2005 North Carolina Code - General Statutes § 116-74.6. North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching established; powers and duties of trustees.

Article 5A.

Center for Advancement of Teaching.

§ 116‑74.6.  North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching established; powers and duties of trustees.

The sums of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) in fiscal year 1985‑86 and two million dollars ($2,000,000) in fiscal year 1986‑87 that are appropriated to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina in Section 2 of the 1985‑87 Current Operations Appropriations Act shall be used to establish the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Western Carolina University in Jackson County. The Center shall operate under the general auspices of The University of North Carolina Board of Governors. It shall be the function of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (hereinafter called "NCCAT"), through itself or agencies with which it may contract, to provide career teachers with opportunities to study advanced topics in the sciences, arts, and humanities and to engage in informed discourse, assisted by able mentors and outstanding leaders from all walks of life; and otherwise to offer opportunity for teachers to engage in scholarly pursuits, through a center dedicated exclusively to the advancement of teaching as an art and as a profession.

The Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina shall establish the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching Board of Trustees and shall delegate to the Board of Trustees all the powers and duties the Board of Governors considers necessary or appropriate for the effective discharge of the functions of NCCAT. (1985, c. 479, s. 74.)