Records of the Honors Office of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1941-2001 (bulk 1954-2001).

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Records of the Honors Office of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1941-2001 (bulk 1954-2001).

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Records include correspondence, memoranda, reports, proposals, course descriptions, yearly program brochures, news clippings, and lists of students in the honors program. Of particular interest are files related to the early history and development of the program and files on the renovation, in the 1990s, of the Graham Memorial building for the use of the new James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, of which the Honors Office became a part. The latter include facilities plans, proposals, and reports; donor information; correspondence with architects and contractors; meeting minutes; and cost estimates. Most of the records are those of Associate Dean for Honors Robert C. Allen.

About 3600 items (4.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). College of Arts and Sciences.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Allen, Robert Clyde, 1950-....

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Honors Office.

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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...

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Honors Office..

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The honors program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established in 1954 within the College of Arts and Sciences to serve academically gifted freshmen. In 1958, the Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded the honors program with a five-year, $100,000 grant to expand its offerings. The position of assistant dean for honors was created in 1967 to increase recruitment efforts, and by the end of the decade, more than 100 freshmen were being admitted yearly to the program. In 19...