FUNCTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY


 No less than its predecessors, the modern university is the guardian and inter-
preter of intellectual tradition. Like them, also, it is a focus of the kind of scholarly
experiment and investigation from which, in the main, new ideas and methods may be
expected to come. Since historically it is a college-a community, that is, of scholars
and teachers-it is in them that the measure of its quality and capacity for usefulness
will be found. It is upon their competence, integrity, .and devotion to professional
ideals that the university must depend for success. Therefore, now as always, the
capacities and the character of the persons selected to become members of a univer-
sity faculty are considerations of the utmost importance.
 To measure up to the high standards set by a long and honorable academic tradi-
tion, and also to perform its exacting task of educating as well as training the youth
of the state, the faculty of a modern state university must, for the most part, consist
of persons who are themselves both scholars, in the best tradition, and conscientious
and gifted teachers or in the research division, gifted research workers. They should
be able, through their qualities and achievements, to command respect in the state
and in the nation quite as much as in their own community. If they are to succeed in
this, obviously they must be able and diligent in creative scholarship and in teach-
ing. Also it is necessary, to the end that they may contribute their full share to the
social and cultural advancement of the state as well as to its material progress,
that they be carefully selected in the first instance, and then duly encouraged and
well equipped.

 ORGANIZATION OF THE UNIVERSITY
 Full jurisdiction over the University of Florida and its policies and affairs is
vested in the Board of Control, whose members are appointed by the Governor for a
term of four years. The appointments are arranged so that there are always holdover
members on every Board. The members of the Board serve without pay.
 All actions of the Board of Control are subject to final approval by the State
Board of Education, an ex-officio Board composed of the Governor, who serves as
chairman, the Secretary of State, the Treasurer, the Attorney General, and the Super-
intendent of Public Instruction who serves as Secretary. This board is a policy-mak-
ing agency charged with administering all educational activities of the state and with
enforcing enactments of the state legislature concerning education.

 OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
 The President is the chief executive of the University and exercises supervision
over its activities, properties, and expenditures. In matters not otherwise provided
for by the university constitution and the by-laws of the Board of Control, the
President has full power.
 To advise him he has two councils, the Academic Council and the Administrative
Council. The Academic Council is composed of the President, as chairman; the
Vice-President, the Deans, Directors of schools, and the Director of the University
Libraries. The Administrative Council is made up of the President, as chairman;
the Vice-President, and all members of the staff who make recommendations direct-
ly to the President concerning policy, budgets, and appointments.
 Also to advise him the President has the Personnel Board. It is made up of the
President, as chairman; the Vice-President, as vice chairman; the Dean of the Uni-
versity as secretary; the Business Manager; two Deans or Directors, to be appointed
by the President, and each to serve one semester; and the Chairman of the Faculty