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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Sciences at the Medical Center, The Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, and other colleges at the Medical Center campus, and one student. The Chancellor approves the recommendation. The Executive Vice President and Provost concurs. I recommend approval.

On motion of Dr. Walker, this appointment was approved.

ESTABLISHMENT O F T H E SCHOOL O F BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN W I T H I N T H E COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, MEDICAL CENTER, AND APPOINTMENT OF A DEAN

(10) The plan for the reorganization of the College of Medicine, approved by the Board of Trustees on July 23, 1969, and endorsed by the Board of Higher Education on November 4, 1969, authorizes the establishment of semi-autonomous schools within the College of Medicine, each with its own dean. As a further step in the implementation of the plan of reorganization, the Executive Dean of the College of Medicine has recommended to the Chancellor at the Medical Center and the Chancellor at Urbana-Champaign that a semi-autonomous school be established at the Urbana-Champaign campus as of August 1, 1970, and that it be named the "School of Basic Medical Sciences at Urbana-Champaign, College of Medicine, University of Illinois." This School will be administered in accordance with the general guidelines outlined in the attached statement (a copy of which is being filed with the Secretary of the Board), subject to such modifications in detail as might subsequently be approved by the President upon the joint recommendation of the Chancellors at these two campuses. The Executive Dean of the College has further recommended to the Chancellors the appointment of Dr. Daniel Kermit Bloomfield (presently Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and in the private practice of medicine) as Professor of Medicine, on indefinite tenure, in The Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, and Dean of the School of Basic Medical Sciences at Urbana-Champaign beginning August 1, 1970, on a twelve months' service basis, at an annual salary of $35,000 for ninety per cent of full time. The nomination is made on the advice of a search committee1 composed of representatives from the faculty at the Urbana-Champaign campus and at the Medical Center campus, the student body, and the practicing physicians of the Urbana-Champaign community. The Chancellors at the Medical Center and Urbana approve these recommendations. The Executive Vice President and Provost concurs. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Swain, the establishment of the school and the appointment were approved.

DIRECTORSHIP OF T H E COORDINATED SCIENCE LABORATORY, URBANA

(11) The Dean of the College of Engineering has recommended to the Chancellor at Urbana-Champaign the appointment of Dr. Clarence Leroy Coates, Jr. (presently Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Electronics Research Center at the University of Texas) as Professor of Electrical Engineering, on indefinite tenure, and Director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory, on an academic year service basis, beginning June 1, 1971, at a salary of $30,000. In view of previous commitments, Dr. Coates will spend the 1970-71 academic year at the University of Texas and will join the University of Illinois staff as of June 1, 1971. During the interim, Dr. Robert T. Chien, Research Professor in the

1 L. Meyer Jones, Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine, Professor of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology. College of Veterinary Medicine, and Head of Veterinary Research and Extension, College of Agriculture, Chairman; L. L. Campbell, Professor of Microbiology and Head of the Department, Urbana; L. P. Hager, Professor of Biochemistry and Head of the Division of Biochemistry, Urbana; J. W. Klein, third year medical student: N. J. Leonard, Professor of Chemistry and in the Center for Advanced Study, Urbana; W. Sleator, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and Head of the Department, Urbana; L. M. Solomon, Associate Professor of Dermatology, The Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, Medical Center; A. V. Wolf, Professor of Physiology and Head of the Department, School of Basic Medical Sciences at the Medical Center; B. Smith Hopkins, Carle Clinic, Urbana.