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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[May 11

State. The latest in this series is the proposal that the community colleges in the State be removed from the jurisdiction of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Dr. Ikenberry observed that the removal of the community colleges from the IBHE would fundamentally alter higher education governance in Illinois. He stated that this is not the time for more reorganization but for adjustment to changes already made. The president continued with a presentation of changes in higher education and noted that the composition of the board of IBHE is in question now too. As presently composed, after the governance changes were made, neither the University of Illinois nor Southern Illinois University has a representative on the IBHE board. A bill has been introduced which would continue the representation of the University of Illinois board on the board of the IBHE. A representative from the board of Southern Illinois University is proposed in this too. The president said that it was not certain whether this bill would be dealt with in the current session of the Legislature or if this would wait until the Fall, veto session, or perhaps not at all. In summation, the president stressed that the structure of higher education in Illinois is presently destabilized and quite fragile. On the topic of the transfer of Sangamon State University to the University of Illinois, Dr. Ikenberry indicated that this continues to move ahead and he stated that at the June meeting of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Manning would provide more information on that process.

OLD BUSINESS

Ms. Reese reported on the quarterly meeting of the University of Illinois Foundation which she attended as the representative of the Board of Trustees. She distributed copies of charts acquired at that meeting which illustrate the progress of the capital campaign and document the growth of gifts given the Foundation between 1979 and 1995. (A copy of the charts is on file with the secretary.) She reported that the campaign to increase the endowment of the University is going very well. Dr. Ikenberry then informed the board that the University of Illinois ranks in the top 10 of universities, both public and private, in the United States in terms of private fund raising. Next, Mrs. Gravenhorst reported on the annual meeting of the Association of Governing Boards which she attended in Seattle in March. She noted that two topics discussed at length were tenure and productivity. She shared with her colleagues that a session on gender equity was very helpful and presented very good definitions of the goals of gender equity. She then advised the board that the next annual meeting, 1996, would be in Chicago and that the University of Illinois was to have a presence on the program. Mrs. Gravenhorst also reported on the most recent meeting of the Illinois Board of Higher Education which she had attended as the Board