Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1948 [PAGE 890]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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for the purchase by the University and the Mini Publishing Company of a new newspaper press for this reorganization. The remodeling in Gregory Hall and Illini Hall necessary for these changes will require a large appropriation. An accurate estimate of the cost involved can not be made now. It is necessary to employ a mechanical engineer to prepare the drawings and specifications for the plumbing, heating, ventilating, air-conditioning, and electrical work that will be required in Gregory Hall. The Director of the Physical Plant Department believes it advisable to employ the engineers who originally handled this work for the construction of this building, as they know the building and have complete data on its design. Accordingly, he recommends employing Samuel R. Lewis and Associates, Chicago, engineers who designed the mechanical installations for Gregory Hall. The basis of payment will be ten per cent of the cost to the University of the. work designed by the engineers, plus $100 a day and travel and hotel expenses for each visit to Urbana as requested by the University, except that the preliminary inspection visit shall be included in the ten per cent compensation. Not more than one or two special trips are expected. Considering the size of the project, the fee appears to be satisfactory. Although we can not at this time estimate exactly the total of the fee that will be due them, it should not exceed $2,000. I concur and recommend an appropriation of $2,000 for this purpose and that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute a contract for these services.

The Comptroller commented on this matter. On motion of Dr. Meyer, these recommendations were adopted, and the appropriation was made, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Davis. Mr. Fornof, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Livingston, Mr. McKelvey, Mr. McLaughlin, Dr. Meyer; no, none; absent, Mr. Green, Dr. Luken, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Williamson. On motion of Mr. Fornof, the President of the University was requested to make a broader survey, to include the needs of the University Press for expanded quarters.

RATES OF PAY FOR PREPARATION AND GRADING OF EXAMINATIONS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE SUBJECTS (16) The University through the Office of Admissions and Records offers examinations in high school and college subjects for the benefit of candidates who desire to qualify for admission to the C.P.A. examinations and the State Bar examinations. Fees are charged by authority of the Board of Trustees for such examinations to cover the expenses thereof, the receipts going into an Entrance Examination Fund. The Board has likewise authorized remuneration at the rate of $1.00 an hour for grading papers. There has been no change in this scale of pay since it was established by the Board of Trustees on July 6, 1921 (Minutes, pages 6 and 7 ) . The Director of Admissions and Records recommends that this scale of remuneration be increased to $1.50 an hour. The present scale of remuneration for preparing questions was established by the Board of Trustees on March 10, 1942 (Minutes, page 811). T h e Director of Admissions and Records recommends that the rates of pay for this work be increased 50 per cent to the following rates: For High School Subjects: $3.00 a set for all subjects except English Composition and Appreciation of English Literature; $6.75 a set for English Composition and Appreciation of English Literature. For College Subjects: $3.50 a set for all subjects except Accounting; $4.50 for each examination in Accounting. Income from the examinations is sufficient to meet the increases recommended. Members of the staff are engaged to perform these services outside the time required of them under their University contracts, and receive additional compensation for such services. I concur in these recommendations.

On motion of Mr. Davis, these recommendations were adopted.