title: Regents rules; enacted September 20, 1905, amended to May 25, 1916.
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Carpenter ------- Mount Kisco 1923 Abram I. Elkus LL.B. D.C.L. ----- New York 1924 Adelbert Moot LL.D. ------- Buffalo 1925 Charles B. Alexander M.A. LL.B. LL.D. Litt.D. ----------- Tuxedo 1919 John  James Byrne B.A. LL.B. ------ New York President of the University and Commissioner of Education John H. Finley M.A. LL.D. L.H.D. Deputy Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner for Elementary Education Thomas E. Finegan M.A. Pd.D. LL.D. Assistant Commissioner for Higher Education Augustus S. Downing M.A. L.H.D. LL.D. Assistant Commissioner for Secondary Education Charles F. Wheelock B.S. LL.D. Director of State Library James L Wyer, Jr, M.L.S, Director of Science and State Museum John M. Clarke Ph.D. D.Sc. LL.D. Chiefs and Directors of Divisions Administration, George M. Wiley M.A. Agricultural and Industrial Education, Arthur D. Dean D.Sc, Director Archives and History, James A. Holden B.A., Direcior Attendance, James D. Sullivan Educational Extension, William R. Watson B.S. Examinations and Inspections, Harlan H. Horner M.A. Director Law, Frank B. Gilbert B.A. Library School, Frank K. Walter M.A. M.L.S. School Buildings and Groimds, Frank H. Wood M.A. School Libraries, Sherman Williams Pd.D. Statistics, Hiram C. Case Visual Instruction, Alfred W. Abrams Ph.B. V %^ ^,> ENACTMENT September 20, ipo^i The Regents of The University of the State of New York, assem- bled in Board meeting, hereby make, estabHsh and enact the fol- lowing rules, which they deem necessary to carry into cttect the statutes of this State relating to education, and advisable for the accomplishment of the trusts reposed in them. These rules, made under such simpler name, are intcnrlcd and shall be deemed to be such rules and regulations, and ordinances and by-laws, as the Regents are empowered to enact under the provisions of the Education Law. REGENTS RULES Enacted September jo, hjOj, a)id as amended to iVIay 2j, Tpi6 CHAPTER I GENERAL RULES ORGANIZATION g I The University and its President. For more complete unifi- cation of the relations of the State to education, the University of the State of New York shall be the State Education Department and is hereby charged with, and under its caption and in its name as such University shall exercise, the general management and supervision of all public schools and all the educational work of the State. In furtherance of such unification and of the development and perfecting of the educational system of this State, there is hereby created the oftice of President of The University of the State of New York, whose incumbent shall be chosen by ballot by and shall hold his office during the pleasure of the Board of Regents, and he is hereby charged, in addition to such other duties and functions as may otherwise be devolved upon him, with the power and duty of general supervision over all educational work and actixities in this State, and it shall be his duty also to devote himself to educa- tional research, to the study of the educational work and systems of other jurisdictions, and selectively and reflectively, with the approval of the Board of Regents, to introduce and originate, so far as possible, better methods of education, and especially to en- deavor in every feasible way to bring about the improved devel- opment and greater usefulness of the common schools of this State, of which the Board of Regents were the first official promoters and are now the sponsors and guardians. The President of the University may attend all meetings of the Board of Regents and of its committees, submit matters for their consideration and participate in their discussions. It is hereby further provided that the Commissioner of Educa- tion, if there shall be such official then in office, shall alone be eligible for election to the office of President of the University. § 2 Commissioner of Education. The Commissioner of Educa- tion is the chief executive officer of the state system of education D, ^^ D. JUL 18 1916 REGENTS RULES 9 and of the Board of Regents of the University. lie shall attend all meetings of the members of such Board, submit matters for their consideration and be free to participate in all discussions. If the Commissioner of Education shall also be the President of the University he may execute the powers and exercise the func- tions of his two such offices under his title as a University officer, and his signature as such University officer shall be sufficient indica- tion of and shall validate his official action either as such officer or as Commissioner of Education. In case of a vacancy in the office of Commissioner of Education, or if he be absent or unable or unwilling to act, the Chancellor of the University, or if his oftice be vacant or he be absent or unable or unwilling to act, then the Vice Chancellor of the University, or if both the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor are absent or unable or unwilling to act, then the senior Regent present, able and willing to act, shall succeed to and have the powers and functions of the Commissioner of Education, until further action otherwise of the Board of Regents, and he may, with their approval, to hold during his or their pleasm^e, appoint a deputy, who shall have the same powers and functions, and, if he 1)C at the same time a University officer or Regent, may execute such powers and exercise such func- tions under his University title. § 3 Assistant Commissioners, Directors and Chiefs. There shall be three Assistant Commissioners of I^^ducation, designated, for separate identification, as Eirst, Second, and Third Assistant Commissioners of Education, who shall have sui)ervision of such w^ork as the Commissioner of Education shall assign to them, and shall exercise such authority and render such service as shall be directed by the Regents of the University. The Commissioner of Education may designate one of the assistant commissioners of education to be his deputy, who may act in his place, so far as the exigencies of the occasion may require, if at any time there is no superior officer present able and willing to act ; or, when there shall be neither superior officer nor deputy present able and willing to act, the senior, in departmental service, of the assistant commis- sioners present, and able and willing to act. may so act in the place of the Commissioner. a The First Assistant Couimissioncr. The Eirst Assistant Com- missioner shall have charge of higher education, including matters relating to universities, colleges, professional and technical schools, and to the execution of educational laws concerning the professions. His field of labor is herebv established as a department of the REGENTS RULES II University, to be known as the Dei)ai"tment of Higher Education, and the Assistant Commissioner in charge thereof shall be known and sign ofticially as Assistant Commissioner for or as l^ircctor of Higher Education. b The Second Assistant Comniissioncr. The Second Assistant Commissioner shall have charge of secondary education, including matters relating to academies, academic departments, academic schools, high schools, the training of teachers therefor, and to the State College for Teachers. His field of labor is hereby established as a department of the University, to be known as the Department of Secondary Education, and the Assistant Commissioner in charge thereof shall be known and sign officially as Assistant Commis- sioner for or as Director of Secondary Education. c The Third Assistant Conunissioner. The Third Assistant Commissioner shall have charge of elementary education, including matters relating to all schools below the academic grade and of the training of teachers therefor, and the general supervision of matters relating to normal schools, teachers training schools and classes, teachers certificates, and of the School Libraries Division. His field of labor is hereby established as a department of the University, to be known as the Department of Elementary Educa- tion, and the Assistant Commissioner in charge thereof shall be known and sign officially as Assistant Commissioner for or as Director of Elementary Education. d Directors and Chiefs of Departments and Divisions. The educational and administrative work of the Education l)epartment shall be performed by the University Departments of Higher Edu- cation, Secondary Education, Elementary Education, State Library, and Science, the heads of the last two to be designated as Directors, and the Director of Science shall, in connection with the work of the State ^^luseum, be and be known as its Director; by the follow- ing educational Divisions, which are hereby established as Divisions of the University, to wit, Examinations and Inspections. Agri- cultural and Industrial Education, Library School, School Libra- ries, School Buildings and Grounds, Educational Extension, Visual Instruction. Archives and History, and Statistics ; and by the executive Divisions of Law. Attendance and Administration, which are also hereby established as Divisions of the University. The head of the Library School shall be known as its Director and his first assistant as Vice Director ; the heads of the Division of Agri- cultural and Industrial Education and of the Examinations and Inspections Division shall be known as Directors ; the chief of the REGENTS RULES 13 Division of Archives and History shall be known also as State Historian, and he may be further designated as Director of Archives and History, and the heads of the other Divisions shall be designated as chiefs. e Regulations. Subject to the direction and rules of the Board of Regents and to the direction and approval of the President of the University, the Assistant Commissioners, Directors, and Chiefs of Divisions in the University may make suitable regulations for the administration of their respective fields of labor and divisions and the accomplishment of the purposes of the work assigned to them, including when contribvitory thereto the arranging of courses of study and syllabuses thereof and the preparation and conduct or direction of examinations as tests of attainments and bases for awarding credentials. § 4 Regents meetings, quorum and adjournments. Regular meetings of the Board of Regents shall be called and held at lO a. m. on the last Thursday in each of the months of February, April, June, and September and the third Thursday of November, at the Education Building in Albany, or at such other time and place as shall be fixed in the call for any mieeting. Seven Regents attending shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. But a less number, as also a quorum, may adjourn any meeting from day to day, and additionally over Sunday and any holiday, without giving notice to absent members ; but in any case of longer adjournment at least five days notice of the appointed time and place for the adjourned meeting shall be mailed to the usual address of each Regent. At Regents meetings the order of business shall be as follows : a Roll call b Approval of journal of previous meeting c Matters relating to the organization of the Board d Communications from the Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, and President of the University and Commissioner of Education e Reports of committees, (i) standing; (2) special / Matters on the table g Miscellaneous business h Adjournment § 5 Committees. There shall be twelve regular standing com- mittees, of three Regents each, upon the following subjects: 1 Charters 2 Elementary education 3 Secondary education REGENTS RULES I 5 4 Higher education 5 Educational extension 6 The State Library 7 The State science \\ ork and ^Museum 8 Examinations y Licenses 10 Appointments 1 1 Finance 12 Education Building The appointments to such committees shall be made and may be changed, from time to time, by the Chancellor, and in such manner that each Regent shall be chairman of one and an associate member of two others of the committees. In addition to the said twelve standing committees, there shall be a standing law committee composed of all the Regents who are members of the bar, with its senior Regent for chairman. The Chancellor may also, from time to time, appoint a committee upon legislation with such chairmanship and membership as he shall think desirable. Each committee shall meet at the time and place named by the Chancellor in any call for a meeting of the Board of Regents ; and shall also meet at a time and place designated by its chairman in his call therefor, which shall be mailed to each member at least five days prior to the appointed time. Any other Regent present at a meeting of a committee may, upon invitation, sit therewith as a member for that session. The Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, and President of the University and the Commissioner of Education, may at any time request the advice of any committee or member of the Board of Regents; and may also, without prior presentation to the Board, directly refer any matters to its appropriate committees, for consideration thereof and report thereto. ^;* 6 Journal of proceedings. The President of the University shall cause to be kept a complete journal of the proceedings of the Board of Regents and, as the official record thereof, after approval by the Board, shall have two original copies prepared upon endur- ing paper from the type used in printing the approved minutes and shall authenticate such copies by his official signature and the seal of the University, and from time to time shall have accumulated copies bound in form suitable for permanent preservation. He shall also, as occasions therefor arise, likewise authenticate farther copies of, or extracts from, such journal. REGENTS RULES I 7 § 7 Appropriations, expenditures and accounts. Except in cases deemed urgent by the I'resident of the University, applica- tions to the Legislature for appropriations shall be made only with the approval of the Board of Regents, and shall first be submitted to the committee on finance for consideration and report. There siiall be kept in the University accurate records and ac- counts of all business transactions and of all receipts and expendi- tures of money; and the custody and disbursement of all moneys, except as otherwise provided, shall be under the control and direc- tion of the President of the University. The President of the University shall submit to the Board at each meeting the certificate of an authorized representative of the State Comptroller that such records and accounts are properly kept and are correct; and that the balances called for, subject to his control, are on deposit with the bank designated by the Comp- troller under the law. Expenditures in excess of $300 in any one case for articles, ma- terials or supplies for any department or division of the University shall be made only with the further specific approval of the Board of Regents, or of the chairman of its appropriate committee. No expenditures or indebtedness shall be made or incurred until certi- fied by the Chief of the Administration Division as being within an available appropriation. § 8 Special committees. In intervals between Regents meet- ings, or in cases for w^hich no other method is provided, the Chan- cellor may in his discretion appoint any committee, council, ex- aminer or honorary official required by law or rule or by vote of the Regents or of the University Convocation, and any special com- mittee requested by the President of the University, and ma}- ap- point delegates for occasions where in his judgment it is proper and desirable that the University be represented. ^ 9 Appointments and removals. T^ositions in the University shall be created and the salaries thereof be fixed, and appointments to, removals from, and approvals thereof, and to or from other [)ositions whose making or control is vested in the Regents of the University and the Commissioner of Education, or the President of the University, or in either of them, shall be made and controlled by or with their concurrent action or approval. In cases deemed urgent by the Chancellor of the University and by the President of the University, they may jointly make appointments, removals and approvals to be immediately operative, but not to continue in efifect beyond the adjournment of the succeeding meeting of the Board of REGENTS RULES I9 Regents, unless then approved by them. The President of the University may, in his discretion, employ such temporary assistance as the exigencies of the occasion shall require and fix the com- pensation therefor. § 10 Cooperation of divisions. Under the discretionary direc- tion of the President of the University, the resources of the various departments and divisions of the University shall be available for use and the services of their employees transferable in aid of the work of any department or division of the University. § 1 1 Working hours and vacations. The regular working hours shall be from 9 a.m. till 5 p.m. on week days other than Saturday, when they shall end at noon. One hour, between 12 m. and 2 p.m., will be allowed for luncheon. So far as the needs of the service shall permit, regular employees shall be given in each year vacations not exceeding 30 calendar days. § 12 Education Building, a Care and order. The Education Building shall be kept with unusual care and neatness that it may at all times be in keeping with the purposes for which it has been provided. Quiet and good order shall be enforced. Smoking shall not be allowed ; nor shall any canvassing by salesmen or agents or any soliciting for charities be permitted. h Use of atiditoriuiii. The President of the University may per- mit the auditorium to be used by state organizations or other assemblages of statewide importance whose purposes accord with those of the State, upon their paying the extra expenses caused by its use. But this authorization shall be exercised conservatively. It shall not extend to meetings which are liable to misuse the building, or to local interests in the city of Albany other than educational interests, or to any political, denominational, or partisan purpose whatsoever. c Pictures, portraits and notices. No pictures or notices shall be placed upon the walls except upon the permission of the Chief of the Administration Division. No portraits or busts shall be accepted or given place in the building except upon report of the Education Building committee and upon vote of the Board of Regents. d Safety vaults, safes, manuscripts and relics. All historical manuscripts and relics, all rare books of exceptional value, and all ancient relics not being used, shall be kept in safes; if not required for frequent reference they shall be kept in the safety vaults. The unique and priceless documents and relics shall be kept in the special vault prepared for them in the room of the REGENTS RULES 21 safety vaults, and only the Chancellor of the University, the Presi- dent of the University and confidential assistants designated by them shall have access thereto, and the combination to the lock upon the doors of the room containing the safety vaults shall be known only to such persons. Any question as to the care of particu- lar manuscripts, books, records and relics shall be determined by the Chancellor of the University and the President of the University. THE UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION § 13 Time and object. The University Convocation shall be held annually in the Education Building on such days as the Chancellor and the President of the University shall determine. Its object shall be to ascertain and formulate educational opinion ; to make such recommendations as experience may suggest, and by the coopera- tion of educational forces to advance educational interests. § 14 Membership. It shall include all educational officers, teachers and others interested in the educational well-being of the State. § 15 Officers. The University officers shall be the permanent officers of the Convocation. ADVISORY BODIES § 16 New York State Examinations Board. With the com- mon consent and approval of the State, embodied in its statutes and the ordinances of the Board of Regents and expressed in long general use, the state academic examinations have been established to guide and stimulate teaching, to insure a worthy and definite degree of training and scholarship in the schools, and to standardize the requirements for teachers licenses, for admission to training classes, training schools and normal schools, and, so far as may be, for all educational credentials for which the State assumes responsibility. That these examinations may be as truly represen- tative as possible of the teaching in the best schools and be quickly responsive to progress in education, a New York State Examina- tions Board is hereby provided for. a Members. This board shall consist of twenty persons. The President of the University, the three Assistant Commissioners of Education, and the Director of the Examinations and Inspections Division shall be ex officio members, and the President of the Uni- versity shall be chairman. Fifteen other members shall be appointed by the Board of Regents, ordinarily at the time of the University Convocation, five of whom shall represent the colleges and uni- REGENTS RULES 23 versities, five the high schools and academies, and five the city superintendents. Only