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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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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 1983 summer projects. The committee's selections for this year are: MALCOLM D . CAIRNS, assistant professor of landscape architecture, and GARY B. KESLER, assistant professor of landscape architecture — "Computer Aided Site Design"

JOSEPH L. LOVE, professor of history, and

DONALD V. COES, associate professor of economics — "Latin Economy: Trade, Theory, and Ideology, 1880-1980" The chancellor at Urbana-Champaign and the vice affairs have recommended that awards of $2,250 be made noted above. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . S t o n e , t h e s e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s

America and the World president for academic for each of the projects

were approved.

Undergraduate Instructional Awards, Summer 1984, Urbana

(11) T h e Undergraduate Instructional Awards program at the Urbana-Champaign campus seeks to encourage faculty in the improvement of undergraduate instruction. T h e awards provide salary for one or two months (one-ninth or two-ninths of the academic year salary) plus incidental expenses and graduate assistant support as required. Applications are evaluated and ranked at the departmental, school, and college levels and then by a campus-wide committee. T h e committee selects proposals believed to promise the greatest potential benefit to undergraduate instruction. The vice chancellor for academic affairs has recommended to the chancellor the following awards for the summer of 1984: Total Expense Salary

GREG A. BARKER, visiting instructor in architecture

and visiting research associate in the Small Homes Council-Building Research Council

SAMUEL T. LANFORD, professor of architecture JANET D I X O N KELLER, associate professor of

$3 555

7 091

$ 600 -$11 246 850 1 250 6 183 5 484 7 544 5 956

anthropology

STEVEN J. HELLE, assistant professor of journalism FRANCIS E. HODCINS, J R . , associate professor of English RICHARD E. MITCHELL, associate professor of history

5 333

5 484 6 294 5 956

Funds have been included in the appropriation bill of the General Assembly to meet the ordinary and contingent expenses of the University for Fiscal Year 1985. T h e awards are subject to the availability of such funds. The chancellor concurs in the recommendations, as does the vice president for academic affairs. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . S t o n e , t h e s e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e a p p r o v e d .

Administrative Leaves, 1984-1985

(12) In accord with the plan for administrative leaves approved by the Board of Trustees on June 20, 1973, 1 the president of the University and the chancellors at

1 The plan provides for paid leaves of two to four months for certain administrative officers, "to keep abreast of developments in their profession and to find time to design new approaches to their tasks."