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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944
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1094 BOARD OF TRUSTEES colleges such as scholarship, freshman week, exhibits, lectures, admissions, library, employment and placement, honors, graduate studies, programs, curriculum, and the like. Of course, numerous special committees have been appointed as needs arose. Regular faculty meetings are held, the times varying among the colleges from annual to weekly. Statements made by several heads of the colleges in November 1935, 28 relative to the percentage of faculty time devoted to various matters show the following ranges: routine administration from no time to 70 percent of the time, the average amount being about 23 percent; legislation regarding educational policies from 25 percent to 90 percent of the time or an average of about 65 percent. No time is devoted to student discipline in the college meetings since that is a University Senate affair. About 10 percent was the average remaining time and was devoted to the discussion of matters related to faculty welfare. Statements from the relatively few faculty members recently heard by the Commission indicate that much less than 50 percent of the time in college faculty meetings is devoted to discussion of educational policy. It also appears that, as reported by some assistant professors, the really important discussions of educational policy are held in the college policy committees rather than in general college faculty meetings. Since these committees seldom include junior members of the faculty, it is obvious that such members do not have adequate opportunity even to discuss in formal session educational policies affecting the schools where they teach. Furthermore, as has already been pointed out, since some of the recommendations most significant for educational progress in the University have emanated from these junior members, the institution could well profit by placing such members on their college executive committees. The Graduate School Faculty The current Statutes provide: The teaching faculty of the Graduate School shall consist of the President, the Dean and all those who, on recommendation of the de"See Schedules of Information prepared for the North Central Association of Colleges on file in Chicago office. [76 —A.C.E. Report]
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