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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[July 26

its cost. The staff committee completed its work and made a report to the President on July 1, 1954, which was submitted to your Committee. Copies of this report have also been sent to all of the other members of the Board of Trustees. T h e special Board Committee met in Chicago on July 15, 1954, to consider the report of the staff committee in consultation with the President of the University and the University officers directly concerned. Present at this meeting were Messrs. Cushman B. Bissell, Herbert B. Megran, and Wayne A. Johnston of the Board Committee; President Lloyd Morey, Provost Henning Larsen, Professor C. M. Louttit, Assistant to the Provost and Chairman of the Committee on the Future Development of the Chicago Undergraduate Division, Dean C. C. Caveny of the Chicago Undergraduate Division, and Mr. A. J. Janata, Secretary of the Board. The Chairman briefly reviewed the previous activities of the special Board Committee which led to the preparation of the report of the Committee on the Future Development of the Chicago Undergraduate Division. H e also reported on a conference which he and the President of the University had with Mayor Martin H. Kennelly of Chicago and a telephone conference with President William N. Erickson of the State Commission of Cook County to acquaint them with the matter. A summary of the staff committee's report was left with each of these officials (with the Mayor, personally, and with President Erickson's secretary) and' attention was' caited- to the University's need for the cooperation of city and county officials,'and of btrfer public agencies concerned, on a permanent location for the Chicago .Undergraduate Division. Mayor Kennelly gave assurance that the University would have the cooperation requested. President Morey informed the Committee of the machinery set up for the studies which resulted in the report and then discussed the report, calling upon Professor Louttit and Dean Caveny to supplement his presentation. . The special Committee of the Board of Trustees has carefully considered the report of the Committee on Future Development of the Chicago Undergraduate Division and recommends: 1. That the report and conclusions be accepted by the Board of Trustees as representing the official policy of the University regarding a possible fouryear university in Chicago, and that the report be made a matter of public record in the minutes of today's meeting. 2. That the report and conclusions be brought to the attention of the Governor, the State Commission created by the Sixty-eighth General Assembly of Illinois (and any other public commissions which may hereafter be appointed to deal with the problems of higher educational facilities in Illinois), and the Sixty-ninth General Assembly. It is important that the General Assembly be well, informed regarding the future development of the Chicago Undergraduate Division since this depends on the availability of funds. 3. That an appropriation of $25,000 be made from the General Reserve Fund for such future studies of this development as University officers deem are necessary or are called upon to make in the public interest. Respectfully submitted,

Q J S H M A N B. BISSELL ROBERT Z. HICKMAN PARK LIVINGSTON HERBERT B. MEGRAN VERNON L. NICKELL W A Y N E A. JOHNSTON,

Chairman

On motion of Mr. Herrick, these recommendations were approved and an appropriation of $25,000 was made from the General Reserve Fund for studies of the future development of the Chicago Undergraduate Division. These actions were taken by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Bissell, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Hickman, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Megran, Mr. Nickell, Mrs. Watkins; no,