Records of the Division of Extension and Continuing Education, 1931-1976.

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Records of the Division of Extension and Continuing Education, 1931-1976.

Records include correspondence and other files relating to the Division's academic contest program, 1940-1975; the North Carolina High School Debating Union, organized by the University's debating societies and supervised by the Division, 1937-1976; the High School World Peace Study and Speaking Program, 1936-1962; and programs run cooperatively by the Division and the Dept. of Music under the name Bureau of Community Music. Among the latter are files on the North Carolina Symphony Society, 1932-1935, 1946, 1955; the Carolina Opera School, 1951-1954; and the Institute of Folk Music, 1931-1934. Also included are files on the Southern Art Projects, funded by the Carnegie Corporation and administered in part by the Extension Division, 1934-1935.

About 2,900 items (4.5 linear ft.).

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Carolina Opera School.

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Southern Art Projects

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North Carolina Symphony Society

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High School World Peace Study and Speaking Program

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Bureau of Extension

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Division of Extension and Continuing Education

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The University's Bureau of Extension was established in 1913 with Louis Round Wilson as Director. In 1921, its name changed to Extension Division. The early division provided a number of programs and services to the state, including a speaker's bureau, public discussions and debates, correspondence courses, legislative reference aids, resources for public school teachers, continuing education for doctors, and the Good Roads Institute. In 1976, the Extension Division was reorganized and renamed D...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Extension Division.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Division of Continuing Education

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Extension Division.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of Music.

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High School Debating Union

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Bureau of Community Music.

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Institute of Folk Music.

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