CREATOR: Throw in with the Devil get thrown in with the Devil :   Angels Gathered Here  Michael & Host

De Jure Segregation Out of the Closet at University of  North Carolina

 

"UNC General Administration has requested that the State Property Office approve and accept its concept for developing the JMC which involves 

Buck Stops Here!!
a lease of the existing land and facilities to a nonprofit created by the campuses   (UNCG) and NCA&TSU) and subsequent subleases to tenants that will occupy the JMC."  “The world is seeing explosive growth today in the commercialization of nanotechnology.  We will have all of the assets right here in Guilford County  that we need to participate in that explosion, and  they will be right here at the Gateway University Research Park." said Erskine president of the University of North Carolina  system .[ 1 ]    The Mission statement of the University of North Carolina is teaching and learning not research parks and commercialization.  
Orchestrating commercialization of  research the manner and means
 NC A&T federal sponsored research and equipment  came to  be
located at fraudulently alleged joint Millennial Campus  Gateway Research Park  and who   benefitted is subject of this Statement of the Case.    
 

Why is Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Joint and at Gateway Research Park?
 
The 1.4 Billion dollars plus question representing potential loss of UNC Federal research and Title VI  funding, has University of North Carolina - the legal name of the unelected 32 member NC Board of Governors (UNC BOG) - with statutory supervision of the 16 constituent  public universities n the UNC-System implemented segregationist policies of discrimination, separate and unequal dual system of education, and denial of equal protection with authorization of MS and PhD Nanoscience degree to cross-town HWI UNC Greensboro via the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) at fraudulent alleged statutory (NC. GS. § 116-198.34.(8b)) designated Joint Millennium
campus Gateway Research Park,  Inc,  requiring Nanoscience students be given the opportunity to take courses at the School of Engineering at HBI North Carolina A&T University ( NCA&T) and be able to work on collaborative projects with faculty in the  School of Engineering  when established UNC Policy Academic Program Planning and Evaluation pertaining to Interdisciplinary
Degrees 400.1.1 [R] that says  “ if more than one campus is involved in     offering  the program it would also be a joint degree”.  Excluding HMI NC A&T from offering Nanoscience degrees       which established UNC Policy says should be joint degrees, UNC BOG discriminated , denied due process, equal protection to the   university,   depriving it of enrollment growth funding, degree credit, and benefit of prior appropriations  for Nanoscience faculty as it facilitated cross town HWI Liberal Arts UNCG use HBI NC A&T’s curriculum, faculty, and research, to establish competitive  Nanoscience  program. 

PCG/UNC-NCCCS/UNC Interim report 3.doc/RB.SP.PC.CR.ATPCC.1/CC.14/10May05 Page 34

UNCG  2006-07 Academic Profile  Source : www. UNCG. edu

Regulations for Academic Program Planning and Evaluation  UNC Policy Manual  400.1.1[R]

Alleged UNCG Revised MS Nanoscience Request

GA questions to NCA&T/UNCG with Campus response and GA responses

Degrees - Amended and Restated Management Agreement (April 24, 2009)
 

UNITED STATES v. FORDICE, GOVERNOR OF MISSISSIPPI
United States v. Fordice, 505 U.S. 717 (1992) a United States Supreme Court case that resulted in an eight to one ruling that the eight public universities in Mississippi had not sufficiently integrated and that the state must take affirmative action to change this under the Equal Protection Clause and Title VI.    This is not a legal setting but for context and food for thought exampling UNC BOG policies in light of the selected text held in UNITED STATES v. FORDICE, GOVERNOR OF MISSISSIPPI :
..If the State perpetuates policies and practices traceable to its prior de jure dual system that continue to have segregative effects ...implicit in the court’s finding of “unnecessary” duplication is the absence of any educational justification ....and such policies are without sound educational justification and can be practicably eliminated, implicated the Equal Protection clause...
  1. whether Nanoscience degrees offered at cross-town HWI UNCG constitutional requiring  Nanoscience students access HBI NC A&T Engineering School faculty and research are necessary and/or an unnecessary duplication,
  2. whether excluding HBI from offering Nanoscience degrees established UNC Policy Academic Program Planning and Evaluation pertaining to Interdisciplinary Degrees 400.1.1 [R] that says “ if more than one campus is involved in offering the program it would also be a joint degree”,
  3. whether UNC BOG discriminated against HBI NC A&T  when UNCG Nanoscience degrees didn't comply with established UNC procedures in NC Guidelines for Academic Program Development subsection (B) and HBI NC A&T Nanoengineering degrees complied,
  4. whether when UNC Board of Governor authorized Nanoscience degrees at UNCG excluded HBI NC A&T from offering Nanoscience degrees in light of having authorized Nanoscience degrees at HWI UNC at Charlotte Board of Governors  implemented Nanoscience degrees at UNC HWIs and Nanoengineering at HBI NC A&T continued racial identification
  5. whether UNC Board of Governors designation of  HBIs as Master Intensive rather than Research Intensive unconstitutionally under funded HBIs,
 
