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It is part of the recognition of the tripartite concept

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which has so recently, been adopted in many states of the

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country. What is autonomy? Is it a blank check? No.

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Is a power grab? No.

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It can best be summarized by several quotations

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from the Eisenhower Committee which expresses it much more

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eloquently than I could.

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The Eisenhower Committee on the Efficiency of

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Freedom, and I would like at this point just to briefly

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quote a few of the observations made concerning autonomy.

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The people who compose this commission, the Chairman,

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Milton S. Eisenhower, names like Father Kavanaugh, James

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B. Conant, Herbert R. O'Conor, Sargent Shriver and many

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others. "The founders of our colleges and universities,

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both public and private, sensitive to this need of

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intellectual freedom and the desirability of protecting

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faculty, students and administrations of institutions

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created governing boards of laymen to whom the responsi-

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bility for the welfare and perpetuation of the institu-

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tions we entrusted." This tradition of trusteeship carried

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into the establishment of the Land Grant Colleges. In