Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1942 [PAGE 875]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[May 16

ices. Because of decreases in registrations in certain courses and other changing conditions, some of these positions are no longer needed in the judgment of the department concerned and are therefore being eliminated. This means that should former incumbents whose services have been entirely satisfactory return to the University there will be no positions available for them in their departments nor in other departments. Under the regulations passed by the Board of Trustees, is the University bound to carry these positions in its budget from year to year until the end of the war or is it justified in discontinuing them at the end of the current appointment year, or in the cases of those whose leaves are extended, at the end of a future year when such positions are no longer needed?

The Board was of the opinion that it was the duty of the President to curtail and eliminate positions that were not needed; that every effort should be made to employ or to place men when they return, but that it is no responsibility of the University to employ anyone for whom work does not exist. The President was requested to send a memorandum on this matter to the members of the Board.

REGULATIONS GOVERNING MARY C. McLELLAN SCHOLARSHIP IN ART (8) A bequest of the late Mary C. McLellan, of the Class of 1888, established an endowment of the Mary C. McLellan Scholarship, a traveling scholarship in art. T h e Board of Trustees on May 28, 1940 (Minutes, page 946), approved a recommendation from the Department of Art that the scholarship be awarded biennially, providing a stipend of $1,200 on the estimated income. Because of diminishing returns from the invested funds, the Head of the Department of Art and Chairman of the Mary C. McLellan Scholarship Committee recommends that the stipend of this scholarship be changed to $1,000. H e further recommends the adoption of the following regulations governing the award: Purpose—The Mary C. McLellan Scholarship in Art, consisting of a biennial award of one thousand dollars, shall be used to further professional development of art students of high promise, through beneficial travel a n d / o r study at an approved institution, or with a private master of recognized standing that will further the professional accomplishment already attained. Eligibility—The Scholarship will be open to students of American citizenship who have been in residence for two (not necessarily consecutive) years in the Department of A r t of the University of Illinois and meet the following requirements: ( a ) Recognized standing as graduating senior in the year the award is made, or graduating senior in the year preceding the date of award. (b) Applicant shall not be over twenty-five years of age, as of June first of the year application is made. Exception shall be made in the case of students who have performed military service for our country—in which case the age limit shall be extended by the period of the candidate's actual performance of military service. Basis of Az<jard—This Scholarship will be awarded on the basis of unusual promise of professional success in the field of any option administered by the Department of Art as evidenced by: ( a ) High attainment in the applicant's major field of study as attested by his academic standing; (b) H i g h attainment in related professional and cultural fields as attested by academic standing; (c) Excellence of personality, seriousness of purpose, high moral character, and good citizenship. Conditions— (a) Applicants must file a written statement of purpose with the Committee on the prescribed date, outlining objectives and proposed use of funds, (b) Application must be accompanied by evidence of professional skill in the form of work executed here or elsewhere, (c) The right is reserved to withhold the granting of this Scholarship for any year in which no student of sufficiently high professional promise and sound academic standing competes.