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largely achieved, the 1964 academic plan also pointed to the need for enhancing
the University's capacity to plan for and evaluate its broad academic policy and
achievements. The academic plan wisely warned against formulating a plan,
launching implementation, and then resting pleased and contented. Thus, the
University has recently been studying an adequate plan of academic leadership
for the total academic program. This leadership must point the way for the
Colleges, the key program units within Lhe University, while at the same time it
must ceaselessly review the strengths and limitations of the University's aca-
demic endeavor. Consonant with the spirit of the academic plan and the progress
made toward its fulfillment, it is important to enhance to the fullest the delegated
capacity of the Colleges to pursue their vital responsibilities. Nevertheless,
there must be new strength for the system of academic planning and review at the
broadest level of the University. It is now evident that the exercise of full re-
sponsibility by the Deans of the Colleges for planning, executing, and reviewing
the total academic endeavors in their areas would be aided if the Deans had the
guidance of a single University-wide academic office which would provide advice
and assistance from the crucial vantage of the University's total endeavor in
teaching, research, and service.

From this broad context has emanated the decision that the Office of Executive
Vice President should be designated as the President's overall academic office.
In turn, the President and Executive Vice President should join with several key
associates in broadly planning and evaluating the University's academic policy and
programs. These associates would be assigned certain responsibilities in the
major areas of the academic program. Consequently, the modification of existing
offices and the creation of one new one now are necessary if there is to be a rich
combination of insight and procedure at the University's broadest stratum of
academic planning and implementation. The establishment of new offices reflects
a redoubled concern for the importance of undergraduate instruction; the need to
strengthen, through direct association, the graduate study and research functions;
and the importance of establishing general guidance for University extension within
the philosophy of the recently broadened policy.

To assure the most benefit from these functions, an Academic Council will be
created and constituted of the President, the Executive Vice President and the
offices responsible for undergraduate studies, graduate school and research, the
Medical Center, the community colleges, and extension programs together with
the Chairman of the University Senate Council. The Academic Council shall be
for the President a continuing source of recommendations concerning ways in
which the University might continually refine its broad academic goals, develop
the policies and procedures for the pursuit of its objectives, and periodically as-
sess the extent to which satisfactory progress is being achieved.

Accordingly, the following explicit recommendations are made to the Board of
Trustees. They constitute what is believed to be an improvement of the utmost
importance in the University's organization. The modifications in general academic
organization are a logical next step as the University meets the challenge of its
second century.