681—12.1 (262) Organization.
	 12.1(1) Statement of university mission. The State University of Iowa is committed to undergraduate, professional, graduate, and continuing education. To discharge this commitment, as part of its established mission, the university engages in teaching, research, and appropriate extension, health and other public services. The university is recognized as having a broad mandate in order that it may continue to be a distinguished state university, offering preprofessional courses, the full panoply of undergraduate liberal arts and science courses, graduate and professional work in law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, engineering, and allied fields related to these professional disciplines, as well as social work, business administration, journalism, education (early childhood, elementary, secondary, and higher), library science, and all the liberal arts and sciences. It will offer no major programs in agriculture; architecture; forestry; industrial arts; veterinary medicine; agricultural, aeronautical or ceramic engineering. It will be characterized by a general orientation toward human growth, the health sciences, the humanities, the fine arts and the social sciences. It will continue to maintain strong programs in the physical and biological sciences and engineering.
The University of Iowa will seek to maintain a balanced enrollment. It will do so in recognition of the joint responsibility it has with the other regent institutions, the private colleges, and the community colleges to provide a greater variety of educational opportunities to a larger and more diversified group of students.
Future programs will be determined by the continuing study of existing programs and of developing needs. Programs will be curtailed or eliminated when the assessment of need and resources indicates that resources could better be devoted to other programs. The university approaches the addition of new programs with considerable caution. Generally, new programs are fashioned out of existing programs in response to developing needs. But if the university is to remain vital, it must consider at the appropriate time the development of some new programs that fall within its general mission and that meet the new needs of students and society.
This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code section 263.1.
	 12.1(2) Officers. The university has three statutory officers: president, secretary, and treasurer. The president is the chief administrative officer of the university and has such authority and duties as have been delegated by the board of regents.
The president has nominated and the board of regents has appointed five vice presidents. The vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculties is the chief academic officer of the university and is responsible with the deans of the colleges for the educational programs of the university, the appointment, promotion and welfare of the faculty and related matters. The vice president for educational development and research and dean of the graduate college is responsible for the advancement of research, educational development, relations with government agencies, private foundations and the public generally, and is the person to whom the graduate departments, the computer center, and the university press report. The vice president for student services and dean of academic affairs is responsible for the advancement of teaching, student services, admissions, orientation, records, financial aids, evaluation, counseling, job placement, recreation, programming of extracurricular events, and program advising in residence halls. The vice president for administrative services is responsible for nonfaculty personnel, development and assignment of facilities including housing, the Museum of Art and Old Capitol. The vice president for business and finance is responsible for investments, financial transactions, financial records, purchasing, maintenance of facilities, laundry, parking, traffic, security, and related services. The state hygienic laboratory and university health services report to the office of the president.
A detailed listing of the university units is shown on the organizational chart contained in the university operations manual.
	 12.1(3) Operations. The academic mission of the university is principally carried out through its ten colleges: pharmacy, law, education, nursing, medicine, dentistry, liberal arts, engineering, business administration, and the graduate college. The dean of each college is its chief administrative officer.
The university hospitals and clinics provide tertiary level patient care, clinical education and clinical research. The state sanatorium at Oakdale provides care and treatment for tuberculosis, chronic and rehabilitation patients and related services. The state psychopathic hospital provides care and treatment for persons afflicted with abnormal mental conditions. The hospital school provides education and treatment for severely handicapped children. The chief administrative officer of the hospital school is the director. The student health service provides primary health care services to students.
The state hygienic laboratory conducts examinations and investigations and makes recommendations pertaining to methods of overcoming and preventing epidemics of disease.
	 12.1(4) Communications. Written and personal inquiry, submissions and requests should be addressed to the office of public information, 102 Jessup Hall, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242; or the office of the Board of Regents, Old Historical Building, Des Moines, Iowa 50319. Generally, inquiries, submissions, and requests by the public may be submitted by informal letter. However, application for some purposes is to be made on a specified form. A list of forms, general description and the address where they may be obtained are found at 12.6(262).
	 12.1(5) University operations manual. The university operations manual contains the policies governing the internal administrative operation of the university. It is available for public inspection in the university library, the office of public information and in the office of the state board of regents.