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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[March 20

Be It Resolved that the senate reaffirms its strong support of the goal of reaching third in average total compensation among Big T e n universities by reducing the existing deficiency between third position and the present position of the University of Illinois by a minimum of one-third each year beginning in fiscal 1981, and it urges the Board of Trustees likewise to reaffirm its commitment to and support of this plan by instructing the University administration to ensure that the appropriations bill submitted in the 1980 session of the General Assembly contain the University's original request of the 9.7 percent salary increase/compensation improvement funds necessary to achieve the first stage of the three-year goal and by doing everything possible to have this request ultimately approved. Be It Resolved that the senate requests the Board of Trustees to instruct the University administration to prepare and have introduced in the 1980 session of the General Assembly either a special appropriations bill or an amendment to its regular appropriations bill requesting additional salary increase funds of 3.3 percent so that the total request for salary increase/compensation improvement funds in fiscal year 1981 will be at least 13 percent. Be It Resolved that the senate commend President Ikenberry for his testimony before the Illinois Pension Laws Commission and urge him and the University of Illinois Board of Trustees to support the trustees and executive director of the State Universities Retirement System in seeking to have the legislative proposals of SURS introduced and approved in the 1980 session of the General Assembly. Be It Resolved that the senate wholeheartedly commend the Board of Trustees for its strong support of the Library Sixth Stack Addition and urge it to continue pursuing every possible means of obtaining the funds for this addition during the 1980 session of the General Assembly.

Report, Medical Center Senate Professor Rose Ann Grundman, associate professor of mathematics in medicinal chemistry at the Medical Center, reported briefly on the activities and staffing problems involved in the operation of the Medical Center Senate. (This report concluded a series of three such reports from each of the campuses of the University.) REGULAR AGENDA The board considered the following reports and recommendations from the president of the University. Budgets for 1980 Summer Sessions, Chicago Circle and Urbana-Champaign

(4) The chancellors at the Chicago Circle and Urbana-Champaign campuses have recommended budgets and appointments to the faculty for the 1980 summer sessions. (Copies of these documents have been filed with the secretary of the board for record.) The distribution of the budgeted funds is as follows: Salaries Reserve Urbana-Champaign $ 1 9 0 4 413 13 244 $1 917 657" Chicago Circle $ 994 451 6 488 $1 000 939' Total $2 898 864 19 732 $2 918 596

1 The total budget for Urbana-Champaign for 1979 was $1,923,557. " The total budget for Chicago Circle for 1979 was $950,241.