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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1972
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1970] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 123 This recommendation is supplementary to the applications recommended to the Board of Trustees on March 18, 1970. I concur. On motion of Mr. Grimes, this leave was granted as recommended. SPECIAL UNDERGRADUATE INSTRUCTIONAL AWARDS FOR PROJECTS COMPLETED DURING T H E SUMMER O F 1 9 7 0 (7) At its meeting on March 18, 1970, the Board of Trustees approved a total of 23 projects, involving 28 individuals, for support during the summer of 1970 under the program of Undergraduate Instructional Awards. These awards provided a full-time salary for two months to the recipients for work on projects designed to improve the quality of undergraduate instruction. Last fall 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. Of the $6,000 given for the awards, $2,000 was used for outstanding projects during the summer of 1969 and $4,000 w a s reserved for projects during 1970. (A similar grant has recently been made to the University, and the sum of $6,000 will be held for special awards for projects conducted during the summer of 1971.) 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 the completion of their projects last summer. T h e committees were asked to select the most meritorious projects for recommendation to their respective chancellors. In the light of these recommendations, a total of four proposals were submitted to the Executive Vice President and Provost for consideration (one from the Chicago Circle campus and three from the Urbana-Champaign campus). After reviewing the reports and the endorsements, the Executive Vice President and Provost recommends that special awards of $1,000 be made for each of the following projects: Chicago Circle Campus DICK W . SIMPSON, Assistant Professor of Political Science: the development of the course Political Science 120 — T h e Study of Politics: Who Rules? Urbana-Champaign Campus KURT A. KLEIN, Associate Professor of Russian in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures: syllabus for a new course in Russian Civilization (Russian 114). STANLEY G. SMITH, Associate Professor of Chemistry: preparation of computerbased teaching programs for undergraduate organic chemistry courses. JOHN C. STUBBS, Associate Professor of English, and J O H N P . FRAYNE, Assistant Professor of English (award to be divided equally) : development of the course "Film as Literature." I concur. On motion of Mr. Hahn, these awards were approved. HOSP1TAL-MED1CAL-SURGICAL INSURANCE FOR FACULTY A N D STAFF (8) T h e current faculty-staff health insurance contracts were approyed by the Board of Trustees on June 17, 1968, and are underwritten by the Continental Assurance Company, Chicago. T h e contracts became effective October 1, 1968, and since that date there have been no changes in benefits or premiums. T h e contract has an anniversary date of January 1, 1971, and the increased cost of medical care has resulted in the premiums being inadequate for claims incurred. T h e insurance company's premium requirement to provide the same benefits for the calendar year 1971, with an inflationary allowance for the year predicated upon the experience of the past year, would result in a substantial increase in the premiums. It is recommended that current contracts be continued for the six month period effective January 1, 1971, to July 1, 1971, with the following adjustments in premiums and benefits.
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