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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[March 23

V, lies Park Place, Springfield, to provide 1,570 square feet of additional space for the Division of Services for Crippled Children from April 1, 1977, through June 30, 1977, at a rental based on $6.32/sq. ft. per year, or approximately $2,481, for the lease period. Funds for this rental are available in the current budget of the Division of Services for Crippled Children.

The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Gonlon, Mr. Matthews, Mr. Volgman; no, none. On motion of Mr. Livingston, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Gov-. emor Thompson. Mr. Forsyth and Mr. Hahn asked to be recorded as not voting.

Change in Nonexclusive Licensing Agreements for Computer Software Packages, Chicago Circle

(26) O n March 20, 1974, the Board of Trustees authorized agreements providing for the granting of five-year nonexclusive licenses in a University software program to organizations which desire to use such programs, setting a fee of $1,500 for each such license. The software program, developed at the Chicago Circle Computer Center, is known as the H A S P / T S O or J E S / T S O Interface Package. 1 T h e original action made no provision for the Chicago Circle campus to retain costs associated with the preparation, distribution, and maintenance of the software interface package; nor did the action provide for a lower fee (at cost) for publicly supported educational institutions. It has been the practice to make computer resources available to such institutions at cost, inasmuch as public funds have been used in acquiring the resources. Therefore, the Vice President for Administration, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, now has recommended: (1) that the Chicago Circle campus retain its out-of-pocket costs; (2) that all receipts in excess of the cost of providing this software interface over the life of each such license be deposited in the University Income Fund; and (3) that publicly supported educational institutions be permitted to obtain the interface package at a cost of $750. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Forsyth, these recommendations were approved.

Purchases

(27) T h e President submitted, with his concurrence, a list of purchases recommended by the Directors of Purchases and the Vice President for Administration. The list of purchases was presented in two categories: purchases from appropriated funds (i.e., from state appropriations to the University) and purchases from institutional funds. The latter term designates funds received by the University under contracts with the United States government, private corporations, and other organizations; grants from foundations, corporations, and other donors; and University revolving funds authorized by law. T h e total amounts of these purchases were:

1 JES, or Job Entry Subsystem, is the replacement for HASP, or Houston Automatic Spooling. The users of the IBM System 370 timesharing option will have access to the resources of the computer's batch operating system. This is thought to be a valuable operating convenience and is not currently available from the standard software packages.