University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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One of the First things I thought of when I came to the University this fall was of paying a visit to the personnel of the college, for I believed that to be the best method of learning the new ways of my alma mater. Thus I had my first realization of the tremendous growth of the school, Buildings and figures had not convinced meg but when I saw the list of the University staff I had planned to visit. I began to understand. During my school years the entire faculty was composed of a little over a dozen men, so perhaps you can imagine my astonishment when the list of the 1942 teaching staff was placed before me. I did. however, manage to visit a few of the higher officials, ,and from them learned about the new set-up of the University. It seems that when Dr. Herman Lee Donovan became President, the entire administrative sys- tem was reorganized. At present practically the entire executive power is vested in the President. Several new offices were created-The Dean of the University Qoften known as the 'Dean of Deans'J relieves the President of some of his many duties, and the Comptroller replaced the Business Agent and has wider respon- sibility for all types of financial activities. The old University Senate composed of all the teaching personnel with the rank of assistant professor or above is replaced by the new Faculty of the University. This comprises the President, Dean of the University, Deans of the six colleges and the Graduate school, and Comptroller. It sounded complicated to me who was used to knowing the entire faculty personally, yet it seemed to be a most efficient system . . .