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This collection is not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact Research and Instructional Service staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options for consulting this collection.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40453, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

This summary description was created in October 2018 by Khadija McNair, Felton Foushee, James Holaday, Tanasha Peterson-Quintana, Ajanae Willis, Adreonna Simmons, and Rebecca Stubbs to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Encoded by: Laura Smith

The Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has its origins in the Curriculum in Public Policy Analysis, which was established as an interdisciplinary undergraduate major in 1979. In 1991, a doctoral program was added. was initiated as an interdisciplinary undergraduate major in the College of Arts and Sciences in 1979, adding an interdisciplinary doctoral program in 1991. It gained departmental status in 2001.

The collection includes records related to the creation and administration of the Department of Public Policy, annual reports, documents related to building a PhD program, PhD program reviews, correspondence of the department chair, and VHS recordings of student presentations.