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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1982
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1982] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 469 Honorary Degrees, Medical Center (6) The senate at the Medical Center campus has recommended that honorary degrees be conferred on the following persons at the Commencement Exercises on June 11, 1982: E V I L J. FREIREICH, M.D. (University of Illinois, 1949), Ruth Harriet Ainsworth professor and head, Department of Developmental Therapeutics, M.D., Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, the University of Texas System Cancer Center — the degree of Doctor of Science. ARNO G. MOTULSKY, M.D. (University of Illinois, 1947), professor of medicine and genetics, head of the Division of Medical Genetics, and director, Center for Inherited Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Washington — the degree of Doctor of Science. The chancellor concurs in the recommendations of the Medical Center Senate. I recommend approval. On motion of Mr. Forsyth, these degrees were authorized as recommended. Honorary Degrees, Urbana (7) The senate at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended that honorary degrees be conferred on the following persons at the Commencement Exercises on May 16, 1982: ARNOIJ? O. BECKMAN, chemical scientist, founder, and chairman of Beckman Instruments, Inc. — the degree of Doctor of Science. LEE J. CRONBACH, social scientist and professor emeritus at Stanford University — the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. WALTER I SARD, educator and founder of the Regional Science Association — the degree of Doctor of Science. HIDEO SASAKI, landscape architect and founder of Sasaki Associates, Inc. — the degree of Doctor of Fine Arts. T h e chancellor concurs in the recommendations of the Urbana-Champaign Senate. I recommend approval. On motion of Mr. Forsyth, these degrees were authorized as recommended. Sabbatical Leave of Absence, 1981-82, Chicago Circle (8) O n motion of Mr. Forsyth, one sabbatical leave of absence recommended by the chancellor at Chicago Circle was granted. This leave will be included in an annual compilation of 1981-82 sabbatical leaves of absence to be made a part of the board Proceedings. Reorganization of the College of Medicine, Medical Center (9) O n July 23, 1969, a plan for a major reorganization of the College of Medicine was approved by the Board of Trustees. The plan was endorsed by the Illinois Board of Higher Education on November 4, 1969. As a result of the reorganization, the College of Medicine now consists of six schools, each with a dean reporting to an executive dean for the college. T h e medical education program at the college is conducted at four geographic sites: Chicago, Peoria, Rockford, and UrbanaChampaign. Because the current organization was developed for an enrollment level much larger than that now planned, because financial resources for medical education are becoming more limited, and because the past decade of experience with the
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