 1.  whether Nanoscience degrees offered at cross-town HWI UNCG are  requiring  Nanoscience students access HBI NC A&T Engineering School faculty and research are necessary and/or an unnecessary duplication,
 
take courses at the School of Engineering at HBI North Carolina A&T University ( NCA&T) and be able to work on collaborative projects with faculty in the School of Engineering .

UNC Board of Governors wasn't writing on a Clean sheet paper with Nanotechnology
NC A&T is "well known in areas such as advanced materials, nanotechnology, computational science,  and says N.  Radhakrishnan, former  for research and economic development at N.C. A&T. The school also has significant strengths in other areas, including biotechnology, energy and the environment,  information sciences and technology,   logistics and transportation  development.    All  these  endeavors are aligned in eight  research clusters  that bring faculty together across disciplines to  develop large research projects.  These research clusters run in

"We're Not Following Any Path, We're Blazing A Trail"
 
parallel with a number  of multidisciplinary centers and institutes   at N.C. A&T, which develop partnerships  with private and corporate sponsors, educational institutions, and government agencies.  [3]
N.C. A&T Awarded NSF Engineering Research Center - Shena Crittendon
North Carolina A&T State University has been awarded a grant for an Engineering Research Center (ERC) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).  Engineering Research Center grants represent major investments by NSF in partnership with industry to transform engineering research and education.  The centers aim to produce innovative technologies and engineering graduates to significantly enhance the competitiveness of the U.S. economy. 
  Award funding has been approved at $18 million for the initial five years, with a potential duration of 10 years.  The NSF ERC for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials at A&T will conduct research in the areas of biomedical engineering and nano-bio applications and is in partnership with the Universities of Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.   It also has a global technical partner in Germany’s Hannover School of Medicine and a global cultural and outreach partner in the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. California State University at Los Angeles will serve as an outreach partner in the USA. The ERC has partnerships with pre-college institutions in North Carolina to involve teachers and students in engineering; it has partnerships with a broad range of North Carolina organizations devoted to entrepreneurship and small business development.

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SPEND SIX WEEKS AS BIOENGINEERING RESEARCHERS

High school students see the pulsed laser deposition

North Carolina A&T State University was selected as a host institution for Brazilian students participating in the Brazil Science without Borders program. The U.S. State Department reports that last year, President Obama and Brazilian President Rousseff, “set complementary goals for international education. President Obama announced the “100,000 Strong for the Americas” initiative to increase international study with a target of 100,000 students from Latin America and the Caribbean studying [in the] United States, and a reciprocal 100,000 students from the United States studying in the Latin American and the Caribbean region.”
[ Former UNC] President Molly Broad, .... shared that by 2020, 70 percent of the World's Scientist will live and work in Asia, unless the country does some different kinds of things.  She said that North Carolina A&T is in a position to  educated and graduate world-class   scientists because of initiatives  underway within our science and  technology areas, and now is the time for the university to step up to the plate to meet the challenges ahead",  said Dr. Speight-Buford, NC A&T Fourth Regular Board of Trustees meeting April 20, 2005.  Univ. Nebraska Photo
"Almost all of the occupations which will be affected by nanotechnology will require a BS in engineering with a broad, interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary approach, and an understanding not only of electrical, mechanical and civil engineering, but biology, physics and chemistry as well ".
Liberal Arts University of North Carolina at Greensboro offers Doctoral degrees in English, Psychology, Education, Nutrition, Human Development and Family Studies, Exercise and Sport Science, and Music none of which constitute an under standing of electrical, mechanical, and civil engineering.

