Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1988
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1988] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 535 needed for this purpose be incorporated into tuition; and finally that other fees be examined for similar handling. Further review and consultation on these matters will be undertaken and the board will receive comment from those affected as appropriate. Report on Legislative Actions with Regard to the University's Budget Request President Ikenberry reported on action taken by the Senate Appropriations Committee to appropriate funds (some $28 million) to provide salary increases for University faculty and staff and possibly other needs. He made clear that $6 million of the total was not State funds but is anticipated income from tuition increases; that the action was illusory, as the funds to be provided barely equal the reductions of last year and would scarcely enable the University to reach the base of the prior year. Unaddressed would be: the larger salary needs as minimally expressed in the Board of Higher Education's recommendations; large sums needed for unavoidable cost increases for utilities, for the Supercomputer Center, the University Hospital, the Beckman Institute, etc.; additional costs, particularly for the Library; and additional funds for academic improvements in undergraduate instruction, minority support services, and special initiatives. The general effort to obtain increased State revenue for education will continue. OLD AND NEW BUSINESS Board of Higher Education Report, "Our Future at Risk" Trustee Ann Smith, the board's alternate representative to the Board of Higher Education, commented on the recent presentation of this report and indicated that trustees would be receiving copies. Death of Former Governor Richard B. Ogilvie Trustee Hahn noted that the former governor (and ex officio member of the board) had died on Tuesday, May 10, and he asked that the secretary prepare an appropriate resolution for inclusion in the minutes of the Board of Trustees. The resolution follows: Memorial to Richard B. Ogilvie The Board of Trustees records with sorrow the untimely death on May 10 of Richard B. Ogilvie, former Governor of Illinois, and a member of this Board from 1968 to 1972. Richard Ogilvie served the people of the State of Illinois in several roles — as head of a United States Justice Department crime-fighting unit in Chicago, as sheriff of Cook County, as Cook County Board president, and as Governor. At the tin"* of his death, he was about to embark on another challenge in public service as chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority. His leadership ability was put to good use in business and civic affairs.
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