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Minutes of the University Faculty e Feb. 14, 1944

On motion for adjournment, President Donovan declared the Faculty
adjourned until 4 pnm. on February 21. He indicated that the Faculty
would remain in session on that date until some disposition had been
made of the Report of the Committee on the Lower Division Program of
the University.

 

Minutes of the University Faculty - February 21, 1944

The University Faculty met in special session in the Assembly
Room of Lafferty Hall Monday, February 21, at 4 p.m. President Donovan
presided. Members absent were A° E. Bigge, B. E. Brewer, H. B. Price,
Carsie Hammonds, Maurice F. Seay, Thomas P. Cooper, and James H. Graham.

The minutes of February 14 were read and approved.

President Donovan called for discussion and action on the substitute
motion made by Dean Boyd at the previous meeting of the Faculty. Assistant
Dean White thereupon read the following statement for the Committee on
the Lower Division Program of the University:

"The Committee to Study the Lower Division Program of
the University would like to make a request.

A mere majority of the votes of the University Faculty
is sometimes insufficient approval of an educational policy to
justify its attempted operation. Especially is this true when
the body giving such approval is a new one whose very existence is
the consequence of the earnest desire of the President to spread
the responsibility of policy making in the University. The
success of any educational policy depends upon a united front.
Its operations must not bring recriminations. The era of good
feeling based upon mutual confidence existing in the University
cannot cease if this body or this University is to do more than
merely exist.

To assume the serious resnonsibility of either the failure
of the proposed plan in execution because of lack of cooperation
or the more grave responsibility of dividing this body into
subgroups is more than this committee would undertake. The
committee is of the opinion that its assumption of such responu
sibilities at this time is unnecessary. It has been alleged that

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