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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1986
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1985] UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS 233 AMOCO Foundation Awards for Undergraduate Instruction, Urbana (12) As a part of the undergraduate instructional awards program on the UrbanaChampaign campus, awards to faculty are provided for work on projects designed to improve the quality of undergraduate instruction. 1 Upon the completion of the projects, a campus review committee selects those most deserving of recognition for excellence in teaching in the undergraduate programs. T h e A M O C O Foundation has again provided funds to reward those who have developed the most deserving 1984 summer projects. The committee's selections for this year a r e : STEVEN J . HELLE, assistant professor of journalism — "Commercial Speech Law in Advertising" JANET DIXON KELLER, associate professor of anthropology — "Faces of Culture" SAMUEL T . LANFORD, professor of architecture, and GREG ALLEN BARKER, formerly visiting instructor of architecture and visiting re- search associate in the Small Homes Council-Building Research Council — "New Modes of Architectural Instruction, Testing and Evaluation" T h e chancellor at Urbana-Champaign and the vice president for academic affairs have recommended that awards of $1,500 be made to each of the faculty members noted above.' I concur. On motion of Mr. Howard, these recommendations were approved. Honorary Degrees, Chicago (13) T h e Senate of the Chicago campus has recommended that honorary degrees be conferred on the following persons on the occasions indicated: ARCHIBALD COX, Carl M. Loeb Professor of Law, Harvard University -— the degree of Doctor of Laws, to be conferred at the Commencement Exercises, June 9, 1985 VERNON E. JORDAN, J R . , attorney — the degree of Doctor of Laws, to be conferred at the Commencement Exercises, June 9, 1985 ROZELLA M. SCHLOTFELDT, professor and dean emerita, Case Western Reserve University School of Nursing — the degree of Doctor of Science, to be conferred at the Commencement Exercises, June 9, 1985 GOVINDAPPA VENKATASWAMY, ophthalmologist — the degree of Doctor of Science, to be conferred at the dedication of the Eye Research Institute on June 28-29, 1985 JAMES B. WYNGAARDEN, physician and director of the National Institutes of Health — the degree of Doctor of Science, to be conferred at the Commencement Exercises on June 9, 1985 T h e chancellor concurs in the recommendations of the Chicago Senate. I recommend approval. On motion of Mr. Howard, these degrees were authorized as recommended. Named Professorships Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Urbana (Report for Information) (14) Until recently, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Urbana-Champaign has had but three named professorships: the Boeschenstein Professorship; the Merriam Professorship; and the Grim Professorship. Each is funded from separate enGenerally these amount to full-time salary for two months. The campus administration has added $1,500 to the $4,500 provided Foundation. Thus, each faculty member will receive $1,500. 1 2 by the AMOCO
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