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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April 28

budget be reduced in the amount of $500,000, and that authority be granted the President as proposed. Mr. Adams offered a further amendment that the biennial budget be reduced in the amount of $300,000. On roll call, this amendment was lost, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Adams, Mr. Jensen; no, Mr. Cleary, Mr. Davis, Mrs. Grigsby, Mr. Karraker, Mr. Livingston; absent, Mr. Fornof, Mr. Green, Dr. Meyer, Mr. Wieland. On roll call, the motion as amended by Mr. Karraker was adopted, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Adams, Mr. Cleary, Mrs. Grigsby, Mr. Jensen, Mr. Karraker; no, Mr. Davis, Mr. Livingston; absent, Mr. Fornof, Mr. Green, Dr. Meyer, Mr. Wieland.

APPOINTMENT OF PROFESSOR FREDRICK S. SIEBERT AS DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM (3) I recommend the appointment of Professor Fredrick S. Siebert, of the faculty of the School of journalism (on leave of absence during the academic year 1940-1941 to serve as Professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University) as Professor of Journalism on indefinite tenure and Director of the School of Journalism for two years, effective September 1, 1941, at an annual salary for the two positions of $6,000. Professor Siebert has been on the faculty since September 1, 1926.

On motion of Mrs. Grigsby, this appointment was ma'le as recommended.

RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL HOSPITALS (4) The Director of the Department of Public Welfare has requested a revision of Article I V , Section 4, of the agreement between the Department and the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois relating to the future operation of the Research and Educational Hospitals, as approved by the Board on April 1, 1941, to read as follows: "Section 4. All land, buildings, and equipment now held by the Department of Public Welfare in Chicago in the city block, bordered by Polk, Wood, Taylor. and Wolcott Streets, shall be transferred to the University when the approval of the General Assembly is secured, with the following exceptions: the Department shall retain the land, buildings, and equipment of the Institute for Juvenile Research and the Neuropsychiatry Institute. " T h e University shall assume responsibility for the inventory of all properties and materials included in the transfer." This revision was prepared in a conference between Mr. John C. Weigel, of the Department of Public Welfare, and the Comptroller of the University, Mr. Lloyd Morey, on April 23. At this same conference it was suggested, and the Director of the Department so proposes, that a bill be introduced in the General Assembly for an act dividing the land, buildings, and properties, and the grounds principally occupied by the Research and Educational Hospitals in Chicago, in accordance with the provisions of the above Section 4: "The Department of Public Welfare to retain the land, buildings, and equipment of the Institute for Juvenile Research and the Neuropsychiatric Institute. " T h e University to receive all other land, buildings, and equipment and appurtenances." T h e Director has also advised that the following provision for " T h e Institute for Juvenile Research and Delinquency Prevention in the Metropolitan A r e a " and " T h e Alienist and Neuropsychiatric Institute" will be included in the appropriation bill for the Department of Public W e l f a r e : "The Department of Public Welfare may pay from any of the above standa r d accounts to the University of Illinois as reimbursement for salaries and wages, office expense, operation, repairs and equipment, and minor improvements furnished to the Department of Public Welfare by the University of Illinois on itemized statements submitted by the University of Illinois and audited and approved by the Department of Public Welfare."