their sincere belief in the importance of coordination, and their responsible participation in the coordinating process. It is too early for me, at any rate, to predict either success or failure for the Council. I said in the book that if voluntary coordinating methods fail, formal coordinating mechanisms are inevitable. Of this I am certain.
Dr. Glenny is now a member of the professional staff of the Board of Higher Education of Illinois, also a new coordinating agency. This Board, unlike the California Coordinating Council, has the power to approve or disapprove any new unit of instruction proposed by the public universities. At its meeting on September 11, 1962, the Board overruled its Executive Director in three important instances -in approving a new master's degree in forestry, a new program in Latin American studies, and new undergraduate majors in German, Russian, and Speech, in three of the public universities. This, too, does not seem to be an auspicious beginning.
Coordinating bodies are not the only fallible agents. It is always possible for a legislature to thwart effective coordination. Now a legislature may wish an outside agency to mediate among many proposals and pressures, and then it may find it politically e, xpedient to make special provisions for one institution or a group of them. Coordination, whether voluntary or formal, is a process beset with difficulties. But it is also a process which is essential to the development of a differentiated system of higher education of high quality.