Caption: Booklet - UI Senate Committee for Establishing UI Constitution (1915)
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PREFA( E Thirt> veil years ago on tho first da\ o( next January 1 h < each under the din tion of a non expert board of edu< tion, sub to the orders of a superintendent of schools elected b} tlu ird. I did not know much about teaching myself, but 1 I th 1 know no] I tan the members of the board of edu tion and in some i sj n tl uperintcndent himseli and on more than ne o sion 1 v * < quit* sure that my opinion should have been followed rather than theirs Thev thought otherwise, and conflicts naturalh ar M\ attention was thus strongly din to the question of tiio \ organization of our educational work, so as to combine to the hi; st ree the Ivantages of expert knowled . administratis skill, 1 popub con oi and representation, T \VI\on I wont as professor to the l niv< sit\ of lVnns\ Ivania in 1SS 1 came for the tirst time under the control oi a self oistiti : of trustees, acting through a president of the universit> .'boson by th board. The sharp differences of opinion which wei eontinu; 1 > arising K ween members of tho faculty and tho | neral university administration a; in increased m\ in rest in problems of educatioi I ft V ft \ I inistration. Since that time 1 havo made six trips to Burope tY purj - idv, and each time I havo given considerable attent in to this problem of uni> rsit> administration, especially in Great Britain, 1 moo. a 1 1 I ime quite mvinced that no one of these amtries had a sys • which w a uld afford to imitatt to any msiderable exten had an\ ti a a svs in I upon ful thou ht ai \ in • nt of tl mditions of modern s ety, Kach system w ^ •iniph an i stoi 1 pr luct and full survivals of useless or injurious 1 A i suit of m\ »>\\n experience as university pi sident tl HI, first at Northwestern and then at Illinois, it b une pr nl univei j oi n at ion is not a satis tl stand) mt live | pular ntrol within th s
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