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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 20

RECOMMENDATIONS FROM MR. TIMOTHY W. SWAIN

Mr. Swain then presented the following recommendations:

Recommendations Concerning N e w Campuses As a representative of this Board on the Illinois Board of Higher Education, I should like to suggest that the Board of Trustees take official cognizance of the recent action of the Board of Higher Education concerning the development of new campuses in Springfield and Chicago. As has been reported in the press, the Board of Higher Education on September 13 established a committee to consider the questions of general location, campus mission and governance of a new campus in Springfield and a new campus in Chicago. This action was taken in response to legislation passed by the General Assembly in the last session and approved by the Governor on July 14. T h e Committee was instructed by the Board of Higher Education to report and make recommendations within the next sixty days. As is well known, on several occasions representatives of this Board have made known the interest of the University of Illinois in planning and ultimately operating a new campus in Springfield and one or more new campuses in Chicago. The University's concern for the need to plan and develop new campuses in Illinois was first expressed in a comprehensive way in 1964, when the desirability of statewide attention to this question was identified by the President of the University and the Board of Trustees. Therefore, I recommend and move that the Board of Trustees direct the administrative officers of the University to prepare a report indicating the University's interest in the establishment of a new campus in Springfield and present it to the Board of Higher Education for the use of the committee just established. In addition, I recommend that the administrative officers be directed to submit to the Board of Trustees at its meeting on October 16 a report on University studies of possible programs and general locations for a new degree-granting campus in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. O n m o t i o n of M r . S w a i n , s e c o n d e d b y M r . G r i m e s , t h i s r e c o m m e n dation w a s a p p r o v e d . M r . P a g e asked to be r e c o r d e d as not voting inasm u c h a s h e will b e s e r v i n g a s a m e m b e r of t h e S p e c i a l C o m m i t t e e on N e w S e n i o r C o l l e g e s of t h e I l l i n o i s B o a r d of H i g h e r E d u c a t i o n . Recommendation Concerning the Expansion of the Programs of the University of Illinois in the Health Sciences and Professions T h e Executive Director of the Board of Higher Education announced at the Board's meeting on September 13 that a report probably would be submitted in November on the "Study of Education in the Health Fields" being conducted for the Board under the direction of Dr. James A. Campbell (President of Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital). Although the administrative officers of the University have submitted to the Study Director a substantial body of information concerning its current programs and various proposals for expansion in these fields, no definitive plans have yet been officially reviewed and approved by the Board of Trustees. I recommend, therefore, that the administrative officers be directed to submit to this Board at its meeting on October 16, a long-term comprehensive plan for the expansion of the University's activities in the health sciences and professions — involving all of its campuses and including the basic health sciences, medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and allied fields. O n m o t i o n of M r . S w a i n , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . REQUEST FOR ENROLLMENT REPORT AND REPORT ON VARIOUS ETHNIC GROUPS

Mr. Jones inquired about the desirability of receiving reports as soon as possible concerning enrollments relating to University activity in the field of human relations and enrollment reports of students from various ethnic groups. He also expressed interest in a report of the