Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869 [PAGE 99]

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35 Mr. EDWARDS moved to take the resolution from the table in reference to the number of Trustees. Ayes and nays being called for, his motion was withdrawn. The report of the Committee on Faculty and Course of Study was then read:

EEPORT.

The Committee on Faculty and Course of Study recommend that— 1st. The labor system to be continued as an important and valuable feature of practical education, and that the maximum rate of wages be fixed at twelve and one-half cents an hour, and that the hours of labor shall not be less than one and not more than three per day for five days each week, the amount to be determined by the Faculty, who may also excuse any student from the labor for cause. [Amended: Provided, that all labor shall be voluntary.] 2d. That the hours of labor and the wages of the several students shall be determined monthly, by the Faculty, and paid by the Regent from the funds of the department for which the labor has been performed, provided that the Faculty may impose a forfeiture of wages for willful absence from labor, or for negligence or unfaithfulness at work. 3d. That the labor shall be conducted with a steady aim to the practical education of the students and shall, as far as possible, coincide with and illustrate their several courses and studies. The committee also recommend : 4th. That whereas the honorary scholarship provided for by the law is restricted to descendants of soldiers or seamen who served in the army or navy of the United States, theie shall be offered by the Trustees one free or honorary scholarship to each county in this State, to be awarded to the student who shall pass the best examination for admission, and who shall agree to pursue one of the industrial courses of study. 5th. That graduates of other colleges desiring to pursue any special branch of study here, be received as resident graduates, on the payment of the usual fees except the matriculation. 6th. Whereas, in the early commencement and organization of the work of committees of this Board, it seemed necessary that the Regent of the University should be placed upon said committees and assume responsibilities which properly belong to the heads of other departments, therefore, Resolved, That the Regent, at his request, be excused from active service on committees, except the Executive Committee and Committee on Faculty and Course of Study, and that each department be held responsible to this Board for the manner in which it shall discharge its duties; the Regent, as the executive officer of this Board, holding the head of each department to a rigid accountability for the same. Signed, J. M. GREGORY, Chairman.