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BOARD OF T R U S T E E S

that question can now be settled only by the courts; (b) the services of the present University Counsel as State Director for Illinois of the Federal Office of Government Reports; provided, however, that this does not preclude consideration of these or other questions that may be deemed appropriate subjects for inclusion in the survey. The American Council on Education is requested to complete its survey on or before October 20, 1942. Very early in its deliberations the Commission was officially informed that three other studies of the University were already under way. The Commission immediately interested itself in learning the scope and limitations of these studies in order that there should be no overlapping of its undertaking with what had been otherwise provided for. The study which most directly bore on the planning and work of the Commission was one undertaken by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association. The Commission was told that this study, requested by the Board of Trustees of the University and made by the American Medical Association, was to do for the Medical Center in Chicago what the study by the American Council on Education was designed to accomplish in the Urbana divisions of the University. The Commission therefore has left the study of the programs of the Chicago colleges to such specialized agencies as the American Medical Association, and itself has studied the Chicago colleges only in their relation to the institution as a whole. At the beginning of its work, President Willard informed the Commission that at the request of the Board of Trustees the firm of Booz, Fry, Allen, and Hamilton was at work on "a survey of the business operations, business departments, activities and methods of the University."1 Hence, the Commission purposely avoided examining any of the business methods and practices used at the University except in so far as the organization and administration of business relationships in a university are themselves involved in educational evaluation. A third study, requested by Governor Green and George B. McKibbin, director of finance, includes a survey of the administrative relationships and financial branches of the various agencies of the state government. This study, under

"See President Willard's letter of December 24, 1941, to Booz, Fry, Allen, and Hamilton.

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