University of North Carolina (System). Board of Trustees

With the creation in 1932 of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, which included the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina State College in Raleigh, and Woman's College in Greensboro, the North Carolina General Assembly appointed a new hundred-member Board of Trustees as its government body.

With the creation in 1932 of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, which included the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina State College in Raleigh, and Woman's College in Greensboro, the North Carolina General Assembly appointed a new hundred-member Board of Trustees as its governing body.

On March 27, 1931, the North Carolina General Assembly passed the Act of Consolidation, creating the Consolidated University of North Carolina, a system comprised of three previously separate institutions--the University of North Carolina, North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering, and the North Carolina College for Women. (The North Carolina College for Women was renamed Woman's College of the University of North Carolina.) The General Assembly also appointed a new Board of Trustees of one-hundred members, at least ten of whom were to be women, to serve as the governing body of the new system beginning July 1, 1932.

Members of the new Board were to serve eight-year terms, with vacancies to be filled by the General Assembly. The pre-Consolidation Boards of Trustees of the individual institutions were discontinued. Though many of the members of the Consolidated Board had previously been trustees of one of the constituent schools, their purpose was now to promote the interests of the University system.

In 1972 the University system was expanded to include sixteen campuses. At that time the Board of Trustees of the Consolidated University was replaced by the Board of Governors, and separate Boards of Trustees were re-established for the constituent institutions.