The Evening College was established in the fall of 1958 to
enable adult, part-time students from the local community to take
courses for extension credit.  Originally a program of the
Extension Division's Bureau of Class Instruction, the Evening
College offered night sections of regular University courses
taught by faculty members from the academic departments
concerned.  Up to thirty semester hours of credit earned in the
Evening College could be applied toward an undergraduate degree
at the University.  During the fall and spring semesters of 1958-
59, 157 people registered for evening courses in Classics,
English, Mathematics, Psychology, Social Science, and Sociology.
By the spring semester of 1962 enrollment in the Evening College,
as it had come to be called, had grown to 360 students in
eighteen courses.  The following year (1962-63) the combined fall
and spring enrollment was 1175 students.

     Until 1963 the Evening College was self-supporting, but its
increasing popularity prompted the University to provide more
support as well as to exert more control.  In its instructional
budget request for the 1963-65 biennium the University asked for
and received state funding for the Evening College.  At the same
time the academic program of the Evening College was placed under
the supervision of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
and was adjusted as closely as possible to the requirements of
the General College.  Administrative and budgetary supervision
remained with the Extension Division.  An Administrative Board,
composed of faculty, was also appointed.

     From 1958 until 1963 the Head of the Bureau of Class
Instruction was administratively in charge of the Evening
College.  Although his position was not officially titled
Director, this individual was frequently referred to as the
Director of the Evening College.  On November 1, 1963, Sim O.
Wilde, who had been Head of the Bureau of Class Instruction since
September 1, 1962, was officially designated Director of the
Evening College and Associate Director of Extension.  His
successor, Dwight Rhyne, also had that title.  Later
administrators had only the Division title, i.e., Associate
Director of Extension (and later Continuing Education).
Officials in charge of the Evening College and their tenures have
been as follows:

          Simpson Owenby Wilde, Jr.     1963-1965
          Dwight C. Rhyne               1965-1981
          Lea Mitchell Blanton          1981-1997
          Armando Pares                 1997-

     In 1991 the name of the Evening College changed to
Continuing Studies.  Continuing Studies currently offers both
daytime and evening courses for graduate and undergraduate part-
time students, including a two-year program by which students may
fulfill their General College requirements.  Courses are taught
in campus facilities by UNC instructors.

     For related information on the Evening College, see:

          RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR
          RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE PROVOST
          RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATE
               PROVOST FOR EDUCATIONAL AND SUPPORT SERVICES
          RECORDS OF OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
               OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

     The archival records of the Evening College are arranged as
follows:


SUBGROUP 1:  ADMINISTRATIVE FILES

Box 1:
     SERIES 1:  BUDGET RECORDS
          Printouts of State Funds Expenditures, 1971-1978
          Check Registers, Monthly and Bi-Weekly Payrolls,
               1971-1979