Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1984
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1984] UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS 505 exercise of the power of appointment in the Addington will. See minutes of January 19, 1984.) Search for Chancellor, Urbana The president said that the advisory committee continues to screen the pool of acceptable candidates and anticipates arranging for interviews, beginning in late April. He hopes that a recommendation will be forthcoming by June or July. Property Acquisition, 1140 South Paulina, Chicago Negotiations with the State of Illinois will make possible the transfer to the University of a building owned by the Illinois Department of Mental Health, at 1140 South Paulina, Chicago. Acquisition of the property will enable the campus in Chicago to consolidate certain offices, in particular the business and personnel offices. The building is in good condition and contains some 25,000 square feet of space. The new space will help to relieve the pressure on office space in science and engineering. EXECUTIVE SESSION ADJOURNED FOR COMMITTEE MEETINGS1 The Board of Trustees reconvened in regular session at 3:25 p.m. BUSINESS PRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY President Ikenberry introduced observers from the campus senates and from the University Senates Conference.2 He also introduced the chairman of the Board of Directors of the University of Illinois Alumni Association, Dr. George Kottemann of Peoria. President's Report The trustees received the following document, a special report, from the president of the University. Regaining Fiscal Stability: A Progress Report on Initiatives and Priorities at the University of Illinois in the 1983-84 Academic Year We are now well into the 1983-84 academic year and at the point at which we can begin to assess the impact of the advances we have made during this key period of fiscal recovery. None of us has forgotten that this University and the entire State of Illinois faced a fiscal crisis of monumental proportions nine short months ago. A decade of financial stringency culminated in the stark reality of the "doomsday" budget. We began last year, 1982-83, with $3 million less in State support and trimmed a. total of $8 million from units throughout the University in order to cover un1 Following meetings of the Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Committee and the Buildings and Grounds Committee, the board met as a Committee ol the Whole in the early afternoon to receive a presentation on preliminary recommendations for increases in tuition and fees and housing rates. The committee received testimony from students at both campuses and reviewed a number of analytical documents describing the various alternatives. Recommendations on these matters will be brought to the board in April. a University Senates Conference: Beverly P. Lynch, university librarian, Chicago campus; Chicago campus Senates: Gene W. Ruoff, associate professor of English, University Center, and D. Jean Wood, professor and head of the Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Health Sciences Center; Urbana-Champaign Senate Council: Elias J. Pais, undergraduate student.
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