Board of Regents meeting minutes, 1951-1952

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its operation. (copy of plan attached herewith) . REQUEST OF The President reported that under date of June 19, 1951 GOVERNOR LEE the Governor had directed a communication to Sterling W. Sill, CONCERNING then Chairman of the Board, in which is requested a thorough JOB job evaluation study at this institution by efficiency experts ap- EVALUATION proved by him. During a discussion of this request Mr. Parry Sorensen distributed to each member of the Board a copy of Ordway Tead's "Trustees, Teachers, Students - Their Role in Higher Educa- tion " . Mr. Tead has served many years as Chairman of the Board of Higher Education of New York City. Attention was called by the President to the annual report (1950-51) of the campus librarian in which a statement is made that the two factors of most importance to a University are its faculty and its library. The librarian's report would indicate that the library is operating on a smaller budget than other colleges of a comparable size. Regents Culp and Cosgriff arrived during the discussion. Following up the discussion attention was called to the national accrediting agencies in which the University maintains memberships, representatives of which agencies make frequent inspection trips to the campus and report their findings. Frequently these reports cite crowded facilities, overloaded faculty members, overcrowded claSses etc. The President indicated that, with sources of information the administration has available now, it should be possible to ‘ furnish almost any data or facts concerning the University one might want at very little cost. If a professional firm were employed to conduct a survey, it would probably cost, thousands of dollars. The President stated he would welcome a survey if made by a competent firm and if made he would like the recommendations of the survey carried out and not put on'the shelf as has been the practice in the past. At this point Chairman O'Connor briefly outlined for Regents Culp and Cosgriff the proceedings of the meeting up to this time. Regent Cox stated that he felt it would be a good thing to have a study made of the school, but it should be by an independent and non-political group.