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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON EXCEPTIONAL C H I L D R E N

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{2) The Director of the Institute for Research on Exceptional Children recommends the following appointments to the Advisory Committee of the Institute for Research on Exceptional Children for three years beginning September 1, 1960. Representatives of the University

PBOFESSOB LLOYD G, HUMPHREYS, Department of Psychology

Professor Walter J. Moore, College of Education, and Professor James E. Hulett, Department of Sociology, are the other representatives of the University. Their terms expire in 1962 and 1961 respectively. Representatives af the Department of Public Instruction MR. RAY GRAHAM, Director of the Division of Special Education, Springfield (reappointment) Dr. Oscar Chute, Superintendent of Evanston Public Schools, District No. 65, Evanston, is the other representative of the Department of Public instruction. His term expires in 1962. Representatives of the Department of Public Welfare DR. JOSEPH ALBAOM, Superintendent, Lincoln State School, Lincoln, Illinois (reappoi ntment) Mr, Harry McClintock, Assistant Director of the Department of Public Welfare, is the other representative of the Department of Public Welfare. His term expires in 1961. The Board of Trustees on July 16, 1952, approved the plan for the organization of the Institute which includes an advisory committee consisting of three representatives from the University, two from the Department of Public Welfare, and two from the Department of Public Instruction, each appointed for a threeyear term. The Dean of the College of Education and the Vice-President and Provost endorse these nominations. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Herrick, these appointments were approved,

MINOR CHANGES IN CURRICULAR REQUIREMENTS

(3) The Urbana Senate has approved recommendations from the faculties of the Colleges of Engineering and Commerce and Business Administration for the following minor changes in curricular requirements: Department of Aeronautical Engineering. A change in the present provision for substitution of advanced military credit for nontechnical electives: a reduction from six to three semester hours. This does not affect the basic military training requirement and the total uumber of hours required for graduation is not changed. College of Commerce and B-usiness Administration, Hygiene 104, The Science of Personal Health, a one-semester course, is dropped as a requirement for graduation for students entering after September 1, 1961, This is consistent with a previous recommendation of the Urbana Senate, approved by the Board, discontinuing hygiene as a general University requirement for graduation.

This is reported for record.

ACQUISITION O F PROPERTY AT NORTHEAST CORNER OF G O O D W I N AVENUE A N D MAIN STREET. URBANA

(4) With the approval of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds of the Board of Trustees, the University of Illinois Foundation has purchased for the University the property of the Purity Baking Company at 1112 West Main Street, Urbana. The Foundation will hold the property and will lease it to the University until the University has funds for its purchase. The First National Bank of Chicago has financed this property acquisition. The property is at the northeast corner of Main Street and Goodwin Avenue and consists of a lot approximately 66 feet by 131 feet with a one-story and basement brick building which practically covers the entire lot. The land is needed for future campus expansion and the building can be remodeled for various uses.