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BOARD O F T R U S T E E S

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The appointment of Ross J. Martin, presently Associate Director of the Engineering Experiment Station and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, as Director of the Engineering Experiment Station and Professor of Mechanical Engineering effective immediately and continuing through August 31, 1959. The Director of the Engineering Experiment Station will report to the Dean of the College of Engineering. Change in the title of Dean William L. Everitt from Dean of the College of Engineering, Director of the Engineering Experiment Station, and Professor of Electrical Engineering, to Dean of die College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering. No adjustments in salaries are involved in these changes. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Nickell, these changes were approved.

HEADSHIP OF DIVISION OF MATHEMATICS AT CHICAGO UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION (5) Professor M. C. Hartley, Head of the Division (Department) of Mathematics at the Chicago Undergraduate Division, has asked to be relieved of the headship effective February 1, 1958. I have approved this request. On joint recommendation of the Executive Dean of the Chicago Undergraduate Division and of the Dean of Administration, I have also approved the appointment of Mr. R. M. Price, Assistant Dean of Engineering Sciences and Associate Professor of Physics, as Acting Head of the Division of Mathematics, in addition to his present assignments, for the period February 1 through August 31, 1958, with an additional salary of $600. His appointment as Acting Head of Mathematics will be continued beyond September 1, 1958, if necessary, until a permanent head is appointed. The Vice-President and Provost and the Dean of the Graduate College concurred in this appointment. Confirmation of these actions is requested. O n m o t i o n of M r s . W a t k i n s , t h e P r e s i d e n t ' s a c t i o n s w e r e confirmed.

H O N O R A R Y DEGREE FOR M A R K VAN D O R E N

(6) T h e Urbana Senate recommends that the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature (Litt.D.) be conferred on Mr. Mark Van Doren, Pulitzer Prize Poet, Editorial Writer, Teacher, and Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Illinois, on January 26, 1958, at the Convocation for the Class of February, 1958, at which he will deliver the address. In support of this nomination, I submit the report of the Urbana Senate Committee on Honorary Degrees recommending the award. A copy of this report is being filed with the Secretary of the Board tor record. I concur in the recommendation of the Senate. O n m o t i o n of M r s . H o l t , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR NONRECURRING EXPENDITURES (7) The Committee on Nonrecurring Appropriations recommends assignments of funds from the General Reserve for the following purposes: 1. Dean of Students, air conditioning student employment office in Illini Hall $ 1 73000 2. Provost's Office, air conditioning 1 800 00 3. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, air conditioning of Liberal Arts office rooms 3 420 00 4. Department of Electrical Engineering, equipment 8 900 00 5. Office of Teacher Placement, equipment and supplies 3 850 64 6. Bureau of Educational Research, reconditioning work space in building at 1007 South Wright Street, Champaign 4 600 00 7. Department of Art, equipment 4 200 00 8. Library, six sets of Decennial Index to Chemical Abstracts 3 o 0 0 00 9. English Building, remodeling 4 9 0 0 °° 10. Graduate College, publication of the Journal of English and Germanic Philology ^^JOOJX Total $39 5oo 64 I concur.