NCSU offers baccalaureate degrees in eighty-nine fields and has the state's largest undergraduate student body. In addition, the University offers graduate degrees in over eighty areas, provides extension and outreach services to each of the state's 100 counties and by satellite to more than thirty states and several foreign countries, and serves in several areas as an internationally renowned research center.
By virtue of its ranking as a Research I university and as the land-grant university in the state, North Carolina State University has as its primary mission the search for and dissemination of knowledge to all of its constituents through research, teaching, extension, and outreach programs.
The Code of The University of North Carolina (section 600, page 19) states:
The University's records, with the exception of those protected by certain privacy laws, are open for public inspection. Policies regarding integrity of its activities are included in The Code, the Faculty Handbook and the NCSU Administrative Procedures Manual (see self-study library).
The University is subject to auditing policies of the state and federal governments, and to government regulations regarding occupational health and safety, biosafety, hazardous materials, use of animals in research, and numerous other activities that are part of its multi-faceted programs. Many units of the University also operate according to policies and guidelines established by national or international accrediting agencies, which subject the accredited unit to periodic review. Thus, the University believes that the information provided to the Commission and to its various constituencies is correct.
The University is committed to providing the visiting committee of the SACS Commission on Colleges with unrestricted access to all of its official documents, many of which been assembled in the self-study library.
