curatorium

Etymology

noun

1. A board of curators or advisory board, in certain European institutions.
   Their successors are appointed from the curatorium—the office of the curator. Their period of office is for a year. 1841, William Howitt, The Student-Life of Germany
   In Germany the Continuation School for Girls may be divided into two classes, namely, those under Municipal control, and those established by Unions or "Curatoriums." 1909, New South Wales. Public Instruction Dept. Technical Education Branch, John L. Bruce, A Quarter Century of Technical Education in New South Wales
   In the Ministry of Education there is a department for special education and child welfare, with sections and sub-sections in the curatoriums. 1959, International Bureau of Education, Publication, volumes 214-220, page 202
   The curatorium's founding statement reiterated the activists' previously expressed desire for a new "all-German" constitution taking the best from both the Basic Law and the Round Table's draft constitution. 1995, John C. Torpey, Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent: The East German Opposition and its Legacy