University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Committee on the Status of Minorities and the Disadvantaged.

The Committee on the Status of Minorities and the Disadvantaged originated in the summer of 1968 as a special committee appointed by Chancellor Sitterson. The committee was charged to study the experiences of minority and disadvantaged students at the university and to recommend ways to increase minority recruitment and improve student satisfaction. In December 1968 it became a standing committee of the Faculty Council and continued to focus on the recruitment and performance of minority and disadvantaged students. Later it was charged with addressing the ongoing needs and concerns of all minority and disadvantaged students, faculty, and staff. In 1997 it was replaced by the Committee on Community and Diversity.