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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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I. Leaves of Absence for One-Half Year with Full Pay H. J. Van Cleave, Professor of Zoology, second semester A. B. Coble, Professor of Mathematics, first semester C. R. Griffith, Professor of Education and Director of the Bureau of Institutional Research, first semester W. E. Britton, Professor of Law, second semester P. G. Kruger, Associate Professor of Physics, first semester (with the privilege of changing to leave for the full year on one-half pay) C. A. Berdahl, Professor of Political Science, second semester J. O. Kraehenbuehl, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, second semester G. F. Smith, Associate Professor of Chemistry, second semester J. J. Doland, Professor of Civil Engineering, second semester C. L. Metcalf, Professor of Entomology, second semester C. M. Woodworth, Professor of Agronomy, first semester B. E. Perry, Associate Professor of the Classics, first semester II. Leaves of Absence for One-half Year on One-half Pay Ethel Bond, Associate Professor of Library Science, second semester B. S. Hopkins, Professor of Chemistry, second semester P. D. Converse, Professor of Business Organization and Operation, second semester W. L. Schwalbe, Assistant Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, second semester A. Hamilton, Associate Professor of Romance Languages, second semester A. A. Zimmermann, Associate Professor of Anatomy, first semester III. Leaves of Absence for Full Year on One-half Pay A. W. Secord, Associate Professor of English P. T. Young, Professor of Psychology IV. Leaves of Absence for Members of Extension Staff (Salaries are paid in whole or in part from Federal funds) Mary A. McKee, Extension Specialist in Home Economics, full year on one-half pay Julia Outhouse, Associate Professor of Home Economics, June, July, and August, 1939 and June, July, and August, 1940, full pay Dorothy J. Iwig, Associate in Home Furnishings, August 1, 1939, to February 29, 1940, six months with full pay and one month without pay (approved by the Board September 24, 1938, Minutes, page 56). Twenty-four applications for sabbatical leaves during 1939-1940 were received from members of the faculty. Subsequently one application was withdrawn, and one, as indicated above, has already been approved by the Board. All of the applications were submitted to the Graduate School Research Board for its consideration and analysis of the program of study, research, and travel contemplated in each case and the Research Board's recommendation to the President in accordance with the established administrative procedure for the review of applications for such leaves. The Research Board has submitted a report with an analysis of each case to determine its relative merits and value to the University of the contemplated program, and its recommendations. Of the twenty-two cases under consideration, eighteen were requests for leaves of absence for one-half year on full pay. The Research Board can not definitely recommend approval of six of these in their present form, but is willing to recommend leaves of absence for one semester on one-half pay or a full year on one-half pay. These six are in group II. The Research Board does not object to leaves of absence for one-half year on full pay for the first four cases (or for first two if the choice is to be still further restricted) but in all cases is willing to recommend half-pay leaves. I do not concur in the recommended option of a leave on one-half pay for the full year in these cases. The total amount of the salaries involved in the original applications (i.e., the