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office. In our judgment the problems of personal conduct should not be divorced from the other problems and activities that go to make up the life of the student. Let us illustrate. A student may be doing unsatisfactory work in the classroom. The reason for it may be that he fails to keep study hours or that he spends his evenings in town. The Disciplinarian could discipline more intelligently and effectively if he knew of the kind of class work which the student was doing; or the Dean could be more effective in dealing with the class work of the student if he had the information which the Disciplinarian has. We are of the opinion, then, that disciplinary problems should be handled through the Dean's office. Of course, the Dean could delegate some of these problems to an individual, but there need be no public acknowledgement, the psychology of which is to put the Administration on the defensive.

VII. We feel quite certain the operating income of the North Carolina College for Negroes is sufficient to carry out a program of work such as has been recommended. We are convinced, also, that this program would constitute a partial realization of the function of the institution as set forth in the Preamble to the Act which created it. In our judgment, during the next three years the college should use its energy and effort on standardizing its work and in perfecting the program that has been outlined. In the end, the institution will serve itself best by doing a few things well. If it should develop that all available resources would be required for doing the work that has been recommended, future expansion would come through convincing the Legislature of the the need for further expansion and the securing of additional appropriations for definite objects of expansion. If we should venture a suggestion as

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to what the next object of expansion ought to be it would be the addition of a Department of Home Economics. In making this suggestion we are assuing that A. and T. College will continue to remain a school for boys only. Perhaps it would be well for the trustees of the North Carolina College for Negroes to find out whether A. and T. College is giving any thought to making of itself a coeducational institution. If it should be ascertained that A. and T. College has no desire to become a coeducational institution, then the North Carolina College for Negroes ought ultimately to have Home Economics in its curriculum. If the college should continue to grow, as we expect it will, the addition of that department might be a specific objective for legislative request in 1931. It would be well to have that in mind in the erection of the new Administration Building and make provision for laboratory and classroom space.

VIII. We appreciate, as do you, the imperative need for the carrying out of your building program and the developing of your physical plant. The institution can not hope to be a real college in its present physical state. We are anxious to assist in any way possible. Our interest and sympathy encompass the whole cause of education, public and private, white and colored, and we realize fully that the cause of Negro Education will be jeopardized if the North Carolina College for Negroes should fail.

It has been a real pleasure and delight to prepare this report, at your request. We have tried to concern ourselves with what we consider to be some of the fundamentals. We hope what we have said may prove helpful to you in

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determining the policies and in directing the course of the institution. We make this report with full knowledge that the affairs of the institution are in the hands of the Trustees, as evidenced by:

Chapter 20, pages 25 - 26, under Private Laws of North Carolina, session 1927; to wit:

Sec. 3. There shall be twelve trustees for the said North Carolina College for Negroes, appointed by the Governor In the trustees shall be vested all the rights, privilages, franchises, and endowments in anywise granted to or conferred upon the trustees of the North Carolina College for Negroes.

Sec. 5. The Trustees shall have the power to make such rules and regulations for the management of the North Carolina College for Negroes as they may deem necessary and expedient, not inconsistent with the laws of the State.

Sec. 8. and that the said board of Trustees shall fix the curriculum of the said North Carolina College for Negroes.

Since the management of the affairs of the institution rests entirely with the trustees, we appreciate even more the honor which as come to us in your requesting our counsel and advice.

APPENDIX

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List of Faculty with their Training

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Salary Schedule for 1927 - 28

III

Summary of Attendance 1927 - 28

IV

Receipts of North Carolina College for Negroes, July 1st, 1927 to December 31, 1927 (Tuition and other fees only)

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Alfonso Elder

A. B. Atlanta University; M. A. Columbia 1925

*Ruth Rush

A. B. Clark University, Atlanta, Ga., 1915, Columbia University 4 summers M. A. Harvard University 1927

C. G. O'Kelly

A. B. Lincoln University 1885 A. M. Lincoln University 1885 S. T. B. Seminary University 1888 D. D. Lincoln 1913

David M. Waters

A. B. Lincoln University 1919 A. M. Lincoln University 1920 Post Graduate student Syracuse University 1921 Post Graduate student New York University 1924

Ruth Gwendolyn Smith

A. B. Syracuse University 1926 Graduate work Syracuse 1925-26 (24 semester hours) Summer School Columbia 1927

Marjorie A. Shepard

A. B. Fisk University 1920 Summer School Hampton Institute and Columbia University

L. M. Donaldson

B. A. Lincoln University 1926 Six weeks summer school University Pennsylvania 1927

* On leave 1927-28