Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968 [PAGE 1129]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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1969-71 buildings ($1,000,000). Funds are requested only to the extent of meeting movable-equipment costs required for matching anticipated federal grants, and meeting the needs of projects scheduled for completion at or near the end of the 1969-71 biennium. T h e balance of the movable-equipment funds would not be needed until the 1971-73 biennium. A summary of anticipated distribution of the funds requested for the 1969-71 projects is as follows: Total Cost of Movable Project Equipment East Chemistry Addition.. $1 205 000 Engineering Library 353 000 Veterinary Medicine Hospital 704 900 Law Building Addition 265 000 Turner Hall Addition 985 000 Nuclear Reactor Addition 363 000 Speech and Hearing Clinic 230 000 Research Animal Holding Facility 144 000 Medical Sciences Building 974 000 Fire and Police Station 45 000 Contingency for above projects and Minor Additions 100 000 Total $5 368 900 Deferred to 1971-73 Biennium $ 970 000 253 000 308 190 285 93 140 900 000 000 000 000 Other Funding1 $ 235 000 100 000 110 75 320 145 90 000 000 000 000 000 Requested in 1969-71 Biennium -0-0$ 286 000 -0380 000 125 000 -064 000 -045 000 100 000 $ 1 0 0 0 000

20 000 630 000 -0-0$2 889 900

60 000 344 000 -0-0$1 479 000

Conversion to color television ($240,200). In order for the Urbana-Champaign campus to keep pace with developments in public and educational broadcasting, additional equipment capable of producing programs in color is urgently needed. T h e lack of capability for producing live or taped programs in color seriously limits the effectiveness of the University's use of this medium, which serves the following educational purposes: (a) on-campus instruction (closed circuit); (b) off-campus adult education; (c) education of students for professional careers in television. The funds requested will be used to purchase new color equipment, as well as to convert existing black-and-white equipment for color productions. Planning 1971-73 $1 397 600 Funds are requested for planning to provide consultation, architectural, and engineering services for buildings essential to the future development of the Urbana-Champaign campus. Included in this request are planning funds f o r : 1. Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Building ($299,600). 2. Digital Computer Laboratory Addition ($339,000). 3. Geology Building, Phase I ($432,000). 4. Education Building ($327,000). For over twenty years, the Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering (formerly Aeronautical Engineering) has been assigned to space that has been vacated by other departments, as those departments have moved to newer and more modern facilities. With only minor remodeling of this "castoff" space, which can only be described as hopelessly obsolete and inadequate, the Department has been forced to conduct a modern teaching and research program in one of the most rapidly growing areas of technology. The Department's undergraduate enrollment is the largest of any accredited aerospace program in the nation, but the inadequate physical facilities make it difficult to provide these students with the type of modern engineering education they deserve, and which would maintain the Department's position of leadership. A new facility would bring together the scattered activities of the Department into space planned for the type of highly technical programs offered, as well as provide facilities for programs that cannot be undertaken now. It is estimated that the sum of $299,600 would meet the architectural cost required in preparing federal grant applications and bid documents.

* To be requested from federal sources.