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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1958
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246 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [January 16 officers may make reports or advance suggestions at any time and shall report to the President whenever requested to do so. TRANSMISSION OF REPORTS AND COMMUNICATIONS Sec. 61. ( a ) Any member of the faculty shall report, on request, to his superior officers. All communications, whether made pursuant to request or voluntarily offered, shall be transmitted, unless otherwise specifically directed, through and by all intermediary officers, to the end that they may have knowledge thereof and an opportunity to comment thereon. (b) All communications from members of the staff to be presented to the Board of Trustees for action shall first be presented in duplicate to the President, in accordance with paragraph ( a ) above, for his examination and recommendation, and for such suggestions as he may deem proper. RULES OF PROCEDURE Sec. 62. The usual rules of parliamentary procedure shall govern all deliberative bodies of the University. RECOMMENDATIONS OF COMMITTEES AND COUNCILS Sec. 63. Whenever these Statutes provide for the advice or recommendation of a committee or council as a basis for, or aid to, officer or agency decision, the advice or recommendation shall be secured only through a meeting of the committee or council duly convened in group session. RESERVATION OF POWERS Sec. 64. The Board of Trustees is charged by law with full responsibility for administering the University. Although the Board may properly delegate authority to its duly designated officers and agencies, as indeed it has done since the establishment of the University in practical recognition of its own limitations to determine and resolve, in the first instance, complex and continuing problems of internal organization and educational policy, it cannot divest itself of the ultimate responsibility, imposed upon it by law, of governance of the University. Accordingly, the Board expressly reserves to itself the power to act on its own initiative in all matters affecting the University, notwithstanding that such action may be in conflict or may not be in conformance with the provisions of these Statutes. However, the Board will not so act upon its own initiative in any case in which Senate participation and recommendation is provided for by these Statutes until it has first sought the advice and recommendation of the appropriate Senate, or Senates, and the President. V I I I . AMENDMENTS AMENDMENTS Sec. 65. Each of the Senates, by vote of a majority of all members present and voting at any regular or special meeting, may propose amendments to these Statutes. Any proposal to amend the Statutes shall, after introduction in any Senate, be deferred until the next meeting of that Senate and the text of the proposed amendment shall be sent by the Secretary of the Senate to the officers of the other two Senates. Any proposed amendment shall b e referred to the Senate Coordinating Council for its consideration and for
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