Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1956 [PAGE 274]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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receive five scholarships each year to be awarded by it to qualified undergraduate students. Thus when the plan is in full operation, there will be 20 scholarships in effect each year. These scholarships are not restricted geographically or otherwise, the only condition being that recipients shall be selected on the basis of merit and financial need in accordance with the standards of selection used by the University in awarding other scholarships. 2. The "National Plan" will provide 100 four-year scholarships to be awarded annually to high school seniors who have distinguished themselves in secondary school careers and who are winners in a competitive examination to be conducted by the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, New Jersey. Under both plans, scholarship awards will range from $200 to $2,000 a year, depending upon demonstrated need. T h e University of Illinois has accepted the offer of the scholarships which have been made available to it under the College Plan. Grant from Rockefeller Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation has made a grant of $10,000 to the University of Illinois for general support of the International Conference of Agricultural Economists, to be held at Helsinki, Finland, in August, 1955. The chief objectives of the International Conference of Agricultural Economists are (1) to foster development of the science of agricultural economics in different countries and (2) to further the application of the results of economic investigation of agricultural processes and agricultural organization in the improvement of economics and social conditions relating to agriculture and rural life. Professor H . C. M. Case of the Department of Agricultural Economics is General Secretary-Treasurer of the Conference. Grant from Ford Foundation The Ford Foundation has made a grant of $146,327 to the University of Illinois and for the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Turkey for the benefit of secondary school education in that country. The first project with the Ford Foundation and the Turkish government was undertaken in 1953 when a group of ten Turkish teachers were assigned to the University of Illinois for a period of approximately nine months. Dr. Thomas E. Benner, Professor of Education, directed the program of study for this group of teachers while they were here. Funds amounting to $26,500 were received for this first project. The plans for the continuation of this project include: (a) Assignment of fifteen Turkish teachers to the University of Illinois for a study for the approximate period of January IS, 1955, to August 15, I955i and the assignment of ten Turkish teachers for a like period in 1956. (b) The expense of transportation from Turkey to Champaign, Illinois, and return of both of the groups mentioned in ( a ) . (c) The expense of making available the services of Dr. Thomas E. Benner as educational consultant in Turkey from February 1, 1955, through June 16, 1956. H e has been given leave of absence for this purpose. (d) Travel expenses for four persons holding specific administrative positions in Turkey who might be assigned for travel and study in this country for three months. T h e University has accepted these offers from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation for the purposes indicated, and this action is reported for record. This report was received for record. PURCHASES Purchases Authorized (37) The following purchases were authorized by the President on the recommendation of the Director of Purchases and the Comptroller.

Item •7oo gallons standard elm tree spray Department Physical Plant Vendor Mini Pest Control, Champaign Cost $1 060 00 f.o.b. delivered