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BOARD OF TRUSTEES MINUTES APPROVED

[September 20

T h e Secretary presented the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Trustees on December 8, 1966, press proof copies of which have previously been sent to the Board. On motion of Mr. Swain, these minutes were approved as printed on pages 267 to 294, inclusive. REPORTS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE T h e Executive Committee presented the following reports of two meetings held since the regular meeting of the Board in July. REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE August 15, 1967 On call of the Chairman, a meeting of the Executive Committee of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held in Room 800, 135 East Eleventh Place, Chicago, Illinois, on Tuesday, August 15, 1967, beginning at 11:30 a.m. T h e meeting was called for consideration of reports and recommendations from the President of the University on matters of business, including acquisition of property, requiring approval by the Board of Trustees on which action should not be deferred until the regular meeting of the Board in September. T h e Board at its meeting on July 26, 1967, authorized the Executive Committee to take action at any time prior to the next regular meeting of the Board on transfers of jurisdiction to and leases from the Illinois Building Authority and any other matter relating to the lease, sale, purchase, or acquisition, by or for the University, of real estate, including the authority to exercise the right of eminent domain and to institute condemnation proceedings. T h e Chairman asked the Secretary to call the roll, and the following, constituting all members of the Committee, were present: M r . W a y n e A. Johnston, Chairman, Mr. H o w a r d W . Clement, and M r . Timothy W . Swain. Also present w e r e : Mr. Donald R. Grimes and M r . Earl M. Hughes, members of the Board of Trustees; President David D. H e n r y ; Dr. J. S. Begando, Chancellor of the University of Illinois at the Medical Center; Mr. Charles E. Flynn, Assistant to the President and Director of Public Information; and the officers of the Board, M r . H . O. Farber, Comptroller, and Dr. E a r l W . Porter, Secretary and Clerk of the Committee. T h e Committee considered the following reports and recommendations from the President of the University.

DEANSHIP OF T H E COLLEGE OF COMMERCE A N D BUSINESS A D M I N I S T R A T I O N , URBANA

(1) I recommend the appointment of Dr. Joseph W. McGuire, presently Dean of the School of Business of the University of Kansas, as Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration at Urbana, beginning July 1, 1968, at an annual salary of $30,000 on a twelve-month service basis.1 I also recommend that Dr. McGuire be appointed Professor of Industrial Administration on indefinite tenure. The recommendation is based upon a report from a Consultative Committee

1 This appointment will be from July 1, 1968, through August 31, 1969, which is consistent with the statutory provision of biennial tenure of deans, such appointments coinciding with the fiscal biennium.