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This is an interview for the Purdue University
Archives recorded on August 29, 1972. An
interview between Emeritus Frederick L. Hovde
and Professor R. B. Eckles, Department of
History. Let's start out this morning professor
president Hovde let me ask you about the
problems that you encountered administrating
university finance.
The university itself is a might be called a
well is actually a state co~poration. The
trustees are empowered under the legislative
act founding the university to manage the
institution and the basic actgthe power to
manage as is almost complete in its operations
then the board of hrustees representing the
people of the state act as a board of directors
similiar to the governing boards of a private
co~peration. As it stands today, Purdue Universit1
is a very large and complex institution and
its working relationships in educationoresearch
and public service extend across almost the
entire spectrum of national activity, national
and state and local activities and the institution:
of our society our total society. The university
corporation has thousands of complays it has
the main central campus in Lafayette, West
Lafayette, it has four regional campuses, it
has dozens of research farms related to the
program directly related and operated in the
under the egis of the school of agriculture.
Its the university's source of income are many
and vary. Primary source supporting its teaching
missions is of course from the legislature of
the state of Indiana in the form of biennial
appropriations for operating so called operating