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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1964


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THE CURRENT Board includes five Democrats-Regents Eugene B. Power of Ann Arbor, Allan Sorenson of Midland, Carl
Jackson and Irene Murphy of Birmingham.
Regents Guard the Public

Srablec of Roseville, William McInally of

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By KENNETH WINTER
Managing Editor
As an institution established
and financed by Michigan's tax-
payers, the University is ultimate-
ly responsible. to them. The pub-
lic's watchdogs over the Univer-
sity are the eight members of its
Board of Regents.
Elected at large by the voters
of the state, the Regents consti-
tute the ultimate authority of the
University. Their power is recog-
nized in the state constitution,
which not only sets the Regents
atop the University's hierarchy but
sets them free from control by
any other branch of the govern-
ment. This constitutional autono-
my, University officials repeated-
ly assert, has been an essential
factor in making the University a
leader among state universities.
Despite their theoretically abso-
lute authority, the Regents' day-
to-day role in University govern-
ment is relatively small. The ac-
tual administration of the Uni-
versity is handled by the profes-
sional administrators-who gen-
erally report to, rather than take
orders from, the Regents.
Hatcher's View
As the top administrator, Uni-
versity President Harlan Hatcher,
once put it, "the role of a gov-
erning board is not to manage a
university, but to make sure that
it is properly managed."
Addressing a meeting of gov-
erning-board members from col-
leges across the nation, President
Hatcher explained that Regents
must find a happy medium be-
tween two extremes of policy.

The first extreme is giving the

appointed administrators complete
power; the other extreme is trying
to bypass the administrators and
run the school directly.
"Theoretically, the governing
board system shouldn't work at all
-but it does," he commented.
. The University has not always
been run under the regental sys-
tem. When the University was ini-
tially established in 1817, a govern-
ing board composed of 13 didax
iim (or professorships) was ap-
pointed by the territorial gover-
nor to regulate all concerns of the
institution including the establish-
ment of "colleges, academies,
schools and libraries."
No Tuition
This first governing body had
no right to charge tuition.
In 1835, a new state constitu-
tion was formulated, and in the
process, higher education received
significant recognition: the size of
the University was increased, and
its organization reconstructed so ;
that it functioned something as it i
does today.
The government of the Univer-
sity was vested in a Board of Re- '
gents (the name was taken from
New York institutions of higher
education) and consisted of 12
members and a chancellor, who
was the ex-officio president of the
board.
Procedural Change
The governor no longer ap-
pointed board members, but
rather submitted his nominations
to the state Senate for their ap-
proval.
Rather slowly, the Regents
evolved into the group they are
today: an eight-man board, elect-
ed by the state and responsible
for its actions only to the elector-
ate.
This provision of election en-
ables them to be generally inde-
pendent of state politics and. poli-
ticians, except during certain

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and Paul Goebel of Grand Rapids.

of Detroit, Frederick

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strange seasons of the year when
the matter of appropriations for
the seven state-supported colleges
and universities comes up in the
Legislature.
Annual Meeting
The Regents have only one. an-
nual meeting, which "shall be held
immediately preceding com-
mencement," but hold additional
regular meetings 10 times during
the year.
The meetings take place over a
two-day period, usually Thursday
and Friday of the second or third
week of the month.
Sessions held on Thursday and
Friday mornings are behind closed
doors. Until April of 1962, the Fri-
day afternoon meeting was also
closed-only members of the press
could sit in-but since that time
has been opened to the general
public.
Long Sessions
The monthly meetings take be-
tween 12 and 20 hours, and in this

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appointments, I having

wan his first term last

salary hikes and retirements are
taken care of.
The budget and changes in by-
laws or other policy are debated
and discussed and mulled over and
with surprising regularity, deci-
sions are reached.
The President of the University
chairs the meetings, and in addi-
tion to him, the six vice-presi-
dents, and various public relations
people and assistants have a voice
at the meetings.
Present Board
These eight people are current-
ly Regents:
Regent Carl Brablec, current-
ly superintendent of schools in
Roseville, has held numerous
teaching and education posts. A
graduate of Eastern Michigan
University, he also earned ,a mas-
ter's degree in Ann Arbor.' His
term expires at the end of 1965.
Lawyer William Cudlip is the
latest addition to the Regents,


year. A graduate of the Law
School, Cudlip will leave the Re-
gents at the end of 1971.

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Former pro footballer Regent
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Industrialist
Regent Frederick C. Matthaei,
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Lawyer and banker William K.
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Regent Irene B. Murphy is a
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Regent Eugene B. Power is'
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