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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944
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1034 BOARD OF TRUSTEES individually isolated activities to try to improve instruction. There is, of course, throughout the faculty the belief that teaching ought to be well done. But with altogether too few exceptions, members of the faculty have, as far as the Commission could find out, either done nothing about it formally or systematically, or have given no constructive encouragement to those who have tried to do something. Again it should be said that the condition is much the same now as it was in 1934. The slight changes that have been made are in the direction of improvement. 4. The fourth feature has to do with the material conditions in instructional efficiency. In this connection the library facilities rate high and on this point the University has more than held its own since 1934. In building facilities, expenditures have been less for instructional than for other purposes, but probably conditions are at least as good now as in 1934 in this, as well as in laboratories and other material instructional equipment. 5. The fifth feature concerns the nonformal, noncurricular aspects of student welfare. This is an area in which the University has made marked strides since 1934. Witness the Union buildings both at Chicago and at Urbana, the men's dormitories, and the reorganized Union Board of 1942 and its relation to other student activities. The administration has shown a genuine awareness of the responsibility of the University for the welfare of the student outside his curricular activities, and has been intelligently aggressive in striving to meet these needs. Probably outside the building program, the progress made in this area since 1934 is the greatest of any made in the University for that period. 6. The sixth feature examined was the quality of the faculty. Is it as good, not so good, or about the same as it was in 1934? Answers were sought through examining in detail the degrees held by the faculty and where these degrees were obtained, the scholarly productivity of the faculty, the distribution of the faculty by ranks, salaries paid, conditions of tenure, conditions of retirement, ratings of faculty members according to national standards, and reasons why certain individuals left the University of Illinois teaching staff and why others did not accept appointments to it during the period under discussion. [16 —A.C.E. Report]
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