Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1994
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110 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [November 18 addition, the following persons were also in attendance: Mr. Donald K. Coe, director, University Office of Public Affairs; Mr. Kirk Hard, executive assistant to the president of the University; and Mr. R. C. Wicklund, associate secretary emeritus. MEETING OF THE BOARD AS A COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE1 Public Comment Session The board, meeting as a Committee of the Whole, received a report, under the provisions for public comment to the board, from Ms. Lori Grove. Ms. Grove addressed the board on the topic of preserving the Maxwell Street Market District. Specifically, Ms. Grove asked the board to assure that they would preserve certain commercial properties in the Maxwell Street Market District. This area has recently been acquired by the University for expansion of the Chicago campus. (Materials distributed at the meeting are on file with the secretary.) The committee meeting was adjourned and the board reconvened in regular session. RECOGNITION OF TRUSTEE DONALD W. GRABOWSKI Chair Boyle noted that Mr. Grabowski would be ending his term as a member of the board before the next regular meeting of the board. He then remarked that Mr. Grabowski was one of the most decent human beings he had known, stating that he met Mr. Grabowski when they started their terms as trustees together six years ago. Mr. Boyle remarked that they had started together and that they would end their terms on the board together. He then proposed the following resolution to Mr. Grabowski. To Donald W. Grabowski: Your service as Trustee of this University has been unique in two ways: you are the first baccalaureate graduate of the University's Chicago campus to serve as Trustee; and you are probably the only former staff member of the University to serve as Trustee. Beyond the uniqueness of your service, the experience you gained as student and staff member together with your careers as lawyer and businessman afforded you a special vantage point from which you served the University. As Chair of the Finance and Audit and of the Nonacademic Personnel committees, both for three terms, you were quickly able to make use of your knowledge of the operations of the University. Your service as a representative of this Board on both the State University Civil Service System Merit Board and the State Universities Retirement System Board for four 1 Prior to this, the board received a report from the Committee on Diversity. Ms. Lopez chaired this meeting which included several reports. One was from Vice President Manning and included remarks on underrepresented groups at the University and a first-year evaluation of the President's call for inclusiveness on campus, issued in September 1993. Chancellor Aiken also addressed the board on the efforts that are ongoing at trie Urbana-Champaign campus to increase minority group faculty, students, and staff. Then Chancellor Stukel spoke to the Doard on goals and successes for increasing participation of minority group persons on the faculty and staff and efforts to increase numbers of minority students. Ms. Lopez requested that the University redouble efforts in those areas where there is little representation of minority groups. She asked that plans be developed to further the attainment of goals for diversity for eacn minority group in areas of low representation.
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