Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1980
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16 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [July 19 Estimated Annual Cost $ 35 000 33 000 50 000 $ 118 000 $ 853 000 Rockford School of Medicine Institutions Rockford Memorial Hospital St. Anthony Hospital.. Swedish American Hospital Total Grand Total It is further recommended that the chancellor at the Medical Center campus be granted authority to approve, with the concurrence of the comptroller, changes in the amounts of any of the contracts within the total $853,000 allocation. Funds are available in the state appropriations to the University for fiscal year 1979. The vice president for administration and comptroller concurs. I recommend approval. The student advisory vote was: Aye, Miss Kooper, Mr. Sobotka, Mr. Watson; no, none. On motion of Mrs. Rader, these contracts were awarded and authority was given as recommended by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Governor Thompson. Authorization to Negotiate Contracts in Support of PLATO "Lessonware" Development (17) The Control Data Corporation (CDC) has offered to provide funds to the University to develop P L A T O "lessonware" 1 that is of mutual interest to CDC and the University. The CDC support would accelerate the preparation of such lessonware for release. The specific CDC support could vary from lesson to lesson. On March 12, 1976, the University and CDC entered into a series of agreements dealing with the cooperative development of PLATO. One of these specifically provides for a standard royalty rate to be paid by CDC for each student contact hour of use of lessonware released by the University to CDC. The agreement appears to assume that all lessonware development would occur solely with University resources and does not deal with the possibility that CDC would provide direct financial support for development of specific lessonware. It is now apparent that it will be advantageous to the University for CDC to provide such financial support. In return, CDC requests a reduced royalty rate commitment to the University for CDC's use of lessonware for which CDC has provided additional funding support. CDC's royalty obligation would vary according to the specific circumstances of each item of lessonware. The factors to be considered in negotiating a reduced royalty commitment would include: 1. The nature and prospective use of the lessonware; 2. T h e value of projected use of the lessonware in supporting the commercial development of the P L A T O system; 3. T h e possible value of the lessonware in University educational programs; and 4. The amount of support furnished by CDC relative to the total cost of developing the lessonware. The University would retain the right to establish and modify royalty rates in the Materials Development Agreement that all authors must sign to obtain 1 Instructional material prepared for entry into a computer system.
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