In 2006 in the category of Doctorial Granting  Universities NC A&T was rated as a High Research University in the Carnegie Foundation classification of colleges  and universities.  NC A&T the largest producers of  BS. and PhD minority engineers in the country, offers approved  master's degrees in Civil
University Centers/Institutes Focusing on Nanotechnology, A Roadmap for Nanotechnology in North Carolina’s 21st Century Economy, APRIL 2006, NC Board of Science & Technology
Engineering, Chemistry,  Biology,   Industrial Systems & Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Computational Science and Engineering, as well as doctoral degrees in Energy and Environmental Systems Engineering, computational Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Industrial and Systems Engineering. "NC A&T has a 12-year history in Nano research and has been funded at a rate of $3 to $5 million per year".*
PCG/UNC-NCCCS/UNC Interim report 3.doc/RB.SP.PC.CR.ATPCC.1/CC.14/10May05 Page 34

UNCG  2006-07 Academic Profile  Source : www. UNCG. edu

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools  (NC A&T)

Nano scale Technologies are Experimental

    In 2011 HMI North Carolina A&T for the 7th consecutive year  garnered the third largest  highest amount of sponsored research in 17 constituent UNC system surpassed only by UNC flag ships UNC-Chapel Hill and NC A&T  holds patents in Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology,
 Biotechnology, Computational Science, Environmental Sciences,  Transportation Systems, and Public Health,  for  seventh consecutive year achieved  the third highest  research funding in the 16-constituent University of North Carolina  System with  over  $60 million dollars.

North Carolina A&T Nano Centers
  • Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures
  • Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems
  • Engineering Research Center for Revolutionalizing Metallic Biomaterials
  • Center for Nanoscience and Nanomaterials

UNC at Greensboro Nanoscience  Centers
  • Center of Research Excellence in Nanobiosciences

Source: North Carolina Board of Science and Technology

NC A&T Sponsored Research 2001 - 2011

NCA&T State University has been funded at an average rate of $3-5 million per year in the area of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Most of the research in nanoengineering is done in the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures (CAMSS). Several Centers and projects are under CAMSS, including the NSF Center for Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST), the DoD Center for Nanoscience, Nanomaterials and Multifunctional Materials (CNN) for Homeland Security, the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC), the NSF project on US/Europe Materials Collaboration: Self-Organized Nanostructured Thin Films for Catalysis, the NSF project on Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT), the NSF Major Research Instrumentation for Nanoengineering Research, and the NSF Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) program. CAMSS also facilitates many of the materials research activities of the NASA-National Institute for Aerospace (NIA). In addition, the Center for Composite Materials Research (CCMR) does research in nano-enhanced composite materials and the Army Center of Excellence for Battlefield Capability Enhancements (Flexible Displays) does research in material characterization and development of novel displays. [ ]
UNC Board of Governors November 2009 and Jan. 2010 authorized M.S. and PhD Nanoscience degrees at HWI UNC at Greensboro requiring Nanoscience students be given the opportunity to take courses at the School of Engineering at HBI North Carolina A&T University ( NCA&T) and be able to work on collaborative projects with faculty in the School of Engineering .

Alleged UNCG Revised MS Nanoscience Request
 "When almost all of the occupations which will be affected by nanotechnology will require a BS in engineering with a broad, interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary approach; require an understanding not only of electrical, mechanical and civil engineering, but biology, physics and chemistry as well." [5]. and Liberal Arts UNCG is not and engineering school, Nanoscience students must be given the opportunity to take courses at the School of Engineering at HBI North Carolina A&T University ( NCA&T) and be able to work on collaborative projects with faculty in the School of Engineering. "NC A&T has a 12-year history in nanoresearch and two centers of excellence for nanotechnology and nanoscience degrees at UNC at Greensboro are an unnecessary duplication.
 
 
 2.  whether excluding HBI from offering Nanoscience degrees established UNC Policy Academic Program Planning and Evaluation pertaining to Interdisciplinary Degrees 400.1.1 [R] that says “ if more than one campus is involved in offering the program it would also be a joint degree”,
 
