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1986]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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MINUTES APPROVED

The secretary presented for approval the press proof of the minutes of the Board of Trustees meeting of May 8, 1986, copies of which had previously been sent to the board. On motion of Mr. Forsyth, these minutes were approved.

BUSINESS PRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY

President Ikenberry recognized and introduced observers from the campus senates and from the University Senates Conference.1

Other Matters

The president spoke briefly on a special event of the previous week, a "DuPage County Day" sponsored in association with the University of Illinois Alumni Association and involving leaders in DuPage County, alumni, staff, faculty and others in the interest of better acquainting the people of DuPage County with the work of the University of Illinois.

OLD AND NEW BUSINESS

Mrs. Shepherd requested brief reports, on a recent meeting of the Board of Higher Education, attended by Trustee Ann Smith on September 3; and on a meeting of the Athletic Association Board of Directors, attended by Student Trustee Mark Filip on July 26, 1986. She also introduced Mr. Charles P. Wolff of Elgin, a candidate for trustee in the November 1986 general election. Two other candidates (in addition to incumbents Day, Madden, and Shepherd), Mrs. Judith Ann Calder of Chicago and Dr. David McConnell of Dundee, were not present. Appointments President Shepherd announced that she had appointed Trustee Gravenhorst to the advisory committee to the West Suburban Regional Academic Consortium; and that she had appointed Student Trustee Starkeson to the following board committees: Academic Affairs; Alumni; Buildings and Grounds; and Student Welfare and Activities; and that the following committee had been added to those on which Student Trustee Mark Filip will serve, Academic Affairs. Mrs. Shepherd took occasion to install Edward C. Starkeson, who was attending his first meeting as a student trustee.

REGULAR AGENDA

The board considered the following reports and recommendations from the president of the University.

1 University Senates Conference: Martha Friedman, associate professor of library administration, and history and philosophy librarian, Urbana-Champaign campus; Urbana-Champaign Senate Council: Richard Merritt, professor of political science and research professor in the Institute of Coinmunications Research; Edward Lichter, professor of preventive medicine and community health, College of Medicine at Chicago.