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BOARD OF T R U S T E E S

[March 11,

N E E D S OF D E P A R T M E N T S

The Board listened to the continuation of the presentation of the needs of the Bureau of Educational Research, by Professor Buckingham; and to the needs of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, presented by Dean Babcock, Professor Sherman, Professor Trelease, Professor Stevens, Professor Noyes, and Professor Adams.

CARNEGIE F O U N D A T I O N INSURANCE PLAN

President James made the following statement concerning a plan for insurance and annuities for college teachers put forth by the Carnegie Foundation.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 576 Fifth Avenue, New York, has proposed that the University of Illinois enter the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America. The Carnegie Association for the Advancement of Teaching established some years ago a system of retiring allowances for professors in accepted institutions. The University of Illinois was not put on the list of accepted institutions because according to the statement received from the Foundation it had associated with itself a proprietary medical school, or according to another statement because it had an academy or secondary school under its control. The Carnegie Foundation, however, granted retiring allowances at the request of the Board of Trustees of the University to Doctor Samuel Walker Shattuck, Doctor Thomas Jonathan Burrill, and Mr. William Low Pillsbury, for many years Registrar of the University. Professor Shattuck's wife died before he passed away. Mrs Burrill survived her husband and is now receiving an allowance from the Carnegie Foundation of one-half the amount granted to Doctor Burrill. Mr. Pillsbury is still drawing the retiring allowance granted to him. The Foundation, then, owing to increasing financial difficulties in the way of carrying out its schemes, announced that it would not accept any further cases of men outside of the list of accepted institutions. Since that time you have granted a retiring allowance based on the Carnegie formula of one-half the salary plus four hundred dollars to Professor Donald Mcintosh. Professor Mcintosh died, however, after receiving one month's salary. You granted a retiring allowance to his widow of onehalf the amount granted to him, which she is still drawing. You also granted a retiring allowance to Professor Nathan Clifford Ricker, beginning September 1, 1916; also to Professor Charles Wesley Rolfe, beginning September 1,1917; also to Professor Charles Melville Moss, beginning September 1, 1918. You have also granted a pension of thirty dollars a month to Professor James D. Crawford, beginning November 1, 1917. This Board, however, has not adopted any general plan of retiring allowances for the benefit of instructors and employees of the University. In my opinion you must do this very soon or find the University badly handicapped in its attempt to secure members for its scientific and instructional staff. The system of retiring allowances for teachers in the public and private schools of this country is becoming so general that an institution which does not incorporate such a feature in its permanent