997, include correspondence (some regarding affirmative action), minutes of meetings, annual reports to the Faculty Council, and various surveys and studies concerning issues affecting women at the university, particularly salary and benefit inequities and child care.

Establishment of the committee was recommended in the 1973 report of the faculty's Committee on the Role and Status of Women, and its original charge was "to investigate and make recommendations on any problem affecting the status of women in the university at large" and "to call to the attention of the Affirmative Action Officer and the Affirmative Action Advisory Committee any situation that in your good judgement is discriminatory and, as such, needs study and action. If you find these agencies unresponsive you should not hesitate to report accordingly to the Faculty Council." In fulfilling its responsibility, the committee has been most active in the areas of hiring and promotion procedures, discrimination in the availability/costs of fringe benefits, appointment of the campus affirmative action officer, enforcement of equal opportunity rules, and the broadening of professional development opportunities for women at the university.

Subject Headings

• Affirmative action programs--North Carolina.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• Sex discrimination against women--North Carolina.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Faculty.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Employees.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Status of Women Committee.
• Women college teachers--North Carolina.
• Women in education--North Carolina.
• Women--Employment--North Carolina.

The Advisory Committee on Undergraduate Admissions is a standing committee of the university's faculty. Its membership is ex officio, with the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences serving as chair. It sets policies and procedures (not inconsistent with those set by the Board of Trustees and faculty legislation) for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. The committee was constituted in its present form in 1972. Previous faculty committees, however, also dealt with admissions policy. Chief among these was the Advisory Committee on Admissions and Records, which existed from the mid-1930s until 1972. Records of that committee are included here. Records, 1933-1935 and 1957-1998, of the Advisory Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and its predecessor, the Advisory Committee on Admissions and Records, include correspondence, minutes, and reports.

Previous faculty committees, beginning around 1912 with the Committee on Entrance Conditions, had dealt with admissions. In 1931 the university added the Division of Admissions and Records to its administrative structure. The Division had an Administrative Board whose duties included setting policies and procedures and reviewing individual admissions cases. Nevertheless, by 1935-1936, a standing committee of the faculty on Admissions and Records had also been created. The two bodies seem to have merged to form the Advisory Committee on Admissions and Records, which persisted until 1972.

As a result of faculty legislation of 15 September 1972, the Advisory Committee on Admissions and Records split into two separate entities, an advisory committee on records and registration associated with the Offices of Registrar and Records and Registration, and a committee to deal exclusively with admissions policy that would advise the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. The membership of the new Advisory Committee on Admissions included the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences as chair; the chairs of the Divisions of Fine Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences; and three academic deans, with at least one dean from a professional school.

Faculty legislation of 20 April 1979 further clarified the mission of the Advisory Committee on Admissions, stipulating that the committee's primary function was to approve the policies and procedures applied by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. To underscore this relationship, the committee's name was changed again, to the Advisory Committee on Undergraduate Admissions. This legislation also reaffirmed the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences as committee chair and division chairs as members and added several new members, including the sssociate dean of the General College, two other deans to be selected by the Committee on Instructional Personnel, and other ad hoc members selected "as necessary." In addition, the registrar, director of undergraduate admissions, and vice chancellor for student affairs became ex officio members.

More recently, several subcommittees have been formed. In 1982, the two-year Student-Faculty-Alumni Advisory Subcommittee for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions formed to provide advice on recruitment, advertising, applications, and processing. In September 1985 the Subcommittee on Athletic Admissions was created to advise on matters specific to special admissions procedures and policies for university athletes and to make individual case recommendations for athletes seeking special exemptions from admissions requirements.

In addition to the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences as chair, the committee includes, as of 2008, the associate dean of the General College, the vice chairs of the faculty divisions, and two other academic deans. The two academic deans are selected by the Committee on Instructional Personnel and are rotated on three-year terms. The committee may add ad hoc members (who must be faculty engaged in undergraduate instruction) at its discretion. The registrar, the director of undergraduate admissions, and the vice chancellor for student affairs are ex-officio, non-voting members.

Subject Headings

• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Admission.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Faculty Council. Advisory Committee on Admissions and Records.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). General Faculty. Advisory Committee on Admissions and Records.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Admission.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Advisory Committee on Admissions and Records.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Advisory Committee on Undergraduate Admissions.

The Committee on University Government was established by Dean of Administration Robert B. House in November 1942 for the purpose of studying and reporting on university government. The committee's work led to the adoption by the General Faculty in 1947 of the university's first modern code of government. As of 2008, the faculty Committee on University Government continued as an appointive standing committee of the Faculty Council and was charged with the "continuing development, adaptation, and interpretation of The Faculty Code of University Government." Records, 1969-1996, of the Committee on University Government include annual reports, meeting minutes, and general correspondence.

