T HE Bylaws of the Regents of the University of Michigan define the term faculty as including all members of the teaching and research staff together with the principal administrative officers, the librarians, the curators, the directors of various teaching or research agencies, research associates, and persons filling positions with similar duties on the University staff. The term governinglaculty, however, refers to professors, associate professors, assistant professors, instructors, and resident lecturers with professorial rank who are on the staff of a school or college. The term teaching staff, as defined, is practically synonymous with the term governing faculty. Appointment and tenure, and other considerations affecting the relationship which exists between the University and the teaching staff, such as leave of absence, temporary and sabbatical absence, sick leave, retirement at the age of seventy, salary payment in case of death, and annuities, are specifically defined in the Regents' Bylaws and correspond roughly, I imagine, to the rights, privileges, and prerogatives of teaching faculty members in similar institutions. In I930-3I the President and Regents of the University recognized the need for some definitive statement regarding the policies of the University toward its office workers of nonfaculty status. A job-analysis survey was made, positions were assigned to various office levels, and machinery was set up for the continual operation of the plan. The employees in this group now are responsible to their immediate supervisors, but the University obligations to these employees are conceived, defined, and enforced by the Committee on Office Personnel. Most of the workers in this group are properly designated as clerical workers. Also, two or three years ago the manual workers of the University were the subject of a fact-finding survey leading to a statement regarding the obligations of the University to them which resulted rather largely, I understand, in a wage scale which was somewhat revised. In I938 the Committee on Educational Policies of the University Council stated in a report: