Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1994
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1995] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 365 and the Board of Regents systems. They agreed that careful guardianship of higher education in Illinois would be needed in the next few years. 3. Need to work toward better relations between minority student centers and the mainstream of the campus — The trustees expressed the view that too often minority student centers are enclaves of separatism on campus and the operation of these seems to fly in the face of the traditional goal of the college experience enabling students to meet, study, and work with persons from many different groups. Dr. Bacon opined that the majority group needs to be welcoming also. 4. Accountability in the educational process — This topic was discussed in terms of it being a popular topic in the media and general literature and one that the trustees thought they needed to be able to respond to. The discussion was not conclusive but all agreed to seek ways to respond to questions about how to assess whether there was sufficient accountability within the University. 5. Health care risks — This discussion centered on two aspects of risk in health care. One was the risk associated with new ventures such as that planned with the proposed restructuring of the University of Illinois HMO. The other, introduced by Dr. Gindorf, concerned the risk of losing the basic ethical concerns of the patient/physician relationship and the commitment to the education of physicians, which, by definition, the University must always consider. OUTCOMES FROM DAY I The board members agreed on the following as matters they wished to consider further and change in some way: 1. Reconsider the term of the chair; probably follow a practice of electing one member as chair for two consecutive years. 2. Add the office of vice chair to the list of board officers; perhaps making the person in this office one of the members of the Executive Committee. 3. Develop a document that comprises the roles and responsibilities of trustees. 4. Define more clearly the responsibilities of the chair. 5. Begin a revision of the Bylaws, utilizing a small committee of the board and including the university counsel and the secretary. REGULAR AGENDA The board considered the following recommendation from the president of the University.
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