Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1942 [PAGE 804]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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21. T h e University of Illinois Union Corporation was dissolved and its assets and liabilities transferred to the University of Illinois Foundation, 22. T h e new Illini Union Building was dedicated at Urbana. 23. T h e first residence halls for men built by the University were opened last September. Financing was arranged through the University of Illinois Foundation and no tax money was used. T h e five halls were named for Willard C. Flagg, William L. Noble, Thomas Arkle Clark, Herbert J. Barton, and Carl L. Lundgren. 24. The Entomology Building, formerly the Law Building, was named for Oliver A. H a r k e r ; and our magnificent new power plant was named for William L. Abbott. 25. T h e studios and offices of the Roger C. Sullivan Memorial Radio Station, W I L L , have been moved into better quarters in Gregory Hall, and operation of the station is being increased from six days to seven days a week. 26. A University Advisory Committee of leading citizens of Illinois, including officers of the Alumni Association and of the Dads' Association, has been formed and is being given important basic problems to consider. 27. Trustee Fornof, as a special committee of one, made a helpful investigation and recommendation concerning the manifold activities of the University of Illinois Press. 28. Meetings of the Board since May, 1941, have been open to press and public. In recommending this action, the Committee on General Policy also recommended that the matter be reviewed at a future date. 29. Committees of the Board have worked harder during the past year than ever before in order to study proposals fully in advance of Board meetings. Meetings of the Board have been shortened by this committee activity, and also by mailing to each member agenda of the matters to be presented by the President, together with a ballot to be returned to the Secretary of the Board, with an indication of the action desired by the member on each proposal. Time made available by this shortening of Board meetings has enabled President Willard to present to the Board various members of his staff for informative and constructive talks. 30. W a r found the University prepared for service to the nation in many fields. T h e largest Reserve Officers' Training Corps has thousands of graduates on duty as officers in the army. Scientists such as Dr. Roger Adams and Dr. F. W. Loomis are directing vital researches in behalf of the army, navy, and air force. Graduation of students going into military service has been facilitated. Extension courses have been developed for war workers through Illinois. A longer summer term places the University on approximately a continuous twelve-month basis of operations. President Willard has offered the facilities of the University to the highest officers of Army, Navy, and Air Corps. Summary of Matters Pending, March, 1942 1. T h r e e surveys of the University are being made: ( a ) Booz, Fry, Allen, & Hamilton have been employed by President Willard to investigate all business operations of the University. (b) Governor Green has employed Dean Works, of the University of Chicago, to make a survey of higher education in Illinois, as represented by the University and the State Normal Schools. (c) Governor Green is having an investigation made of the rates of pay of all state employees doing comparable work and correlating these rates of pay with the cost of living in the various communities where the workers reside. 2. Governor Green has been asked to include these four items in any call he may issue for a special session of the legislature: ( a ) Authority to utilize for general university purposes any money appropriated for capital expenditures during the current biennium and not usable for such capital expenditures. (b) An additional appropriation of $100,000 for general university purposes to supplement the above in partial compensation for reduction in tuition fees and increase in expense caused by the war. (c) Appropriation of an additional $216,000 to complete the remodeling and modernization of the Research and Educational Hospitals.