TITLE III. Education. Chapter I. University of California. Articles I-VII. §§ 1385–1486d. II. State Normal School. §§ 1487-1507. III. Public Schools. Articles I-XXI. §§ 1517-1892. CHAPTER I. University of California. Article I. General Provisions Relating to the University. §§ 1385-1405. II. Endowment of the University. § 1415. III. Regents of the University. §§ 1425-1439. IV. Secretary of the Board of Regents. §§ 1449-1451. V. Academic Senate of the University. §§ 1461-1463. VII. Hastings College of Law. §§ 1478-1486d. ARTICLE I. General Provisions Relating to the University. $1385. Object of university. $1386. Colleges to be maintained. 1387. Scope of college of letters. $1388. Course of instruction. $1359. President of university. $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 agricultural college. $1405. Sectarian, etc., tests prohibited. §1385. Object of university. 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. University of California: 1. Declared a public trust: Const., art. IX, § 9. 2. Organic act creating: Stats. 1867-68, p. 248; Stats. 1871-72, P. 655; the code commissioner saying of this act, "Probably repealed by the code, but if so, revived and made irrepealable by section 9, article IX, of the constitution of 1879." 3. Acts relating to: See Gen. Laws, tit. "University of California." Legislation § 1385. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p. 248, § 1. § 1386. Colleges to be maintained. There must be maintained in the university: One-A college of letters. Two-A college or colleges of science, including agriculture, mechanics, mining, engineering, chemistry, and such other specialties as the board of regents may determine. Three-College of medicine and law. Four-Such other colleges as the board of regents may establish. [Amendment approved 1874; Code Amdts. 1873-74, p. 31.] Subd. 3. "College of medicine and law," affiliation of, with university: Post, § 1396. Legislation § 1386. 1. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p. 248, § 2. 2. Amended by Code Amdts. 1873–74, p. 31. § 1387. Scope of college of letters. The college of letters must embrace a liberal course of instruction in language, literature, and philosophy. Legislation § 1387. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p. 250, § 7. § 1388. Course of instruction. Each full course of instruction consists of its appropriate studies and courses, to be determined by the board of regents. [Amendment approved 1874; Code Amdts. 1873-74, p. 31.] Legislation § 1388. 1. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p. 250, § 7. 2. Amended by Code Amdts. 1873-74, p. 31. § 1389. President of university. The president of the university is the executive head of the institution in all its departments, except as herein otherwise provided. Legislation § 1389. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p. 254, § 15. § 1390. Duties of president. He must, subject to the board of regents, give general direction to the practical affairs of the several colleges, and in the recess of the board of regents may remove any employee 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. Legislation § 1390. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867–68, p. 254, § 15. § 1391. Government and discipline. The immediate government of the several colleges is intrusted to their respective faculties, each 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. Legislation § 1391. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p. 255, § 18. § 1392. Students. Any resident of California of the age of fourteen years or upwards, of approved moral character, may enter himself in the university as a student 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. "Any resident of California." No person, to be debarred admission on account of sex: Const., art. IX, § 9. Legislation § 1392. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p. 249, § 3. §1393. Fees and rates of tuition. An admission fee and rate of taition fixed by the board of regents must be required of each pupil, exrept as herein otherwise provided. Fees and rates of tuition: See post, §§ 1394, 1395. Regents authorized to fix rates of tuition: See post, § 1432, subd. 8. Legislation § 1393. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p. 254, § 14. § 1394. Same. 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. Fees and rates of tuition: See ante, § 1393; post, § 1395. Legislation § 1394. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p. 254, § 14. § 1395. Free scholarship. 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. Fees and rates of tuition: See ante, §§ 1393, 1394. Legislation § 1395. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p. 251, § 10. § 1396. Colleges may be affiliated with university. The board of regents may affiliate with the university any incorporated college of medieine, 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. Medical department of the University of California to be called the "Toland": Stats. 1881, p. 24. Legislation § 1396. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p. 250, § 8. § 1397. Annual examination for degrees. The examinations for degrees must be annual. Students who have passed not less than a year as residents in any college, academy, or school in this state, and who, after examination by the faculty thereof, are recommended by them as pro ficient 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. Who entitled to degrees: See post, §§ 1398, 1402, 1403. Legislation § 1397. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p. 251, § 9. § 1398. Same. All students of the university who have been residents thereat for not less than one year, and all graduates thereof, may present themselves for examination in any course at the annual examinations, and, on passing such examination, may receive the degree and diploma of that course. [Amendment approved 1874; Code Amdts. 1873-74, p. 31.] Who entitled to degrees: See ante, § 1397; post, §§ 1402, 1403. Legislation § 1398. 1. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p 251, § 9. 2. Amended by Code Amdts. 1873-74, p. 31. § 1399. Same. Upon such examinations each professor and instructor of that course may cast one vote, by ballot, upon each application for recommendation to the board of regents for a degree. Legislation § 1399. Enacted March 12 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68. p. 251. § 9. § 1400. Degrees to graduates of affiliated colleges. Graduates of the College of California, and of any incorporated college affiliated with the university, may receive the degrees from and rank as graduates of the university. Legislation § 1400. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867–68, p. 250, § 8. § 1401. Certificates of proficiency. The board of regents may also confer certificates of proficiency in any branch of study upon such students of the university as upon examination are found entitled to the same. Legislation § 1401. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p. 250, § 7. § 1402. Degrees. The proper degree of each college must be conferred at the end of the course upon such students as, having completed the same, are found proficient therein. Who entitled to degrees: See ante, §§ 1397, 1398; post, § 1403. Legislation § 1402. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p. 249, § 3. § 1403. Degrees in colleges of letters. The degree of bachelor of arts, and afterwards the degree of master of arts, in usual course, must be conferred upon the graduates of the college of letters. Who entitled to degrees: See ante, §§ 1397, 1398, 1402. Legislation § 1403. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p. 250, § 7. § 1404. System of manual labor in connection with agricultural college. 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. Legislation § 1404. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p. 249, § 4. § 1405. Sectarian, etc., tests prohibited. 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. $9. Independent of all political or sectarian influence: Const., art. IX, Legislation § 1405. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867-68, p. 254, § 13. §1415. Endowment. The endorsement [endowment] of the university is: One The proceeds of the sale of the seventy-two sections of land granted to the state for a seminary of learning. Two-The proceeds of the ten sections of land granted to the state for ablie buildings. Three The income derived from the investments 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 endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tacticsto teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the neehanie arts. Four-The income of the fund set apart by "An Act for the endowTent of the University of California," approved April second, eighteen andred and seventy, which is continued in force. Six-The state of California, in its corporate capacity, may take by grant, gift, devise, or bequest, any property for the use of the university, and hold the same, and apply the funds arising therefrom, through the regents of the university, to the support of the university, as provided article nine, section four, of the constitution. Seven-The regents of the university, in their corporate capacity, may take, by grant, gift, devise, or bequest, any property for the use of The university, or of any college thereof, or of any professorship, chair, or scholarship therein, or for the library, an observatory, workshops, gardens, greenhouses, apparatus, a students' loan fund, or any other purpose appropriate to the university; and such property shall be taken, received, held, managed, and invested, and the proceeds thereof used, bestowed, and applied by the said regents for the purposes, provisions, and conditions prescribed by the respective grant, gift, devise, or bequest. Eight-The regents of the university may invest any of the permanent funds of the university, which are now or hereafter may be, in their custody, in productive, unencumbered real estate in this state, subject to the power of the legislature to control or change such investments, xcepting such as, by the terms of their acquisition, must be otherwise invested. |