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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1982
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370 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [September 17 19 175 ( 4) 72 ( 1) !233 (12) 1 743 (96) 2 746 (99) 72 19_ 3 006 (99) Preventive Medicine and Community Health Psychiatry Radiology Surgery School Total College Total College of Pharmacy Pharmacy Practice School of Public Health Grand Total Curriculum in Soil Science, Urbana (18) The Urbana-Champaign Senate recommends the establishment of a curriculum in soil science in the College of Agriculture leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Soil Science. The recent establishment of the American Registry of Certified Professionals in Agronomy, Crops, and Soils has emphasized the need to establish a curriculum in soil science. The present soils option in the agronomy major does not require the student to take sufficient courses in soils and supporting sciences to adequately prepare for certification as a soil scientist; the proposed curriculum will remedy that situation. The curriculum will require 126 credit hours for graduation and is designed for students who plan to engage in professional work requiring more soil science, mathematics, chemistry, and physics than is included in the core curriculum in agriculture or for students who plan to do graduate work in soil science. The curriculum will also prepare students for positions dealing with the management of natural resources, particularly those involving agricultural, forest, or range soils, including the effect of land use on environmental quality. T h e projected five-year enrollment in the curriculum is twenty-five. No additional funds will be required for implementation of this proposed program. T h e dean of the College of Agriculture, the chancellor at Urbana-Champaign, and the vice president for academic affairs concur in the recommendation. T h e University Senates Conference has indicated that no further senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend approval subject to further action by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. On motion of Mr. Neal, this recommendation was approved. Establishment of the Benjamin J. Goldberg Research Fund, College of Medicine, Medical Center (19) On March 19, 1981, the Board of Trustees authorized the use of $500,000 of the Edward and Cookie Beck Fund and the Benjamin J. Goldberg Foundation Fund (then valued together at $741,000) to establish and support the Benjamin J. Goldberg Professorship in the College of Medicine. The chancellor at the Medical Center now has recommended that the remainder of the funds, approximately $297,719, be designated as a quasi-endowment and be further designated as the Benjamin J. Goldberg Research Fund in the College of Medicine, and that the income from the fund be used "to foster and encourage research in the field of medicine, science, and art and for the purchase of necessary apparatus, books, equipment, or supplies for the same" as specified in the bequest. The executive vice president and the vice president for academic affairs concur. I recommend approval. On motion of Mr. Neal, this recommendation was approved.
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