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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[January 29

REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON FUTURE BUILDING PROGRAM December 24, 1936 President A. C. Willard, 355 Administration (W)

DEAR PRESIDENT WILLARD:

The Committee on Future Building Program of the University, in accordance with your request, has prepared a "Suggested Building Program Arranged by Bienniums," covering seven such periods from July I, 1937, to June 30, 1951. This has been compiled after an intensive study of three or four weeks following a year spent less intensively in examining proposals and evaluating them as accurately as possible in relation to the educational and research policies and trends of the University. The enclosures consist of a. Suggested Building Program Arranged by Bienniums Beginning July I, 1937 (Two pages) b. Composite List of Requests and Proposals for New Buildings and Land Acquisitions, December 20, 1935 (Two pages) c. Condensed Summary of Reasons Presented by the Several Departments for Their Respective Building Requests (34 pages) You will observe from pages 32 and 34 of the last named enclosure that the Committee has not given more than passing attention to land and to such student welfare, or general service buildings as the Auditorium, dormitories, radio station, and student center, because it was informed that other committees were considering these phases of the University's activities. (The Committee departed from this principle, it seems, in the case of the Power Plant and the Hospital, and in presenting an implication in the suggestions for the biennium 1947-1949 that something ought to be done for student welfare on the Chicago campus.) Specifically, then, the Committee has studied and made suggestions relative to all items in the Composite List of December 20, 1935, except those already finished and the following others: Item 25 Covering Boneyard (Depends on action of Twin Cities) 27 Remodel Auditorium (Some provision pending through Non-Recurring Expenditures Channel) 33 Additional wings on Administration Building 34 New Illinois Field 35 Extension of Main Street through Illinois Field 36 Remodel University High School (This awaits further development of plans for College of Education) 37 New Radio Station (Probably fully provided) 38 Residence Hall and Men's Dormitory 42 Land adjoining University woods (The Committee probably should have considered this, as a research adjunct.) 43 Small area west of Lincoln Avenue 44 House and lot 45 House and lot 46 City property 48 City property 49 City property 50 City property 53 City property 54 Farm land 57 Illinois Union Although the 34-page "Condensed Summary of Reasons" presented by the several departments gives a reasonably reliable picture of the conditions, many of the fine details contained in the letters and oral statements from which the Summary was made reveal the acuteness of the situation in many cases. Conclusions of the Committee have not been based entirely on the letters from the departments concerned. The Committee has held rather extended group conferences with representatives of the respective departments or divisions affected by items in the building program placed in the biennium lists; and members of the