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made in terms of cost and availability. T h e latter factor is defined in terms of the time table established by the board of Trust s. This time table provides lor the beginning of construction in January, 1960, and the relocation of the Chicago Undergraduate Division on the new campus in die fall of 1963, when facilities must be ready to accommodate 6,000 commuting students, 1,500 more than can be accommodated at Navy Pier. Chicago Professional Colleges

Another major portion of the building planning has to do with the Chicago Professional Colleges. When the Research and Educational Hospitals were completed, the genial plan called for the remodeling of the older structures for laboratories and non-hospital uses by the Colleges. This program of remodeling has proceeded slowly, partly because funds have not been available in sufficient amount, and partly because each new step is dependent upon the completion of a prior one. T h e completion of this remodeling program requires approximately $7,000,000. New construction at the Chicago Professional Colleges includes completion of the Research Building, the first half of which is now under construction, a laboratory addition to the Hospitals, the Medical Sciences Building, completion of the Dental-Medical-Pharmacy Building, the provision of a gymnasium and an auditorium, and construction of a drug and horticulture building. Service projects include steam plant, laundry, and a student union. The estimated cost of new construction is $25,000,000, with a total requirement at the Medical Center campus in the next ten-year period ot approximately $32,000,000. The ten-year allocation to the Champaign-Urbana campus is $115,960,000. T h e details of this program are included in the printed report which has had distribution and which is available upon request. T h e grand total for the ten years is $198,534,000. T h e physical needs of the University of Illinois are large. They represent a backlog of accumulated building deficits and a conservative estimate ot the minimum requirements for future enrolments and for an adequate r< irch program. T h e estimates are projected on the assumption that student housing will be self-liquidating over the lifetime o\' the buildings and that many facilities will come to the University through private gifts and match in grants. I believe the planning estimates arc conservative. Both economy and

efficiency require that we move forward promptly in their fulfilment Fc th< reasons the Building Program Committee has suggested that we build i rapidly as construction capacity permits during the next four years. This means a capital budget of $54,879,000 in 1959-61; $68,340,000 in 1961-63; ( ( nd th< balance of $/ i 115,000 in 1 M>:;-(> >.

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