SR_DPI_DNE_Special_Subject_File_B20F4_Budget_Briefs_Reports_1953_001

[Text on the top] Nath Cainhin College
Resolution 44
H.R. 1082 Session Laws, 1953
A JOINT RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A COMMISSION BY THE GOVERNOR FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING A STUDY OF ALL INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORTED BY STATE FUNDS

WHEREAS, there has been significant progress during the last decade in the institutions of higher education supported by the State of North Carolina, including the growth of physical plants, the strengthening and expansion of the facilities and staffs and added services to the people of the State; and
WHEREAS, the Legislature is aware of these important advances and, in anticipation of the continued growth and development of our institutions to meet the needs of our growing population, it is the sense of the Legislature that a study should be made of the role and function of each of the States Institutions:
Now, therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
Section 1. The Governor of North Carolina is authorized and empowered to appoint a commission to be known as the Commission on Higher Education and to consist of seven citizens of this State.
Section 2. It shall be the duty of the commission so appointed:
(1) To make a comprehensive study of the purpose, organization, function and operation of each of the institutions of higher education supported by State funds; and
(2) To determine relationships between these institutions and to make recommendations deemed necessary to achieve maximum educational benefits for the people of the State; and
(2) To make a study of all the laws of the State pertaining to these Institutions of higher learning and to make recommendations to the 1955 Session of the General Assembly so as to any pertinent revisions of said laws.
Section 3. Immediately upon its appointment, the Commission shall meet and elect from its members a chairman and a secretary.
Section 4. The Commission may employ, and at pleasure remove, a secretary, counsel, consultants and such other officers and employees as it may deem necessary for the performance of its functions and fix the compensation within the amounts made available by appropriations herein provided.