University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense.

The Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense was established in 1972 after an ad hoc committee recommended that the university's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs be integrated into the academic process. The Curriculum was created to administer the ROTC programs and to plan and oversee the courses that would be taught under them.

On 19 April 1969, the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences appointed an ad hoc committee of the college's Administrative Board to study the current status of and to make recommendations for changing the administration of the campus Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) programs. The committee's report, known as the Taylor Report, was dated 18 December 1969. It reviewed the histories of the Naval (established in 1940) and the Air Force (established in 1947) ROTC programs at the university and recommended that these programs be fully integrated into the campus academic process. To accomplish this goal, the committee advocated that the ROTC programs be organized under a new Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense. The curriculum's director, assisted by an advisory committee, was to oversee course revisions and the appointment of teaching personnel to assure compliance with the ad hoc committee's recommendations.

On 9 April 1970, the Faculty Council adopted the Taylor Report and stipulated that the new curriculum should be instituted by the fall semester of 1971. Due to protracted negotiations with the Air Force over approval of the required course revisions, appointment of the curriculum director and initiation of the new curriculum were delayed. Agreement with the Air Force was finally achieved early in December 1971, and on 1 July 1972, Samuel R. Williamson was appointed Director of the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense.