The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-09-02
TELLS ABOUT
BOARD OUTLOOK
Comp rshsnslvs Survey OF the
Work To % Done Dy W
IT WILL Be CON7RACTIYE
Educational Institutions Of The
state 70 Do Put On
Working Dasts

Educational institutions Of The
state 70 Do Put On
Working Basis
Upon the return of j. A. Pow
ers of the Helendale Farm at LIS
bon from Bismarck, where he had
spent week as member of the
board of regents in organizing
and outlining their work he gave
out the following outline of the
work proposed by the board:
In the first place, as you know,
but probably many do not, this
board consists of five members
whose homes are we'll distributed
over the state. None have ever
been on any state institution
board. These men, with the ex-
.ception of myself, are all univer-
slty graduates, and the profess
sions represented are medicine,
law, banking and farming being
the farmer. The four men with
whom I am associated are the
most efficient and capable men
I've ever been connected with and
are men of large affairs and ca
pacity. and high ideals.
Also as you know this board
replaces the former local boards
of trustees and regents of var
i us institutions. We now con-
troll the agricultural college and
experiment station, the univer-
sity, the three normal schools,
science school, school of fore.
try and industrial school, eight in
all.
Our permanent offices are in
Bismarck, where Secretary Chas.
Brewer will have control of the
necessary office help. To him will
come reports of the accounting
officers of the schools, as to fl
nancial and physical conditions,
the bills payable, the distribution
of expenditures and credit bah
ances of all the separate funds.
From these condensed state
ment will be prepared for our in
spection. Every dollar of expend-
iture will be scrutinized by Mr..
Brewer and by the board, after
being O. KID by two Or three of
the proper officials of the school.
When our educational survey
is made, we shall appoint an edu-
cational commissioner and this
officer, who must be a specially
trained executive aehool man, a
graduate of a university and come
from without the state. His par
ticular work, as l see it, will be to
carry to these institutions our
general policies in educational
lines, be our advisor and work
with the heads Of the institutions
in trying to increase the eificien-
cy in the purely educational work.
The survey will be made by one
man or commission and we eX-
pect'it TO give to us every impor-
tant detail Of each school. From
it we shall get both the scholastic
and business condition closely au-
alyzed, and give US, for instance,
such matters as fuel, salary, man.
agement, dormitory costs, janitor
service, lights, upkeep of building
and grounds and a dozen minor
items in detail and in form to
make comparisons of efficiency
of our school management. Hours
of teaching and number of pupils
each professor has and size Of
each class and number i'll each
course. Numbers Of hours each
room is used, its light and venti-
lation, equipment, etc.
Our board hires all of the
teaching force, including the
president, fix salaries and prepare
estimates of expense necessary.
Budgets of each school for the
biennial period will be worked out
to submit to the next legislature.
We must balance up the compar-
alive needs of each school and
group of schools, then the needs
Of each department of the instl-
tuition and have the aggregate
within proper amount to ask
the state to pay.
AS there are dozen funds, ap-
preparations and levies, each car
rying with it specific amounts and
specific requirements for its .ex-
penditures, and being unable to
exceed these amounts, we must
be especially careful in supervis-
ion of expenditures. We are to be
carefully watched by the people
OF the state to see if we stand for
both efficiency and economy. We
do not propose to have deficits to
offer the next legislature. The
proper expenditure of these funds
is one of our problems, and a
most interesting one, and I'll in
stance the care and scrutiny Civ
EN- it by the federal authorities.
For instance. / met with DR.. Allen