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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 17

presented to the Illinois Board of Higher Education includes an item for support of the proposed Center for Educational Development. A revision and an extension of an existing program are proposed and, as such, would not need to be approved by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. T h e Executive Vice President and Provost concurs in this recommendation. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Grimes, this recommendation was approved.

PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH AN OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES, MEDICAL CENTER (8) The Chancellor at the Medical Center campus recommends the establishment of an Office of Educational Resources. T h e responsibility for further expansion of television and other audio-visual technology in support of the rapidly expanding educational programs of the Medical Center campus will be assigned to the proposed Office of Educational Resources. An immediate mission of the Office of Educational Resources will be to develop and operate a telecommunication network that will link the Medical Center campus to its extramural clinical centers and affiliated hospitals. The network and its associated facilities will be used to conduct programs of continuing education, house-staff training, and teacher education. In addition, the Office of Educational Resources will maintain and improve the existing programs of instructional television for all colleges and departments at the Medical Center campus. The Office of Educational Resources will be organized and administered as a unit of the Office of the Chancellor. The establishment of the Office of Educational Resources will occur primarily from a reorganization of functions now conducted at the Medical Center campus under the Illustration Studios. For purposes of coordination, Dr. George E. Miller will serve as Director of the Office of Educational Resources as well as Director of the Center for Educational Development. The University's budget request for operation for fiscal year 1970-71 as presented to the Illinois Board of Higher Education includes funds to support the proposed Office of Educational Resources. A revision and an extension of an existing program are proposed and, as such, would not need to be approved by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. T h e Executive Vice President and Provost concurs in this recommendation. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . S t e g e r , 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 . COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY AFFILIATION WITH ILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER, MEDICAL CENTER (9) T h e Dean of the College of Dentistry recommends, with the concurrence of the Chancellor at the Medical Center campus, approval of an affiliation agreement with the Illinois Masonic Medical Center to become effective January 1, 1970. Under the affiliation agreement, certain resources of the Illinois Masonic Medical Center will become available to support the educational programs of the College of Dentistry. Illinois Masonic Medical Center has embarked upon a building expansion program which will increase bed capacity from 500 to 850. T h e Illinois Masonic Medical Center has begun a family health care demonstration project oriented toward total patient care, but lacking a desired comprehensive dental service. An affiliation with Illinois Masonic Medical Center would provide an ideal community environmental experience. T h e program envisioned in the affiliation would provide clincial clerkships in hospital dentistry for the third- and fourth-year dental students, and additional facilities for rotation of the post-D.D.S. students who are training in the various dental specialties. T h e undergraduate clerkships would encompass on-site clinical exposure in general medicine and surgery rounds in addition to specific assignment in the Hospital Dental Department. T h e affiliation will not commit the University or the Illinois Masonic Medical Center to financial obligations, and each party will remain in control of its respective instructional programs.