Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1982 [PAGE 406]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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have a stable, predictable cohort of students; the clear definition of the student population will permit sound planning, budgeting, and faculty recruitment for the college as a whole as well as for the individual regional components. 5. The Principle of Maintaining Community Health Centers The Community Health Centers operated and maintained by the College of Medicine in regional sites shall continue with the full support of the college. Again, the benefits to medical education and the local community are clear. 6. The Principle of Guaranteed Clerkships in the Medical Scholars Program Clerkships for Urbana-Champaign students in the Medical Scholars Program shall be guaranteed by the college. Clerkships will be offered at the Urbana-Champaign site to the extent made possible by the cooperation of the local community. These clerkships, as is presently the case, should include internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, and surgery — once again given the cooperation of the local community. 7. The Principle of Simplified Administration The College of Medicine's administrative structure and related costs have gradually become larger than those required by its reduced scope. The reorganization will provide a simplified administrative structure assuring that the maximum amount of financial resources reaches program components. 8. The Principle of Local Management The proposed reorganization recognizes the distinctive local characteristics of each clinical site and permits each regional component to determine if it chooses to designate heads or chairpersons of divisions. Administrative responsibility for the program at each site shall rest with the associate dean and director at that site. 9. The Principle of a Single College of Medicine The college and the University reaffirm their commitment to the continued organization of the programs at the several sites within a single College of Medicine. The determination of educational, service, research, and financial policy to achieve the goal of both the college and the University — excellence — can best be made by continuing this unified structure. 10. The Principle of Faculty Determination of the Curriculum The determination of the curriculum of the College of Medicine must be vested in its faculty. The principles of academic freedom and integrity admit of no other locus of such authority within an institution of higher education. The Statutes and General Rules of the University make the same prescription.

OLD AND NEW BUSINESS

President Stone called attention to a letter received from Trustee H o w a r d w h o is serving as president of the board of the State Universities Retirem e n t System. T h e letter a n d previous c o m m u n i c a t i o n s h a d reported o n the S U R S board's efforts to improve the financial structure of the system a n d its investment procedures. M r . S t o n e expressed the appreciation of t h e trustees t o M r . H o w a r d ( a n d to M r . Forsyth w h o also serves o n t h e S U R S