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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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VII ADMINISTRATION AND HOUSING OF THE UNIVERSITY The Constitution and the Budget. Research Work. Faculty Life and Faculty Personalities. The University Buildings. Campus Plan and the Twin City Environment. Equipment. The University's Physical Future. THE organization of the University is nearly as much the result of a slow process of growth as its buildings, equipment, or curriculum. It was never a thing taken ready-made from other institutions. Ideas, to be sure, were often borrowed. But they had always to be adapted to the peculiar conditions of the University, to the personalities of those directing it, to the rapid changes wrought by its development; and since 1890 some distinct innovations are traceable in State University practice to Illinois. The Board of Trustees and the Presidency are the two parts of the administration that have most prominently altered, and they have altered throughout all its history. At the organization of the University, as we have seen, there were thirty-two Board members, including the Regent, who was its president. Operations under this system did not satisfy the public, for the large Board delegated more and more power to the Regent, till it was almost unlimited. Within a few years the Legislature reduced the membership to eleven; and deprived the Regent of his place. We have noted 262 •
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