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May 3, 2007
Trustee Resolution Regarding Leutze Commission Report For the past eighteen months, the possibility that the UNC system might consider establishing a campus at Wesleyan College has prompted a great deal of discussion about our future. While the Rocky Mount community stood squarely behind the project, the North Carolina Wesleyan Board of Trustees abstained from taking a position on the matter. Rather, the Board of Trustees took the position that until and if a proposal was forthcoming, adopting a formal position was unnecessary. The Leutze Commission has issued its Report and has recommended that the project not go forward. President Bowles has accepted the Report and that recommendation. North Carolina Wesleyan’s response to the Leutze commission is to affirm that it does not intend to become part of the UNC system. In addition, the Leutze Report’s suggestion that area high school graduates might receive face-to-face instruction in UNC- sponsored undergraduate courses in the Gateway Technology Center is not one that the North Carolina Wesleyan Board of Trustees can support or allow. The Gateway Technology Center was established to provide advanced technical programs as needed by local industry. It was on that basis that the Wesleyan Board agreed to lease the facility for use by UNC. It cannot agree to a state-supported program competing with North Carolina Wesleyan College on its own property. It is now time for North Carolina Wesleyan College to clarify its intentions. The College looks forward to continuing as it has for its first half century – a private college established through the joint efforts of the citizens of Rocky Mount and Nash and Edgecombe counties and of the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church. Self-governing and independent, the College is proud to maintain its connection to the United Methodist Church. Approved by the North Carolina Wesleyan College Board of Trustees April 27, 2007 |
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