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Interview no. | L-0176 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | L.7. University of North Carolina: William Friday Project |
Project description | Interviews, 1990-1992, conducted by William A. Link, with family, friends, and associates of William C. Friday for his book William Friday: Power, Purpose, & American Higher Education (1995). Topics include the expansion of the University of North Carolina System; the role of the federal government university affairs, especially the Office of Civil Rights; intercollegiate athletics; the Dixie Classic basketball scandal; the Speaker Ban Law; and integration of the university. Some interviews address Friday's early life, education, and work outside the university. |
Date | 3 December 1991 |
Interviewee | Laupus, William. |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Link, William A. |
Abstract | William Laupus' initial involvement in the East Carolina University medical school controversy; difficulties in maintaining one and two year medical programs; differing opinions on the ECU medical program; origins of the ECU medical school budget; support from William Friday; Laupus' relationship with UNC-Chapel Hill administrators; initial faculty members at the ECU medical school; challenge of constructing the medical school curriculum; difficulties obtaining proper funding; link between the ECU medical school and Area Health Education Centers; success of the ECU medical school; the medical school as a symbol for the growth of eastern North Carolina; Friday's stature. |
Subject Name |
East Carolina University. School of Medicine. Laupus, William. Friday, William C. (William Clyde) |
Citation | Interview with William Laupus by William A. Link, 3 December 1991 L-0176, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | L0176_Audio_1 |