such persons as are engaged in teaching or in supervision in this State shall be members of the board. The appointive members shall serve for five years. b Powers. The functions of the Examinations Board shall be to appoint, with the approval of the President of the University, committees to prepare question papers for state examinations, and to advise with him in respect to the form and contents of syllabuses covering the subjects of study in the elementary and secondary schools. c Expenses. This board shall serve without compensation, but the ordinary expenses incident to attendance upon meetings called by the President of the University shall be paid by the State. d Committees. The committees appointed by the State Exami- nations Board to prepare question papers shall consist of three per- sons each. One member of each committee shall be an officer of the University. For preacademic subjects, one member shall be a principal of an elementary school and one member a superintendent of schools; and for academic subjects, one member shall be a col- lege teacher and one member a secondary school teacher. Each teacher shall serve for one year and shall receive from the State the necessary expenses in attending meetings of his committee in each year and an annual honorarium as follows : on preacademic subjects, English, Latin, Greek, history wdth civics and economics, mathematics, biologic science, and commercial subjects, $50; on German, French, Spanish, and drawing, $40 ; on physics, chemistry, and physical geography, $30. § 17 Councils. Convocation, college, academic, library, music, nurse training school, industrial and trades schools, and medical councils of five each to serve as advisory bodies with which the University officers may consult regarding prominent interests and classes of institutions in the University, shall be appointed by the Chancellor, one councilor each year to serve for five years. The deans of the dental, pharmacy and veterinary medical schools shall constitute similar councils to represent respectively dental, phar- macy and veterinary medical interests. INCORPORATION, ADMISSION AND REGISTRATION § 18 Absolute charter. No educational institution shall be given an absolute charter by the Regents of the University unless it has the following resources : For a college $500,000, for a medical school $50,000, for an academy $5000, for a public library $1000. REGENTS RULES 25 § 19 Provisional charter. An institution holding a provisional charter shall in all cases print the words " under provisional charter " after its name wherever it is printed by authority of the institution. § 20 Execution of charters, decrees and certificates. The ac- tion of the Board of Regents in incorporating institutions, changing their corporate names, altering, suspending or revoking their char- ters, dissolving their corporate existence, approving transfers of their property, the approval of the acceptance of conditional gifts, and all action of the Board obviously requiring such suitable exem- plifying, shall, in addition to the record made in the journal of its proceedings, be evidenced by charters, decrees, certificates, or other appropriate instruments, which shall embody the said record of their journal, be executed by and in behalf of the Board of Re- gents under the seal of the University, which is hereby declared to be the seal of such Board, be attested by the official signatures of the Chancellor, or Vice Chancellor, and of the President of the University, and be recorded in the office of the Regents in their permanent public records. § 21 Application. An educational institution desiring admis- sion to or incorporation or registration by the University must file a written application giving the information requested in the form prescribed by the President of the University. Such application must be on file in the University at least ten days before the meeting of the Regents at which action thereon is to be taken. § 22 [Repealed May 22, iQ)IT,'\ § 23 Registration, a If it maintains approved standards of equipment and instruction, and possesses resources at least equiv- alent to those prescribed by the laws of this State and the rules of the Regents, a college, university, professional or other school, institution, branch or department, within or without the State, may be registered by the Board of Regents for the purpose of having its work recognized for professional licenses and university certifi- cates and for determining its educational standing and rank, and for such other purposes and on such conditions as the Regents shall prescribe. Admission to or continuance on the roll of registration shall depend upon furnishing all information requested and. in the case of an institution not a member of the University, meeting the expenses of such inspection as the Regents or the President of the University shall deem advisable. Upon admission to the University, an educational institution will. REGENTS RULES 27 upon request therefor, be registered for the rank to which it is entitled, and any registered institution may, upon application to the Regents, be registered anew for its later established approved grade or merit. h A secondary school in this State which is not a member of the University, may be registered upon application and after the pay- ment of an annual fee of $20 to defray the