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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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make choices. The reader will find a suggested pattern of growth and an indication of intellectual resources and values at the University of Illinois. There are some detailed recommendations, involving the need to study the process of undergraduate teaching; questions of admissions policy; the importance of maintaining a strong faculty and giving it the time and facilities to do its work; the growing international interests of the University. . . . To its credit, the Committee has not been preoccupied with minutae but rather has been concerned to lay down broad guidelines to educational policy. It is appropriate to make a formal presentation of the report to the Board of Trustees at this time because it is a significant document in the University's educational planning for the future. ( N o action is recommended or required.) I also take this occasion to record the appreciation of the University administration to the members of the Committee, especially to its Chairman, Professor G. M. Almy of the Department of Physics, whose work as head of the twelve-member task force representative of all three campuses of the University deserves special commendation. T h e members of the Committee a r e : GERALD M. ALMY, Professor of Physics, Chairman, who has served a full five years

H. KENNETH ALLEN, Professor of Economics

JOHN E. CRIBBET, Professor of L a w

LEE J. CRONBACH, Professor of Education, Bureau of Educational Research, and Professor of Psychology BERNARD J. DIGGS, Associate Professor of Philosophy CECIL A. KRAKOWER, Professor of Pathology, Medical Center MORELL B. RUSSELL, Professor of Soil Physics, Department of Agronomy ALLEN S. WELLER, Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts All the above have served full five-year terms. HOLLIS W . BARBER, Professor of Political Science, Chicago Undergraduate Division, who served from 1957-59 A. DWIGHT CULLER, Professor of English, 1957-58 RUPERT M. PRICE, Associate Professor of Physics and Assistant Dean of Engineering, Chicago Undergraduate Division, 1959-62 ROBERT W . ROGERS, Professor of English, 1958-62 Serving from one to three semesters for members on leave were:

EDWARD W . CLEARY, Professor of Law

NORMAN A. GRAEBNER, Professor of History

GLENN W . SALISBURY, Professor of Dairy Science It should also be noted that Professor Lee J. Cronbach of the College of Education headed a subcommittee which prepared one of two appendices to the report, "The Entering Undergraduate Student," a subject discussed a t the 1960 Faculty Conference. The second appendix presents individual statements from the colleges and other divisions of the University as to their recent developments and long-range plans — statements of what the Chairman calls "educational directions at the working level."

Copies of the printed report were distributed at the meeting, and a copy was filed with the Secretary of the Board for record.

ADDITION TO CONTRACT FOR ASSEMBLY HALL (24) T h e Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend an increase of $3,557.37 in the contract with Felmley-Dickerson Company, Urbana, for construction of the Assembly Hall to provide for relocation of two alternators from the projection booth in the theatre quadrant to a switchgear room located below the office level. Funds are available in the construction budget. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Williamson, this change in contract was authorized.

INSTITUTE OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE (25) T h e Director of the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations recommends