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     The Committee is recommending to us a charter;  If it is
adopted by the Board, 1 believe the University can live under it
for the next half century*  The proposed plan separates adminis-
trative functions from those known as educational policy-making
functionse   It provides that the membership of the Faculty be com-
posed of both the administrator and the teacher, thereby giving
professors and administrators the opportunity to work together for
the welfare of the institution.   Special talents and abilities
of teachers can be capitalized under the proposed organization.
It will certainly stimulate professors and cause them to have a
greater interest in the University*   The plan makes the Faculty a
representative group, but through the provision for rotation in
office eventually every professor will have an opportunity to be
a member of that body.   By making the Faculty a representative
democracy, its size has been kept small enough to enable it to
transact business efficiently and without consuming too much time
as a deliberative body,

     The Committee became acquainted with the administrative pro-
cedures of America's best universities in the preparation of this
report. It has drawn freely on the experiences of the best insti-
tutions of higher education.   It has adopted some of the bettor
features of a number of our leading universities.   The proposed
organization resembles to a degree the administrative organization
of the University of Florida and Ohio State University; however, it
does not follow the exact pattern of either of these institutions.
It is a plan that fits our needs at the University of Kentucky.

     Andrew D. White*, the first president and one of the founders
of Cornell University, says In his autobiography:  "I felt that
the university, to be successful, should not depend on the life and
conduct of any one man; that every one of those called to govern
and to manage It, whether president or professor, should feel that
he had powers and responsibilities in its daily administration*
. ... . I insisted that the faculty should not be merely a com-
mittee to register the decrees of the presidents but that it should
have full legislative powers to discuss and decide university af-
fairs.   Nor did I allow it to become a body merely advisory, I
not only insisted that it should have full legislative powers,
but that it should be steadily trained in the use of them,"l

     President White, one of the greatest university presidents
of all timest in 1868 infused this spirit into Cornell University
at a time when other institutions were autocratically administered.
Today, however, this is the spirit that is to be found on the
campus of every American university that has attained a rank of
the first order,   it is a policy of this character that I think
has largely prevailed at the University of Kentucky and a spirit
I hope to see perpetuated so long as I am president of the insti.
tution.   For this reason, I am anxious to have the Board of
Trustees adopt the Committeea report for I am confident it repre-
sents the type of organization under which the University will
prosper.