Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1982
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234 BOARD OF T R U S T E E S [April 16 Funds for this program will be included in the Chicago Circle campus budget authorization request for FY 1982 to be submitted to the Board of Trustees. These grants are subject to the availability of such funds. T h e chancellor at Chicago Circle and the vice president for academic affairs concur in the recommendation. I recommend approval. On motion of Mr. Forsyth, this recommendation was approved. Amoco Foundation Awards for Undergraduate Instruction, Urbana (10) Under the Urbana-Champaign campus undergraduate instructional awards program, awards (generally full-time salary for two months) have for some years been provided for work on projects designed to improve the quality of undergraduate instruction. Following completion of the projects, a campus review committee selects the projects most deserving of recognition for excellence in teaching in the undergraduate programs. T h e Amoco Foundation has again provided funds to reward those most-deserving projects. The committee's selections are: JOAN GOOD ERICKSON, assistant professor of speech and hearing science — " T h e Impact of a Handicap on the Family Structure; Instructional Television Series" LORETTA L. JONES, visiting assistant professor of chemistry — "A Library of Videotaped Chemistry Demonstrations" DAVID KNIGHT, professor of t h e a t r e — " A c t i n g for the Camera; Television and Video-tape in Performance Courses" The chancellor at Urbana-Champaign and the vice president for academic affairs have recommended that awards of $1,000 be made for each of the foregoing projects. I concur. On motion of Mr. Forsyth, these recommendations were approved. Honorary Degrees, Chicago Circle (11) The senate at the Chicago Circle campus has recommended that honorary degrees be conferred on the following persons at the commencement exercises on J u n e 14, 1981: SIDNEY D. DRELL, physicist and educator — the degree of Doctor of Science JOHN H. JOHNSON, editor and publisher — the degree of Doctor of Laws RALPH W. TYLER, educator and author — the degree of Doctor of Letters The chancellor concurs in the recommendations of the Chicago Circle Senate. I recommend approval. On motion of Mr. Forsyth, these degrees were authorized as recommended. Master of Fine Arts in Dance, Urbana (12) T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate has recommended that in the Graduate College the Master of Arts degree in Dance be supplanted by the Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance and that the curriculum be modified to equal or exceed minimal proposed criteria for accreditation. T h e Master of Fine Arts is a practice-oriented, terminal degree program designed to prepare exceptional students for professional careers as performers, choreographers, or artist-teachers and to provide intensive studio training beyond the scope of the present Bachelor of Fine Arts curriculum. T h e M.F.A. in Dance will be the only program of its kind in the state of Illinois and one of only nineteen in the country. Because of the unusual production resources and facilities in the Kran-
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