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[Identification of Item], North Carolina State University Office of the Chancellor Records, UA 002, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, North Carolina.
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The Chancellor is the chief administrative and executive officer, leader and spokesperson of North Carolina State University and reports to the President of the University of North Carolina General Administration and the Board of Governors, whose members are appointed by the North Carolina legislature. The University is governed by a 13-member North Carolina State University Board of Trustees. The Chancellor, who has complete executive authority for the university, subject to the direction of the president and the board of trustees, defines the scope and authority of faculties, councils, committees, and officers of North Carolina STate University, is a member of all faculties and other academic bodies of the university and has the right to preside over the deliberations of the legislative bodies of the faculties of the institution.
The Office of the Chancellor retains authority in faculty and EPA personnel, student matters, contracts, leases and other agreements, and the acquisition and disposition of property. Duties include, but are not limited to, the establishment of admissions policies, administration of scholarship and financial aid, appointment of tenure-track faculty positions, head coaches and the athletic director, administration of intercollegiate athletics, regulation of student activities and conduct, and maintainence of campus security.
The university was established as North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (A & M College) in 1887. The name was changed in 1917 to North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (State College). State College became North Carolina State University in 1965. The university was originally headed by a "President " (1889-1934), then a "Vice President" of the Consolidated University (1934), then a "Dean of Administration" (1934-1945), and finally a "Chancellor" (1945-present).
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