HBI North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCA&T) and HWWI University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) submitted Joint NCAT/UNCG Requests to Establish Masters (date  01.29.09) and Ph.D. (date 12.15.08) interdisciplinary Nanoscience degrees pursuant  a  JSNN Management Agreement  ( March 03, 2008) a formal agreement to offer a program of study required by UNC policy for  interdisciplinary degrees,  Regulations for Academic Program Planning and Evaluation which called for joint Nanoscience degrees.  The Erskine Bowles- UNC-General Administration (UNC-GA) referencing a document titled Joint Program Reporting Requirements dated 12/1/08 informed NCA&T and the UNCG the original Memorandum Agreement between the two institutions...is contrary to methods now recommended by General Administration.  As such, the Memorandum (Management Agreement) from March 3, 2008 needs to be revised, updated, and reapproved, tabling without consideration by BOG NCAT/UNCG Request’s to Establish Joint Masters (dated 01.29.09) and PhD (dated 12.15.08) interdisciplinary Nanoscience degrees.  The UNC-BOG  subsequently  authorized  stand alone  Masters ( dated Nov. 2009) and PhD ( dated Jan. 2010) interdisciplinary Nanoscience  degrees at  UNC-G non-compliant with UNC Guidelines for
Academic Program Development and Regulations for Academic Program Planning and Evaluation pertaining  to  Interdisciplinary Degree programs   which says “ If more than one campus is involved in offering the program it would also be a joint degree.” based on a UNC-GA  revised, updated, and reapproved Amended and Restated Management Agreement  ( April 24, 2008) which said  UNCG would offer Nanoscience degrees and  NCA&T would offer Nanoengineering degrees.  The M.S. and Ph,D. degree authorizations were based on an unsigned  alleged UNCG revised request” to establish  a

GA questions to NCA&T/UNCG with Campus response and GA responses
“Steve has managed the discussion with A&T's and UNCG's provost and the dean of the JSNN so that all issues have been resolved." said Dr. Harold Martin, Sr. (April 9, 2009).
Professional Masters in Nanoscience  created and submitted by Dr. James Ryan, an UNCG & NC A&T employee who may have acted outside the scope of his employment,   to   Dr. James Sadler Associate Vice President for Academic Planning (GA)  that was placed in the discipline file. Summaries from the Rynan document was taken to BOG by the Bowles-UNC-GA. with recommendations to establish at UNCG stand -alone M.S. and Ph.D. in Nanoscience, non-compliant with UNC Policy. 
 
 3.  whether UNC BOG discriminated against HBI NC A&T  when UNCG Nanoscience degrees didn't comply with established UNC procedures in NC Guidelines for Academic Program Development subsection (B) and HBI NC A&T Nanoengineering degrees complied,
 
 
UNC-System process for academic degree development at the University of North Carolina consist of UNC-General Administration (UNC-GA) receives notification of intent to plan/Notice of requests to Plan a degree dependant on whether the degree is a BS,MS, or PhD, guide degree development, and make a recommendation to UNC-BOG. The UNC-BOG decides whether to authorize a requested degree. Dr. Thomas Ross, former Chairman UNCG Board of Trustees, is current UNC-GA president and Erskine Bowles- inaugurated at UNCG and the self declared Greensboro Boy”- is the former UNC-GA president. Erskine Bowles hired Dr. Harold Martin, Sr. first as Vice President of Academic affairs at UNC-GA and next as Chancellor at NCA&T – Martin’s Alma Mata.  http://www.northcarolina.edu/aa_planning/degrees/index.htm

UNC Guidelines for Academic Program Development subsection (B). Academic Program Development Requiring Authorization or Action Beyond the Campus Level, states:

The chancellors of the constituent institutions shall communicate to General Administration of the University their intentions with respect to instructional program development:

  1. Notification of intent to plan a new undergraduate or master's program
  2.  Request for authorization to plan a new degree program at the doctoral or first   professional level.
  3. Request for authorization to establish a new degree program.

UNC Policy Manual 400.1.1,1[G] amended 05/06/09 http://www.northcarolina.edu/aa_planning/degrees/index.htm

Checking UNC-BOG website (northcarolina.edu) Nanoscience Discipline file it lacks  documentation supporting authorizations of MS and PhD at UNCG required by Regulations for Academic Program Planning and Evaluation (B) which prompted this investigative report into the authorizations of MS and PhD in Nanoscience at Liberal Arts UNCG.  Examining the Nanoscience discipline files   http://www.northcarolina.edu/dpanels_archive/index.php (CIP 40.9999):

