History || Officers || Board of Governors
UNCA Catalog: Table of Contents
History || Officers || Board of Governors
UNCA Catalog: Table of Contents
In North Carolina, all the public educational institutions that grant baccalaureate degrees are part of The University of North Carolina. The University of North Carolina at Asheville is one of 16 constituent senior institutions of the multicampus state university.
The University of North Carolina, chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1789, was the first public university in the United States to open its doors and the only one to graduate students in the 18th century. The first class was admitted in Chapel Hill in 1795. For the next 136 years, the only campus of The University of North Carolina was at Chapel Hill.
In 1877, the General Assembly began sponsoring additional institutions of higher education, diverse in origin and purpose. Five were historically black institutions and another was founded to educate American Indians. Several were created to prepare teachers for the public schools. Others had a technological emphasis. One is a training school for performing artists.
In 1931, the General Assembly redefined The University of North Carolina to include three state-supported institutions: the campus at Chapel Hill (now the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), North Carolina State College (now North Carolina State University at Raleigh) and Woman's College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). The new multicampus University operated with one board of trustees and one president. By 1969, three additional campuses had joined the University through legislative action: the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the University of North Carolina at Asheville and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
In 1971, the General Assembly passed legislation bringing into The University of North Carolina the state's 10 remaining public senior institutions, each of which had until then been legally separate: Appalachian State University, East Carolina University, Elizabeth City State University, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, North Carolina Central University, Pembroke State University, Western Carolina University and Winston-Salem State University. This action created the current 16-campus University. (In 1985, the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, a residential high school for gifted students, was declared an affiliated school of the University; and in 1996, Pembroke State University was renamed the University of North Carolina at Pembroke through legislative action.)
The UNC Board of Governors is the policy-making body legally charged with "the general determination, control, supervision, management and governance of all affairs of the constituent institutions." It elects the president, who administers the University. The 32 voting members of the Board of Governors are elected by the General Assembly for four-year terms. Former board chairmen and board members who are former governors of North Carolina may continue to serve for limited periods as non-voting members emeriti. The president of the UNC Association of Student Governments, or that student's designee, is also a non-voting member.
Each of the 16 constituent institutions is headed by a chancellor, who is chosen by the Board of Governors on the president's nomination and is responsible to the president. Each institution has a board of trustees, consisting of eight members elected by the Board of Governors, four appointed by the governor, and the president of the student body who serves ex-officio. (The North Carolina School of the Arts has two additional ex-officio members.) Each board of trustees holds extensive powers over academic and other operations of its institution on delegation from the Board of Governors.
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Molly Corbett Broad, B.A, M.A. ...........................................................President Roy Carroll, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. ..........Senior Vice President, Vice President for Academic Affairs Gary Barnes, B.A., M.S., Ph.D. ..............Vice President for Program Assessment & Public Service Charles R. Coble, A.A., A.B., M.A.T., Ed.D. ..........Vice President for University School Programs Rosalind R. Fuse-Hall, B.S., J.D. ..................................... Secretary of the University William O. McCoy, B.S., M.S. ............................................Vice President for Finance J.B. Milliken, B.A., J.D. .............Vice President for Public Affairs and University Advancement Judith Pulley, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. .......................................Vice President for Planning Richard H. Robinson, Jr., A.B., LL.B. ...................................Assistant to the PresidentReturn to the top of the page
Bradley T. Adcock.........................................................................Durham G. Irvin Aldridge ........................................................................Manteo Lois G. Britt .........................................................................Rose Hill F. Edward Broadwell, Jr. ..............................................................Asheville Robert J. Brown ......................................................................High Point William T. Brown ...................................................................Fayetteville C. Clifford Cameron (Chair) ...........................................................Charlotte John F. A.V. Cecil (Secretary) ........................................................Asheville Bert Collins .............................................................................Durham Orville D. Coward, Sr. ....................................................................Sylva Ray S. Farris..........................................................................Charlotte John C. Fennebresque ..................................................................Charlotte H. Frank Grainger ..........................................................................Cary James E. Holshouser, Jr. (emeritus) ..............................................Southern Pines Larnie G. Horton, Sr. ...................................................................Raleigh C. Ralph Kinsey, Jr. ..................................................................Charlotte Helen Rhyne Marvin .....................................................................Gastonia Timoth Keith Moore................................................................Kings Mountain W. Kenneth Morgan, Sr. .............................................................Jacksonville Maxine H. O'Kelley ...................................................................Burlington Cary C. Owen ..........................................................................Asheville Barbara S. Perry ........................................................................Kinston D. Wayne Peterson ................................................................Westwood, Kan. Earl N. Phillips, Jr. ................................................................High Point Jim W. Phillips, Jr. .................................................................Greensboro Samuel H. Poole (emeritus)...............................................................Raleigh Marshall A. Rauch ......................................................................Gastonia Paul J. Rizzo .......................................................................Chapel Hill J. Craig Souza ..........................................................................Raleigh Joseph E. Thomas .......................................................................New Bern Robert F. Warwick ....................................................................Wilmington James Bradley Wilson ....................................................................Raleigh Terry Eaton (ex officio)...............................................................CharlotteReturn to the top of the page
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