Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1988
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126 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Other Matters [November 13 The president then reported on a series of national meetings in which he had participated recently, viz.: the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, the Association of American Universities, and the American Council on Education. He identified the following central issues now under discussion in the higher education community: 1. The quality of undergraduate education and the "assessment" in general of higher education; 2. The implications of new Federal tax legislation for colleges and universities; 3. The significance of the "uncapping" of the mandatory Federal retirement age for university faculty following a seven-year grace period; 4. Continuing discussions with the U.S. Bureau of the Budget with regard to the adequacy of indirect costs reimbursement for Federal research grants; 5. The general question of peer review in the evaluation of Federal grant proposals from universities; and 6. Increased efforts to monitor and review rules and practices in intercollegiate athletics. OLD AND NEW BUSINESS Communications Mrs. Shepherd referred to a number of communications received since the last meeting of the trustees: (1) a letter from the Illinois State Board of Education, reporting on the work of the Blue Ribbon Committee on the Improvement of Teaching as a Profession; (2) letters from the student trustees, Mr. Starkeson concerning tuition, and Mr. Filip concerning the use of teaching assistants; (3) a large number of letters from students at the Health Sciences Center expressing opposition to tuition increases, and opposition to a single commencement at the Chicago campus in 1987; and concern for the financial status of the University Hospital; (4) a resolution approved by the Urbana-Champaign Senate1 concerning "Possible University Responses to the Institution of Apartheid in the Republic of South Africa"; and (5) a resolution from the Student Government Association at Urbana encouraging the adoption of new hiring standards for instructors based on their oral (English) proficiency. She also reported her response to a request to be heard by the Baha'i Association at Urbana concerning a Baha'i statement entitled, "The Promise of World The senate resolution i> as follows: Motion on Divestment The Senate of the Uibana-Cb&mpaign campus of the University of Illinois expresses its abhorrence of the institution of apartheid in the Republic of South Africa, particularly the violations of personal and intellectual freedom, and strongly requests the University of Illinois Board of Trustees to divest of its holdings in all «<»np«iii— and banks doing business in South Africa by December 31, 1987. Upon passage, this motion shall be transmitted to the General Officers of the University and to the Board of Trustees. 1
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