Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1972 [PAGE 202]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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[January 20

1 000 000 International Harvester Credit 6% per cent note due 2/3/71 1 000 000 Atlantic Richfield note due 3/2/71 1 000 000 Beneficial Finance note due 3/15/71 500 000 Banks for Co-operatives 7.10 per cent notes due 4/1/71 Construction Funds Assembly Hall Sales: $ 190 000 U.S. Treasury bills due 2/28/71 50 000 U.S. Treasury bills due 5/31/71 Krannert Contributions Purchase: $ 240 000 Boise Cascade Home and Land 7 per cent note due 6/30/76

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This report was received for record.

REPORT ON SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS (33) Presented herewith is a progress report on the results of the establishment of special programs for disadvantaged students at the University's three campuses — beginning in the fall of 1968. (A copy of the progress report is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record.) The report represents a consolidation of information taken from more detailed individual reports submitted by each of the three chancellors for his own campus. Particular attention is given to the special programs that provide assistance (educational and financial) to disadvantaged students. But, in addition, data are presented on enrollment trends for black students (whether or not in special programs for the disadvantaged) during the period 1965-70. T h e following quotation from the summary of the report attests to the overall effectiveness of the special programs in encouraging the enrollment and retention of black students: "In the short time since the special programs began (fall of 1968), two significant changes have occurred for the University as a whole: (a) the enrollment of black students, which had remained constant in number and had declined in percentage of the total enrollment from 1965 to 1967, has nearly tripled in number (from 860 to 2,454) and more than doubled in percentage of total enrollment (from 1.92 per cent to 4.41 per cent); (b) the retention of the students in the special programs has approached that of the entire entering classes, far exceeding the retention of students from similar backgrounds prior to the initiation of the programs."

On motion of Mr. Jones, this report was received for record, as a benchmark of the University's progress to date in this area as well as a starting point for future developments.

REPORT O F T H E GENERAL POLICY COMMITTEE Governance Proposals Under Consideration B y Committee N of the Board of Higher Education (34) Mr. Swain for the General Policy Committee presented the following statement: The University of Illinois Board of Trustees has been highly gratified to learn of the strong and united opposition of the Senates of all three campuses to the various proposals for basic changes in the University's governance structure that have been considered by Committee N of the Board of Higher Education. All of these proposals have had the common purpose of dissolution of the fundamental unity of the University of Illinois. None of them have been supported by evidence of serious inadequacy in the University's present organizational structure or by a convincing rationale for the changes proposed. Perhaps the most specific charge has been that the University operates under a governance "status