Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892 [PAGE 99]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

The following list of vacancies and new places should be filled: Professor of mechanical engineering. Professor of mining engineering. Professor of physical culture. Assistant professor in physics and electricity. Instructor in preparatory Latin. Assistant to Professor Brownlee, and teacher of English. If Professor Bicker has full assistant, then an instructor in drawing will be indispensable. If the new building requires much of Mr. Parker's superintendence, then an assistant is needed in the architectural shops. The usual authority for advertising should be given. Respectfully submitted, SELTM H. PEABODY, Begent. On motion of Mr. McKay, t h e B o a r d of Trustees authorized confering degrees and g r a n t i n g certificates as recommended by the Faculty of the University, and approved the recommendations for commissions. On motion of Mr. McKay, the list of professors and instructors was then t a k e n up. On motion of Mr. Morgan, Professor Frederick's salary was raised t o $1,80 ) a year. On motion of Mr. Cobb, Mr. S t r a t t o n was made professor of physics with a salary of $1,600 a year. On motion of Mr. Kaab, Assistant Professor Myers' salary was made $1,200 a year. . On motion of Mr. Cobb, the appointments of professors and a s s i s t a n t professor, as recommended in t h e Regent's report, was then approved and the salaries fixed as therein named. On motion of Mr. Raab, the salary of Mr. P a r k e r was raised t o $1,380 a year. On motion of Mr. R a a b . the appointment of instructors and assistants, as recommended in the Regent's report, was approved and the salaries fixed as named therein. On m o t i o n of Mr. Cobb, Professor Shattuck was re-appointed Business Agent for the year from Sept. 1st, a t a salary of $600 a y e a r ; a n d Mr. A. B. Baker was appointed chief janitor for t h e same time a t a salary of $840 a year. On motion of Mr. Cobb, the Board approved the assignment of salaries for the next two years to the'several persons on t h e staff of t h e S t a t e L a b o r a t o r y of N a t u r a l H i s t o r y as reported by the Director of the L a b o r a t o r y , Professor Forbes. On motion ^of Mr. McKay, the Board approved the action of t h e B o a r d of Direction of the Experiment S t a t i o n in a p p o i n t i n g F r a n k D. Gardner a s s i s t a n t agriculturist a t a salary of $900 a year for t h e year ending March 3 1 , 1892, and in raising Mr. Geo. P . Clinton's salary t o $ 7 5 0 a year from Sept. 1, 1 8 9 1 , t o March 3 1 , 1892.