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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 15

Administrative Review. F u r t h e r study of these items is clearly necessary and has been definitely proposed in the Administrative Review in most instances. In the nature of the case, the University is aware of these and of many other problems of personnel, training, experience, and related matters which call for a constant redefinition, within the total structure of the University, of minor administrative problems. In one notable instance, Dean W o r k s is in agreement with the B.F.A.H. Report. This instance concerns the appointment of a Business Manager. It concerns also, therefore, many subordinate officers and practices in the Business Office and in the Physical Plant Department. T h e Administrative Review has dealt with this phase of the B.F.A.H. Report in detail and finds no reason in Dean Works's comments to change its recommendations for immediate action and for further study as already approved by the Board. In connection with the specific considerations mentioned by Dr. Works, it should be observed again (1) that the form of the action to be taken on many of them will be determined by what is done regarding the four general considerations; (2) that many of the specific considerations, since they are contingent on and accessory to educational functions, must be judged according to educational functions, and within the total framework of the University; (3) that the resolution adopted by the Board of Trustees on its meeting on November 27, 1942 (Minutes, page 186), fully provides for further recommendations to the Board covering the administrative arrangements which still remain to be studied; and (4) that these further recommendations will, with reasonable promptness, realize the sustained purpose of the Administration, viz., to achieve the highest possible degree of efficiency in University administration which is compatible with the main functions of the University. R E P O R T O F SUB-COMMITTEE O F G E N E R A L ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Mr. Affleck presented the following report of the Special Sub-committee appointed from the General Advisory Committee:

1. It is the majority opinion of the Special Sub-committee of the General Advisory Committee of the University of Illinois that there are many good things in the Booz, Fry, Allen, and Hamilton Report and that there are many things that are not good; that this Sub-committee is not competent, nor is it the Sub-committee's function, to pass upon the details involved. 2. T h e Sub-committee has seen the comments made by Dr. George A. W o r k s and believes that Dr. W o r k s has given very thorough study and consideration to the Booz, Fry, Allen, and Hamilton Report together with the Review of it by the University's Administration. In general, the comments by Dr. W o r k s are in accordance with this Sub-committee's thinking, although the members of the Sub-committee do not all concur with certain of the details. 3. T h e Sub-committee recommends that the University Trustees give serious consideration to the reorganization and the administration of the "top structure" of the University, as recommended both by the Booz, Fry, Allen, and Hamilton Report and by Dr. W o r k s . T h i s report w a s received for record. T h e P r e s i d e n t of t h e U n i v e r s i t y p r e s e n t e d t h e f o l l o w i n g m a t t e r , MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS O F UNIVERSITY S T A F F MEMBERS At the meeting of the Board of Trustees on November 27 the President of the University was informally asked to make a report on the program (previously authorized by the Board) of requiring a medical examination of all new employees added to the staff and an annual examination of all faculty members and employees thereafter. As was reported to the Board on June 20, 1942 (Minutes, page 925), it is estimated that such a program would require an expenditure of $35,848, of which $28,048 would be an annual recurring expense and $7,800 would represent nonrecurring expenditures for equipment. So far as funds are concerned, this program can be undertaken during the current biennium. There is a problem of securing a sufficient number of physicians to give these examinations. As to the future, no specific provision