Sanders, John L.

John L. Sanders (1927- ), a white faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, taught at and/or directed the Institute of Government (IOG) from 1956 to 1994, with interruptions. The IOG provides training, research, publishing, and consulting for North Carolina's state and local governments. Sanders was also directly involved in state and local government, working on the creation of a statewide community college system and on state constitutional and reapportionment issues. He helped design a plan for desegregating The University of North Carolina and, as Vice President for Planning for the University, 1973-1978, helped complete the its first long-range plan. He was active on The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Buildings and Grounds Committee and in The University of North Carolina Faculty Assembly. The collection includes papers of John L. Sanders concerning The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina politics, business, and history. Topics include the reapportionment of the North Carolina General Assembly and the redistricting of its congressional districts, the restructuring of the state's community college system, the revision of tenure standards and the retirement age for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professors, Sanders's work on the Governor's Commission on Education Beyond the High School and the Governor's Commission on the Future of North Carolina (NC 2000), and the Research Triangle Foundation Board of Directors and the development of Research Triangle Park. There are also materials relating to the North Carolina Bar Association; the Kellenberger Historical Foundation; the Tryon Palace Commission and other historic preservation work in Edenton, N.C.; the Historical Society of North Carolina; and the Historic Preservation Foundation (Preservation North Carolina). Also included are materials relating to Sanders's service at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the Bicentennial Observance Planning Committee, the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Historic Properties, the Morehead Planetarium Task Force, and the Committee on the University and Public Service, and his time as a student at the University of North Carolina in 1949-1950.

Sanders, John L., Friends Committee