1.      The discipline  file lacked an UNCG Notification to plan a master’s in Nanoscience,

2.      The discipline file contained an unsigned “Revised UNCG Request to Establish a Master’s in Nanoscience,

3.      The discipline file lacked an UNCG Request to plan a PhD in Nanoscience

4.      The discipline file lacked an UNCG Request to Established a PhD in Nanoscience

which prompted this investigation.
The Nanoscience discipline filed lacked an UNCG Chancellor signed request to establish stand alone UNCG M.S and Ph.D. in Nanoscience.  A. Public Record Request (PRR) to  Dr. David H. Perrin UNCG Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor,1/7/11, for a copy of an UNCG chancellor signed request to establish stand alone Masters and PhD Nanoscience degrees at UNCG,  Counsel Steve Serck responded  "In response to your request of 1/7/11, no such documents as you described exists."  (Emphasis added).   UNCG Chancellors Dr. Linda Brady signature was required pursuit Guidelines for Academic Program Development subsection (B) certifying the proposal to establish a M.S. and Ph.D.  Nanoscience degree programs had been reviewed and approved by the appropriate campus committees and authorities and lack thereof demonstrates the degree authorizations weren't pursuant UNC established procedures.

Early in the investigation of lack of supporting documentation for UNCG Nanoscience degree authorizations Dr. James Sadler Associate Vice President for Academic Planning University of North Carolina put forth a chronology of authorizations (e-mail (08/04/2010).  In part:

October 7, 2009
Dean Ryan was told that UNCG needed to submit a revised request to establish.  Both the original and the revised requests are available at this site: http://www.northcarolina.edu/dpanels_archive/index.php.  Emphasis added

November 13, 2009
UNC Board of Governors authorizes the UNCG MS in Nanoscience based on the revised request submitted.  The summary that went to the Board can be viewed in the Planning Committee pre-meeting materials at this location: https://www.northcarolina.edu/bog/index.php.  Emphasis added

December 9, 2009
UNC Graduate Council recommends authorization of the joint PhD.   Emphasis added

January 8, 2010
UNC Board of Governors authorizes the UNCG PhD in Nanoscience based on the revised request submitted.  The summary that went to the Board can be viewed in the Planning Committee pre-meeting materials at this location: https://www.northcarolina.edu/bog/index.php.  Emphasis added
Dr. Sadler's chronology indicate "Dean Ryan was told that UNCG needed to submit a revised request to establish"  and based on summaries from the alleged unsigned "revised request to establish the Board of Governors authorized  stand-alone UNCG M.S. and Ph.D. .The upshot of  Dr. Saddler’s chronology of events is who supplied the UNCG  Revised Request . He establishes the UNCG PhD wasn’t pursuant a Chancellor signed request instead based on the revised request.
The alleged unsigned UNCG M.S. revised request in the Nanoscience discipline file prompted a public records request for source of  document from UNC-GA. “The proposal would have been submitted on behalf of the campus via the UNCG’s provost office.  You would need to contact that office to clarify what individual(s) developed the documents.” Said Ms. Joni Worthington, VP for Communications UNC-GA (e-mail Jan.21, 2011). 

Public Record requests to Dr. David H. Perrin and Dr. James Ryan revealed Dr. James Ryan,  an UNCG& NCA&T employee, created a PDF titled Nano_master's_degree_proposal_-_Revised_10-9-09.pdf and submitted it to Dr. James Sadler Associate Vice President for Academic Planning University of North Carolina dated two days after a Videoconference panel discussion of the proposed M.S. in Nanoscience, Oct. 7, 09.   Dr. Ryan’s Nano_master's_degree_proposal_-_Revised_10-9-09.pdf  the same/similar to the UNCG Revised Proposal in the Master of Science in Nanoscience (MS) discipline file at www.northcarolina.edu.

From: James C. Sadler
Date: Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: Revised version of the Request to Establish the Professional Master of Science in Nanoscience degree program
To: James Ryan CC dhprrin, JCPETER,  altont, kmurray

Thanks Jim, I’ll confer with Alan about the Ph.D. and whether anything it needed.  Jim Sadler

               James Ryan wrote:

