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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[January 18

2. College of Engineering. Undergraduate degree programs will be offered which prepare professional engineers for employment in government and industry, and which provide the type of undergraduate education in engineering that is suitable for students preparing for graduate school. The departmental organization and the initial degree programs will be determined in the near future. 3. College of Commerce and Business Administration. Undergraduate degree programs will be offered in die departments of accountancy, economics, nuance, marketing, and management. 4. College of Fine and Applied Arts. Undergraduate degree programs will be offered in architecture, art education, art history and painting, and industrial design. Service courses will be offered in the history of music, music education, chorus, band, and orchestra. 5. Division oi Education. Courses in education sufficient to meet the requirements for teacher certification will be offered, but initially no degree programs in education as such are planned. Degree programs in teacher education will be offered in the departments of the several colleges which administer the subjectmatter fields taught in the secondary schools. The director of the Division of Education would be the coordinator of teacher-education programs in the several colleges and would supervise the courses m_ education offered by the Division of Education. Degree programs in education will be introduced if and when it is established that the facilities of existing teacher education institutions in Chicago are inadequate to meet the need. 6. Division o£ Physical Education. Programs in physical education and recreational activities will be established in the first phase of development to the extent that physical facilities permit. IV, Future Developments The program just described should enable the University of Illinois to meet the most pressing needs suggested above in the statement of objectives — namely those related to the undergraduate enrollment demand created by population increases and by the rising proportion of high school graduates seeking admission to college. This will be the primary mission of the expanded Chicago Undergraduate Division, and this purpose will have priority over all other claims upon the space and operating funds available to the Division. At the same time, future developments on the new campus should not be limited arbitrarily to these initial programs. The educational needs of the Chicago metropolitan area, the degree to which they can be met satisfactorily by existing institutions and programs, and the availability of resources should be the controlling considerations. The University of Illinois will keep the problem of funher educational development at the Chicago Undergraduate Division under continuing study, and will propose such changes as seem justified by the total educational situation in the Chicago metropolitan area. Expansion into new fields —such as graduate study, adult education, and organized community services —would k undertaken only after appropriate discussion with representatives of other state and local institutions concerned. These policies and plans are submitted to the Board with the recommendation that they be adopted after study and review. This report was received for record and study. ( T h i s report was adopted and the recommendations approved by the Board on February 15, 1961. — S e c r e t a r y ' s N o t e . )

FIXED-BASE OPERATIONS AT UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS AIRPORT

(13) The Institute of Aviation is the University's administrative agency responsible for the promotion and correlation of educational, research, and public service programs relating to aviation in all departments of the University. Its teaching programs include University credit courses in aircraft maintenance and professional pilot or flight training. In its cooperative relationships with other departments of the University, the Institute provides a variety of research facilities it the University of Illinois Airport Its public service functions include flight service for faculty and staff traveling in connection with University business; and aircraft storage, mechanical repair and fueling, these latter services also being available to the general public Under agreements with the Federal Aviation Agency and the state of Illinois, such services are legal and proper in all respects so that in effect die University has been its own "fixed-base operator."