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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Public BENJAMIN C. W I L L I S , Superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, Illinois Mr. Willis has been Superintendent of the Chicago schools system since 1953. Before that he served as Superintendent of the Buffalo, New York, schools and in the Maryland school system. H e has indicated interest in industrial relations both as a subject matter for study in the schools and as an administrative matter of major importance. RUSSELL W. BALLARD, Director, Hull House, Chicago, Illinois Mr. Ballard has been Director of Hull House since 1943. Before that he served as Superintendent of Illinois Training Schools for Boys at St. Charles, Illinois, and as Director of the Lake County, Indiana Welfare Department. While he is not directly involved in industrial relations work, his broad experience in social work provides an excellent resource to be drawn upon for any consideration of the increasing extension of industrial relations into the field of community affairs. CHARLES ALSIF, Director, Region Five, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Chicago, Illinois Mr. Alsip has been on the staff of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service for eighteen years. For the past five years he has served as Director of Region Five which involves Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Upper Michigan, North Dakota, and South Dakota. H e is an experienced government practitioner in the difficult sphere of industrial disputes. He can give valuable advice and counsel to the Institute in both the industrial dispute and public policy areas of our work. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Johnston, these appointments were approved.

REMODELING OF PROPERTY AT 1 2 0 1 WEST STOUGHTON STREET (17) The Director of the Engineering Experiment Station, the Director of the Physical Plant, and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend that the property at 1201 West Stoughton Street be improved to provide temporary space for the Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering. The remodeling costs, representing deferred maintenance costs, will not exceed $8,000 and can be provided from indirect costs received under contracts for research for which the building will be used. I concur and recommend that this assignment from indirect costs be approved.

On motion of Mr. Swain, this appropriation was made by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Harewood, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Wilkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Clement, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Stratton.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON GENERAL POLICY ON SITE SELECTION FOR T H E CHICAGO UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION

Mr. Johnston, for the Committee on General Policy, presented the following report:

Since the receipt of the report by Real Estate Research Corporation in October, 1058, the University of Illinois and its Trustees have done everything within their power to arrive at a firm decision on site selection for the Chicago Undergraduate Division. In every action, the guiding factors have been (1) to proceed primarily on the basis of the needs of commuting students in the Chicago area for the services of the State University, and (2) to meet a time schedule for increased enrollments, as projected by experts in the field and to relieve an unsatisfactory situation at Navy Pier. The Real Estate Research Corporation report submitted to the Board of Trustees at its meeting on October 23, 1958, stated that subject to availability and cost, four sites were acceptable. Only one of the four sites — that at Riverside — could be acquired without the cooperation of other agencies. The University and the Trustees accepted this report. Based on Mayor Richard J. Daley's statement on February 23, 1959, that the