STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE

ACADEMIC SENATE,

1900-01.

1. The Academic Council.

2. The Graduate Council.

3. The Professional Council.

4. Editorial Committee.-Professors GAYLEY, HILGARD, SETCHELL, CLAPP, PAGE, BAKEWELL; Assistant Professor ARMES, Secretary.

5. Membership.-Professors HILGARD, RISING, HESSE, FLAGG, SOULÉ.

6. *Publications.-Professors HowISON, DAVIDSON, LAWSON, BRADLEY, MARGOLIS.

7. *University Extension.-Professors FRYER, BAKEWELL, Dresslar, SYLE, JAFFA.

1. Gradua

2. Library

BERKEL.

This committee is appointed by the President in accordance with a resolution
Regents of the University.

ORGANIZATION AND GOVERNMENT.

The University of California is an integral part of the public educational system of the State. As such it completes the work begun in the public schools. Through aid from the State and the United States, and by private gifts, it furnishes facilities for instruction in literature and in science, and in the professions of art, law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and veterinary science. In the Colleges of Letters, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Commerce, Agriculture, Mechanics, Mining, Civil Engineering, and Chemistry, these privileges are offered without charge for tuition, to all persons qualified for admission. In the Professional Colleges, in San Francisco, except that of Law, moderate tuition fees are charged. The instruction in all the colleges is open to all qualified persons, without distinction of sex. The Constitution of the State provides for the perpetuation of the University, with all its departments.

ORGANIZATION.

The organization of the University comprises the following departments of instruction:

The distinctive characteristics of the various colleges are given in detail in subsequent pages of this REGISTER.

HISTORY.

The University was instituted by a law which received the approval of the Governor, March 23, 1868. Instruction was begun in Oakland in the autumn of 1869. The Commencement exercises of 1873 were held at Berkeley, July 16, when the University was formally transferred to its permanent home. Instruction began at Berkeley in the autumn of 1873. The new Constitution of 1879 made the existing organization of the University perpetual.

The College of California, which had been organized several years before the University, transferred its property and students upon terms which were mutually agreed upon, and closed its work of instruction in 1869. It had been incorporated in 1855, and through its agency a part of the Oakland property of the University, and the Berkeley site now owned and occupied by the latter were secured-a domain of about two hundred and fifty acres, situated on the slope of the Contra Costa hills, facing the Golden Gate.

The Academic Colleges were the only ones actually included in the original organization, although the Organic Act contemplated the establishment of Colleges of Law and Medicine. The Professional Colleges in San Francisco have been added from time to time. The Lick Observatory was formally transferred to the University in June, 1888; the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, in 1893.

ADMINISTRATION.

The government of the University of California is intrusted to a corporation styled THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, consisting of the Governor, the Lieutenant-Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the President of the State Agricultural Society, the President of the Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco, and the President of the University, as members ex officio, and sixteen other Regents appointed by the Governor and approved by the Senate. To this corporation the State has committed the administration of the University, including management of the finances, care of property, appointment of teachers, and determination of the internal organization in all particulars not fixed by law.

The instruction and government of the students are intrusted to the FACULTIES OF THE SEVERAL COLLEGES and to the ACADEMIC SENATE. The Senate consists of the members of the Faculties and

the Instructors of the University, the President and professors alone having the right to vote in its transactions. It holds regular meetings twice a year, and is created for the purpose of conducting the general administration of the University, memorializing the Regents, regulating in the first instance the general and special courses of instruction, and receiving and determining all appeals from acts of discipline enforced by the Faculty of any college; and it exercises such other powers as the Regents may confer upon it.

The Senate has created certain Standing Committees, among which are:

1. The Academic Council, composed of the President and the professors, lecturers, and instructors in the Academic Colleges, the President and professors alone having the right to vote in its transactions. Of this committee the President of the University is ex-officio chairman, and the Recorder of the Faculties secretary.

It regulates provisionally, or (where the functions to be exercised are executive) supervises, such matters relating to undergraduate students and their work as are not reserved by law to the separate Faculties at Berkeley, but in which they are all concerned.

2. The Graduate Council, composed of the President of the University, the heads of the departments in the Academic Colleges, and such other professors in these colleges as are engaged in the work of strictly graduate instruction. Of this committee the President is ex-officio chairman, and the Recorder of the Faculties secretary.

It performs with respect to graduate students, functions similar to those committed to the Academic Council regarding undergraduate students.

3. The Professional Council, composed of the President of the University and two members of each of the Faculties of Law, Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy, elected annually by these Faculties, respectively. Of this committee the President of the University is ex-officio chairman; the secretary is elected by the committee from its own number.

It regulates provisionally, or (where the functions to be exercised are executive) supervises, those matters in which these colleges are all concerned; it also considers the wants of any or all of these colleges, and makes recommendations concerning the same to the Academic Senate.

4. The Editorial Committee, consisting of the President of the University, and six members of the Academic Senate, who are appointed annually by the President. This committee has editorial charge of such publications as are authorized by the Academic Senate.