Inventory of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina Records, 1789-1932

Collection Number 40001

Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Contact Information:

Manuscripts Department

CB#3926, Wilson Library

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890

Phone: 919/962-1345

Fax: 919/962-3594

Email: mss@email.unc.edu

URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/

Processed by

University Archives Staff

Date Processed

January 1958, April 1974, August 1975, January 1981, April 1982

Encoded by

Whitney E. Berman

Date Encoded

May 2004

Descriptive Summary

Repository

University Archives

Creator

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees

Title

Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina Records, 1789-1932

Call Number

40001

Extent

256 items (18 linear feet)

Languages

English.

Administrative Information

Restrictions to Access

No restrictions.

Alternate Form of Material

Board of Trustees minutes, 1789-1799, are reproduced in R. D. W. Connor's Documentary History of the University of North Carolina, 1776-1799. Minutes, 1789-1840, are in the Library of Congress Microfilm Collection of Early State Records. In addition, all 16 volumes of minutes have been microfilmed and are available on 5 reels in the Manuscripts Department.

Typed copies of Board minutes, 1800-1840, and of Executive Committee minutes, 1835-1873, are also available in the Manuscripts Department.

Provenance

Periodic transfer from the offices that create these records.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina Records #40001, University Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Curriculum planning--North Carolina--History.

Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.

Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Administration.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Buildings.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Discipline.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Finance.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees. Building Committee.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees. Executive Committee.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees. Secretary.

Related Collections

University Papers (#40005).

Historical Note

The charter of the University of North Carolina, ratified bythe state's General Assembly in 1789, named forty men to serve asTrustees of the new institution. The primary responsibility ofthe Trustees, according to the charter, was to handle all"monies, goods, and chattels. . . and Land, Rents, andHereditaments for the Use and Purposes of establishing andendowing the University." The duties and structure of this Boardof Trustees remained essentially the same until 1932, althoughthe method of selection varied somewhat and the membership increased as the state and University grew. Until 1868 appointments to the Board were for life. The state Constitution of that year set terms at eight years and established the practice of selecting one Trustee from each county plus certain ex officio members. From 1868 to 1873 the State Board of Education selected the Trustees; thereafter, they were selected by joint ballot of the General Assembly.

On March 27, 1931, the General Assembly passed the Act ofConsolidation, creating the Consolidated University of NorthCarolina, a system comprised of three previously separateinstitutions--the University of North Carolina, North CarolinaState College of Agriculture and Engineering, and the NorthCarolina College for Women. It also appointed a new Board ofTrustees of one-hundred members (at least ten of whom were to bewomen) to serve as the governing body of the new system beginningJuly 1, 1932. The pre-Consolidation Boards of Trustees of theindividual institutions were discontinued. Though many of themembers of the Consolidated Board had previously been Trustees ofone of the constituent schools, their purpose was now to promotethe interests of the University system.

Collection Overview

Records include minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1789-1932, and of its Executive Committee, 1835-1932; also files of the Secretary of the Board, 1922-1932, and of the Building Committee, 1921-1929.

Organization of Collection

1. Minutes.
2. Secretary of the Board of Trustees Records.
3. Committee Records.

Detailed Description of the Collection