Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918
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648 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [February 16, Board for Vocational Education, in passing upon the work of the courses proposed herein. We hereby certify that the funds to be used by the University of Illinois to match Federal money herewith applied for, will be in all respects under public control* and will be obtained from the following sources: From general funds of the University, not including Federal funds. On motion of Mr. Blair, this form of application was approved; and also the proposed agreement in regard to the services and salary of Professor A. W. Nolan; and the President of the University was authorized to apply to the State Board for Vocational Education for their approval of the teachers' training courses in Domestic Science and trades and industries; and to organize these branches of work in the University as soon as practicable under the rules of the State Board for Vocational Education and the Federal Board for Vocational Education. VOCATIONAL TRAINING OF CONSCRIPTED MEN (4) A request from the Federal Board for Vocational Education for information as to whether the University could undertake the education of conscripted men from the Army of the United States as mechanicians. I telegraphed that the University would gladly cooperate in the training of conscripted men, that our dormitories and mess halls are entirely occupied by the Federal Ground School of Military Aeronautics, that the University has no additional funds which it can use for the purpose of training conscripted men, and that consequently the Government would have to provide for the entire expense of the Schools. Also that as we have few instructors qualified to give this work, the Government would have to provide for them also. The action of the President of the University was approved, and he was given authority to cooperate with the Federal Board for Vocational Education in this matter, it being understood that the expense of the work would be met by the Federal Government. DEGREES CONFERRED (5) A recommendation from the University Senate that certain degrees he granted. February 13, 1918 Dr. Edmund J. James, President DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: At the meeting of the Senate on February 11, 1918, the following candidates were recommended to the Board of Trustees for degrees as indicated: *Public control means control in the hands of an officer or board, selected by the people, or appointed by another officer or board so selected.
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