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15. FORREST L. LANCASTER, Aircraft Maintenance Engineer and Assistant Professor of Aviation, beginning September 1, 1972 (AY), at an annual salary of $20,700. 16. JOHN F. MCNAMARA, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, beginning September 1,1972 (1), at an annual salary of $12,500. 17. PAUL S. PICKAHD, Assistant Professor in Nuclear Engineering Program, for the academic year 1972-73 (1), at an annual salary of $12,600. Administrative Staff 18. CLARENCE J. KAISER, Director of Dixon Springs Agricultural Center, and Associate Professor of Agronomy, beginning January 1, 1973 (BY,AY), at an annual salary of $21,000. O n motion of M r . H o w a r d , these appointments were confirmed.

SABBATICAL LEAVE O F ABSENCE. 1 8 7 2 - 7 3 . URBANA

(6) The Chancellor at Urbana-Champaign has recommended that the following faculty member be given a sabbatical leave of absence in accordance with the provisions of the University of Illinois Statutes and on the terms and for the period indicated. College of Commerce and Business Administration Department of Economics FRED M. GOTTHEIL, Professor of Economics, second semester, 1972-73, one-half pay. This recommendation is supplementary to the applications recommended to the Board of Trustees on March 15, 1972. I concur. O n motion of M r . Howard, this leave was granted as recommended.

SPECIAL U N D E R G R A D U A T E INSTRUCTIONAL AWARDS FOR PROJECTS COMPLETED DURING T H E SUMMER OF 1 9 7 2

(7) At its meeting on May 17, 1972, the Board of Trustees approved a total of eleven projects, involving seventeen individuals, for support during the summer of 1972 under the program of Undergraduate Instructional Awards, These awards provided full- or part-time salary for two months to the recipients for work on projects designed to improve the quality of undergraduate instruction. In the fall of 1971 the Standard Oil (Indiana) Foundation made available a total of $8,000 for special awards for outstanding teaching by undergraduate faculty, $6,000 for the teaching awards, and $2,000 to be deposited in the President's Contingency Fund. The sum of $6,000 has been held for special awards for projects conducted during the summer of 1972. The chancellors at the Chicago Circle and the Urbana-Champaign campuses each appointed a special committee to review the reports submitted by the grantees following completion of their projects last summer. The committees were asked to select the most meritorious projects for recommendation to their respective chancellors. In the context of these recommendations, the proposal reviews were submitted to the Vice President for Academic Development and Coordination for consideration. After reviewing the reports and the endorsements, the Vice President recommends that special awards of $1,000 be made for six projects as follows: Chicago Circle Campus LARRY ASELS, Physics Department: "To Develop an Effective Laboratory Program for Physics 232." ELLIOTT DUDNIK, Architecture Department: "Library of Computer Programs for Architecture Students without Computer Programming Experience." CYNTHIA JAMESON, Chemistry Department: "To Produce Interactive Computer Programs for the Freshman Chemistry Course." Urbana-Champaign Campus ROBERT GILLESPIE, Department of Economics: "A PLATO Program for Assisting in the Instruction of Microeconomic Theory."