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BOARD O F T R U S T E E S

[January 14

the terms of the agreement, Evanston Hospital will close its presently existing School of Nursing. Beginning in September 1982, the University of Illinois College of Nursing will assign baccalaureate degree nursing students to Evanston Hospital for their clinical training. The advantages of this affiliation include the development and testing of an "open curriculum" model, whereby students may complete their baccalaureate studies at a self-determined pace. The University will also acquire for its use the Learning Resource Center at Evanston Hospital, a nationally known innovative learning center. T h e agreement contemplates an annual supplement that will specify the amount the University will reimburse the hospital for use of the Learning Resource Center. T h e amount will be determined with reference to a fraction of the salary of the technical personnel working at the center. This is currently estimated to be $120,000 (one-third of the costs in the first year, two-thirds of the costs in the second year, and the full cost in the third year and thereafter). Evanston Hospital will pay a portion of the operation and maintenance costs of the Learning Resource Center. The supplemental agreement(s) will be presented to the board for approval. T h e vice president for academic affairs and the executive vice president concur in the recommendation. I recommend approval.

On motion of Dr. Donoghue, this recommendation was approved.

License Agreement for Use of PLATO Lessonware (Exception to the Genera/ Rules)

(8) Global Information Systems Technology, Inc. ( G I S T ) , of Champaign, Illinois, has requested a license to use selections from a set of P L A T O lessonware produced in the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory (CERL) with National Science Foundation (NSF) support. These lessons are the subject of a 1977 agreement between NSF and the University under which the University agreed to license the lessons to any qualified applicant to assure maximum public accessibility of publicly-funded work. Three individuals having ownership interests a n d / o r principal officer status in G I S T (Daniel K. Bloomfield, dean of the School of Basic Medical Sciences and School of Clinical Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, has a 12 percent equity interest and is president of G I S T ; Thomas Chen, assistant professor in the schools, has a 30 percent equity interest and is vice president of G I S T ; and Lawrence Sherman, senior research programmer in the Police Training Institute, has a 12 percent equity interest in G I S T ) are employees of the University. Therefore, it is requested that the G I S T licensing request be approved as an exception to a conflict of interest provision in the present General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure (Article I I , Section 4 ( 1 ) ) that stipulates that the University may not contract with a company whose principal officers are staff members of the University. 1 If granted a license, G I S T intends to adapt the subject lessonware for use on a minicomputer using the S I M P L E R system, another University development (similar to P L A T O ) which G I S T has acquired by a license from University Patents, Inc. C E R L supports the G I S T request as a means of making Universitydeveloped lessonware available for wider public use. Under the terms of the agreement, G I S T will be granted a nonexclusive license to use selected units of lessonware for a period of five years, subject to extension

1 "No purchase or contract will be awarded to a University officer or employee or the spouse thereof; or to a firm, partnership, association or corporation the owner or principal owners or major officers or primary employees of which are officers or employees of the University or are the spouses of officers or employees of the University, unless such purchase or contract is deemed essential to University operations and is approved by the president of the University, and such approval is filed with the purchase order or contract."