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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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4. Several years ago the board voted to make the maximum salary paid to full professors $2,500 a year, the action being as follows {p. 256 report of 1894):

CLASSIFICATION AND SALARIES OF FACULTY.

URBANA, I I I . , March 14, 1894.

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, GENTLEMEN:—Your Committee on Instruction reports the following schedule for the classification and salaries of members of the faculty: 1. The titles to be professor, associate professor, ^assistant professor, instructor, and assistant. 2. That the deans of the colleges shall be elected annually by the Board of Trustees. 3. That the salaries be respectively: Deans, $2,000, with an annual increase of $100 to $2,500; professors, $1,800, with an annual increase of $100 to $2,250; associate professors, $1,600, with an annual increase of $50 to $2,000; assistant professors, $1,200, with an annual increase of $50 to $1,800; instructors. $800, with an annual increase of $50 to $1,200; assistants, $600, with an annual increase of $50 to $800; fellows, $400 a year. 4. That no promotion from rank to rank, and no increase of pay by reason of years of service shall be made except by a specific vote of the board of trustees. Respectfully submitted,

J. E. ARMSTRONG, HENRY RAAB,

Committee on Instruction* So far, the needs of the University for additional instruction have prevented making any material advance toward this figure. The standing of our men, and the rank of our University demand that we should advance the salaries of our leading-men as fast as possible to that limit. We therefore strongly urge that provision be made in our legislative asking*, so that such advances shall be made in maximum salaries for the coming year as ihe President and the Board may determine. 5. We wouid recommend that an additional instructor be employed for the School of Music, so that a more thorough and complete course may be offered the coming year. As to the teaching of sight-reading, it seems to your committee that it would not be necessary or advisable to open a distinct department for this work; but if an additional instructor were employed, some special classes might be conducted during one term of the year, if a sufficient number of students demand it. Respectfully submitted,

J. E. ARMSTRONG, S. A. BULLARD, T H O S . J. SMITH.

Committee on Instruction. Mr. Morrison offered t h e following resolution which was a d o p t e d : Resolved, That President Draper and Mr. Bullard be appointed a committee to present our claims before the legislature, and that they be authorized, whenever they desire additional help in this matter, to call upon those who they may deem able to assist them.