cost of inspection. But no such school shall be registered until its work has been examined and favorably reported by a University inspector, nor until it has filed with the University such papers or reports as may be required by the President of the University. c Institutions of secondary and higher grade thus registered, and no others, shall be entitled to use the word " registered " after their name. Temporary registration may be made by the Presi- dent of the University, to meet a case regarded by him as emer- gent, for a period till the adjournment of the succeeding meeting of the Board of Regents, but formal registration shall be effected only by action of such Board. d The work of institutions not registered shall not be accepted for a University certificate unless the student desiring the certificate shall submit to the officers of the University satisfactory evidence that the particular work which he has done is worthy of recognition. e A college or university may be registered as maintaining a sat- isfactory standing for one full year of medicine when the combined course for the baccalaureate and medical degrees is not less than seven years ; and a university maintaining a registered medical school may be registered as maintaining a satisfactory standing if it shall confer academic degrees and medical degrees as a result of a combined course covering six years, provided the diploma con- ferring the academic degree, whether it be conferred at the end of four years or at the end of six years, shall clearly indicate that such degree is conferred as the result of concurrent courses covering six years ; but this must in no case be construed to mean that less than four years' work in subjects essential to a liberal education will be approved as the basis of the academic degree. / A commercial school may be registered as maintaining a satis- factory standard upon the payment of an annual fee of $20 and upon the report of the University inspector that it has met the following requirements : 1 Suitable building or rooms for the conduct of its work. 2 Suitable equipment for the courses given by the school. 3 Reputation for fair and honest dealing with its students and the public. REGENTS RULES 29 4 Faculty of teachers whose training has been not less than that required of teachers engaged in similar work in public schools. 5 An approved course of study which includes at least the follow- ing subjects: bookkeeping, commercial arithmetic, commercial law, English, commercial correspondence, business writing, shorthand and typewriting. Registered commercial schools must file with the University copies of all advertising literature, including catalogs, pamphlets, circulars etc., and an annual report, on or before July 31st of each year. No registration certificates, except the one for the current year, shall be publicly displayed. For examinations in registered commercial schools, see rule 331c. § 24 College defined. An institution to be ranked as a college must have at least six professors giving their entire time to college or university work, a course of four full years of college grade in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies. § 25 Stock or business corporations. No educational institu- tion or association incorporated or conducted as a business enter- prise so that any part of its assets or income may be divided among stockholders or members, shall share in any grant of public money or publish itself as holding its charter from or having any con- nection with the University except in words for the use of which it has written permission from the Regents. If subject to Univer- sity supervision, it shall use the words " chartered as a stock (or business) corporation " or some other descriptive word or phrase accepted by the Regents as sufficiently indicating its proprietary character wherever the fact of its incorporation is printed. This regulation shall apply to all corporations holding limited charters from the University and also to every association or institution under University supervision not so organized that all its assets and receipts from tuition or other sources must be used solely for the benefit of the public and without profit to stockholders, officers or teachers beyond reasonable compensation for services actually rendered. § 26 Registration of free public libraries. An incorporated free public library, or one controlled by an incorporated institution or by trustees appointed by school authorities, on request of its trustees and after official inspection, if meeting the requirements of REGENTS RULES 3I the Regents of the University, will be registered by them as main- taining a proper standard. Registration may be canceled by the Regents upon application of the trustees of a library, or at the pleas- ure of the Regents. A registered library shall be subject to visita- tion and inspection by the Regents, and while maintaining a stand- ard approved by them shall be entitled to the rights and privi- leges, so far as applicable, provided for by or under sections 1120, 1 131, and 1 1 33 of the Education Law. ADMISSION, PRIVILEGES AND GRADES OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS § 27 Requirements and privileges. Secondary schools and academic departments of union schools in the State of New York may upon proper application and after official inspection be