University of Virginia Library

I beg to present the following needs of the University to be
considered in connection with the budget requests for the biennium of
1932-34.

Private foundations, such as the General Education Board, International
Education Board and the Rockefeller Foundation, are supplying money
to several departments of the University, distributed over varying periods of
years, in order to place the work of the University of Virginia on high university
levels. These grants have been made in decreasing amounts each year, in
the expectation that the State would gradually make appropriations to care for
this work. Unless these grants can be gradually replaced by state appropriations,
the graduate and professional departments of the University of Virginia
will be seriously impaired.

MEDICINE

After contributing $800,000 towards the construction of our new
Medical School Building, the General Education Board made a grant of $156,000,
distributed over a six-year period, to provide an adequate teaching staff to
place this department on the basis of a first class modern medical school
From $38,000 a year this appropriation will drop to $15,000 in 1932-33 and will
cease entirely at the end of that session. In order, therefore, to carry forward
the work now being done, without any additions whatever, the following increase
must be made by the State for the Biennium 1932-34: $23,000 in 1932-33
and $38,000 in 1933-34.

EDUCATION

The state has found it impossible to supply our need requested
four years ago and repeated two years ago, for the construction of a University
Practice School for the Department of Education. Since practice school training
is necessary in all teacher-training institutions and since we did not have
a Practice School, we entered into a co-operative agreement with the public
school systems of the City of Charlottesville and the County of Albemarle, by
which our students in Education use the schools of the City and County for supervised
training. This program has been financed by a contribution of $20,000 a
year by the General Education Board. This grant terminates at the close of the
Session 1931-32. We have applied for a renewal of this grant and have been told
that it cannot be continued by the General Education Board. They thoroughly
approve of the co-operative scheme, and praise the results which we achieved,
however, they decline to make a further grant and feel that it is the obvious
duty of the State to care for us. There will be needed from the State, to
carry forward our present necessary operations in this field, the sum of
$20,000 a year for each year of the Biennium 1932-34.

NATURAL SCIENCES

The International Education Board has made a grant to the University
of Virginia of $175,000, extending over a period of seven years, in
gradually decreasing amounts, which enables us to do real graduate and research
work in the fields of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. Our agreed upon
program calls for an expenditure in these fields of $45,000 each year of the
Biennium 1932-34. Of this sum the International Education Board will supply
$30,000 in 1932-33, and $20,000 in 1933-34. The State, therefore, should provide
$15,000 in 1932-33 and $25,000 in 1933-34.

HUMANITIES

In the ancient languages, Germanic languages, Romanic languages,
English and History, the General Education Board has made a grant to the University
of Virginia of $120,000, distributed in decreasing amounts over a
period of five years. In order to provide first grade graduate work in the
humanities, it is provided that $40,000 a year will be expended in these fields

during the Biennium 1932-34. The General Education Board will supply
$30,000 in 1932-33 and $20,000 in 1933.34. Unless our graduate work is
to be seriously crippled, the State must provide in this field $10,000 in
1932-33 and $20,000 in 1933-34.

SOCIAL SCIENCE

The Rockefeller Foundation has made a grant to the University
of Virginia of $75,000, extending in diminishing amounts over a period of
five years, in order to place the Social Science work of this Institution
on real university levels. We are now spending through our Institute for
Research in the Social Sciences $30,000 per year. For 1932-33 the Rockefeller
Foundation will supply for this work $20,000, and for 1933-34 they
have granted $15,000. We feel that the work now going forward must be
continued. In order to do this, without any expansion whatever, it will
be necessary for the State to provide in the fields of the Social Sciences
an additional appropriation of $10,000 for 1932-33 and $15,000 for 1933-34.

RECAPITULATION

To replace monies now being supplied by private benefactions,
all of which is necessary unless our work here is to suffer serious impairment,
the following additional appropriations must be made for the Biennium
1932-34.

             

	1932-33	1933-34
Medicine	$23,000	$38,000
Education	20,000	20,000
Natural Sciences	15,000	25,000
Humanities	10,000	20,000
Social Science	10,000	15,000
Totals	$78,000	$118,000

HOSPITAL

The two items of medical and laboratory supplies and medical and
laboratory equipment exceeded the appropriation for the session 1930-31 by
$15,000. The number of patients cared for in our Hospital is annually increasing,
and an additional appropriation to the Hospital in the sum of
$15,000 is urgently needed. Unless this can be granted we must refuse to admit
to the Hospital many deserving citizens of Virginia in dire need of medical
and surgical attention. Our hospital receipts from public ward patients
decreased $15,700 last year, as a result of the general financial depression
and its consequent unemployment. This sum represents an added contribution of
our Hospital to care for the sick members of poor and unemployed families in
this Commonwealth.

EXTENSION

In the important field of Adult Education we have entered into a
co-operative undertaking with the other educational institutions of the State,
by which this necessary work is carried forward. This co-operative effort has
the enthusiastic endorsement of many prominent citizens of the Commonwealth
and should go forward as planned. It will require an additional appropriation
to the Extension Department of $15,000 per year.