From its reopening in 1875 until 1947, the university operated without a codification of its regulations. In many cases there were no clear definitions of the duties and responsibilities of administrative officers and members of the faculty. Beginning in 1920 a "Digest of Faculty Legislation," which included regulations on academic procedures, was compiled from the minutes of the General Faculty. However, it often was not updated in a timely manner. In November 1942, in response to the faculty's growing interest in the possible creation of a faculty senate, Dean of Administration Robert B. House established the Committee on University Government for the purpose of studying and reporting on university government. The original seven members of the committee were John M. Booker, chair; Louis Round Wilson; William de Berniere MacNider; Robert H. Wettach; Arnold K. King; J. Carlyle Sitterson; and Carl H. Pegg.

In May 1944 the committee made a progress report to the faculty detailing how it had approached the study and what it had found. It had written to other universities soliciting information on their forms of government. It had also surveyed the university's Catalogue as well as the "Digest of Faculty Legislation" and all regulations appearing in the minutes of the Board of Trustees since 1921. The progress report included a statement on the status of university government and a listing of the administrative areas for which the committee had found no regulations or definitions of duties and powers. The faculty voted unanimously for the committee to continue its work and to formulate recommendations.

The committee presented its next report on 9 February 1945. This report contained proposed definitions of the duties and powers of the dean of administration, deans of schools and colleges, department chairs, the General Faculty, the registrar, administrative boards, and advisory boards of divisions along with a proposed procedure for appointments, promotions, and tenure. However, full discussion of it was postponed until the meetings of 30 March and 13 April, where there was disagreement on the proposals.

Chancellor House, whose title had recently changed from dean of administration to chancellor, next appointed the Joint Committee on University Government composed of the Committee on University Government, the Advisory Committee, and the university's administrative officers to take up the matter. The joint committee submitted its report and recommendations to the General Faculty on 24 October 1947. The report elaborated on all the areas addressed in the 1945 report. Following discussion and several amendments, the report was adopted on 7 November 1947 and thus became the basis for the governance of the university. The joint committee was then dissolved, but the Committee on University Government continued, next taking up the issue of a faculty senate.

In May 1950 the 1947 report was amended to establish the Faculty Council, a representative legislative body of the General Faculty. Together with its subsequent amendments, the report became known by the title Faculty Legislation on University Government. Faculty Legislation was renamed The Faculty Code of University Government in 1974.

As of 2008, the Faculty Committee on University Government existed as an appointive standing committee of the Faculty Council. It consisted of seven members appointed by the chancellor, with the secretary of the faculty serving as an ex officio member, and was charged with the "continuing development, adaptation, and interpretation of The Faculty Code of University Government."

Following is a list of the individuals who have chaired the committee.

The records of the committee, 1969-1996, consist mainly of correspondence, reports, and other materials dating from when Joseph S. Ferrell served as chair.

Subject Headings

• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Administration.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Faculty.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Administration.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Regulations.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Committee on University Government.

The University Paintings Committee was a committee of the faculty appointed by the chancellor in 1967 and charged with locating and investigating the condition of the university's paintings and with drafting guidelines for their preservation. Records of the committee consist of correspondence, meeting minutes, and financial records, 1967-1973, arranged chronologically, and an inventory, on cards, of the university's paintings.

Professor William S. Powell served as chair of the committee.

Subject Headings

• Painting--North Carolina--Catalogs.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Art collections.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. University Paintings Committee.

The University Priorities Committee was created in 1970 as an ad hoc committee of the faculty; later that year it became a standing committee. Appointed by the chair of the faculty, the University Priorities Committee is charged with studying the progress of the university towards its goals and making reports to the Faculty Council. The committee also works with the administration and other groups within the university, particularly the Planning Council, toward the achievement of goals set by the Faculty Council. Records of the committee include annual and special reports to the Faculty Council, 1970-1992, along with meeting minutes and correspondence.

The University Priorities Committeewas established to work toward implementation of the various motions passed by the Faculty Council from the report of the Special Committee on the Future of the University, also known as the "Godfrey Report." In May 1970, when it became a standing committee of the Faculty Council, its duties were defined as follows: "The Committee on University Priorities shall work with the various officers and groups within the University toward the realization of the goals set in the various acts of the Council, shall study the development of the University and make recommendations to the Faculty Council on the progress of the University toward the desired objectives." During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the committee worked closely with the University Planning Council, especially in the area of faculty opinion on funding priorities.

Following is a list of the chairs of the committee from its establishment through 1992 and 1997 through 2006.

Subject Headings

• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Planning.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Planning.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. University Priorities Committee.

The Committee on Black Faculty was constituted in 1972 as the Committee on the Recruitment of Black Faculty to examine and report on the recruitment of African American faculty members at the university. It became the Committee on Black Faculty in the fall of 1978. Records of the Committee on Black Faculty include annual reports, correspondence, and related materials, 1972-1994. Topics of interest include ongoing recruitment of African American students to the Graduate School in order to train and strengthen the pool of qualified applicants to the faculty, recommendations to and from the university's affirmative action officer, and surveys of African American faculty members.

