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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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Add to ( c ) : "The senior staff members shall constitute the Council of the Center for Zoonoses Research. The Council shall meet at least once annually, and at such other times as is deemed desirable for the consideration of matters related to the program of the Center." Change ( d ) to read: "The Executive Committee of the Center shall be composed of the Director, the Associate Director, and three senior staff members. T h e three senior staff members shall be elected at the annual meeting of the Council and shall, in so far as possible, represent the different disciplines involved. Following the first such election, terms of one, two, and three years shall be determined by lot, and thereafter one member shall be elected annually for a three-year term. T h e Director shall serve as Chairman of the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee shall advise the Director on the administration of his office, including the formulation of plans and the preparation of the budget." Eliminate the following sentence from the second paragraph following (d): "These will then constitute the Executive Committee." Add this new provision at the end: "Changes in internal organization and functioning of the Center for Zoonoses Research may be made in the same manner as by-laws are altered or adopted, and such changes need not hereafter be presented to the Board of Trustees for its approval." T h e purpose of these changes is ( a ) to create a Council, and (b) to make the Executive Committee of the Center a more wieldy organization. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . H u g h e s , t h e s e a m e n d m e n t s w e r e a p p r o v e d . CONTRACT FOR PUBLICATION OF HIGH S C H O O L TEXTBOOKS IN MATHEMATICS (IS) Under the auspices of the University of Illinois Committee on School Mathematics, Professors M a x Beberman of the College of Education and Herbert E. Vaughan of the Department of Mathematics have developed a new curriculum and a series of experimental textbooks in high school mathematics that have been widely acclaimed. This program was initiated in 1951 in University High School. Since 1956 it has been supported mainly by generous grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which have made it possible for the University to publish the books and have them used experimentally in selected high schools in many parts of the country. These textbooks have been published and distributed by the University Press in various forms. In accordance with the regulations of the Board of Trustees, they have been copyrighted by the University of Illinois. There are eleven units in the series, comprising four courses corresponding to the four high school years. A special teachers' edition for each course has also been prepared, copyrighted, and distributed. In the light of the experience gained from the use of the trial version of the books, Professors Beberman and Vaughan wish to revise them substantially and to have them published by a commercial publisher. Such an edition is desirable for several reasons: ( a ) substantial improvements in the organization and presentation of material is indicated; (b) the present edition is both bulky and lacking in durability; (c) the facilities of the commercial publisher are much better suited than those of the University Press to the production and distribution of this type of publication in commercial quantities. Professors Beberman and Vaughan have proposed that a contract be negotiated with D. C. Heath and Company for the publication of the textbooks, under the following main conditions: 1. Professors Beberman and Vaughan would accomplish the thorough revision of the textbooks that would be necessary entirely on their own time and without additional compensation from or cost to the University of Illinois. They would be assisted in their task by a full-time editor to be provided by D. C. Heath and Company. 2. The authors would be granted the right to revise the present experimental textbooks for which the University holds the copyright, and they would hold the copyright on the revised edition. Prior to the actual publication of the new edition, however, the University Press would be allowed to continue to stock and distribute copies of the experimental edition to the extent that con-