Jones describes strengths of UNCG including faculty, the administrations of Vice Chancellor Mereb Mossman and Chancellor James Ferguson and support provided by both the city and the state. He describes weaknesses including slowness to develop more graduate programs, integration of students and faculty and recruitment of male students. He discusses the creation of the consortium between UNCG and North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, the restructuring of the curriculum and his practices for hiring new faculty members. He evokes the effects of the creation of the Consolidated University of North Carolina and recalls the tenure of several deans and department heads including David Reilly, Ethel Lawther, and Eloise Lewis. Subjects: His first impressions, academic strength, Jim Thompson as a strong librarian, very little intra-departmental or intra-school feuding, the student body, major strength in the budget, Mereb Mossman's administrative style, recruiting more men students, changing program structure, working under Chancellor Ferguson, the Dean's Councils, dreams of the various schools.