Fraudulent Diplomas: A Necessity for State Supervision. An Address Before the Illinois State Teachers' Association ... 1898

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R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company, 1899 - 18 Seiten
 

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Seite 3 - ... of the county in which the principal place of business of the corporation is to be located, and no corporation shall, until such articles be left for record, have legal existence.
Seite 14 - They are also given the right, for sufficient cause, to suspend or revoke the charter of any educational institution. Under a law passed in 1892 it is provided that, "No institution shall be given power to confer degrees in this state, unless it shall have resources of at least $500,000 ; and no institution for higher education shall be incorporated without suitable provision, approved by the regents, for buildings, furniture, educational equipment, and proper maintenance.
Seite 15 - No institution shall be chartered with the power to confer degrees unless it has assets amounting to five hundred thousand dollars invested in buildings, apparatus, and endowments for the exclusive purpose of promoting instruction, and unless the faculty consists of at least six regular professors who devote all their time to the instruction of its college or university classes...
Seite 11 - ... that everywhere in the civi.lized world have signified high attainments and special equipment for professional work, is to liken it to the witty French minister who threatened to create so many dukes that it would be no honor to be one, and a burning disgrace not to be one.
Seite 14 - ex-officio " members of the board of regents. No person shall be at the same time a regent of the university and a trustee, president, principal or any other officer of an institution belonging to the university.
Seite 12 - Mr. Freeman, the English historian and Oxford professor, publishing his " Impressions of the United States," declared that one of the first things that impressed the stranger was the amazing number of universities and colleges existing here. After stating, " We can hardly be wrong in inferring that the degrees granted by some of these institutions cannot be worth very much," he goes on to say : " Now, my feelings make me most loath to say a word in any federal country against the powers of the several...
Seite 17 - ... power. 10. Any institution which exercises the degree-conferring power contrary to the provisions hereinbefore set forth, shall forfeit its right to exist as an educational institution, and it shall be the duty of the law officers of the State to wind up its affairs. And the members of...
Seite 11 - It has thus a legal sanction and authority. But it has more. In practical affairs it introduces its possessor to the confidence and patronage of the general public. Its legal character gives it a moral and material credit in the estimation of the world, and makes it thereby a valuable property right of great pecuniary value.
Seite 14 - The legislature of that state, at its first session after the close of the Revolutionary War, created the University of New York and placed the same in the control of a board of regents composed of men of the highest character and distinction. The University of New York is not a teaching body. It includes and has supervision over all the colleges and academies of the state, although each has its own board of trustees for the management...
Seite 6 - a copy, duly certified by the Secretary of State, under the great seal of the state of Ohio, shall be evidence of the existence of such association.

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