Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1960 [PAGE 73]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[July 29

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Plans and specifications Site preparation and start of construction Total

CHICAGO PROFESSIONAL C O L L E G E S

T o achieve t h e best results in education for t h e health professions and in patient care, a high degree of utilization of many functions is necessary. In terms of the existing facilities of t h e Chicago Professional Colleges and its educational programs now in progress, a high concentration of buildings has been found to be advantageous. This has been the experience in other like institutions. Such concentration promotes cohesion between basic scientists and the clinicians, between teaching, research and patient care, and among all the disciples involved in the health sciences. T h e building and remodeling program is believed t o be sound in principle and logical in sequence. T h e analysis of needs for these colleges has been based on t h e revised University standards for offices, laboratories and classrooms. The program has also been based on the changing character of the faculties of Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry where the trend has been toward full-time teachers being added to the staffs. Maintenance of such a staff is only possible through the provision of adequate office, research and patient care facilities. Construction of a Medical Sciences Addition to the Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building, First Unit Appropriation — $3,400,000 Such construction will accomplish the following: 1. Provide the space required to meet the existing deficiencies in the Departments of Anatomy, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Pathology, and Physiology of the College of Medicine. It will also provide limited areas for growth and development in these departments in proportion to their educational responsibilities. 2. It will permit: a. Relocation of the teaching laboratories for the Departments of Microbiology and of Pathology. b. Relocation of the Aeromedical and Physical Environment Laboratory, thus vacating an area which will provide for hospital development. 3. Vacate space (approximately 10,000 square feet) in the Dentistry-MedicinePharmacy Building, Second Unit, which will meet the existing deficiences of the College of Dentistry. Completion of First Phase of the Medical Research Laboratories Appropriation — $415,000 T h e funds available for construction of the first unit of this building during the 1957-59 biennium are inadequate t o provide major items of equipment. The above amount is required for this equipment. Purchase of Physical Plant Service Building Appropriation — $300,000 For several years there has been t h e prospect that the needs of the Physical Plant Department of the Chicago Professional Colleges might be met by t h e acquisition of a building in the University's area of the Medical Center District. The Chicago Board of Education owns a building meeting these requirements. T h e University has been informed t h a t the Board of Education plans to vacate the building about June, 1959, and has indicated its willingness to sell this building to t h e University. This provides an early means of resolving the long-standing deficiency of facilities for the basic service department. Funds for remodeling the building are included in Schedule B of this report. T h e other requests for t h e Chicago Professional Colleges have been detailed elsewhere in this report. They are added here to tabulate the total as follows: Remodeling, Rehabilitation, and Minor Additions (Schedule B) $1 909 000 Utilities Distribution 200 000 Plans and Specifications 200 000 Protection of Life and Property 200 000 Funds to Supplement Outside Grants 100 000 Total $6 724 000