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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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and the State Department, International Cooperation Administration (now the Agency for International Development). On the basis of the survey team's findings the faculty of the College of Medicine recommended that negotiations be undertaken to develop a long-term contract to implement a program under which the contractor (the University of Illinois) "will provide assistance to the University of Medical Sciences, which is a part of the Office of the Prime Minister, in the establishment and development of the Faculty of Medicine, Chiengmai Hospital, located in Chiengmai, Northern Thailand." To assist in the development of the Faculty of Medicine, Chiengmai Hospital, the contractor will be expected to provide a field staff composed of specialists in medical education and related fields and administrative support as may be required. It is contemplated that the home campus staff for the project will consist of a Coordinator, 60 per cent time, an Assistant Coordinator, 20 per cent time, and a Secretary (Stenographic). T h e overseas staff for the first year should consist of eight persons, of whom three would form the administrative personnel. It would be expected that the field staff for the second contract year would be increased to thirteen and that this level of staffing would continue into the third year of the program. Preliminary negotiations indicate that the total funds to be provided by the Agency for International Development would amount approximately to $852,000 for a two-year period, with approximately $330,000 committed to the first contract year. An advisory committee 1 has been appointed. Doctor James C. Plagge has been appointed Acting Coordinator. The Dean of the College of Medicine and the Vice-President at the Medical Center request approval to proceed with the development of the specifications of the contract. I concur, and recommend further that authorization of this service and execution of the contract be requested of the Board of Higher Education.

On motion of Mr. Swain, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Dilliard, Mr. Harewood, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Wilkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Kerner.

MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC SITE (18) University officials have been negotiating with the Department of Mental Health regarding a site for a Mental Health Clinic on the Urbana-Champaign campus. T h e Clinic will provide for treatment, training, and research on the mental health problems of children who are mentally retarded and/or emotionally disturbed. It will consist of facilities for both residential and day-care children T h e site will also provide for University activities of clinical research and training in this field for certain University departments such as Psychology and Speech. Following studies of alternate sites, the University now proposes, and the Department of Mental Health concurs, that a site owned by the University and located north of the proposed Shapland Road and west of First Street extended, consisting of approximately thirty-five acres, be assigned for the development of a Mental Health Clinic. The proposed site consists of approximately five acres of land fronting on First Street, now used as a part of the Agricultural Experiment Station Swine Farm, and the east thirty acres of the fifty-one acres of land purchased in December, I960, from Fred V. Percival. The site will not include privately-owned land at the northwest corner of the proposed Shapland Road and First Street intersection, extending approximately 1,320 feet north of the proposed Shapland Road and 420 feet west of First Street.

1 Dr. Dr. James Medicine; ment; Dr. Dr. J. S. ex officio;

Royden Dangerfield, Dean of Administration and Associate Provost, Chairman; C. Plagge, Professor of Anatomy, Secretary; Dean Granville A. Bennett, College ot Dr. Mark H. Lepper, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Head of the DepartRichard J. Winzler, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Head of the Department; Begando, Vice-President for the University of Illinois at the Medical Center, and Mr. James E. Osborn, Business Manager, Chicago Colleges, ex officio.