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BOAKD OF TRUSTEES

[February 22

2. Purpose A. To enrich the program of undergraduate instruction in psychiatry as an aspect of general medicine. B. To contribute towards closing the fissure which now separates psychiatry from medicine in the training of medical students. 3. General Conditions A. The project shall be treated as an experiment in medical education to be carried on for a period of not less than three consecutive years, and the Foundation assures support to the extent of $15,000. B. The University reserves the right to terminate the experiment at the end of the three-year period and to return to its former plans of instruction, or such modifications of them as it shall adopt in accordance with the judgment of its officers. C. The experiment will be conducted under conditions which will make possible such return to the former status without increase in expenditures from the usual funds of the University. 4. Control of Program A. The University reserves the right to modify (within the spirit of the original agreement) any plans which may be agreed upon in advance between the University and the Foundation in such ways as experience shows to be desirable. B. In any such changes the University will give due weight to the consideration of the original purposes of the grant. C. No student (graduate or undergraduate) shall be permitted to enter upon any program of study in connection with this experiment which will limit the freedom of the University in determining what it shall continue to do along this line, or which will obligate the University to extend the experiment, or any part of it, beyond the period during which it is financed by the Foundation. 5. Appointments and Tenure A. The appointments and tenure of all persons to be employed in this work shall be on the same basis, made in the same manner, and subject to the same conditions, as those governing appointments to the University staff. B. The University assumes no obligations of continuing in service appointees under this experiment beyond the time during which their salaries can be paid from this grant. C. It is understood that any increases in the salaries of any present or future members of the regular University staff who may be transferred to this work will not obligate the University to maintain such increases after the termination of the experiment, unless some obligations shall have been explicitly stated and recognized by the recommending and appointing officers of the University as a promotion. D. Any positions created in carrying on the experiment shall be vacated and become non-existent at its conclusion, but the University reserves the right to re-create or extend them according to the judgment of its authorities. 6. Reports and Publications of Such reports on the progress of the work will from time to time as may be agreed upon between material shall be released for publication without Foundation and the University. Results be made by the University it and the Foundation. No the joint approval of the

7. Payments of Funds and Financial Statements A. Payments under this grant shall be made by the Foundation directly to the Business Office of the University. Such funds shall be carried in a separate account, and disbursements will be made by the Business Office on the order of the heads of departments concerned and the Dean of the College of Medicine in the same manner as other University funds. B. The University Comptroller shall submit a financial statement at the end of each year showing receipts, disbursements, and the status of the funds received under this grant.