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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IIOI 1934 that the Bureau was organized on its present basis. The Director of the Bureau is immediately responsible to the President of the University. With the support of its advisory committee, "the Bureau studies the teaching, research, budgetary, and other aspects of University operation in their relation to one another, to educational policies and objectives, and to the social needs of the State. The results of a continuous internal appraisal of the operations of the University are made available to the President in special memoranda."31 In actual practice, however, it appears that the Bureau has exerted a determining influence on educational policies and administration. For example, it has submitted almost three hundred memoranda on problems of integration between the administrative, educational, and budgetary practices of the University. This influence is probably due in the main to the fact that the membership of the Advisory Committee includes such officers as the Provost who is its chairman, the Dean of the Graduate School, the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Comptroller, and the Registrar. A recommendation coming from the Director of the Bureau of Institutional Research, with the sanction of such a committee of administrators, tends strongly to stand as an administrative judgment rather than to be merely advisory in character. Frustration of Attempted Educational Developments The President, certain other higher administrative officers of the University, and some faculty members are conscious, even to the point of being self-conscious, of the need at the University for the development of an adequate undergraduate educational program. In the attempt to make the faculty conscious of this need and to take proper steps to meet it, the administration has used several devices. It has developed a staff of educational consultants in the office of the Provost. It has greatly strengthened the Bureau of Institutional Research with its influential Advisory Committee. After some years of effort it has set up under the administrative control of the Provost, a Personnel Bureau exercising a University-wide function. Despite these attempts on the part of the adminisn See University of Illinois Annual Register, 1941-42, p. 424. [A.C.E. Report —8.i1
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