he course of instruction,
and prescribe, under the advice of the professorship, the books and
authorities to be used--and also to confer such degrees and grant
such diplomas as are usually conferred and granted in other
universities.

The Regents were also to have the power of removing "any professor or
tutor, or other officer connected with the institution, when in their
judgment the interests of the University shall require it." This
specification of the powers and duties of the Regents was repeated with
some modifications in the Act of April 8, 1851, which followed the
revision of the Constitution of 1850. The Constitution itself merely
stated that the Regents "shall have the general supervision of the
University and the direction and control of all expenditures from the
University interest fund."

These are the general provisions upon which the relations between the
Regents and the university body are based. In practice the Faculty has
come to have a greater degree of autonomy in certain directions than
might be suggested by a strict interpretation of these measures, while
in most cases the "advice of the professorship" is sought and followed
readily and sympathetically in so far as is warranted by the financial
situation, as it appears to the Board.

The University Faculties are organized first by Departments, with one
member as head; the Schools and Colleges are also organized under the
separate Deans to carry on their own work, while the general
organization of the whole Faculty rests in the University Senate,
composed of all members of professorial rank, including Assistant
Professors. In addition there is a smaller body, known as the Senate
Council, composed of the Deans and one other representative of the
different Schools and Colleges as well as the President, a secretary,
and the chairman of the Committee on Student affairs. To this body are
referred many questions of importance for immediate action or reference
to the Regents.

The independent position of the Board of Regents as the governing body
of the University has not gone unquestioned by the other divisions of
the state government, and a series of decisions and judicial
interpretations of the constitutional and legislative acts regarding the
University have been necessary to establish the powers of the Regents as
a separate branch of the state administration. Fortunately for the
University these are now well recognized.

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