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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[July 11

Welfare and Activities; Mr. Mitchell — Affirmative A c t i o n / E q u a l Opportunity, Athletic Activities, Finance and Audit, Student Welfare and Activities. BUSINESS PRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY President Ikenberry recognized and introducted observers from the campus senates and from the University Senates Conference. 1 President's Reports President Ikenberry noted that he had two issues on which he wished to report. T h e first concerned the efforts of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) to organize the clerical employees on the Urbana-Champaign campus. T h e president indicated that there might well be an election in which clerical staff would be afforded the opportunity to vote on the question of whether they would be represented for purposes of collective bargaining. President Ikenberry reminded the board that the University's position, defined both by board policy and by the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, was one of neutrality while giving recognition of the principle of collective bargaining for nonacademic employees. T h e second matter for comment by President Ikenberry was a r e p o r t on the development of the University's overall budget for the coming year. H e commented on the fact that the legislature had not yet adjourned, due to protracted deliberations on the Fiscal Year 1992 budget. T h e president warned that if the budget were not settled very soon the payroll dispersal scheduled for July 17 would be delayed. T h e president told the board the he had asked University faculty and staff to fulfill their obligations, even if there is a payroll delay. H e noted that this situation, together with the prognosis for the University's appropriation, made this year the most difficult the University had experienced in the last few decades. OLD BUSINESS Report on IBHE Meeting T r u s t e e Gravenhorst r e p o r t e d on the meeting of the Illinois Board of H i g h e r Education, held July 9, 1991, at the De Vry Institute in Lombard, Illinois. She indicated that there was a report on minority and women students' participation in mathematics, science, and engineering, with an emphasis on recruitment of greater numbers of women and minorities to these fields of study. In addition, there was a r e p o r t on the study of Scope, Structure, and Productivity of Higher Education, a study carried out by the IBHE in recent years.

1 University Senates Conference: James E. Simon, associate professor of architecture, UrbanaChampaign campus; Urbana-Champaign Senate Council: Steven E. Tozer, associate professor of educational policy studies and head of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction; Chicago campus Senate: Edward A. Lichter, professor of medicine in the College of Medicine at Chicago.