Alfred University - Kanakadea Yearbook (Alfred, NY)

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I l Organization of Alfred University N arranging the organization of Alfred University the following divisions were made: The University Corporation, the Board of Trustees, the President, the University Faculty and the College Faculty. The Alfred University Corporation consists of the trustees and individuals subscribing a hundred dollars or more to the permanent funds of Alfred University. At the annual meetings the corporation elects eleven trustees for the term of three years to take the places of the eleven whose terms of office expire at that time. The trustees are the legal directors and to them is given the final responsibility in regard to University affairs. They have the ultimate power in buying, selling or letting college property, and the erection of all buildings must have their sanction. The appointment or removal of all college officials is in their hands. The board consists of thirty-three members allotted into three equal classes-one class whose term ends at each succeeding annual election. The President of the University is elected by the Board of Trustees. In his capacity as president he has the innnediate care of the education of the students, and exercises such supervision and direction as will promote the utmost efficiency in this. He is the co-ordinator of the various units: that is, the medium between the faculty and the Board of Trustees, and between the students and the Board of Trustees. The president has the power to confer degrees. The University Faculty, elected by the Board of Trustees, includes the president, the deans, the Directors of the State Schools and the teaching force of all departments. The University Facility meets monthly during the year. The College Faculty consists of the President, the Deans, the Directors of the Ceramic School and all members of the teaching force of both College and Ceramic School. The College Faculty submits, subject to the approval of the Trustees, requirements for admission, courses of study, conditions of graduation, the nature of the degrees to be conferred, rules and methods for the conduct of educational workg and recommends to the Trustees candi- dates for degrees to be conferred. Through the President and the Deans it administers dis- cipline. lt has authority to prescribe such rules as may be expedient for the proper regulation of student publications, athletics, musical and dramatic societies, literary or residence clubs, sororities, fraternities, and all other student activities. 17