admitted to the University by a vote of the Regents. Such schools shall afford for at least 175 days in each year academic instruction, equip- ment and teaching force, approved by the President of the Uni- versity, and shall have in regular attendance at least five academic pupils who hold a preliminary certificate or its accepted equivalent. Secondary schools admitted to the University may hold Regents academic examinations for the grades for which they are regis- tered, shall be entitled to inspection without charge, to representa- tion in the University Convocation, to receive publications issued by the University, to have their credentials accepted as bases for qual- ifying certificates, to be entered in the official lists of approved secondary schools, and to share so far as qualified in grants of public moneys. § 28 Grades of secondary schools. Secondary schools shall be graded as junior academic schools, middle academic schools, senior academic schools and high schools, and the requirements therefor, subject to the approval of the Regents or the President of the Uni- versity, or under the authority of either, shall be as follows : a A junior academic school shall maintain an approved one-year course of study and may maintain not to exceed a two-year course and shall have apparatus worth at least v$ioo and a library worth at least $200. h A middle academic school shall maintain an approved two-year course of study and may maintain not to exceed a three-year course and shall have apparatus worth at least $150 and a library worth at least $300. c A senior academic school shall maintain an approved three- year course of study and may maintain a four-year course and shall have apparatus worth at least $200 and a library worth at least $400. REGENTS RULES 33 d A high school shall maintain an approved four-year course of study and shall have apparatus worth at least $250 and a library worth at least $500. e Senior academic schools and high schools shall provide ade- quate laboratory facilities for individual experimentation. § 29 English requirements. To • maintain approved standing and the right to share in grants from the academic fund all secondary schools in the University must require each class, throughout its course, to have in each school week at least three recitations in English, which shall include the study of the English language and literature and practice in English composition. § 30 Academy changed to academic department. An academy adopted or leased as the academic department of a union school may retain its membership in the University if the board of edu- cation request it and notify the Regents in writing that they intend to maintain at least the standards required for admission. APPORTIONMENTS § 31 General requirements. No city, union free school dis- trict or academy shall share in apportionments from the appropria- tions to cities, academies, academic departments and school libraries unless it has a permanent or provisional charter or has been ad- mitted to membership in the University, submits all required re- ports, makes proper provision for not less than 175 days of actual academic instruction, shows an aggregate academic attendance of not less than 1000 days for the school year, provides a school building approved by the President of the University, maintains a course of study of prescribed standard, makes general use of the Regents academic examinations which shall be mandatory only in the last two years of the school's course, and meets all other requirements. This rule shall not prohibit an apportionment for libraries on the basis of apportionments to common school dis- tricts. Success in passing the Regents examinations shall not be deemed necessary for the promotion or graduation of pupils from schools that prefer to determine such advancements by their own local standards ; and the principal of a school, for physical or mental reasons to be reported to the University, may without prejudice to the school's rights excuse a pupil from taking any particular Regents examination. § 32 Quota and attendance money. No academic department shall be entitled to the quota of $100 or to any apportionment based upon the attendance of academic pupils for the year during which REGENTS RULES 35 it is admitted unless its application for admission, showing that all the required conditions for admission have been met, has been filed prior to August ist of the year during which it was admitted, or unless it is a school established by the board of education of a city or district already maintaining an academic department which is a member of the University. This provision shall not be deemed to prevent such school from receiving tuition from the State for such nonresident pupils as may be instructed in the academic depart- ment during the year as provided by section 493 of the Education Law, unless it was admitted after January 15th, in which event it may recei\e tuition for only the last half of the year. Academic pupils counted for apportionment shall be those who have passed all preliminary or preacademic subjects or who hold credentials approved by the President of the University as the equivalent of the preliminary certificate and are enrolled in a secondary school of the University. § 33 Consolidation. If two schools unite, the apportionment due both for the current year shall be paid to