administration that have as their object new or revised procedures; the supplying
of specialists to work with the State Department of Education and the College of
Education for the welfare of the public schools; the furnishing of leadership and
professional consultation in curricular matters and materials; assisting in, and
helping to coordinate studies of national scope in the field of education; the placing
of teachers; the recruiting of new members for the teaching profession; and offering
the services and facilities of the P. K. Yonge Laboratory School for experimentation
and practical demonstration of educational procedures.

 RESEARCH
 Policy on Research. Together with teaching and public service, scholarship
and research are primary functions of a university. Therefore, in addition to support-
ing organized technical research directed above all to specific practical ends, the
University of Florida is also committed to encouraging its staff to engage in creative
scholarly pursuits of the kind that will advance knowledge. The University believes
that such occupations on the part of the faculty are indispensable to the professional
growth of staff members, and to effective teaching. It also believes that, when par-
ticipated in by students, such pursuits can be, and often are, teaching methods of
inestimable value.
 Policy on Patents and Copyrights. The overall aim of the University's policies
on patents and copyrights is to assure the staff member interested in research
maximum freedom of initiative, and to protect legitimate interests of all who, during
their stay at the University, produce either patent or copyright material. A full
statement of these policies is available on request to the Dean of the University
or the Chairman of the Research Council. Briefly recapitulated, their provisions
are as follows:
 1. All persons engaged on projects sponsored and financed wholly by the
 University are under contract with the Board of Control. This contract re-
 quires that all inventions and discoveries deriving from such projects may
 be patented at the University's expense, and they become the property of
 the University, if the Board of Control so decides. In case, however, the
 Board decides not to pay for obtaining a patent all rights of discovering
 or invention accrue to the discoverer or inventor, after a designated period
 of time has passed. Provision is also made for compensation to the inventor
 when a patent, is taken out by the State on his invention. The Board of
 Control has the option of having the patent application and management
 handled by the Research Corporation.
 2. For each investigation financed in part by the University, either through
 purchase of materials or the paying of personnel, and in part from outside
 sources, a contract stipulating patent and publication rights is made.
 3. When investigations are financed wholly by outside sources, a contract
 stipulating rights and ownership of patents is made.
 4. Patents that result from investigations by an employee of the University
 at his own expense and on his own time, if such investigation falls outside
 the field in which he is employed by the University, are the private property
 of the employee. Whenever such invention or discovery falls within the field
 in which the investigator is employed by the University, the Research Coun-
 cil recommends suitable action for handling the patent rights involved.

 The copyright policy of the University falls into two parts:
 1. Articles, pamphlets, and books written by members of the teaching