I have attached a revised version of the Request to Establish for the Professional Master of Science in Nanoscience. I have included the most recent update of the JSNN Management Agreement as well as revised figures on enrollment. I have also provided additional explanation to address questions that were asked during the disciplinary committee review on Wednesday. Please review and let me know if additional information or clarification is needed. Also, similar revisions are needed for the Request to Establish the Ph.D. in Nanoscience. Should I send the latest version of that document to you as well?   Thank you.   Jim
Dr. James Ryan may have acted outside scope of his employment, created and submitted to the Bowles UNC-GA PDF titled Nano_master's_degree_proposal_-_Revised_10-9-09.pdf whose summary the Bowles UNC-GA carried to the BOG resulted in authorizations of  Professional Master’s (Nov. 2009) and Ph.D. ( Jan. 2010) in Nanoscience degrees at UNCG.   Repeated Public Records requests though UNCG Counsel Serck at UNCG to  Dr. David H. Perrin UNCG Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor has not confirmed Dean Ryan creation and submission of PDF Nano_master's_degree_proposal_-_Revised_10-9-09.pdf was acting within the scope of his employments.  Checking on line the UNCG faculty Dr. James Ryan was listed as a Dean at both universities and not in the Provost office at UNCG or NC A&T.  An examination of the of the summaries Ryan document  submitted to the Board of Governors reveal the Bowles Administration had make a recommended the BOG establish the stand alone  M.S. and Ph.D. at UNCG.
 

Nanoscience degrees are interdisciplinary subject to additional requirements under Regulations for Academic Program Planning and Evaluation:  Interdisciplinary Degree program:

An Interdisciplinary Degree program involves two or more academic units, either on the same or different campuses, including non-UNC campuses, in a formal  agreement to offer a program of study drawing on two or more disciplines that will result in a student being awarded an interdisciplinary degree. If more than one campus is involved in offering the program it would also be a joint degree.
HBCU North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCA&T) and HWWU University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) submitted Joint NCAT/UNCG Requests to Establish Masters, dated 01.29.09, and Ph.D. , dated 2.15.08,  interdisciplinary Nanoscience degrees based in  a  JSNN Management Agreement  ( March 03, 2008) a formal agreement to offer a program of study required by UNC policy for  interdisciplinary degrees,  Regulations for Academic Program Planning and Evaluation in which Nanoscience Master’s and PhD degrees would be joint.  The Erskine Bowles- UNC-General Administration (GA) referencing a document titled Joint Program Reporting Requirements dated 12/1/08 informed NCA&T and the UNCG the original Memorandum Agreement between the two institutions...is contrary to methods now recommended by General Administration.  As such, the Memorandum (Management Agreement) from March 3, 2008 needs to be revised, updated, and reapproved, tabling without consideration by BOG NCAT/UNCG Request’s to Establish Joint Masters and PhD interdisciplinary Nanoscience degrees.   Pursuant NC Public records laws the Joint Program Reporting Official Rules and Procedures were requested "To the best of my knowledge, there is no such document." said, Ms. Joni Worthington Vice President for Communications UNC-GA (E-mail 10.08.10)
Steve has managed the discussion with A&T's and UNCG's provost and the dean of the JSNN so that all issues have been resolved." said Dr. Harold Martin, Sr. (April 9, 2009).   Notwithstanding the dictates of UNC Policy on Regulations for Academic Program Planning and Evaluation Interdisciplinary degrees involving two or more campuses being joint degrees the Bowles-UNC-GA managed revised, updated, and re-approved JSNN Management Agreement (April 24, 2009)  excluded HBU NCA&T from joint interdisciplinary Nanoscience degrees with an organization principle Nanoscience degrees will be awarded by UNCG and Nanoengineering degrees will be awarded by NCA&T, an operating principle adopted in the BOG established in the stand -alone M.S. and Ph.D. in Nanoscience at UNCG. 
 
 4.  whether when UNC Board of Governor authorized Nanoscience degrees at UNCG excluded HBI NC A&T from offering Nanoscience degrees in light of having authorized Nanoscience degrees at HWI UNC at Charlotte Board of Governors  implemented Nanoscience degrees at UNC HWIs and Nanoengineering at HBI NC A&T continued racial identification
 
 
 5.  whether UNC Board of Governors designation of  HBIs as Master Intensive rather than Research Intensive unconstitutionally under funded   HBIs,
 

UNC BOG's 1994-2009 Long Range  Plans Excluded Historical Black Institutions from Doctoral Research - Extensive status and funding

There are 15 or more members on the Board of Governors from UNC-Chapel Hill and none from North Carolina A&T or other HBCUs within the system. clearly equality and respect has not been shown to A&T by the system. said Ms. Floyd-Moody NC A&T Board of Trustee member, as published in BOT Meeting Minutes 04-18-07.

