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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 18

the Executive Vice President and Provost, with the concurrence of the three chancellors, has recommended that the Bureau of Institutional Research be organized through the establishment of the following administrative units: University Bureau of Institutional Research, Office of Administrative Studies at Chicago Circle, Office of Administrative Studies at the Medical Center, and Office of Administrative Studies at Urbana-Champaign. The present Director of the Bureau of Institutional Research, Dr. G. J. Froehlich, will continue as Director of the University Bureau of Institutional Research. He will report to the Executive Vice President and Provost, and he will be responsible both for administrative supervision over the activities of the University Bureau and for coordination of the activities of the several campus offices as regards the information and analyses needed for general University purposes. In general, the University Bureau of Institutional Research will be concerned with University-wide aspects of: (a) staff utilization and work-load standards; (b) policies and procedures relative to the gathering, encoding, and analysis of institutional data; (c) preparation of periodic and special reports; (d) liaison relationships in this field with appropriate state and federal agencies and with professional organizations — as approved by the Executive Vice President and Provost. Each campus Office of Administrative Studies will be headed by a director who reports to the Chancellor. As directed by the Chancellor, the campus Office of Administrative Studies will collect and analyze data relative to faculty and staff activities, departmental teaching loads, program costs, and such other aspects of campus operations as the Chancellor might specify. In addition, the campus office will provide to the Director of the University Bureau of Institutional Research such data and reports as are required for use by the University Bureau in performing its assigned functions. I have approved these administrative changes and request authorization to make appropriate modifications in The General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure.

On motion of Mr. Pogue, authority was given as requested.

SPECIAL UNDERGRADUATE INSTRUCTIONAL AWARDS FOR PROJECTS COMPLETED DURING T H E SUMMER OF 19 6 8 (7) At its meeting on March 20, 1968, the Board of Trustees approved a total of eighteen projects, involving twenty-three individuals, for support during the summer of 1968 under the program of Undergraduate Instructional Awards. These awards provided a full-time salary for two months to the recipients for work on projects designed to improve the quality of undergraduate instruction. It was announced at the Board meeting on March 20, 1968, that special awards of $1,000 each would be made to those individuals whose completed projects were judged to be the most outstanding in terms of probable contribution to undergraduate education. A total of $6,000 has been made available for this purpose by the Standard Oil (Indiana) Foundation. 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. The Chancellors, in turn, forwarded their recommendations to the Executive Vice President and Provost, who established a special committee to review the projects recommended from the two campuses. As a result of these procedures of review and evaluation, the Executive Vice President and Provost recommends that special awards of $1,000 for each of the following projects be made — the award to be divided equally where more than one faculty member is involved. Chicago Circle Campus A Laboratory Manual in Chemical Engineering—David S. Hacker, Associate Professor of Energy Engineering, and Chaim Gutfinger, Associate Professor of Energy Engineering. Development of an Interdisciplinary Course in French Civilization — George Hup-