Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1980
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1979] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 241 Honorary Degrees, Chicago Circle (8) T h e senate at the Chicago Circle campus has recommended that honorary degrees be conferred on t h e following persons at the Commencement Exercises on June 10, 1979: FELIX CAMDELA, architect and environmental designer — the degree of Doctor of Fine Arts JAMES T. FARRELL, novelist, short-story writer, critic, essayist — the degree of Doctor of Letters The chancellor has concurred in the recommendations. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . V e l a s q u e z , these d e g r e e s w e r e a u t h o r i z e d a s r e c o m mended. AMOCO Foundation Awards for Undergraduate Instruction, Urbana (9) Last year the Board of Trustees approved six projects for support during the summer of 1978 under the Urbana-Champaign program of undergraduate instructional awards. T h e awards generally provided a full-time salary for two months for work on projects designed to improve the quality of undergraduate instruction. T h e A M O C O Foundation again has provided funds to reward "excellence in teaching in the undergraduate programs by senior staff at the University." Following completion of the projects last summer, the vice chancellor for academic affairs at Urbana appointed a campus review committee to select those most deserving of recognition and reward. The committee's selections are: SUSAN L. GREENDORFER, assistant professor of physical education — "Development of Instructional Film Modules Depicting Behavioral Sequences and Group Processes in Play, Games, and Sport" MICHAEL A. MULLIN, associate professor of English, and ROBERT B. GRAVES, assistant professor of theatre — "Drama in Performance — Improvement in Courses in Dramatic Literature and Theatre" ANGELIA S. FISHER, assistant professor of dance, and A N N L. RODIGER, visiting in- structor in dance — "Movement Fundamentals" EDWARD M . BRUNER, professor of anthropology —• "Personal Anthropology" T h e chancellor of Urbana-Champaign and the vice president for academic affairs have recommended that awards of $1,000 be made for each of the foregoing projects. I concur. On motion of Mr. Hahn, these recommendations were approved. Student Health Insurance Fee (10) T h e student health insurance fee covers the cost of premiums paid to the insurance company for the health coverage selected and for the cost of administering the program. Bids have been received on the student health insurance program for all campuses for the 1979-80 academic year. Award of the contract is requested in the recommendation for purchases in this month's agenda. The current and proposed student health insurance fee is as follows:
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