The Committee on Black Faculty presented "a tabulation of progress in the recruitment of black faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill" annually in its report to the Faculty Council, and gave recommendations to the council on how to improve recruitment. It was also responsible for keeping the Manual on Recruiting of Black Faculty accurate and current.

Subject Headings

• Affirmative action programs--North Carolina.
• African American college students--Recruiting--North Carolina.
• African American college teachers--Recruiting--North Carolina.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Faculty.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Committee on Black Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Committee on the Recruitment of Black Faculty.

The Chancellor's Committee on Community and Diversity was appointed by Chancellor Paul Hardin in November 1990 and charged to assess the condition of the campus community and its support of diversity, recommend specific strategies for recruitment and retention of diverse students, faculty, staff, and administrators, and to review institutional structures related to community and diversity on the campus. It made its report to the chancellor in 1991. In 1997 the Faculty Council created a new elective standing committee, the Committee on Community and Diversity, which replaced the Committee on the Status of Minorities and the Disadvantaged. Records include the 1991 report of the Chancellor's Committee on Community and Diversity.

As of 2008, the Committee on Community and Diversity was responsible for fostering community and promoting pluralism at the university by encouraging social interaction, tolerance, and respect among various campus groups. It was especially concerned with matters related to age, disability, religion, socioeconomic status, national or ethnic origin and sexual orientation.

Subject Headings

• Diversity in the workplace--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Multiculturalism--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Employees.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Faculty.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Students.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Employees.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Students.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Committee on Community and Diversity.

At its meeting on 17 May 1950, the General Faculty voted to adopt the report of the Committee on University Government regarding standing committees, which recommended that the Committee on Instruction and Regulations be renamed Committee on Instructional Personnel. "Only incidentally and indirectly does it deal with instruction," the report explained. "Primarily, it reviews the recommendations of the several departments, colleges and schools relating to the budget for teaching personnel . . . and prepares the annual calendar." Later an ex officio committee chaired by the provost and composed of various deans and officials in the Division of Academic Affairs, the Committee on Instructional Personnel continued to perform these same basic functions until it was abolished by a resolution of the Faculty Council on 11 February 2005. Records of the Committee on Instuctional Personnel include its 1993 annual report. See also files on the committee in the Office of the Provost Records.

Subject Headings

• College teachers--Selection and appointment--North Carolina.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Faculty.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Finance.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Finance.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Committee on Instructional Personnel.

The Faculty Hearings Committee was established in 1959 in accordance with the Board of Trustees' regulations on "Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Academic Due Process," which required each campus of the Consolidated University to establish a standing committee of the faculty to hear appeals under the regulations. As of 2007, it remained a standing committee of the Faculty Council, charged with performing functions assigned to it in the Trustee Policies and Regulations Governing Academic Tenure. The records of the Faculty Hearings Committee consist of annual reports, 1985, 1990, and 1994-1995. The hearings conducted by the committee are confidential, and the records include no specific information on individual hearings or cases.

Subject Headings

• College teachers--Tenure--North Carolina.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Grievance arbitration--North Carolina.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Faculty Hearings Committee.

The Committee on Absences was a special committee of the faculty appointed in 1954 to study the problem of student absences from class. The committee proposed new regulations regarding attendance. Records, 1954-1955, of the committee include correspondence, meeting minutes, and reports.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries the faculty appointed successive special committees to deal with the problem of student attendance or absence from classes. The Committee on Absences, appointed in October 1954 with Professor Henry Roland Totten as chair, reviewed the scope of the problem, especially absences during the pre- and post-holiday periods, and proposed new regulations on the reporting of student absences and the handling of attendance problems.>

Subject Headings

• College attendance--North Carolina.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Discipline.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). General Faculty. Committee on Absences.

The Ad hoc Committee on Athletics and the University was appointed by the Faculty Council in 1988 to examine the university's intercollegiate athletics program. The committee attracted considerable attention by recommending that the university unilaterally adopt reforms to its athletics program, that is, independent of other schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Records of the committee, 1987-1990, include correspondence, minutes of meetings, and reports, as well as files pertaining to the work of four subcommittees, each of which examined a different aspect of the athletics program.

On 19 February 1988 the Faculty Council created an ad hoc committee to "examine all relevant aspects of the university's intercollegiate athletics program, its scope, procedures, financing and other resources, and its relations to private entities operating under the aegis of the University" and to "report to the Faculty the facts with respect to the foregoing and in what ways and to what extent, if any, these may be at variance with the University's purposes and standards of conduct." Professor Townsend Ludington of the Department of English was appointed chair. Professor Ludington took sabbatical leave the following semester, so Professor Doris Betts, also of the English department, took his place. The committee attracted considerable attention when it recommended that the university unilaterally adopt reforms to its athletic program or even consider abandoning intercollegiate athletics altogether.

Subject Headings

• Atlantic Coast Conference.
• College sports--North Carolina.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• National Collegiate Athletic Association.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Sports.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Ad hoc Committee on Athletics and the University.