the one, except that only one quota of $100 shall be paid. Tf an academy becomes the academic department of a union school by lease or adoption, the apportionment due the academy for the current year shall be paid to the union school on the report of a University inspector that the work is satisfactorily continued, but only one quota of $100 shall be paid to any one institution in the same year. § 34 Tuition of nonresident pupils. No school shall be en- titled to compensation from public moneys for the tuition of non- resident academic pupils unless such pupils w^iile under instruction a Resided in a district of this State which did not then contract for the instruction of academic pupils under sections 580-86 of the Education Law, with another district maintaining an academic department approved under this act of a grade that the pupil is qualified to enter. b Resided in a district of this State Avhich did not then main- tain an academic department approved under this act of a grade that the pupil is qualified to enter. c Were not then members of a teachers training class or train- ing school, for whose tuition therein the State made other pro- vision. d Were in attendance at least eight weeks. e Were duly qualified for admission in the manner directed by the President of the University. g 35 For books, apparatus, and reproductions of standard works of art. To obtain an apportionment from the academic fund REGENTS RULES 37 for buying needed and suitable books, apparatus, or reproductions of standard works of art, an institution must be registered as in good standing in the University for that year and must show that twice the amount of the appropriation asked for has been actually expended for approved books, apparatus, or reproductions of standard works of art. § 36 Books, apparatus, and reproductions of standard works of art allowed. Standard books for reading and reference, cyclo- pedias when conditions warrant, reproductions of standard works of art, and apparatus, including machinery, approved by the Presi- dent of the University as essential for the proper teaching of academic and preacademic subjects of approved courses, and, for rural school districts, approved books, school apparatus, and repro- ductions of standard works of art, may be included; but not un- bound periodicals, professional or technical collections, series or sets of books by different authors, musical instruments, singing books or textbooks, furniture, fixtures, benches, chemicals or sup- plies consumed in using. No duplication will be made for gifts of books, apparatus, or reproductions of standard works of art, or for charts, maps, globes or other school apparatus sold to the schools through traveling agents or solicitors. § 37 Protection against loss. Every allotment for books, appa- ratus, or reproductions of standard works of art shall be made upon condition that in case the institution is closed, falls below the stand- ard of admission, or for any cause is dropped from the roll of the University, then the purchases made with its apportionment and wi'ch the equal amount raised locally shall be returned to the Uni- versitv to be distributed to other similar institutions ; or, at the option of the institution, it may return instead of such purchases the total amount of money received from the University therefor. ALLOTMENT OF PUBLIC LIBRARY APPROPRIATIONS § 38 Conditions. Circulating libraries and reference libraries, free to the public, maintaining required standards and registered by the University, may receive annually, so far as the fund permits, allotments equal to the money raised by them from other sources. But no allotment shall exceed $ioo or be made for less than $5. Allotments may be made to a branch library containing not less than 1000 volumes, after it has been inspected and registered. i; 39 Use of money. The state allotment and the local equiva- lent must be spent for approved books, serials and first binding, unless otherwise used by special written permission of the Presi- REGENTS RU1.es 39 dent of the University. New libraries or those reorganizing and needing to use part of this money for cataloging, printing, or library supplies may do so when the written permission of the President of the University has been obtained in advance. A report of the expenditure of library money must be submitted in the prescribed form. So far as applicable, section 37 shall apply to libraries. DEGREES AND DIPLOMAS § 40 Diplomas. No diploma shall be conferred which does not represent four years or their equivalent of work of a grade above the elementary or grammar school. § 41 Degree-conferring power. No charter hereafter granted shall authorize any institution to confer any honorary degree, or any degree on examination without residence, or any degree on lower requirements than those fixed by the University as the minimum for that degree. § 42 Honorary degrees. The bachelor's degree in arts, phi- losophy, science and literature, and the doctor's degree in philoso- phy shall not be conferred by the University or by any institution in this State causa Jionoris. § 43 Degrees in absentia. No degree shall be conferred in this State on examination without completion of a prescribed course in which one year at least has been taken in regular at- tendance on the usual exercises of a teaching institution registered for that degree. 