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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[July 26

APPENDIX

PROPOSALS FOR THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHICAGO UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS A Report to President Lloyd Morey by the Committee on Future Development of the Chicago Undergraduate Division 1 June, 1954 Preface The Committee on Future Development of the Chicago Undergraduate Division was appointed by the President on November 4, 1953. The broad task assigned to the Committee is best stated in a quotation from the appointment letter: "I ask this Committee to study all problems involved in the development of a four-year undergraduate program in the Chicago area. Of first importance is to endeavor to determine whether such a development appears necessary to reasonably carry out the obligation of the State and the University of Illinois to the youth and citizens of the State. If the answer to that question is in the affirmative, then the Committee should prepare recommendations on policy, and on specific plans concerning the curricular, physical facility, and financial problems involved." In this letter, the President also called attention to the fact that the General Assembly, in May 1953, had created a commission "to act for liaison purposes between the General Assembly and the University of Illinois in dealing with problems relative to the establishment of a four-year undergraduate college of the University of Illinois in the Chicago area." The President asked for an interim report by the end of March and for a final report by the end of June. An interim report was made on March 31, 1954. Some of that report is incorporated into this final report. I. Introduction A. Basic Questions The President's charge involves a number of questions to which the Committee, has sought answers. While there are many details, the three basic questions are: 1. Will the predicted increases in population over the next twenty-year period require that the State and the University of Illinois act to provide for increases in college enrollments? 2. If additional facilities for increased enrollments are required, should a four-year undergraduate division in the Chicago area be established, or should another possibly more desirable plan be selected? 3. If a four-year undergraduate division is to be established in the Chicago area, what should be the size, what will be the approximate cost, and what should be the schedule of development? In order to answer the first question, it has been necessary to study statistics and trends concerning births and population in the State of Illinois during the next two decades. B. Population Trends in Illinois According to actual births to 1953 and based on an assumption that a comparable per cent of students will attend college in the State of Illinois as do now, the public and private institutions of higher learning in the State must be prepared to enroll approximately 156,000 students in 1063 compared to 114,000 in 1953; the University of Illinois must be prepared to enroll 27,000 compared to 19,600 at the present. In 1072, the State institutions of higher learning must be prepared to take care of approximately 223,000 and this University 38,000.

1 Committee on Future Development: Hackett, C. S. Havens, N. A. Parker.

C. M. Louttit, Chairman, R. G. Bone, R. P.