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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1994
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376 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [September 14 visits and helpful to him in understanding the expectations of the State for the University. He said he would continue to make these visits and, in fact, several more were scheduled. He indicated that he would visit DuPage County next. After this he said he planned to visit the Quad Cities, Joliet, and Will County. Dr. Stukel stated that these visits were to remind people that the University of Illinois is for all the citizens of Illinois. He noted that these visits also permit him to talk about many things in which the University is involved. The president turned next to a description of the management teams he has initiated and that are in the process of formation. He listed these as follows: Academic Affairs Management Team, chaired by Vice President Manning; Business and Finance Management Team, and Technology Management Team, both chaired by Vice President Bazzani; and Government Relations Management Team, chaired by Mr. Kirk Hard. He indicated that the Academic Affairs Management Team would be looking at tuition charges, responsibility center budgeting, and the University's research vulnerability in the face of diminishing external funding, especially from the Federal Government. The Business and Finance Management Team would study various systems and procedures extant in the University with an eye to simplifying the bureaucracy. The Technology Management Team, together with the Business and Finance Team, would be investigating means for making the University virtually free of paper transactions. This would involve automating procurement procedures, other business transactions, and certain human resource processes. Dr. Stukel said he was very pleased with the plans of the management teams. Next, the president announced that he would plan to bring the board some good news from the campuses each time they met. This month he said he was pleased to inform the board that the Chicago campus had been awarded a grant of $2.4 million from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development for projects in the Great Cities program. Dr. Stukel noted that not only did the campus receive the grant, but the proposal submitted was graded 99 points out of 100 in a national competition. President Stukel also announced that the Urbana campus had alumni and faculty members newly elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Also, he told the trustees that recent information provided by the National Research Council indicated that many programs at Urbana ranked in the top ten of departments nationwide. REPORT FROM THE CHAIR, UNIVERSITY SENATES CONFERENCE President Stukel turned to Professor William G. Jones, chair of the University Senates Conference, who had been introduced earlier and asked him to report to the board the activities of the Senates Conference for the year just past. Professor Jones then presented the following report:
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