#40090 RECORDS OF THE CURRICULUM IN PEACE, WAR AND DEFENSE University Archives and Records Service Unversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB# 3926 Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514-8890 July 1986 Revised 1/93 On April 19, 1969, the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences appointed an ad hoc committee of the College's Administrative Board to study the current status of and to make recommendations for changing the administration of the campus ROTC programs. The committee's report, known as the Taylor Report, was dated December 18, 1969. It reviewed the histories of the Naval (established in 1940) and the Air Force (established in 1947) ROTC programs at UNC-CH and recommended that these programs be fully integrated into the campus academic process. To accomplish this goal, the committee advocated that the ROTC programs be organized under a new Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense. The Curriculum's Director, assisted by an Advisory Committee, was to oversee course revisions and the appointment of teaching personnel to assure compliance with the ad hoc committee's recommendations. On April 9, 1970, the Faculty Council adopted the Taylor Report and stipulated that the new Curriculum should be instituted by the fall semester of 1971. Due to protracted negotiations with the Air Force over approval of the required course revisions, appointment of the Curriculum Director and the initiation of the new Curriculum was delayed. Agreement with the Air Force was finally achieved early in December 1971 and on July 1, 1972, Samuel R. Williamson was appointed Director of the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense. Directors of the Curriculum and their tenures have been: Samuel R. Williamson 1972 - 1978 Townsend Ludington (Acting) 1978 James R. Leutze 1978 - 1987 R. Don Higginbotham 1987 - 1991 Richard H. Kohn 1992 - The archival records of the Curriculum relate to the development of its academic program and to its incorporation into the campus education effort. There is much material on course development; the scheduling of special speakers, lectures and seminars; and negotiations with Navy and Air Force personnel on the officer-training requirements of the services. The records are especially valuable for their reflection of the campus mood during the Vietnam War years. The arrangement and content of the Curriculum's archival records are described on the following pages. SERIES 1: ADMINISTRATIVE FILES The files in this series relate to overall administration of the Curriculum. Records of Advisory Committee actions, correspondence and negotiations with the Navy and Air Force on the assignment of personnel and the approval of new contracts, as well as correspondence with and reports to campus administrators, will be found in this series. Box 1: Accreditation of ROTC, Committee on, (Taylor Report) 1969-1973 Advisory Committee on Curriculum, 1970-1981 Annual Reports, 1972/73-1978/79 Budget and Finance: Budget, 1977-1979 Foundations: Babcock Foundation, 1973 Ford Foundation Proposal, 1975-1979 NCHC Proposal, 1979 Correspondence: General, 1972-1974; 1976-1978 Aerospace Studies/AFROTC, 1967-1968; 1971-1981; 1985 Arts and Sciences, 1973-1979; 1981-1982; 1985 Chancellor Taylor, 1972-1976 Department of History, 1973-1977 Naval Science/NROTC, 1968-1985 Box 2: Disenrollment, 1971-1978 Enrollment, 1977; 1981 Five Year Plan, 1974-1976 Military Academy Candidates, 1976-1978 Outside Organizations: Association of NROTC Colleges, 1972-1974; 1976-1980 U.S. Army Military History Research Collection, 1972-1976 SERIES 2: PROGRAMS AND SPEAKERS Series 2 consists of records documenting the programs, seminars and speakers sponsored by the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense. The Series is divided into two groups: Programs and Speakers. Each group is arranged chronologically. The following list provides the name of the Program/Speaker, the date, and in parentheses when available, the title of the lecture. Box 2 (continued): Programs: Amnesty Panel, 1972-1973 ROTC Conference, 1973 Arms Control Seminar, February, 1973 Japanese Festival, January, 1977 Tet Offensive Program, February, 1978 All Volunteer Services Symposium, 1977-1979 Iranian Symposium, March, 1979 John Wayne Festival, October, 1979 Price Peace Lecture, 1982-1983 Speakers: Admiral Zumwalt (Sea Power and the Silent War) November 3, 1972 Jerome Kahan (Salt II and Beyond: The Coming Issue of Arms Control) January 29, 1973 Josiah Bunting (Military Fiction) April 16, 1973 Chalmers Roberts (Watergate, National Security and the Press: What are the Limits?) Sept. 25, 1973 General Royal Allison, (Negotiating Salt I with the Russians) Oct 15, 1973 Richard Wasserstrom (War Crimes: Some Problems of Responsibility) December 13, 1973 Les Aspin (Legislating Defense Policy) Jan. 28, 1974 General Robert White, February 4, 1974 Johnathan Steinberg (The Risorgimento: Ideological and Economic Backwardness in 19th Century Italy) October 15, 1974 Ronald Coons, 1974 Walter Lafeber (Roosevelt, Churchill and the Origins of American Involvement in Indochina) January 15, 1975 Dr. Benjamin Spock, September 17, 1978 SERIES 2: PROGRAMS AND SPEAKERS (continued) Box 2 (continued): Speakers (continued): James W. Kerr (Dr. Strangelove on the Beach or Everything You Have Always Wanted to Know About All Out War) November 19, 1979 Barry Lynne (The Case Against Registration and the Draft) March 20, 1980 SERIES 3: CURRICULUM Series 3 contains files on the development of specific courses in the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense. The series is divided into two sections: Courses and Syllabi. The information in this series relates to specific courses, not to the general development of a curriculum. For more general information, see Advisory Committee on Curriculum in Series 1. Courses: PWAD 11a and 11b, 1973-1974 PWAD 51, 1972-1974 PWAD 77, 1977 PWAD 78, Spring 1978 PWAD 84, 1976 PWAD 90 (misc.), 1973-1977 PWAD 90-5, Spring 1976 PWAD 106, 1977 PWAD 156, 1980 PWAD 157, 1974 PWAD 164, 1972-1976 PWAD 300, 1974 Syllabi, 1973-1977; 1980