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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1994
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204 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [February 22 The meeting was scheduled to reconvene at 1:00 p.m., Sunday, February 19, 1995. BOARD MEETING, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1995 When the board reconvened at 1:00 p.m. in executive session, the following members of the board were present: Mrs. Judith Ann Calder, Mr. William D. Engelbrecht, Dr. Jeffrey Gindorf, Mrs. Susan L. Gravenhorst, Mr. Thomas R. Lamont, Ms. Ada N. Lopez, Mrs. Martha R. O'Malley, Ms. Judith R. Reese. The following members of the board were absent: Dr. Gloria Jackson Bacon, Governor Jim Edgar. The following nonvoting student trustees were present: Mr. Christopher Didato-Castillo, Chicago campus; Mr. Chapin Rose, Urbana-Champaign campus. Meeting with Second Candidate At 1:10 p.m., the trustees met with the second candidate. 1 The discussion began with a question asked of the candidate about what would be done to strengthen both campuses, particularly with regard to building external contacts that would be beneficial to both campuses. The candidate commented on how corporate contacts would be used to help the entire University and cited experience in building relationships in the corporate sector that would be useful to all the campuses of the University. The possibility of adding a Springfield campus was mentioned as an opportunity to use all facets of the University to help in many parts of the State as well. When asked what might be done for the University if Federal funds were diminished notably in the near future, this candidate responded that early warnings to the faculty would be very important as well as provision of information to the faculty about alternate sources of funds or new foci for research that were being funded. Next, the candidate said that intense efforts would be made in a bipartisan way to work with the Congressional delegation and others in Congress. Also, the resources of the national educational associations were mentioned as additional areas where support for maintaining Federal funding would be sought. Next, the candidate was asked to discuss proposed changes to the powers of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. The candidate commented that these efforts to centralize after two university systems have been decentralized are contradictory to political interests in general and would be very disruptive to the organization of higher education in Illinois. The candidate endorsed current efforts to fight this and indicated a willingness to become involved in this if useful. Considerable discussion followed about planning for the University Hospital, particularly with regard to new affiliations and new patterns 1 This was Dr. James J. Stukel who was later elected by the Board of Trustees on March 9, 1995, to become president of the University of Illinois.
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