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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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T h e Trustees did approve a budget request, however, that reflected the higher tuition rates; and the corresponding income estimate was incorporated into Section 2 of Senate Bill 717. In this fashion, the University indicated its willingness to acquiesce in the recommendation of the Board* of Higher Education for higher tuition rates, but it wished to have the General Assembly first make the policy decision necessary in order for the income to be used. Had the General Assembly passed S.B. 717 with a total in Section 2 reflecting, the income anticipated from the higher tuition rates, the Board of Trustees undoubtedly would have acted to establish such rates. Instead, the Senate took explicit action to disapprove the higher tuition rates for F Y 1972 — following the advice given in a report of a bipartisan Senate Education Subcommittee consisting of Senator? Gilbert and Laughlin (Republicans) and Senators Hynes and Newhouse (Democrats). T h e amounts corresponding to the increments of tuition increase in S.B. 717, and in other similar bills, were in effect deleted and replaced by general-revenue funds. The House approved all of these bills as thus modified, without any effort to change the funding policy. It is in the light of this background that the Board of Trustees is urged to continue to defer action on a tuition increase. It would clearly be undesirable for the University to collect tuition at the rates recommended by the Board of Higher Education during the coming year, but not be able to use the income for the educational benefit of students. Yet there can be no assurance that this would not happen, considering the strong and bipartisan opposition of the General Assembly to higher tuition as expressed last month. Should this position change, in response to the Governor's message and actions on the universities' appropriation bills, it is recommended that the Board of Trustees act to establish the higher tuition rates at a later meeting — the increase to become effective at the beginning of the term following the formal action by the General Assembly and the Governor appropriating the anticipated income. BUDGET REQUEST FOR CAPITAL FUNDS, FISCAL YEAR 1 9 7 3 (2) The recommendations of the University Building Program Committee 1 for capital improvements in F Y 1973 at all three campuses are submitted in the attached document. Detailed supporting information will be compiled during the remainder of this month and submitted to the Office of the Board of Higher Education by August 1, 1971, in accordance with the schedule established by that Office. The University's request for capital funds for F Y 1973 consists mostly of projects approved by the Board of Higher Education for F Y 1972 but not funded by the General Assembly. New projects have been added, in the light of needs that have emerged during the past year. Furthermore, the request for F Y 1973 omits a substantial number of projects that were included in the F Y 1972 capital request — in the light of the relatively low level of funding approved by the General Assembly and the Governor for F Y 1972. These omitted projects are viewed as being deterred until F Y 1974. I recommend approval of the budget request for capital funds for F Y 1973 (See Tables I, II, and I I I printed below) and request authorization to transmit the request to appropriate offices of State government and to the Board of Higher Education — in the format and with the supporting information prescribed by the Office of the Board of Higher Education.

On motion of Mr. Grimes, this recommendation was approved and authority was given as requested by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Grimes, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Neal, Mr. Pogue; no, none; absent, Dr. Bakalis, Governor Ogilvie, Mr. Steger, Mr. Swain.

1 University Building Program Committee: Lyle H. Lanier, Executive Vice President and Provost, Chairman; Harlan D. Bareither, Director of University Office of Space Programming (staff consultant); Joseph S. Begando, Chancellor at the Medical Center; Donald J. Caseley, Vice Chancellor at the Medical Center; H. O. Farber, Vice President and Comptroller; C. S. Havens, University Director of Physical Plant Planning and Construction (staff consultant); Norman A. Parker, Chancellor at Chicago Circle; Jack W. Peltason, Chancellor at Urbana-Champaign; William F. Sager, Professor of Chemistry and Head of the Department, Chicago Circle; Lucien W. White, Professor and Associate Dean of Library Administration.