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V. The I

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At the i of re| iting the obvious, J shall make a few conn: t$ on the centi I place of the Faculty in the life, wernment, and planning of the University of Illinois. Our taking this point for granted, our not talki about it very much, may lead some to overlook it. The academic

verities s h o u l d he r e p e a t e d o isionally.

The panel on education in the recent Rockefeller Brothers Fund Report

e m p h a s i z e d t h e n e e d for c o n t i n u i n g c o n c e r n w i t h i n d i v i d u a l v a l u e s in thesi words: ! he d; ger is that wc may forget the individual behind a facade of huge IOT| ! institutions. The risk is that we will glorify science and forget entists; m rriif\ >vcmment and ignore the men and women who dischai functions; pin our hopes on education, business or cultural institutions, and t of the fact that these institutions are no more creative or purposeful than and the : its h the

individual* who endow them with creativity and purpose.

B( >nd the temptation to overlook the individual, there is- another danger. This the difficulty of giving free expression to creativity within an institutional atOlOSpher \\V face the threat that our increasingly organized efforts will become increasingly routine; that the structures of science, government, and enterprise will b e unc hard shells resistant to growth and change, rather than flexible institutions

ipablc of renewing and re-creating themselves. It should ho obvious to all who inform themselves about University of

Ulinoi affairs t h a t tin's i n s t i t u t i o n h a s built a Strong a n d effective t r a d i t i o n for far u l t y p a r t i c i p a t i o n in U n i v e r s i t y planning- a n d policy decisions. Fa< u l t y views a r e influential in all m a t t e r s affecting t h e life a n d w e l f a r e of t h e U n i v e r s i t y . A s the U n i v e r s i t y h a s b e c o m e large, it has necessarily b e c o m e depen< n t u p o n r e p r e s e n t a t i v e f a c u l t y views, b u t e v e n w i t h i n this f r a m e w o r k the senates, committees, and councils have remained vital a n d .n 11 ii» live.

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