Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1906 [PAGE 129]

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1905]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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4. That the President be authorized to issue a University certificate of qualification to teach certain subjects to students who may have satisfied the requirements for such certificates, as prescribed by the University Council of Administration and the University Senate, and that the certificate shall read as follows:

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

This may certify t h a t (John James Smith) has satisfied all the requirements of the University for t h e University certificate of qualification to teach (chemistry, physics, etc.) in secondary schools, and t h a t the Board of Trustees of the University, on the recommendation of the Senate, has granted to him this testimonial of scholarship and professional ability. In Witness Whereof, This certificate is signed by the President of the University, by t h e secretary of the Board of Trustees, and by the director of the School of Education, and the seal of the University is hereto affixed this day of , 190.... President [ Seal.] , /Secretary. Director.

Approved.

5. That in preparing the budget for the College of Engineering for the coming year the following method will be observed in assigning the special appropriations for the expenses of the Experiment Station and the equipment of the College of Engineering: (a) That a certain percentage of the total sum be set apart for the general equipment of the College of Engineering. > (&) That a sum not to exceed $15,000 be set aside for necessary additions to the buildings of the Experiment Station. (c) That a certain sum be set apart for special equipment needed in other departments of the University for the use of engineering students; as, for instance, in the chemical laboratory, for special apparatus needed by engineering students, and in the department of astronomy, for instruments required primarily by engineering students. (d) That the balance be divided into two parts, one-half being assigned to the special further equipment of the various departments of the College of Engineering and the other half being assigned to the expenses of the Experiment Station, a suitable distribution of salaries being made between the Engineering College and the Experiment Station, similar to that which has been adopted for the Agricultural College and Agricultural Experiment Station. Approved. 6. That the Summer Session of the University be continued during the year 1906, and that Professor Thomas A. Clark be appointed Director and Professor Dexter be appointed Dean of the Summer Session for the year 1906.

Approved.

7. That the recommendation of Professor Forbes that the salary of R. E. Richardson, Assistant in the State Laboratory of Natural History, be advanced from $1,000 to $1,200 per annum, and that otherwise the appointments and salaries for members of the State Laboratory staff be for the coming year the same as for the past. And, further, that $1,000 be assigned to the fund for building the insectary and taken from the appropriation made by the Legislature at its last session for the Natural History survey. . Approved. 8. That the petition of the city of Champaign, as presented by the mayor, that the Board of Trustees provid for extending a proposed storm water sewer through the University grounds along the line of the present boneyard branch be referred to the Building and Grounds Committee. Approved.