CHAPTER I. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. ARTICLE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY. II. ENDOWMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY. III. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY. IV. SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. V. ACADEMIC SENATE OF THE UNIVERSITY. Object of ARTICLE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY. SECTION 1385. Object of University. 1386. Colleges to be maintained. 1388. Course of instruction. 1390. Duties of President. 1391. Government and discipline. 1392. Students. 1393. Fees and rates of tuition. 1394. Same. 1395. Free scholarship. 1396. Colleges may be affiliated with University. 1397. Annual examination for degrees. 1398. Same. 1399. Same. 1400. Degrees to graduates of affiliated colleges. 1401. Certificates of proficiency. 1402. Degrees. 1403. Degrees in Colleges of Letters. 1404. System of manual labor in connection with Agricul tural College. 1405. Sectarian, etc., tests prohibited. 1385. The University of California, located in Alameda County, has for its object general instruction and education in all the departments of science, literature, art, industrial and professional pursuits, and special instruction for the professions of agriculture, the mechanic arts, mining, military science, civil engineering, law, medicine, and commerce. 1386. There must be maintained in the Univer- Colleges to sity: 1. A College of Letters; 2. Colleges of Law and Medicine; 3. Colleges of Arts, as follows: of Agriculture, Mines, and Civil Engineering; and, 4. Such other colleges as the Board of Regents may establish. be maintained. College of 1387. The College of Letters must embrace a lib- Scope of eral course of instruction in language, literature, and Letters. philosophy. instruction. 1388. Each full course of instruction consists of Course of its appropriate studies, and must continue for four years. of 1389. The President of the University is the exec- President utive head of the institution in all its departments, University. except as herein otherwise provided. President. 1390. He must, subject to the Board of Regents, Duties of give general direction to the practical affairs of the several colleges, and in the recess of the Board of Regents may remove any employé or subordinate officer not a member of any Faculty, and supply for the time being any vacancies thus created; and until the Regents otherwise direct he is charged with the duties of one of the professorships. ment and 1391. The immediate government of the several Governcolleges is intrusted to their respective Faculties, each discipline. of which must have its own organization, regulate its own affairs, and may recommend the course of study and the text books to be used. 1392. Any resident of California of the age of Students. fourteen years or upwards, of approved moral character, may enter himself in the University as a student 29* VOL. I. Fees and rates of tuition. Same. Free scholarship. Colleges may be affiliated with University. at large, and receive tuition in any branches of instruction at the time when the same are given in their regular course, on such terms as the Board of Regents may prescribe. 1393. An admission fee and rate of tuition fixed by the Board of Regents must be required of each pupil, except as herein otherwise provided. 1394. As soon as the income of the University shall permit, admission and tuition must be free to all residents of the State; and the Regents must so apportion the representation of students according to population that all portions of the State may enjoy equal privileges therein. 1395. If approved by the Board of Regents, scholarships may be established in the University by any persons for the purpose of private benefaction or of affording tuition in any course of the University, free from the ordinary charges, to any scholar in the public schools of the State who may distinguish himself in study, according to the recommendation of his teachers, and who passes the examination required for the grade at which he wishes to enter the University. 1396. The Board of Regents may affiliate with the University any incorporated college of medicine, law, or other special course of instruction, upon such terms as may be deemed expedient; and such college may retain the control of its own property, have its own Boards of Trustees, Faculties, and Presidents, respectively; and the students of such colleges, recommended by the respective Faculties thereof, may receive from the University the degrees of those colleges. examina degrees. 1397. The examinations for degrees must be an- Annual nual. Students who have passed not less than a year tion for as residents in any college, academy, or school in this State, and who, after examination by the Faculty thereof, are recommended by them as proficient candidates for any degree in any regular course of the University, must be examined therefor at the annual examination; and on passing such examination may receive the degree and diploma for that course, and rank as graduates. 1398. All students of the University who have Same. been residents thereat for not less than one year, and all graduates in any course, may present themselves for examination in any other course at the annual examinations, and on passing such examination may receive the degree and diploma of that course.. 1399. Upon such examinations each professor and Same. instructor of that course may cast one vote, by ballot, upon each application for recommendation to the Board of Regents for a degree. graduates colleges. 1400. Graduates of the College of California, and Degrees to of any incorporated college affiliated with the Univer- of affiliated sity, may receive the degrees from and rank as graduates of the University. of 1401. The Board of Regents may also confer cer- Certificates tificates of proficiency in any branch of study upon proficiency. such students of the University as upon examination are found entitled to the same. 1402. The proper degree of each college must be Degrees. conferred at the end of the course upon such students as, having completed the same, are found proficient therein. 1403. The degree of Bachelor of Arts, and afterwards the degree of Master of Arts, in usual course, Degrees in Colleges of System of manual labor in connection with Agricultural College. Sectarian, etc., tests prohibited. must be conferred upon the graduates of the College of Letters. 1404. A system of moderate manual labor must be established in connection with the Agricultural College, upon its agricultural and ornamental grounds, for practical education in agriculture and landscape gardening. 1405. No sectarian, political, or partisan test must ever be allowed or exercised in the appointment of Regents, or in the election of professors, teachers, or other officers of the University, or in the admission of students thereto, or for any purpose whatsoever; nor must the majority of the Board of Regents be of any one religious sect or of no religious belief. ARTICLE II. Endowment. ENDOWMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY. SECTION 1415. Endowment. 1415. The endowment of the University is: 1. The proceeds of the sale of the seventy-two sections of land granted to the State for a seminary of learning; 2. The proceeds of the ten sections of land granted to the State for public buildings; 3. The income derived from the investment of the proceeds of the sale of the lands, or of the scrip therefor, or of any part thereof, granted to this State for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts; 4. The income of the Fund set apart by "An Act for the endowment of the University of California,' approved April second, eighteen hundred and seventy, which is continued in force; 5. Donations. |