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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Urbana- Champaign 14. ROBERT B. DAVIS, Director of Curriculum Laboratory, Associate Director of Computer-based Education Research Laboratory, and Professor of Elementary Education, beginning September 1, 1972 (DY.QY), at an annual salary of $33,500.

15. WALTER HOLLERER, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, be-

ginning September 1, 1972 (A), at an annual salary of $30,000. 16. JON C. LIEBMAN, Professor of Environmental Engineering in Civil Engineering, beginning September 1, 1972 (A), at an annual salary of $17,000. 17. VIOLET M. MALONE, Assistant Professor and Assistant State 4-H Program Leader, Cooperative Extension Service, beginning July 1, 1972 (1Y), at an annual salary of $17,000. 18. STEPHEN W. PORGES, Assistant Professor of Psychology, beginning September 1, 1972 (1), at an annual salary of $14,000. Visiting Staff 19. WILLIAM L. CLINTON, Visiting Professor of Physics, Urbana, for the period from May 16 through July IS, 1972 (G), at a salary of $3,962. Administrative Staff 20. NAN E. MCGEHEE, Associate Chancellor, Office of the Chancellor, Chicago Circle, beginning July 1, 1972 (DY), at an annual salary of $28,000. O n motion of M r . H o w a r d , these appointments were confirmed.

HONORARY DEGREES, URBANA

(12) The Senate at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended that honorary degrees be conferred on the following persons at the Commencement Exercises on June 10, 1972: MERCE CUNNINGHAM, dancer, choreographer, teacher, and writer, the Degree of Doctor of Letters. MINA S. REES, President of The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, the Degree of Doctor of Science. FREDERICK SEITZ, President of Rockefeller University, the Degree of Doctor of Science. The Chancellor concurs in the recommendations. I recommend approval. O n motion of M r . Swain, these degrees were authorized as recommended.

UNDERGRADUATE INSTRUCTIONAL AWARDS FOR SUMMER O F 1 9 7 2

(13) Since the summer of 1965, a program of Undergraduate Instructional Awards has been conducted at the Chicago and the Urbana-Champaign campuses. Typically, selected faculty members have received full-time salaries for the summer session for work on projects designed to improve undergraduate education in their respective fields. Small grants for expenses have been made when projects required them and when departmental funds were not available. On the basis of an evaluation of reports on the completed projects, Special Awards of $1,000 each have been made to a small number of individuals since 1966, from a grant provided by the Standard Oil (Indiana) Foundation. Nominees for the Special Awards have been proposed by the vice chancellors in charge of academic affairs, and the awardees have been selected for recommendation to the Board of Trustees by the Executive Vice President and Provost with the advice of a special committee. Awards for the Summer of 1972 For the summer of 1972, the Chicago Circle campus decided to continue the campuswide program on a limited scale, while the Urbana-Champaign campus decided to forego a campuswide program for budgetary reasons. Instead, it was