Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968 [PAGE 592]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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and no more than IS to 30 of these are expected to move into apartments. By rushing additional new members, this loss could be offset. 3. T h e effect on other private housing will also be negligible: only 167 students would be involved, of whom only 40 to 80 are actually expected to move. 4. The effect on the supply of married student housing should not be great: only 100 to 200 students are expected to move into apartments, and these will occupy no more than 50 to 100 apartments inasmuch as two or more students usually live together. The completion by the University of 252 new low-cost married student apartments in September, 1968, should alleviate any shortage in the supply of lower cost apartments that might result from these 50 to 100 apartments being absorbed by single students. Later reduction to age twenty-one has considerable potential for affecting each of the four areas mentioned above because of the numbers of students involved. There are approximately 1,800 single undergraduate students twenty-one years of age now living in approved housing compared to only 443 students twenty-two years of age. The present over-supply of housing, which will not be materially extended as a result of reducing the age requirement of twenty-two, could be greatly aggravated if caution is not exercised in reducing the age requirement further. Furthermore, it will be necessary to gain experience from the twenty-two year old students before reasonable projections can be made as to the effects of permitting the much larger twenty-one year old student population to live wherever they choose. A delay in reducing the age requirement to twenty-one will give fraternities and sororities time to assess their experiences with the initial age reduction and to plan to adapt themselves to the new policy. Similarly, private housing operators, with the assistance of the Housing Division, will have an opportunity to adjust on the basis of experience. The 252 new married student housing units will have been completed by September, 1968, and the availability of these units will serve to minimize the effects of the further age adjustment on the supply of married student housing. It is unlikely that the necessary plans for adjusting to a more liberalized policy will be seriously undertaken by these housing groups unless the principle (but not the implementing time schedule) of reducing the age requirement to twenty-one is accepted and publicized now. Furthermore, the adoption of such a principle now would permit the University to develop its own housing program on assumptions more firmly based. SECRETARY'S REPORTS T h e S e c r e t a r y p r e s e n t e d f o r r e c o r d t h e f o l l o w i n g l i s t s : a p p o i n t m e n t s to the faculty m a d e by the P r e s i d e n t ; resignations, declinations, a n d termin a t i o n s ; l e a v e s of a b s e n c e . APPOINTMENTS MADE BY THE PRESIDENT (The date in parentheses is the date on which the appointment was approved by the President of the University. C = College; S = Station; E = Extension.) Chicago Circle GEORGE L. BROWN, Instructor in Electrical Engineering, Department of Information Engineering, academic year 1967-68, $8,250 (4-3-67). JOSEPH P. COLACO, Lecturer in Architecture, spring quarter 1966-67, $3,000 (43-67). RALPH W . CONRAD, Instructor in Accounting, J/3 time, spring quarter 1966-67, $1,000 (4-13-67). GERALD A. DANZER, Instructor in Education, y2 time, and Instructor in History, V2 time, spring quarter 1966-67, $2,400, supersedes, and for the academic year 1967-68, $10,000 (4-3-67). MARTIN D. DUBIN, Lecturer in Architecture, Vz time, spring quarter 1966-67, $1,666.98 (4-3-67). DEAN W . FAULWELL, Instructor in German, academic year 1967-68, $8,500 (3-22-67). BARRY GROSS, Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy, %o time, spring quarter 1966-67, $800 (4-12-67). M R S . GLORIA HILKER, Assistant Professor of Health Science and Medical Adviser to Women, February 11-March 31, 1967, $15,000 a year, supersedes (3-22-67).