Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1946 [PAGE 951]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

944

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December

n

January, 1946, through the close of the summer quarter in September, 1946. T h e subjects covered will be Pharmacy, Chemistry, Physics, and P h a r m a cognosy, and will be set up to meet the needs of former students and other eligible persons who have successfully completed one or more years of collegiate credit at the University of Illinois or at other universities and colleges and who have been or may soon be separated from the armed services. In accepting registrations in these courses the faculty will give special examinations to determine the ability of any prospective students to receive advanced standing on the basis of knowledge acquired outside of formal instruction. Funds are available in the current budget to meet the expense for the winter and spring quarters. Added staff and expense are necessary for the summer quarter, and it is proposed to engage a certain number of the regular staff who are on academic salary to teach full time in the summer quarter of 1946 and to provide extra compensation for them to the extent of one-fourth of their academic salary. F o r this purpose the sum of $8,200 is required, and the further sum of $1,000 is needed for expense and equipment. I concur in this recommendation and request a special appropriation of $9,200 to the College of Pharmacy from the General Reserve Fund, this appropriation to be available until October 1, 1946.

On motion of Mr. Fornof, this appropriation was made as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Davis, Mr. Fornof, Mrs. Grigsby, Mr. Livingston, Mr. McKelvey, Dr. Meyer; no, none; absent, Mr. Green, Dr. Luken, Mr. McLaughlin, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Williamson.

S P E C I A L A P P R O P R I A T I O N S O F ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION (10) T h e Board of Directors of the Athletic Association request approval the following special appropriations for 1945-1946: 1. Purchase of awards to be given to lettermen $1 500 2. Purchase of sixteen new turnstiles 1 535 3. Modernization of the electrical equipment and public address system at the Ice Rink 1 200 Total $4 235 of 00 20 00 20

These items have been reviewed by the Comptroller and he submits them for approval. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Davis, these changes in the budget of the Athletic Association were approved as recommended.

S U M M E R CAMP F O R SURVEYING INSTRUCTION IN CIVIL E N G I N E E R I N G (11) T h e Department of Civil Engineering requests authority to lease Camp Rabideau in the Chippewa National Forest near Bemidji in northwestern Minnesota from the United States Forest Service for use as a summer camp for surveying instruction in Civil Engineering. T h e basic reasons for such a camp a r e : 1. T h e areas now available in Illinois for surveying instruction are entirely unsuitable for practice in topographic and route surveying. 2. No bodies of water are available for hydrographic surveying, and no suitable streams are accessible for practice in stream gaging. 3. T h e periods into which surveying instruction has to be divided to suit student schedules are only long enough for brief exercises in surveying and do not permit real surveys to be made. 4. It is now necessary to divide the students into small squads rather than to organize parties as in actual surveying operations. 5. Stormy weather interferes greatly with the effectiveness of present surveying instruction at Urbana-Champaign. Rain and snow often make it impossible to get into the field for periods of several weeks, solar and other astronomical observations can not be scheduled with any certainty, and students often complete the surveying courses without securing practice in making such observations.