Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
BOARD PLANNING
TO SPEED UP WORK
ON DEGREE PERMITS
Confronted With Task of
Licensing Colleges by End
of School Year.
THREE INSTITUTIONS =
GRANTED LICENSES
Two Failed to Receive Authority
to Grant Higher Degrees
Requested.

Confronted with the task of licensing
degree granting institutions before the
coming commencement exercises are
held so that degrees conferred at the
end Of the current school year will be
issued under the license required by the
Board of Education proposes to sit at
every opportunity this week to pass
upon applications for licenses.
At the first licenSe-granting meeting
Of the board held in executive session
last Friday, three institutions were
granted licenses, although two of them
failed to receive authority to the higher
degrees for which they had applied, 1t
was learned yesterday.
The Columbus University, operated by
the knights of Columbus, was licensed
to confer the degree of bachelor of laws.
The board failed to act at that session
upon that schools application for a
license to grant the degree of master OF
laws. The higher degree was not re-
fused, but the board withheld action
pending more complete study of the
schools faculty, course OF study and
other factors pertinent to degree-grant-
ing eligibility.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton College of the District of Columbia
was licensed to grant the degree of
bachelor of laws and the honorary de.
gree Of doctor Of laws in its Schoo! of
Law, and the degrees Of bachelor Of
commercial science and master Of COM
mercial science in its School Of Ac-
countancy. A license to confer tbs
degrees of bachelor Of arts and that of
bachelor of sciences, petition for which
appeared in the Y. M. c. A. Colleges
formal application. was not allowed.
In the case of the arts and sciences
degrees. the Y. M. c. A. College, which
has offered courses leading to these
withdrew its application at the CLOSED
session of the Board of Education SC
that, officially, the license was not re.
fused. According to officials of the
" M. C. A., the license to grant the
liberal arts degrees will be sought agar
after changes have been made in The
School of Liberal Arts.
The third of the institutions to be
licensed was the Benjamin Franklin
Business University, which was ad'
judged eligible to confer the degrees o.
bachelor of commercial science ant
master Of commercial science.
The application of the Washington
College of Law, which also was to hav,
been acted upon by the Board of Edu:
cation. was not considered by the board
because of lack of data in the forma
application. The application form wa:
returned to the school for rewriting.
In its considerations Friday The
Board of Education attempted to &C
Immediately upon the applications Of thu
institutions whose scheduled comforting
Of degrees at this months commence
ment exercises may be affected by the
boards decision. According. to. the
boards Interpretation of the law, de.
grees may be conferred this year only
under the license as provided for ir
the law, even though the candidates
for those degrees may have completed
practically all of the required work be.
fore the law became effective. Hence, Il
school is refused license to grant 6
degree, It's students, who may have un.
dertaken to prepare for that degree
three or four years ago, cannot receive
a degree from that school. even though
only two months of the required work
was completed since the law was en-.
acted.