UNC BOG Long Range Plan 94-99 UNC BOG Long Range Plan 98-2003 UNC BOG Long Range Plan 2000-05
In 2011 HMI North Carolina A&T for the 7th consecutive year  garnered the third largest  highest amount of sponsored research in 17 constituent UNC system  surpassed only by UNC flag ships UNC Chapel Hill and NC State yet the university was continuously designated Master Intensive, by UNC Board of governors for long range planning in years spanning 1994 thru 2009, notwithstanding  Institutional classification allegedly emphasized research and annual amount of federal research support received.     NC  A&T proactive research opportunities may have been inconsistent with  BOG's 1994-2009 long range  plans which  excluded all HBI from Doctoral Research- Extensive or Intensive status designating  NC A&T and NCCU as Master's Compressive.
 

UNC BOG Long Range Plan 2002-2007
Published at northcaroline.edu,  Greensboro Attorney Mr. Phillips chair of the Committee on Budget and Finance, presented the committee’s report, said the recommended 2005-07 Budget Request of the Board of Governors has been under development since the board approved the long-range plan in January.  The request identifies the programs and activities needed to carry out the strategic directions of the Board of Governors.  On behalf of the committee, Mr. Phillips moved that the 2005-07 Budget Request of the Board of Governors be approved and transmitted to the Governor and the General Assembly.   UNC Board of Governors 2005-07 Supplementary Budget request contained 21 million dollars for Transition of UNCC to Doctoral/Research Intensive Status which stated:
UNC Charlotte achieved Doctoral/Research Intensive Status under the Carnegie requirements during the 1999-2000 academic year. For the calculation of this request, UNCC’s faculty-student ratio and the mean faculty teaching salary have been established at the average for ECU and UNCG, the other UNC institutions classified as Doctoral/Research Intensive institutions. The adjustment in the faculty-student ratio results in an additional 37.74 FTE positions. As UNCC expands its doctoral programming, it must also augment its library resources through the purchase of additional books, periodicals, databases, and other materials important to sustaining doctoral- level programs. In addition, this funding would help expand the technological infrastructure, which is crucial to the research needs of doctoral students as well as to the increasingly multifaceted instructional delivery systems of today’s universities. The Board of Governors requests $10,584,757 for each year of the biennium to support this transition.   Transition of UNCC to Doctoral/Research Intensive Status   ($10,484,757 in 2005-06, $10,484,757 in 2006-07). 

NCA&T whose Carnegie Classification is Research University (high research activity) UNC BOG  2005-06 plan was for the Aggies to establish a Millennial Campus with UNC at Greensboro. 

 
UNC at Charlotte  proposed UNC Tomorrow Statewide Nano Network collaboration between UNC institutions involved in nanotechnology and Nanoscience excludes HBI NC A&T and NC Central. 

"NC A&T has a 12-year history in nanoresearch and two centers of excellence for

 UNC Tomorrow continuation  of  UNC Yesterday
 nanotechnology and nanoscience, and" Nanotechnology research at NC A&T has been funded at a rate of $3 to $5 million per year."  UNCG and NC A&T partner to create joint program in nanotechnology October 8, 2007 By Sharlini Sankaran, http://www.ncnanotechnology.com/public/features/UNCG-NCAT.asp
NCA&T State University has been funded at an average rate of $3-5 million per year in the area of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Most of the research in nanoengineering is done in the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures (CAMSS). Several Centers and projects are under CAMSS, including the NSF Center for Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST), the DoD Center for Nanoscience, Nanomaterials and Multifunctional Materials (CNN) for Homeland Security, the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC), the NSF project on US/Europe Materials Collaboration: Self-Organized Nanostructured Thin Films for Catalysis, the NSF project on Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT), the NSF Major Research Instrumentation for Nanoengineering Research, and the NSF Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) program. CAMSS also facilitates many of the materials research activities of the NASA-National Institute for Aerospace (NIA). In addition, the Center for Composite Materials Research (CCMR) does research in nano-enhanced composite materials and the Army Center of Excellence for Battlefield Capability Enhancements (Flexible Displays) does research in material characterization and development of novel displays. [ ]
Between 2000-05 NC A&T conducted 11 Millions dollars of  nanotechnology  250 times the research compared to $44,000 dollars at UNCG and double that at UNC at Charlotte.   
 

Nanotechnology in North Carolina, 2007