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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[January 12

4. To relate the campus plan, as a whole, to the community development plan in which the University has been participating; 5. Mr. Cecil C. Briggs, partner in the firm, who has been serving as Visiting Professor of Architecture on one-half time since September, 1948, to continue his teaching service as part of this assignment. I further recommend that this employment be effective as of January 1, 1950, and that the combined consultant's fee for the services for the calendar year 1950 be $19,800, this to include the salary of Professor Briggs as half-time professor at his present rate of $4,800. An appropriation of $15,000 is required. This proposal is not without well-established precedent in this University and in other institutions of higher education. In past years the University of Illinois has had the benefit of advice and cooperation from several distinguished architects, among them Clarence H . Blackall of Boston, of the Class of 1877; W. Carbys Zimmerman, who was State Architect from 1905-1913; Daniel H. Burham, the father of the Chicago City P l a n ; Holabird and Roche of Chicago; Charles A. Piatt of New Y o r k ; Howard L. Cheney (Consulting Architect for the Illini Union Building). More recently we have had a Consultative Committee on Architecture (Messrs. Howard L. Cheney, Chicago; J. Robert F. Swanson, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; George L. Horner, State University of Iowa; and Chance S. Hill, Oak Park, Illinois). We have already used Mr. Briggs as a consultant on a temporary basis in connection with the design of the Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science Buildings. As a result we achieved some substantial savings in costs without a diminution in building function.

On motion of Mr. McLaughlin, these recommendations were adopted. The appropriation was made by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Fornof, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Hickman, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Livingston, Mr. McLaughlin, Dr. Meyer, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Stevenson.

APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR OF INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (2) Professor Charles M. Kneier, Chairman of the Department of Political Science, has also been serving as Acting Director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs since September I, 1948. He accepted this administrative assignment on an acting basis, with the understanding that he would be relieved when a permanent Director is appointed. I recommend the appointment of Dr. Royden Dangerfield, now Director of Studies at the National W a r College and on leave of absence as Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, as Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, at an annual salary of $10,000 on a Y basis (twelve months' service with one month's vacation) effective August 1, 1950.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, this appointment was made as recommended.

APPOINTMENT OF HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

(3) Professor Paul N. Landis who has been serving as Acting Head of the Department of English since February 1, 1949, and who previously served as ViceChairman for a year and a half, has asked to be relieved of this administrative assignment, effective July I, 1950, in order to return to full-time undergraduate teaching. I recommend that his request be granted. Also I take this occasion to express my warm appreciation of his services. The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recommends the appointment of Dr. Gordon Ray, who has been Professor of English since September I, 1946, as Professor and Head of the Department of English on indefinite tenure, effective July 1, 1950, at a salary of $8,500 an academic year. I concur in this recommendation.