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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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when it was established in 1946 includes within its administrative framework a Faculty Council d r a w n from the University faculty at large but outside of the Institute's staff. T h e purpose of the Council was to give the newly established Institute the benefit of the advice and guidance of experienced members of the faculty, and the Council has been very useful in this respect. T h e Institute is now an established division. Its on-campus program operates within the framework of the Graduate College and since most members of the Institute's academic staff are also members of other teaching departments, there is a continuing liaison with related University areas of instruction and research and also with the Division of University Extension. There is now little or nothing for the Faculty Council to do and its members join with the Director of the Institute in recommending the Council be discontinued. I concur in these recommendations.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, these recommendations were approved.

SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR NONRECURRING EXPENDITURES (9) T h e Committee on Nonrecurring Appropriations recommends assignments of funds from the General Reserve as follows: Urbana-Ckampaign 1. Department of Botany, purchase of equipment $ 7 600 2. Department of Civil Engineering, installation of women's rest room on the first floor of Civil Engineering Hall . 3 700 3. University of Illinois Alumni Association, to provide for increased circulation of Illinois Alumni News 1 5 00 4. Department of Electrical Engineering, purchase of equipment for electronics, communication and radio laboratories 20 650 5. College of Fine and Applied Arts, purchase of paintings for the University's permanent collection in connection with the 1955 Festival of Contemporary Arts 7 500 6. College of Veterinary Medicine, purchase of forty-eight monocular compound microscopes 15 077 7. Office of Public Relations, production of a color sound film of the University of Illinois campus and other University activities 5 000 Chicago Professional Colleges 8. Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, replacement of X-ray tube for betatron 3 000 9. Microscope rental pool, purchase of fifty microscopes 16 500 10. Research and Educational Hospitals, microfilming of medical records 27 000 11. College of Pharmacy, purchase of equipment for new laboratories in East Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building 24 650 12. Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, purchase of laboratory equipment 27 800 Total .^IS9 977 I concur.

On motion of Mr. Hickman, these appropriations were made by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Bissell, Mr. Grange, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Hickman, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Megran, Mrs. Watkins; no, none; absent, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Stratton.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ON SELECTION OF SITE FOR CHICAGO UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION (10) At its meeting on July 26, 1954, the Board of Trustees accepted the report and conclusions of the Committee on Future Development of the Chicago Undergraduate Division as representing the official policy of the University of Illinois with respect to a four-year program for this division of the University in Chicago and appropriated $25,000 for future studies. A special committee has continued studies of this development with these objectives: (1) to submit recommendations on the selection of a specific site, and (2) to submit estimates of the funds required during the biennium of 1955-57.