Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944 [PAGE 1042]

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U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S

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sions in the formulation of the educational policies of the several colleges, and of the University as a whole. Genuine opportunity given younger men by older ones through Senate, faculty, department, and committee memberships and a real encouragement by sympathetic cooperation would undoubtedly result in marked progress within the University in a relatively short time. 7. The Commission recommends that the administration of student affairs be further coordinated by placing responsibility therefor in one person directly under the President of the University. 8. The Commission recommends that participation in the provisions for student health be made compulsory on the part of all full-time students. 9. The Commission recommends that the number of graduate assistants doing regular undergraduate teaching be materially reduced. 10. The Commission recommends that by appropriate salary and rank outstanding excellence in teaching be given recognition commensurate with scholarly research and productivity on the part of the faculty members. 11. T h e Commission recommends that as soon as moneys are available there be established a limited number of professorships paying salaries significantly in excess of the regular maxima, in order that the University may draw to its faculty some men of highest standing in their respective fields. 12. The Commission recommends that the University exercise constant care to see that a proper proportion of the persons appointed to positions on its faculty have training and experience outside of the University of Illinois. 13. The Commission recommends that the Board of Trustees, the President, and representatives of the administration and teaching staff of the University, working together, study the problem of proper organization for the University with particular reference to the delegation and assignment of administrative responsibilities in order to insure the highest and most effective type of educational leadership throughout the University. 14. The Commission recommends that, as one of its major institutional efforts, the University of Illinois devote itself to the extended studying of what should be its long-term educational program, both for the University as a whole and also for its several colleges and schools. Finally, the Commission wishes to record an observation, the implication of which it believes to be potentially highly significant

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