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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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completed. You will recall that when the plan for the reorganization of the College of Medicine was adopted in February, we noted that this remained to be done. T h e earlier 1970 "Guidelines and Procedures for the Administration of the Medical Education Program at Urbana" were adopted in connection with action by the Board on July 22, 1970, approving the creation of the School of Basic Medical Sciences at Urbana-Champaign. As part of its action, the Board of Trustees) stated that the operational guidelines would be subject to such modifications in. detail as might subsequently be approved by the President. Following the Board of Trustees' action in February, I asked Chancellor Begando and Chancellor Cribbet to work with Vice President Yankwich and with key members of the faculty and staff to review the "1970 Guidelines and Procedures," and to recommend to me by May 30 such changes as seemed appropriate. T h a t review was completed and a revised set of operational procedures was sur>mitted for my consideration on May 27. These new procedures, in my judgment, clarify and streamline operational relationships. They provide appropriate delegation of administrative authority to the Urbana campus, while at the same time maintaining the overall academic and administrative controls essential in a single College of Medicine. I have approved these revisions and enclose copies for your information. For the record, I have also asked Mr. Porter to incorporate the revised guidelines, along with the letter of transmittal, in the permanent minutes of the Board of Trustees. I wish also to express my appreciation to the Chancellors and to Vice President Yankwich for the many hours and the personal attention they have devoted to this assignment. May 27, 1982 Dear President Ikenberry: In your letter of January 12, 1982, you asked that we present to you no later than May 30, 1982, our recommendations for revision of the document dated July 22, 1970, and titled "Plan for Organization and Administration of a Program of Medical Education at the Urbana-Champaign Campus." Attached to this letter is such a revision which we have titled "Operational Procedures for the Implementation of a Program of Medical Education at the Urbana-Champaign Campus Under the Revised College of Medicine Reorganization Plan of December 9, 1981." T h e program in medical education at the Urbana-Champaign campus rests on a foundation of past history and experience. It also should be sensitive to Current realities and to plans and ambitions for the future. Within the constraints imposed by accreditation requirements and by funding realities, it will be our mutual goal to make the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign the highest quality and most effective operating program possible. Within those same constraints, and recognizing the special academic and other support systems available to this medical education program by reason of its location on the UrbanaChampaign campus, it will be the long-range goal of the medical program to develop its capability for academic independence so that the structure for governance of medical education within the University can be simplified and lines of communication shortened by the establishment at Urbana-Champaign of a separately governed College of Medicine. When the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois acted to establish the School of Basic Medical Sciences at Urbana-Champaign, the Board declared that the School would be administered in accordance with certain general guidelines (the "Plan for Organization and Administration . . ." dated July 20, 1970), "subject to such modifications in detail as might subsequently be approved by the President upon the joint recommendation of the Chancellors at these two campuses." I t is in accordance with this declaration of the Board that we now jointly recommend to you the attached revision.