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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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development program), human resources and manpower, soybean development and uses, and transportation. Program Expansion and Improvement Chicago Circle Campus. A major increase in the research and development activities of the Center for Urban Studies is proposed. Other requests include funds for the strengthening of undergraduate education (honors study, undergraduate advisement), graduate fellowships, equipment for chemistry laboratories, supervision of teacher education, and expansion of the program in criminal justice. Medical Center Campus. Funds are requested for the administrative reorganization of the College of Nursing (establishing departmental organization for the first time) and for special costs related to the occupancy and effective use of the new College of Nursing Building. In addition, budget increases are sought for instructional television, academic advisers in the College of Medicine, and the Medical Research Laboratory. Urbana-Champaign Campus. Budget additions are needed to offset deficiencies in federal appropriations for the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cooperative Extension Service, to supplement the budget of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, to provide badly needed staff additions for the College of Veterinary Medicine, and to expand the work of the Office of Laboratory Animal Care (in compliance with new federal laws and regulations). General University Programs. The three proposals under this heading are submitted for the Division of University Extension: (a) expansion of the regular extramural course offerings and enrollment (both credit and noncredit courses); (b) specialized and advanced training for law-enforcement officers, through expansion of the program of the Police Training Institute; (c) training courses for upgrading the skills of nonacademic employees — offered at all three campuses. Other Increases The requests classified under "Other Increases" include mainly support for important campus-wide or all-University programs and services. Chicago Circle Campus. A proposal for educational assistance to "disadvantaged" students heads the list of Chicago Circle requests. In addition, special support is requested for the Library, the Computer Center, and the establishment of a Personnel Services Office. Medical Center Campus. Budget additions for the Research and Educational Hospitals and for the Division of Services for Crippled Children — to meet cost increases — are the principal requests from the Medical Center under this heading. Other proposals include: (a) expansion of computer services for research and instruction; (b) the establishment of an Office of Institutional Studies. Urbana-Champaign Campus. Special funds are sought for educational assistance to disadvantaged students, Library acquisitions, computer services (for instruction and research), and departmental expense budgets. General University Programs. The principal request is for funds to improve and expand administrative data-processing services at all three campuses — especially for the Chicago Circle and the Medical Center campuses. (These activities are administered on a University-wide basis.) Support is also sought for: (a) improved programming for the University's public broadcasts (including the change from black-white to color television programs); (b) improved planning and coordination of extension and public-service activities at the three campuses. General Comment Viewed as a whole, the University's planning for 1969-71 reflects strong emphasis upon new and improved programs concerned with major social problems and needs. This is seen particularly in the preponderance of interdisciplinary research proposals, which by their very nature are "problem-oriented" in contrast to more traditional "departmental" investigations. It is important to note also that several of the interdisciplinary programs involve intercampus cooperation — a point to be developed in the detailed discussion of them later. A second major aspect of the planning for 1969-71 is the concern with critical problems of urban society — as the focus for most of the interdisciplinary effort Studies of urban education in general, educational problems of disadvantaged college students, improved economic utilization of human resources, urban transporta-