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W u ft, O The President of the University of Notre Dame, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, has been serving in that capacity since 1952. He is a native of New York, and a graduate of Catholic Uni- versity, from which he received the S.T.D. in theology. In 1949 he was appointed executive vice-president, and in 1952 was named president. Appointed by the provincial of the Congrega- tion of the Holy Cross, the president has final authority in all decisions involving university policy. The administrative structure of the university is gradually becoming more decen- tralized, however, and the creation of new vice- presidential positions is taking much of the actual burden of administration from the office of the president. The president need not be a member of the Congregation, nor even a priest. Father Hes- burgh says that the possibility of a lay president is at the present time not likely. This would not, however, ever mean that the university would be severed from the juridical control of the Congregation. With decentralization in the administration, 16
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Father Hesburgh characterizes his main func- tion as planning, as a need to ensure that the main course of the university is relevant, that the movement is upward. The best ways of ensuring this are the appointment of faculty and the admission of students. In both cases the general guidelines are set by the president, al- though the vice-presidents should feel free to act on their own power as if they were president for that area. The other element of the presidential duty is representing the. school to diverse groups- students, alumni, parents, national founda- tions. The representational area is a great part of this office ' s responsibility, Father Hesburgh says, because whether you want to or not, you become the representative of the university to all the alumni and to parents. Parents get concerned, and when they do they pick up the phone and call the president. Changes within the university are certainly not accomplished by simply giving an order and then proceeding to implement it. The in- troduction of change involves especially what Father Hesburgh has called a community of ef- fort, and enormous amounts of discussion. The Congregation of the Holy Cross does not directly influence the policies of the university. It is a kind of myth that the Congregation is a shadow government that sits back and runs the school. The executive vice-president, Rev. Edmund P. Joyce graduated from Notre Dame ' s College of Commerce in 1937 and entered the order in 1942. He was ordained in 1949 and was ap- pointed as executive vice-president in 1952. The office is sometimes laughingly called that of vice-president in charge of vice-presidents. It has overall authority and responsibility for the building program of the university. The vice-president also serves as the Chairman of the Faculty Board in control of athletics: Of course because athletics gets so much newspa- per print that ' s where you see my name a lot, but I suppose actually only one percent of my time is spent on athletics. Dr. George Shuster, the assistant to the presi- dent, has general responsibility for the newly developed Center for the Study of Man in Con- temporary Society. A former president of Hunter College, he came to Notre Dame in 1962. T ' Pi George N. Shuster Assistant to the President 17
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