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SABBATICAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE, 1 9 7 1 - 7 2 , URBANA (6) T h e Chancellor at Urbana-Champaign has recommended that the following faculty member be given a sabbatical leave of absence in accordance with the provisions of the University of Illinois Statutes and on the terms and for the period indicated. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of English YVONNE NOBLE, Associate Professor of English, second semester, 1971-72, one-half pay. This recommendation is supplementary to the applications recommended to the Board of Trustees on March 17, 1971. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . H o w a r d , t h i s l e a v e w a s g r a n t e d a s r e c o m m e n d e d . SPECIAL UNDERGRADUATE INSTRUCTIONAL AWARDS FOR PROJECTS COMPLETED DURING T H E SUMMER OF 1 9 7 1 (7) At its meeting on February 17, 1971, the Board of Trustees approved a total of sixteen projects, involving eighteen individuals, for support during the summer of 1971 under the program of Undergraduate Instructional Awards. These awards provided a salary for two months — in all but two cases for full time — to the recipients for work on projects designed to improve the quality of undergraduate instruction. In the fall of 1970 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. The sum of $6,000 has been 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. The committees were asked to select the most meritorious projects for recommendation to their respective chancellors. In the light of these recommendations, a total of seven proposals were submitted to the Executive Vice President and Provost for consideration (two from the Chicago Circle campus and five 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 six of the seven projects as follows: Chicago Circle Campus ROLAND PRIEMER, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in Information Engineering: "Library of Computer Subroutines Concerned with Modern Network Theory." DANIEL J. SANDIN, Instructor in A r t : "The Design and Construction of a Prototype Video Image Processor." Urbana-Champaign Campus JAMES A. GENTRY, Associate Professor of Finance: "Simulating the Investment and Financial Decision-Making Process." STEPHEN P. COHEN, Associate Professor of Political Science and in Asian Studies: "Development of International Political Simulations and Their Introduction into Political Science Courses." DAVID J. CHERRINGTON, Assistant Professor of Business Administration: "Understanding Cultural Differences in Industry." CHERIS R. KRAMER, Instructor in Verbal Communications in Speech : "The Development of Instructional Materials in American Dialects for Use in the Freshman Course in Verbal Communication." I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . F f a h n , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION SUPPORT FOR THE PLATO IV PROGRAM (8) The Computer-based Education Research Laboratory ( C E R L ) at the Urbana-