Section 6
SEC. 6. Subject to existing laws, the Board of Regents shall have the following powers and duties, in addition to its general powers of administration and the exercise of the powers of the corporation: (a) To receive and appropriate to the ends specified by ordinance of the City of Manila such sums as may be provided therein for the support of the university; (b) To provide for the establishment of the necessary undergraduate and graduate colleges in the fields of education, science, technology, in the priority of community needs; (c) To confer honorary degrees upon persons in recognition of learning, statesmanship, and service in the government and eminence in philosophy, science, literature, and community service; (d) To establish chairs in the colleges hereinbefore mentioned, and to provide for the maintenance or endowment of such chairs, as well as to provide for such other professors, associate professors, assistant professors, instructors and lecturers as the progress of instruction may make necessary and to fix the compensation pertaining to such positions; (e) To appoint, on the recommendation of the president of the university, professors, instructors, lecturers and other employees of the university; to fix their compensation, hours of service, and such other duties and conditions as it may deem proper; to grant to them in its discretion, leaves of absence under such regulations as it may promulgate, any other provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding, and to remove them for cause after an investigation and hearing shall have been had; (f) To approve the courses of study and rules of discipline drawn up by the university council as hereinafter provided; to fix the tuition fees required of graduate students, as well as matriculation fees, graduation fees and fees for laboratory courses, and all special fees; and to remit the same in special cases; (g) To provide fellowships, and scholarships, and to award the same to students giving special evidence of merit; (h) To prescribe rules for its own government, and to enact for the government of the university such general ordinances and regulations as are consistent with the purposes of the university as denned in Section two of this Act; and (i) To receive in trust, legacies, gifts, land grants and donations of real and personal property of all kinds tax-free, and to administer the same for the benefit of the University or of a department thereof, or for aid to any student or students, in accordance with the direction or instructions of the donor and, in default thereof, in such manner as the Board of Regents may in its discretion determine.