Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968 [PAGE 1126]

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BOARD O F TRUSTEES

[June 19

T h e Director of the Speech and Hearing Clinic estimates that approximately $800,000 in non-State funds can be obtained from a combination of the following sources: (a) National Institutes of H e a l t h ; (b) Hill-Burton A c t ; (c) Vocational Rehabilitation Administration; and (d) National Science Foundation. Applications for such funds will be prepared and submitted to these agencies as soon as the schematic drawings are completed. This project is programmed to provide the following types and amounts of s ace: P \ NASFby Building Block Department Office Research Classroom Total Speech 6 357 9 738 16 095 General University 1 465 1 46$ Total ¥~35T 9 738 1 465 l7~560 This building is designed to meet the needs of the following students in the Speech and Hearing Science Division of the Department of Speech: FTE Enrollment Capacity Graduate Headcount Capacity Grad. Grad. Grad. Grad. F-S J-S I II Total I II Total 21 65 17 10 113 25 18 43 Turner Hall Addition Estimated total cost $7 028 000 State funds ($5 928 000) Non-State funds ($1 100 000) Gross square feet 94 237 Net assignable square feet 56 542 Building efficiency 60% T u r n e r Hall (Plant Sciences Building) is occupied primarily by the Department of Agronomy. Completion of the addition will permit the Departments of Agronomy and Plant Pathology and the U. S. Department of Agriculture to conduct virtually all of their activities within the same building. T h e research and educational programs of the Departments of Agronomy and Plant Pathology are primary sources of the new knowledge and trained manpower needed by Illinois agriculture, which currently contributes more than two billion dollars annually to the economy of the State. T o help meet this need and to assist in increasing food production and in stimulating economic growth in the developing countries, the University must expand graduate study and research in all aspects of the plant sciences. Increased efficiency in the use of laboratories, classrooms, and expensive research equipment will result when the Departments of Agronomy, Forestry, Horticulture, and Plant Pathology are brought together in a single plant sciences building. The present Turner Hall structure was completed in 1964. Planning funds for the Turner Hall Addition were included in the University's capital appropriation for 1967-69. It is believed that the proposed addition will qualify for approximately $1,100,000 in federal funds from the National Institutes of Health. This facility would provide the following types and amounts of space: NASF by Building Block Instructional LabDepartment oratories Office Research Storage Total Agronomy 583 4 507 19 675 3 830 28 595 Plant Pathology 1 106 4 817 15 030 1 047 22 000 U.S. Department of Agriculture 2 621 3 251 75 5 947 Total 1689 11945 37 956 4 952 56 542 A total of 28,063 net assignable square feet is to be vacated by the plantscience departments in Davenport Hall, to be assigned to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This would provide badly needed space in the center of the campus for social-science departments.