UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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STATE OFFICES

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representing all the colleges except law. The Council, which meets once a week, advises the President and exercises general disciplinary functions—the deans sitting on it passing on all general matters of student control. It has also a limited amount of ad interim legislative power. Legislation, however, is supposed to belong to the Senate of full professors and departmental chiefs, which meets about once a month to pass upon all matters of educational policy. Much of its business is that which comes up to it from the various college faculties, and is thus threshed out twice. Some believe it, however, both too unwieldy and too heterogeneous a body for the proper discussion of many matters of academic administration, for the representatives of the technical faculties often feel incompetent to pass upon questions directly affecting the liberal arts or law colleges or professional schools alone, and the representatives of the other colleges and schools similarly feel estopped from discussing points of technical education. I t is possible that the faculty of the college of liberal arts and sciences will come to take the central place in the discussion of questions of policy involving general pedagogical considerations, as Harvard College, for example, does in Harvard University. But growth in this direction will probably be slow. Illinois takes her government seriously, as the time spent by the Senate committee on a new constitution, which reported its instrument for approval in 1915, showed. Laboring under Prof. Ward two years, it produced an instrument containing more proposals of a radical and yet very thoughtful nature than a casual reading would suggest. The various State agencies at the University are vari* ously controlled.^ The State Entomologist's Office B