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BOARD OF TBUSTEES

[January 18

EXPANDED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR T H E CHICAGO UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION

(12) The Board of Trustees in July, 1954, approved a staff committee's recommendation that the Chicago Undergraduate Division be expanded eventually into a degree-granting branch of the University. The committee suggested, however, that priority be given to providing improved facilities for the existing two-year program, since the enrollment pressures justifying expansion to four yean seemed to lie several years in the future. Unfortunately, the lack of capital appropriations delayed this initial stage of development. In September, 1957, a "University Committee on a Four-Year Plan for tlie Chicago Undergraduate Division" was appointed, since it was then clear that by the time a new campus could be occupied, the four-year program would be needed in the Chicago metropolitan area. The new committee, under the chairmanship of Associate Provost Dangerfield, submitted a report in December, 1958, in which degree programs were recommended in several proposed colleges. The report was widely distributed within and outside the University — the latter grouj? of recipients including the presidents of universities and colleges in the Chicago area, presidents of other state-supported universities, and members of the Commission of Higher Education. In the light of that report and of the reactions to it—especially those from committees, department heads, and individual faculty members of the Chicago Undergraduate Division — Professor Norman A. Parker, Chairman of the University Building Program Committee, and Mr, James V, Edsall, Coordinator of University Planning, developed a detailed series of building-space estimates based upon an assumed educational program and enrollment projections through 1969. The principal purpose was to establish planning standards and to arrive at estimates of the numbers and kinds of personnel and facilities needed. They issued a preliminary report in August, 1959, and a revised version in February, 1960. The latter was circulated widely within the University for review and comment, and copies were sent to members of the Board of Trustees, The next step in the planning process was the appointment of an "Interim Committee to Advise Concerning Physical Planning for the Chicago Undergraduate Division" consisting of Professor Parker, Chairman, Associate Provosi Dangerfield, and Associate Deans Pickett and Hackett representing the Chicago Undergraduate Division. This Committee and the Director of the Physical Plant, Mr. Charles S. Havens, as Consultant to the Committee, have worked with the architects and engineers to develop a general campus plan which would provide the buildings required for the assumed educational program of the Parker-Edsall report, as revised in the light of recommendations made by the faculty of the Chicago Undergraduate Division, (For planning purposes Garfield Park has beer used as a demonstration site.) Recently the Interim Committee submitted a report which included: (a) a series of recommendations concerning the number and relative locations oi buildings in the first phase of the construction program; (b) general specifications for space units; and (c) recommended changes in the assumed educational program. Physical planning will proceed in accordance with the recommendations oi this report, copies of which will soon be made available. These conclusions, together with the prompt selection of a site, permit the planning and construction of buildings to be completed in time to allow the Chicago Undergraduate Division to move to the new campus by September, 1964, Organization and Educational Policies and Plans The Vice-President and Provost, as chief academic officer of the University, has made a careful study of the Interim Committee's report and of the background materials which have guided its deliberations and conclusions. Particular attention has been given to the various reports and other communications from the Chicago Undergraduate Division. He has also met with the Senate of the Chicago Undergraduate Division to discuss the recommendations made in the accompanying statement on Organization and Educational Policies and Plans. In the light of this study and consultation, and with the concurrence of the Vice-President f°r the Chicago Undergraduate Division, the Vice-President and Provost recommends that the Board of Trustees adopt the following statement of policies and plan* concerning the educational objectives, the organizational status, and the educational