NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 532

HOUSE BILL 318

AN ACT REWRITING G.S. 116-44.10(b) RELATING TO THE PURPOSES OF REGIONAL UNIVERSITIES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 116-44.10(b) is hereby rewritten in its entirety to read as follows:

"The Regional Universities shall provide undergraduate and graduate instruction in the liberal arts, fine arts, and sciences, and in the learned professions, including teaching, these being defined as those professions which rest upon advanced knowledge in the liberal arts and sciences; and said Regional Universities shall provide for research in the liberal arts and sciences, pure and applied. The Regional Universities shall provide other undergraduate and graduate programs of instruction as are deemed necessary to meet the needs of their constituencies and of the State. Regional Universities insofar as possible shall extend its educational activities to all persons of the State who are unable to avail themselves of their advantages as resident students by means of extension courses, by lectures, and by such other means and methods as may seem to the Boards of Trustees and administrative officers as most effective. The President and professors of each Regional University shall have the power of conferring all such degrees or marks of distinction as are conferred by colleges or universities, including the doctor's degree. All degree programs or marks of distinction offered or conferred by a Regional University shall be offered or conferred by and with the consent of the Board of Trustees of the University and subject to the approval of the North Carolina Board of Higher Education and in any case doctoral programs shall not be offered before the completion of the study on the role of regional universities as required by G.S. 116-44.16, and consistent with appropriations made therefor."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 116-15 is amended to delete the third sentence thereof.

Sec. 3.  G.S. 116-158(1) is amended to delete the second sentence thereof and to substitute a new sentence in lieu thereof which shall read as follows: 'No public senior educational institution shall request from the General Assembly, the Advisory Budget Commission or any other State agency approval of, or funding for, any new degree program or educational function or activity until the same has been approved by the board of trustees of the institution and acted upon, in accordance with regularly established procedures, by the Board of Higher Education.'

Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of May, 1969.