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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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1 of S.B. 717. This amount would then be available for general salary and wage increases. Other reductions made by the Governor will have serious impact upon University operations — especially in view of intractable price increases — but the loss of personal-services funds is far more critical. B. The decision as to whether there will be a tuition increase will be deferred until after the General Assembly has decided whether or not it supports the Governor's position that a tuition increase should be imposed and that a deficiency appropriation making the money available should be approved. C. That the Board of Trustees urge the General Assembly to restore the reductions in the item for retirement contributions — in the interest of the financial stability of the Universities Retirement System, the economic security of its future beneficiaries, and its comparative attractiveness to prospective faculty members. At Mr. H u g h e s ' request, President H e n r y and Executive Vice President and Provost Lyle H . Lanier presented and commented on the report and recommendations. Mr. Hughes recognized representatives of faculty groups who had requested to be heard. Professor H a r r y H . Hilton, Acting Chapter President, American Association of University Professors ( A . A . U . P . ) , Urbana Chapter; Professor Butler Crittenden, President, Chicago Circle Local 1627, American Federation of Teachers. E a c h speaker made a brief oral presentation and submitted a written statement, expressing concern as to the implications of the Governor's action on the 1972 budget for faculty salaries. Mr. Hilton stated that the views expressed in the U r b a n a statement were concurred in by the A . A . U . P . Chapter at the Chicago Circle campus, and Professor Daniel Solomon from the Medical Center campus ( w h o was present) indicated that the A . A . U . P . at the Medical Center also endorsed the statement. Following general discussion on the implications of the budget and the University's particular concern as to the salaries of faculty and staff, on motion of Mr. Neal, the recommendations of the President, as indicated above, were approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Grimes, Mr. H a h n , Mr. H o w a r d , M r . H u g h e s , Mr. Neal, Mr. Pogue; no, n o n e ; absent, Dr. Bakalis, Governor Ogilvie, Mr. Steger, M r . Swain.

A REPORT TO T H E BOARD O F TRUSTEES ON STATE APPROPRIATIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS A N D T H E UNIVERSITY'S BUDGET FOR FY 1 9 7 2

The Governor has signed Senate Bill 717, after reducing the total approved by the General Assembly for the University of Illinois in FY 1972 from $230,054,347 to $213,708,183. In the message explaining his reductions of items in the appropriation bills for higher education, the Governor urged that the increases in tuition rates recommended by the Board of Higher Education be established by the governing boards of the senior institutions, and indicated that he would support deficiency appropriation bills to make the additional income available to them for operations. In the case of the University of Illinois, this would amount to $3.9 million for FY 1972 — which could bring the total the Governor would be willing to approve for the University to $217,608,183. This proposal is discussed further in the last section of this report. A detailed breakdown of the funds appropriated thus far to the University is shown in the last column of Schedule A on the following page — under three major categories: (a) operations (including retirement contributions); (b) rentals to the Illinois Building Authority (IBA); (c) capital improvements (^appropriations and new appropriations). Corresponding figures are presented in the first three columns of Schedule A for FY 1971 appropriations, for the FY 1972 recom-