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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

(June 16

Board of Trustees meeting of M a r c h 17, 1983, copies of which had previously been sent to the board. O n motion of Mr. Howard, these minutes were approved. PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION, RETIRING STUDENT TRUSTEES, 1982-83 President Forsyth recognized the three retiring student trustees, Mr. Cobb, Mr. Bandala, and Miss Forsyth. Mrs. Shepherd presented a certificate of appreciation to Mr. Cobb, Mr. Howard presented a certificate to Mr. Bandala, and Mrs. Day made the presentation to Mr. Forsyth on behalf of Miss Forsyth, who was unable to attend. 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 H e introduced the president of the University of Illinois Alumni Association, Dr. George Kottemann of Peoria. H e also introduced Dr. Jack W. Peltason, president, American Council on Education, and former chancellor of the UrbanaChampaign campus. Presidents Forsyth and Ikenberry made a special welcome to Dr. Peltason who, with Mrs. Peltason, is spending much of the summer on the Urbana-Champaign campus, while on leave from his position at the American Council. Dr. Peltason spoke briefly of his pleasure at being home again and discussed briefly the general problems of higher education at the national level. President's Report President Ikenberry presented a report on selected topics of current interest, copies of which were distributed at the meeting. A copy was filed with the secretary of the board. President's Report on Other Matters T h e president also presented the following remarks:

Last weekend the University concluded the academic year with the celebration of commencements in Chicago, beginning with graduates in the health sciences on Friday and graduates in other programs on Sunday. In many respects, it was a day of "firsts." These were the first commencement exercises held at the new University of Illinois at Chicago; the first Illinois commencements at which our new chancellor, Donald Langenberg, presided; and the first two commencement exercises in the history of the University at which two chancellors emeriti received Distinguished Service Awards from the University's Alumni Association and then delivered the commencement speeches. In all, this year the University of Illinois awarded in Urbana-Champaign and in Chicago some 13,000 degrees. I am pleased to report that on June 8 I received notification from George

1 University Senates Conference: H. George Friedman, Jr., associate professor of computer science, Urbana-Champaign campus; Chicago campus Senates: Beverly Lynch, University librarian, University Center, and D. Jean Wood, professor and head of the Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Health Sciences Center; Urbana-Champaign Senate Council: Rollin G. Wright, professor and head of the Department of Physical Education.