Under professional laws, boards of examiners in medicine (including. chiropody), dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, nursing, accountancy, optometry, shorthand reporting and architecture are con nected with the university; under regents' rules the State Examinations Board; under the Court of Appeals the Board of Law Exam iners; under the Education Law, the Teachers Retirement Fund Board.
Advisory Under regents' rules advisory councils are appointed representing the various institutions convocation, college, academic, library, medical, dental, veterinary, pharmacy, nurse training, music, industrial and trades, history, publications, agricultural educa tion, industrial education.
In addition to the teachers affording instruction to the students in attend ance on the various institutions of the univer sity there is a body of supervisors giving their attention to the administration of the schools, namely, principals of elementary schools and of secondary schools; deans, presidents and chancellors of higher institutions; superintend ents of district, village and city schools and inspectors of the university.
The State makes annual appropriations for educational purposes to the elementary schools, to the secondary school" to the higher institutions, to the State Library, to the State Museum and to the divisions of the university. Additional appropriations are made by local authorities to school districts and to municipal districts and to higher insti tutions through endowments, benefactions and fees.
The institutions of the uni versity include all elementary, secondary and higher educational institutions which are now or may hereafter he incorporated in this State and such other libraries, museums, institutions, schools, organizations and agencies for educa tion as may be admitted to or incorporated by the university.
Education Department. The university is the education department whose president is the commissioner of education the chief executive officer. It is his duty also to de vote himself to educational research; to the study of the educational work of the systems of other jurisdictions; to introduce and origi nate, so far as possible, better methods of edu cation.
The Assistant Commissioner and Director of Professional Education. He has 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 the department of higher education.
The Assistant Commissioner for Second ary Education. He has charge of secondary education including matters relating to acade mies, academic departments, academic schools, high schools, the training of teachers therefor, and to the State College for Teachers. His field of labor is the department of secondary education.
The Assistant Commissioner for Elemen tary Education. He has charge of elementary education including matters relating to elemen tary schools, the training of teachers therefor; and of the division of school libraries. His field of labor is the department of elementary education.
The Director of the State Library.He has charge of the State Library and of the State Lihrary School. His field of labor is a depart ment of the university.
The Director of the Department of Science. He has charge of the department of science and the State Museum. His field of labor is a department of the university includ ing the work of the State Geologist and Paleontologist, Botanist, Entomologist, Min eralogist, Zoologist, Archeologist and the cus tody of the State Museum.