Caption: Booklet - State of University (1958)
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I believe the report of the Committee and the conference should be noted as a significant step in educational planning, consonant with the physical planning which has been so well carried forward ovei the years by the Building Program Committee of the University. In sending the preliminary report of the Committee on Future Program to the members of the Board of Trustees, I indicated that action is not necessary at this time. I stated that I was impressed with the validity of the recommendations, however, and that the outline of direction given by the Committee is one in which I concur. BUILDING PLANNING, 1 9 5 9 - 6 9 A second milestone of the year was the report of the Building Program Committee, outlining the requirements for buildings and land between 1959 and 1969. Confronted by the necessity of projecting building completions beyond two years, by the need to make clear the over-all requirements upon which the bond issue allocations were based, and by the need to relate building requirements to educational developments as well as to the enrolments of the future, toe Building Program Committee in 1957 set out to define a ten-year program. T h e recommendations for the capital budget as approved by the Board of Trustees for 1959-61 are related to the tentative recommendation for 1961-63 and these in turn are related to the ten-year outline. T h e report has taken into account minimum uniform standards for the campus, the sources of financing, priorities of space needs, and the m a x i m u m capacity for construction. T h e recommendations are of two kinds — those which would help th« University catch u p with past needs, and those which would prepare for thfuture. It should be emphasized that the recommended building pn ram takes into account improvement of prevent performance as well as new enrolment One-half of the space recommended is d igned to help the University fulfil present obligations, including the requirements o( the present pro un at the Chicago U n d e r g r a d u a t e Division. Providing the faculty with resea: h equipment and spare and with facilities adequate lor efficient instruction has Come to be a primary element in faculty morale and in l ruitinen f staff". T h e planning upon which the Building To ram Committee has m a d e it^ n rnmendations r flexible and su epiible to continuin refinement and revision. T h e Committee hafl utilized the ideas of 1 ulty and Staff t n throughout the University ;i well as (hose o! special consultants l'lu plan 1
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