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226 B6. O T H E R INCREASES

BOARD O F T R U S T E E S

[November $14 212

10 076

This general category includes a variety of items that mainly relate to increased costs anticipated for existing programs during 1967-69. But categories 6c (Organized Research) and 6d (Extension and Public Service) include items for substantial expansion and improvement of existing programs, and such items might well have been included under category 7 (New Programs and Major Improvements). It was decided, however, to limit category 7 primarily to instructional programs and to list all requests for funds in support of organized research under 6c and all increases for extension and public service under 6d (although most of these items would appear to qualify as "Major Improvements"). 6a. Price Increases $1 925 500 Estimates of funds needed for price increases have been calculated in accordance with the guidelines provided by the staff of the State Board of Higher Education. It has been assumed that prices would increase at 3.5 per cent per year for the following types of items: commodities, contractual services, travel, equipment, and stationery and printing. Included also are hospital and medical services and appliances for the Division of Services for Crippled Children. Estimated expenditures for such items during 1966-67 have been used as the base from which the price increase allotments have been calculated. 6b. Refunds These funds are required in order that the University might make refunds to students for whom fees are remitted under University regulations. Payments of students fees are deposited in the University's income fund in the State Treasury. When a student withdraws or receives a scholarship after paying his fees, the refunds must be charged to the appropriation. With the enrollment increases projected, it is estimated that an additional sum of $170,000 for the biennium will be required for refunds of fees. 6c. Organized Research $1 897 700 (1) Center for Urban Studies, Chicago Circle Campus ($370£00). The establishment of a Center for Urban Studies has been under consideration at the Chicago Circle campus for some time, and it will become the focal point for the coordination of the research activities of interested faculty members in all of the colleges and divisions of the institution. T h e Center will serve to relate the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle to the metropolitan community in which it is located and, more generally, to the pressing problems of urban society. Except for a small core staff, all of the regular faculty members of the Center will be affiliated with academic departments, and usually will be principally engaged in instruction within their special fields. T h e Center will provide the means to securing released faculty time for special studies, in which graduate students will be used extensively as research assistants. It is estimated that the sum of $144,400 would be needed for the first year of the biennium, in addition to funds that would be expected from grants. The appropriation would provide a full-time salary for the director, senior research staff time (3.0 F T E ) , research assistants (3.0 F T E ) , technical and other nonacademic staff (5.0 F T E ) , and funds for wages, expense, and equipment. (2) Center for Health Care Research and Community Studies, Medical Center Campus ($184,000). This Center would provide an interdisciplinary focus for research on health care and its community setting, which is expected to enlist the collaboration of all colleges and schools at the Medical Center campus. The problem has been under study for more than a year, and the present proposal has been prepared by a twenty-two man task force appointed last December by Chancellor (then Vice President) Begando. His action was taken in response to a resolution adopted at an earlier conference of eighty-two faculty members who met for two days to discuss future directions in education and research in the health professions at the University of Illinois. T h e work of this Center will be concerned with such problems as the followi n g : qualitative and quantitative aspects of the care of patients and the organization and delivery of its dental, medical, pharmaceutical, and nursing components; the maintenance of health; early detection of disease; estimates of the