ABSTRACT
The idea that laymen really control independent organizations has too often been turned into a myth. The people counted on to watch over the independent sector have often secretly abdicated; they just didn't leave their seats. The pilot efforts now under way are apt to expand into strong national associations of the trustees of colleges, hospitals, and welfare agencies, set up independently of career administrators and staffed by people who will do solid research and analysis to help trustees do their work. Worst of all, because the independent sector has often performed so badly, the professionals who run it have been losing their confidence in it and their loyalty to it. Another wave of the future is the awareness that independent institutions have too often resisted the commercialization of their activities. Independent groups should be eager to pass responsibility to the commercial sector and to put their own activities on a business basis.
