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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1946
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1946J UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Il6l Professor W . E. Carroll, Head of the Department of Animal Husbandry, will act as Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. H e will also serve as Acting Chairman of the Executive Committee of the College of Agriculture, the Agricultural Experiment Station, and the Extension Service in Agriculture and H o m e Economics. Department Heads constitute the Executive Committee. Associate Director J. C. Spitler will act as Director of the Extension Service in Agriculture and H o m e Economics. On motion of Mr. Davis, this leave was granted as recommended, and the assignment of administrative responsibilities was approved and confirmed. H O U S I N G SITUATION (18) T h e housing situation at the University of Illinois has been and will remain extremely critical for months to come. In addition to the serious shortage of facilities, the campus has undergone several major shifts in the character of its student body during the last four years. P r i o r to the war, men and women students on the campus were in the ratio of three to one, and all plans for housing were based on this ratio. During the war, with decreased enrollments, the ratio was three women to one man. At the present time, two-thirds of the students are men and one-third women, and yet, for the last three semesters, the total number of women has been about fifteen hundred greater than at any time in the history of the institution. Also, the University will attempt to provide for nearly 2,500 more students than have ever resided on the local campus. Several thousand veterans are considerably older and more mature than their fellow students. These facts create social and other problems of great difficulty. T h e rapid shifts in the character of the student body have created serious displacements in places of residence as between men and women, as between members of different racial and religious groups, and as between older and younger students. These displacements, in their turn, could easily give rise to misinterpretations, tensions, and misunderstandings. T h e Board of Trustees, the President, and the faculty of the University of Illinois fully recognize the urgency of these problems and the personal and social distress caused by the rapid changes in the character of the student population. Every effort is being made to resolve these difficulties as promptly and as democratically as possible. The Provost read this statement and commented on it. CHICAGO BRANCH Discussion of the Chicago branch was resumed, and additional statements were made by Professor Griffith, Mr. Morey, and Director Havens. On motion of Dr. Meyer, the Board approved, in principle, the main terms of the proposed agreement with the City of Chicago for the rental of space on the Municipal Pier for educational and related purposes, and authorized the President through officers to be designated by him, to seek clarification of certain items, including the proposed insurance responsibility, the responsibility for the restoration of the Pier, the ownership of property released by the Navy, the question of parking and noise level, and such other matters as might need further study and negotiation, the whole proposal then to be given the form of a lease for the final consideration of the Board. NEW BUILDINGS FOR CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING (19) The Board has taken action looking to the acquisition of property east of Mathews Avenue in Urbana as a site for buildings for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. T h e owner has refused all offers below his. original price of $100,000. Professor Roger Adams, who was introduced, commented on the
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