Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1982 [PAGE 180]

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5. Supplemental funds for the nursing program in the Quad Cities are lost. 6. Funds to support the fourth and final year expansion in the class of the dental school are eliminated. 7. Funds to cover normal price increases are, for the most part, eliminated. 8. Having taken these steps, we must still save an additional $2.8 million during the year ahead. Nonetheless, we can and we will do other things. 1. We will continue to set forth aggressively the needs of the University of Illinois to the governor, members of the General Assembly, and to the people of Illinois. 2. If the University receives at least the 6 percent increase in General Revenue Funds recommended for higher education by the governor, along with the increased tuition revenues as approved by the Board of Trustees last November, I will recommend to the Board of Trustees a compensation increase of 8 percent effective in September, 1981, to be followed by an additional 2 percent "catchu p " increase in January, 1982, for a total increase in compensation levels of 10 percent by the end of the 1981-82 academic year. 3. Within these limits, we will give first priority to the needs of the University libraries especially hard hit by inflation. Only token monies will be available to cover other price increases. 4. We will continue our energy conservation efforts. We will also allocate the funds essential to meet unavoidable energy price increases. 5. As a result of the differential tuition program enacted by the Board of Trustees last fall, we will respond in a modest way to a few of the more urgent academic program needs. We do not plan, however, to solve our more basic problems by tuition increases beyond those already approved. This plan will require an even more stringent use of resources within the University community. For example, we must monitor even more closely the overall size of the University, including enrollment and employment levels. If we are to protect the quality of our faculty, staff, and programs, we must give priority to improved compensation, not mere size. Many members of the University faculty and staff are asking at this juncture: Where is the "catch-up" ? The harsh fact is, at this moment, the answer is not clear and won't be clear for another six months until we have the compensation results from our sister Big Ten universities. Then, and only then will we know whether we are on the way, moving from eighth in compensation in the Big Ten to third. Whatever the end result, we are determined to sustain our commitment to the quality of this University and the faculty and staff compensation levels essential to maintain it. The University will have the added satisfaction of knowing that having come head-on into this, the first major roadblock, we did not turn back from what must be a multi-year commitment.

OLD AND NEW BUSINESS Electronic Scoreboard for Memorial Stadium, Urbana

( T h e following r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s p r e s e n t e d to t h e C o m m i t t e e on B u i l d i n g s a n d G r o u n d s e a r l i e r in t h e d a y [ F e b r u a r y 19, 1981]. T h e c o m m i t t e e w a s d i v i d e d in its r e a c t i o n to t h e p r o p o s a l a n d u n c e r t a i n a b o u t t h e d e t a i l s . C o n c e r n s w e r e expressed as t o t h e p r o p r i e t y of t h e c o m m e r c i a l i z a t i o n p r o p o s e d , c o n s i d e r a t i o n s of t a s t e , a n d t h e financial details of a n y a g r e e m e n t t h a t m i g h t b e m a d e w i t h those w h o w o u l d c o n s t r u c t t h e scoreb o a r d a n d t h o s e w h o w o u l d a r r a n g e for t h e a d v e r t i s i n g displays o n it.) Although the present scoreboard at Memorial Stadium continues to provide the necessary game information in readable form, it is believed by the director of