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The School of Design Library was named in honor of Harrye B. Lyons, librarian at the school for 20 years.
A popular myth that there was a "high academic mortality rate" for School of Design students was debunked by the Technician. Of the 629 students enrolled in the School of Design, only 12 received flunking grades at a 2% mortality rate. This was much less than the rumored rate of 10%.
The Department of Adult and Community College Education was renamed the Department of Adult and Higher Education.
Daniel L. Solomon was the first dean of College of Sciences and served in the position until he retired in 2015.
The Visual Arts Center opened in the Talley Student Center. The arts center later became known as the Gregg Museum of Art & Design.
Claude E. McKinney left his post as dean of the School of Design and became the Special Assistant to the Chancellor for the Development of Centennial Campus.
The North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts was established using a combination of scrip funds reallocated from the University of North Carolina and funds from the Hatch Act of 1886, which established the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station.
The Gregg Museum of Art & Design temporarily moved off-campus to Brickhaven, near the Raulston Arboretum, while the Old Chancellor's Residence space was prepared for it.
Immediately after the dedication, the James B. Hunt Jr. Library won the AIA National Award and the AIA/ALA Library Building Award. In 2014, the library won the ALA Library Interior Design Award and the AIA Education Facility Design Award. It later garnered additional awards and was featured in Architecture magazine. Time magazine called it the "library of the future."
Two faculty in the College of Textiles, J.B. Gaither and J.W. Klibbe, reinstated the annual Textile Exposition and Style Show in 1959 as a Phi Psi project. Gaither had graduated in weaving and designing in 1938, participated in the style shows as a student, and realized the value of providing textile design students an outlet for their creativity. The shows continued for several years but were eventually discontinued.
The three separate departments of weaving, knitting, and design were merged into the Department of Textile Technology. 26 textile courses were dropped and 15 new courses were added to form the new curriculum.
J. J. Hren became head of the Department of Materials of Engineering. Under Hren's leadership, the department was renamed the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and became involved in the design of research facilities on Centennial Campus.
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 Department of Psychology was transferred from the College of Education, formerly the College of Education and Psychology, to the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Thomas Nelson became an instructor of weaving and design in the textiles program at NC State. Nelson was a graduate of the Preston Technical School in England in 1891 and the Lowell Textile School in 1899.
The NC State chapter of Runway of Dreams was created. The organization was created to empower people with disabilities to have confidence and self-expression through fashion and beauty inclusion, including through the design of fashionable adaptive apparel.
The Prague Institute, which established a year-round study abroad destination for design students, opened in January of 2005. The institute's name was later changed to the NC State European Center in Prague.
The Department of Computer Science was transferred from the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences to the College of Engineering.
