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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944
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U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S I027 the direction of Professor S. E. Leland of the University of Chicago, includes a survey of the field of education and educational administration made by Professor George A. Works, also of the University of Chicago. Assured by Mr. Leland that this study would embrace an evaluation of the administrative and the budgetary relationships of the state institutions of higher education, including the University of Illinois, the Commission has not dealt with this phase of the institution in its report. Having been informed of the work of these other agencies, the Commission limited its activity to the collection of information bearing on these two questions: (1) Since 1934 has a group of hand-picked political puppets virtually built a political empire at the University of Illinois? ( 2 ) Has the University of Illinois been on the downgrade since 1934? The Commission has understood its duty to be to examine critically and impartially the data it has collected and to give considered answers to these two questions. Immediately following the first meeting of the Commission on September 1, 1942, the following letter was sent to the Honorable George F. Barrett, Attorney General of the State of Illinois: Under date of July 25, 1942, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois authorized a survey of that institution by the American Council on Education, the general scope of the survey to be the charges made by you against the University. In this action the Board made clear to the American Council on Education that the survey was not to include the matter under dispute concerning the University's legal counsel, but rather to investigate your charges that the University has been on the downgrade since 1934. The American Council on Education appointed a Commission of five educators to make the study. This Commission has just had its first meeting, and I have the honor to extend to you an urgent invitation to appear before the Commission so that it may have directly from you such statements as you wish to make which bear upon the investigation it has been asked to make. The Commission will be glad to meet you at such time and place as you will indicate, provided only that the date be not earlier than September 6. Under date of September 26, 1942, the following reply was received from Attorney General Barrett: I am in receipt of your letter dated September 2, 1942, advising me that you are Chairman of a Commission named by the University [A.C.E. Report — 9 ]
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