Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1992 [PAGE 26]

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B O A R D OF T R U S T E E S

[July 9

Establishment of Quasi-Endowment, Urbana (Miles C Hartley Estate)

(13) On July 26, 1989, the University accepted a bequest from Dr. Miles C Hartley1 ". . . for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a flower garden on the Urbana Campus of said university, to have and to hold the same absolutely and forever." The amount of the bequest and interest earnings is approximately $1,004,000. On recommendation of a faculty committee in 1990, an area was designated on the South Farms Master Plan adopted by the trustees in September 1990 for an arboretum, including a site for a selections garden. Plans have been completed for the garden to be named the Miles C Hartley Selections Garden constructed with funds from Dr. Hartley's bequest. The project cost has been established at $780,000. The dean of the College of Agriculture has proposed the establishment of a quasi-endowment with all of the remainder of the Hartley bequest, approximately $224,000. The income would be used to provide maintenance for the Miles C Hartley Selections Garden in accordance with the terms of the bequest. The chancellor at Urbana and the vice president for business and finance have recommended the establishment of the quasi-endowment for the purposes described. I concur.

On motion of Dr. Bacon, this recommendation was approved.

Amendments to Senate Constitution and Bylaws, Urbana

(14) The University of Illinois Statutes provide that amendments to the constitutions of the senates shall take effect upon adoption by the senate concerned and approval thereof by the Board of Trustees. Changes in senate bylaws are reported to the board. Proposed amendments to the constitution of the Urbana-Champaign Senate are presented below. Proposed changes in the bylaws of the senate are filed with the secretary of the board for record. The University Senates Conference has indicated that no further senate jurisdiction is involved. The chancellor at Urbana and the vice president for academic affairs concur in the recommended changes in the constitution and bylaws. I recommend approval of the amendments to the constitution and the receipt of the bylaw changes.

On motion of Dr. Bacon, this recommendation was approved.

Amendments to the Senate Constitution

(Text to be deleted is in brackets; text to be added is in italics.) Article III — Student Representation Section 1. The student electorate shall consist of all persons actively pursuing a degree on the campus who meet the eligibility requirements for voting and who are not members of the faculty electorate. Eligibility for voting shall require that the student be: a. In residence. b. A candidate for a degree[,]. Members of the student electorate eligiblefor nomination and election to the Senate shall in addition be:

1 Miles C Hartley earned five degrees from the University of Illinois, receiving an A.B. in General Curriculum in 1923; an A.M. in Science and Letters-Mathematics in 1924; a B.S. in Education in 1926; a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1932; and a B.M. in Music in 1939. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Hartley served as head of the Department of Mathematics at University Hign School in Urbana for 16 years and then on the University of Illinois faculty from 1948 until nis retirement in 1962.