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BOARD O F T R U S T E E S

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COOPERATIVE INVESTIGATION OF ABSORPTION OF SOUND BY MATERIALS (12) A recommendation for the approval of an agreement with the United States Gypsum Company for a cooperative investigation of absorption of sound by materials by the Engineering Experiment Station. This agreement is of the form and character of similar agreements heretofore approved by the Board. It is drawn for a period of one year beginning October I, 1933, with a provision for its extension, and the Company agrees to pay the sum of $1,000 a year for the expenses of the investigation. O n m o t i o n of M r . B a r r , t h i s a g r e e m e n t w a s a p p r o v e d . ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW (13) For several years the University has been in a partnership with the University of Chicago and Northwestern University for the publication of The Illinois Law Review—a journal devoted to the publication of articles by, and of interest to, law students and law faculties of the three institutions. It has required a subsidy from each institution. I report that this partnership has been dissolved and that the publication of the journal has been taken over by Northwestern University. T h i s report w a s received for record. EXTENSION DIVISION (14) T h e sum of $2,500 was provided in the budget for 1933-34 for the beginning of extension work. This action was taken subsequent to a report submitted informally to the Board in January, 1933, of the study of extension work and correspondence courses which had been under way for some time. T h e University Senate made certain specific recommendations which are now submitted to the Board for final approval: 1. A Director of University Extension shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees on recommendation of the President, and a Committee on University Extension shall be appointed by the President, in consultation with the Director. (It is assumed that the first appointment will be an acting Director on part time.) 2. Correspondence courses shall be established of such scope and character as may be agreed to by the Director and Committee on University Extension in cooperation with the departments concerned. In the organization of the material for a particular course, it is understood that the primary responsibility rests with the department concerned, subject to approval by the Director and Committee on University Extension. All questions of general educational policy connected with such courses shall be submitted to the Senate for approval. 3. As soon as possible, courses of a basic character shall be offered in the following subjects: rhetoric, English literature, Latin, German, French, Spanish, history, political science, economics, and mathematics. Similar courses in other subjects may also be offered if deemed practicable by the departments concerned and the Director and Committee on University Extension. 4. It shall be the duty of the Director of University Extension to organize and administer the correspondence instruction of the University, with the advice and consent of the Committee on University Extension. 5. T h e Director and Committee on University Extension shall prepare, for consideration and action by the Senate, general regulations for the conduct of such courses as may be offered, which shall include the conditions under which such courses may receive University credit. 6. It is the sense of the Senate that so far as practicable the fees charged shall be such as to make the extension program essentially self-sustaining. I concur in the recommendations of the Senate and request authorization to proceed with the organization of an extension division and to work out the administrative details and procedure.