Found 169 events matching "University of North Carolina System"
Dudley Marchi wrote Brief History of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at North Carolina State University. A version of this history exists on the departmental website.
The speaker was Charles D. McIver, founder and president of what is now known as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The baccalaureate sermon was given by A. D. Thaeller of Salem, NC.
The North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station began pasteurizing milk at the creamery in Patterson Hall. This marked the first pasteurization of milk in North Carolina.
The Watauga Club successfully lobbied the North Carolina State Legislature, with the sponsorship of Leazar Dixon, to pass a bill for an industrial school separate from the University of North Carolina's land scrip. The legislation didn't mandate the school, however, and didn't provide sufficient funding.
State College joined UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University in contributing catalog cards to the North Carolina Union Catalog, the first collaborative effort between the three libraries.
In 1968, North Carolina State University approved the Master of Landscape Architecture degree and replaced the five-year bachelor's degree with a four-year Bachelor in Environmental Design in Landscape Architecture degree.
The UNC System was created with NC State as one of the constituent campuses. A Board of Governors was established at the system level, and a new Board of Trustees was instituted at NC State to oversee matters specific to the university.
Colleges to provide agricultural education were still not created at the University of North Carolina, which was an obligation upon receiving land-grant funding. These colleges existed only in theory in the university's course catalogs.
Gerald B. Havenstein wrote the History of the Department of Poultry Science and Other Poultry Related Programs at North Carolina State University, 1881-2010. A print edition exists in the library.
Authored by William L. Carpenter and Dean W. Colvard, the college published Knowledge Is Power : A History of the School of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University, 1877-1984.
Wallace C. Riddick worked as a civil engineer before joining the faculty at NC State and continued professional service in Raleigh while teaching, including work on rebuilding the city’s water system. He served as president of North Carolina State College from 1916 to 1923 and was the founding dean of the School of Engineering from 1923 to 1937.
The speaker was William W. Kitchin, U.S. Congressman and governor of North Carolina.
Botany courses were offered when the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts opened. One of the first five faculty members at the university was Wilbur Fisk Massey, Professor of Horticulture, Arboriculture, and Plant Biology, and horticulturist of the experiment station.
Bertie Edwards Fearing wrote A History of the Department of Adult and Community College Education at North Carolina State University: A Need, a Response, and a Model. A print edition exists in the library.
The commencement speaker was Clifford M. Hardin, chancellor of the University of Nebraska. Remarks to the graduating class were also given by Governor Terry Sanford and University of North Carolina President William Friday. Honorary degrees were awarded to Henry Armfield Foscue, William Dallas Herring, Louis Isadore Kahn, Lillian Parker Wallace, and David Stathem Weaver.
The Federation of Home Bureaus changed to the North Carolina Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs.
Benjamin W. Kilgore became the first director of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service.
Marshall Delancey Haywood served in 1902-1903, during which time he worked on his book, William Tryon and his Administration in the Province of North Carolina, 1765-1771 (1903). Haywood resigned when college president G. T. Winston cut his low-paying salary. He later became a noted author of North Carolina history and librarian of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1918 to 1933.
George B. Hoadley, Edward G. Manning, and William J. Barclay wrote A Brief History of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: College of Engineering, North Carolina State University. An updated version was hosted on the departmental website.
History courses were offered when the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts opened.
