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The University of North Carolina is a sixteen-university system which comprises all public four-year universities in North Carolina , United States . While the system's Board of Governors oversee general system policy, each campus executes a large degree of autonomy from the system and are classified as separate institutions. The system has a total enrollment of over 183,000 students and confers over 75% of all bachelor degrees in North Carolina. {Link without Title} HISTORY The first campus of the University of North Carolina was founded in 1789 in Chapel Hill . This was the first public university in the United States to award degrees and the only campus of the University of North Carolina for 136 years. In 1877 , the State of North Carolina began sponsoring additional higher education institutions. Over time the state added five Historically Black Institutions and one to educate Native Americans . Others were created to prepare Teacher s for Public Education and to instruct Performing Artists . During the , the University Of North Carolina At Asheville , and the University Of North Carolina At Wilmington . In 1971, the North Carolina passed legislation bringing into the University of North Carolina all 16 public institutions that confer bachelor degrees. This round of consolidation granted each constituent institution a Chancellor and a Board Of Trustees . 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. STRUCTURE Chapter 9 of the North Carolina Constitution provides authorization for the creation of The University of North Carolina. Under this authorization, Chapter 116 of the North Carolina General Statute entrusts The University of North Carolina to its Board of Governors. The Board of Governors is the policy-making body 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. The president of the UNC Association of Student Governments is also a non-voting member. The Board of Governors delegates extensive administrative authority to each constituent university. Each institution 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 also 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. The composition of the Board of Trustees is set by General Statute. LEGAL MANDATE The legal authority and mandate for The University of North Carolina can be found in the North Carolina Constitution . Article 9 of the constitution deals with all form of public education in the state. Sections 8 and 9 of that article stipulate the function and cost to students of the University of North Carolina. Those sections read as follows:
''The General Assembly shall maintain a public system of higher education, comprising The University of North Carolina and such other institutions of higher education as the General Assembly may deem wise. The General Assembly shall provide for the selection of trustees of The University of North Carolina and of the other institutions of higher education, in whom shall be vested all the privileges, rights, franchises, and endowments heretofore granted to or conferred upon the trustees of these institutions. The General Assembly may enact laws necessary and expedient for the maintenance and management of The University of North Carolina and the other public institutions of higher education.''
''The General Assembly shall provide that the benefits of The University of North Carolina and other public institutions of higher education, as far as practicable, be extended to the people of the State free of expense.'' PRESIDENTS Consolidated University of North Carolina
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CONSTITUENT INSTITUTIONS ''Table updated with most recent available data September 26 , 2006 '' #Highly qualified group has a SAT score >= 1100 and in top 20% of high school class. #All classifications as published by the Carnegie Foundation . #As published by the University of North Carolina's Institutional Profiles ''Statistics gathered from UNC System .''
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