SALARY SCHEDULE

We feel that it is of the highest importance to carry out our agreed
upon professorial salary schedule. This schedule was carefully worked out and
is based on length of teaching service. It was given months of study by a committee
of our Governing Board, and when presented to the Rector and Visitors it
received their unanimous and enthusiastic endorsement. It was then taken to
the Governor and Director of the Division of the Budget, and agreed to and approved
by Governor Byrd and Director Bradford. After approval of all legal
authorities the schedule was promulgated by the President to the teaching staff
of the University as an official statement of what the teaching staff could expect
as a matter of right from the University authorities. As a direct result
of this action, the annual turnover of professors has been greatly reduced.
Nothing undertaken by the University in recent years has done as much to enable
our entire teaching staff to put forward their best efforts. Failure of the
State to continue this adopted policy would be more injurious to the welfare of
the Institution than any change of policy that could be considered. In order
to carry out this agreed upon schedule, $6,000 additional must be provided for
the first year of the next biennium, and $15,000 for the second year.

LIBRARY

The Library, which has been called by the late President Alderman
the beating heart of the University, is in dire need of strengthening. In
this important field of the University's life an increase of $12,400 per year
for each year of the coming biennium is urgently needed. A budget showing the
detail of this expenditure is appended to this report.

STRENGTHENING EXISTING SCHOOLS

In order to provide better instruction in certain of our overcrowded
schools, there is desperate need of four additional associate professors,
two in English, one in History, and one in Sociology. This will require
$15,000 a year of additional appropriation for the maintenance of the college
and graduate departments.

FOLK MUSIC

Authorities on music seem to be agreed that the only substantial
contribution of the Anglo-Saxon civilization to Music is in the field of Folk
Songs. These songs are almost the sole possession of the older members of the
pure-bred Anglo-Saxon in our mountain districts. These people are rapidly
dying out, and if this music is to be preserved and handed down to posterity
it must be collected now. In order to collect, classify, and make available
to the public this Folk Music, an appropriation of $5,000 a year is requested,
$3,750 for an associate professor of Music and $1,250 for traveling and supplies.
This particular need of the University has already been brought forcibly
to the attention of the Governor by Mr. John Powell, of Richmond, who is
enthusiastically interested in this proposal and who is my authority for the
statement that if not collected immediately it will be forever lost to posterity.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

Between this date and the beginning of the next biennium, we will
open for use in the University $625,000 worth of new buildings, - a $300,000
Law Building, a $220,000 Nurses' Home, and a $105,000 addition to the Chemical
Laboratory. These buildings must be heated, lighted, and janitorial service
provided. On the basis of a two-per cent maintenance charge, there should be
added $12,500 to our appropriation in the field of Buildings and Grounds.

MINOR CAPITAL OUTLAYS

The appropriation passed by the last General Assembly carried an
appropriation from the surplus budget of $60,000 for additional equipment, which
was distributed over all departments of the University. We are in desperate
need of the continuation of this appropriation. We therefore earnestly request
a continuation of $30,000 a year in the field of new equipment, to be distributed
over all departments of the University.

STATEMENT OF NEEDS OF UNIVERSITY FOR BIFNNIUM 1932-34.

CAPITAL OUTLAY:

                   

1. New Engineering Building	$ 250,000
(if State will supply $250,000, University will raise $250,000, total, $500,000)
2. Completion of wing of Hospital, two stories	80,000
3. Woman's Building, (not a dormitory)	100,000
4. Additional formitories for men	500,000
5. Addition to Biological Laboratory and	40,000
Greenhouse, for teaching of Plant Physiology.
6. Teacher Training Building	200,000
(if State will supply $200,000, University will will raise $100,000; total $300,000)
TOTAL	$1,170,000

EXPENSES OF OPERATION.

The following increases in Expense of Operation over the 1931-32
appropriation from the State Treasury are imperatively needed.

                 

	'32-33	'33-34
1. To continue work for which appropriation has heretofore been provided by private foundations	$ 78,000	$118,000
2. Hospital maintenance	15,000	15,000
3. Buildings and Grounds	12,500	12,500
4. Salary Schedule	6,000	15,000
5. Library	12,400	12,400
6. Extension	15,000	15,000
7. Normal growth	20,000	20,000
TOTALS	$ 158,900	$ 207,900

Whereas, the expense of operation is of first importance to the
continuation of the services of the University of Virginia to the Commonwealth,
and,

Whereas, the Rector and Board of Visitors recognize the importance
of maintaining the University in an efficient manner, and without further assistance
from the State along this line the efficiency of the University will be handicapped,
be it therefore,

RESOLVED, by the Rector and Board of Visitors that the President
of the University in presenting the University Budget to the Governor and the Budget

Committee present as the first needs of the University that part of
the budget entitled "Expense of Operation", including $30,000 a year for
minor capital outlay, and as of next importance the needs for capital
outlay;

RESOLVED, further, That the Acting President be and is hereby
authorized to present the foregoing needs to the Governor and Budget Commission.

Mr. Williams offered the following, which was adopted.

RESOLVED, That the Rector, Acting President and Senator Buchanan
be requested to take up with the Governor the question of having the roads
of the University taken over and maintained by the State Highway Department.