Found 169 events matching "University of North Carolina System"
Governor Sanford was booed after an NC State-Wake Forest basketball game in Reynolds Coliseum by students protesting the possible name change of the college from North Carolina State College to the University of North Carolina at Raleigh.
Farmers' organizations in the state, along with the Watauga Club and Colonel Leonidas Polk, successfully lobbied the North Carolina State Legislature to add an agriculture school to the proposed industrial school in Raleigh. This new school would not be affiliated with the University of North Carolina and would be able to acquire and use the land scrip funds being received (but not used by) the University of North Carolina.
The Morrill Act became law and provided national funding to establish a land-grant college in each state. In North Carolina, this funding first went to the University of North Carolina. In 1887, the state legislature established the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now NC State) as the state's land-grant institution.
The North Carolina Organization of Home Demonstration Clubs and State Council of Negro Home Demonstration Clubs of North Carolina merged to become the North Carolina Extension Homemakers Association.
In Frazier v. the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina, the court determined that undergraduate colleges and universities should be open to African Americans.
William L. Klarman became the head of Department of Plant Pathology in 1984. Dr. Klarman became Vice Chancellor for Research at North Carolina State University in 1990.
This facility near Reidsville was originally owned by the Consolidated University of North Carolina. Chinqua-Penn Plantation, on which the center is located, was given to the university by the Penn family in 1959.
The North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts was renamed the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering.
$310 million in university bonds was approved by North Carolina voters. $35 million was allocated for NC State's Engineering Graduate Research Center.
Carey Bostian wrote Development of the Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, 1924-1976. A print edition exists in the library.
Lynton Tayes Ballentine, lieutenant governor of North Carolina, and Greater University President Frank Porter Graham were the principal speakers. Honorary degrees were awarded to James Morgan Sherman of the Department of Dairy Industry at Cornell University; Franklin Warren Hobbs, industrialist and educational benefactor of Boston, MA; William Henry Sullivan, engineer and civic leader of Greensboro, NC; and Thomas Everett Browne, State Director of Vocational Education in North Carolina.
Consolidated University of North Carolina President William C. Friday announced that NC State may need to put a cap on enrollment unless more funding could be appropriated.
Terrence M. Curtin wrote The College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University: A Personal Perspective of Its Founding.
The Agricultural Experiment Station was transferred from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture to the North Carolina College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts.
The Health, Education, and Welfare Department (HEW) informed the University of North Carolina schools that its institutions, including NC State, failed to comply with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Gary Mock wrote A Century of Progress: The Textile Program, North Carolina State University, 1899-1999. A print edition exists in the library.
The principal speakers were North Carolina Governor William B. Umstead and President of the Consolidated University Gordon Gray. The baccalaureate sermon was given by Henry I. Loutit, Episcopal Bishop of Southern Florida. Honorary degrees were awarded to Lynton Yates Ballentine, commissioner of Agriculture for North Carolina; Walter Gropius, architect in the Bauhaus style; John Warren Smith, Assistant State Director of Vocational Education in North Carolina; George William Gilette, Colonel in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; and Herman Cone, textile manufacturer of Greensboro.
Reinard Harkema wrote A Concise History of the Department of Zoology, North Carolina State University at Raleigh (1887-1977). A print edition exists in the library.
Ralph J. McCracken published his book The History of Soil Science at North Carolina State University. An updated version existed on the department's website.
