UNIVERSITY REFORM.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16358, 30 September 1913, Page 3

UNIVERSITY REFORM.

SCHEME OF EECONSTITUTIO'N

PROPOSALS BY CANTERBURY

COLLEGE

Last month the Board, of Governors of Canterbury College set up a special committee, consisting of the chairman (Mr J. C. Adams), Dr Lester and Mr \V. Brock, to consider the question of the reconstitution of the New Zealand University, and yesterday the commit-tee-submitted the following recommendations:—

The Senate should consist of twentyfour Fellows, eight to he appointed by tho four College Councils, eight by the four District Courts of Convocation, four by tho Professorial Boards, and four by the Government. Tho Senate should have power to mako statutes, appoint officers to carry out the work of tho Senate, expend funds and generally n\anagO tho affairs of the University, provided that no statute or regulation dealing with degrees, diplomas, scholarships or prizes, or courses of study or examinations, should bo passed without a recommendation from the Board of Studies, or unless tho latter had a reasonable opporfc tnity 'o report tliereCJ), nor, except with the same limitation, should any examiner.-? be appointed, degree.-; or"diplomas bo conferred, or scholarships or prizes bo awarded. Tho Board of Studies should conoist of tha Vice-Chancellor .(chairman)., one member elected by each of the Boards of Faculties, and twelve other members, three elected by each of the four Professorial Boards. Its powers should bo to make recommendations to tho Senate as to degrees, diplomas, scholarships and prizes, courses of studies and examinations; to receive recommendstions as to any of these matters from the Boards of 'Faculties or the Professorial Boards, and to report on any matter referred to it by tho Senate.

The Board of each Faculty should consist of the Dean of tho Faculty (elected by the Board of ihe Faculty), who should be chairman of + hf< Board, of the Professors in the subjects nf tho Faculty, or such lecturers in charge of those subjects as had seats on the Professorial Boards of the Colleges, and of such other professors, lecturers or other persons as the Senate on the advice of tho General Board of Studies added. For instance, a Professor of Mathematics and a Professor of Physics, or tho principal of an Agricultural College, might be added to the. Faculty of Technology ; one or more Professors of Biology and tho President of the New Zealand Branch of tho British Medical Association or tho Chief Officer of Health to the Faculty of Medicine, a barrister in practice or a Judge to tho Faculty of Law, and so on. Tho Boards of Faculties' powers should be to recommend to tho Board of Studies programmes of work in tho subjects of tho faculty or changes therein; to recommend to the samo body examiners in the several subjects; and. to make recommendations or suggestions to tho Board of Studies as to any other matters relating to the faculty. There should bo four Courts of Convocation. Tho constitution should be all graduates, as defined in tho New Zealand University Calendar, including " ad eundem " graduates. Every College Council and every Court of Convocation 6hould have tho right to make recommendations directly to the Senate. It was decided that the Senate should consist of twenty-five members, one to be appointed by the Board of Studies, and tho Board of Studies of tixteen memhers, four elected by each of tho four Professorial Boards. The clause dealing with Boards of Faculties was struck out, and tho rest of the report, as amended, was adopted.