Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1952 [PAGE 290]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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and Business Administration should be supplemented by further facilities in secretarial training, marketing, and business statistics. (1) The new Division of Communications, strongly supported by student choices in programs of study, needs funds for teaching and research in audio-visual aids and other forms of communication, in radio, advertising, editorial training, and in t h e new program of writing, directing, producing, and presenting to t h e public programs for television. Generous gifts are expected to provide the basic equipment, but added staff and operating expenses are of high priority. (m) Other areas in which initial developments need safeguarding include the program in music in the high schools, t h e Small Homes Council, the School of Physical Education with its program of health education in the schools and of recreation in industries and communities, the University Library microfilming activities, and the Graduate College that, more clearly than before, has become the summit in public education in advanced scholarship and research. In a final effort to get this part of the increase in the budget on a "bed-rock" basis, deans and directors were asked on September 25 to indicate the minimum sums required to cover items of highest priority. The result is shown in the following tabulation: Fgf ^ Biennium Liberal Arts and Sciences Agriculture Engineering Graduate Commerce Education Fine and Applied Arts Physical Education Law Communications University Extension Institute of Aviation Institute of Government and Public Affairs Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations Small Homes Council Social Welfare Administration Special Services for War Veterans Administration and General Library Physical Plant Total Urbana—for the biennium Chicago Professional Chicago Undergraduate Total—for the biennium $159 235 166 45 65 199 226 44 58 213 217 17 3 23 25 11 42 140 117 140 $2 068 278 151 $2 499 230 080 835 587 000 470 800 600 550 300 300 200 000 476 750 800 1981 360 120 342 602 919 553 074

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For the purpose of meeting in part the needs above, all of which will be subject to further study and to reallocation in terms of actual enrollment and research needs, I am recommending an additional ?2,200,000 for the biennium. This budget is a drastic reduction from what the deans and directors feel they should have in order to make progress at a satisfactory rate. In general, except for salary and wage rate increases, divisions will have to operate with about the same amount of money for the coming biennium as for the current biennium. The bulk of the new funds will go into the contractual and new facilities requirements described earlier. The major portion of these funds (84,392,479) will go to the Chicago Professional Divisions. The large amounts of money required there make it inevitable, at the present time, that the new askings for other purposes be severely restricted. IV. Estimated Savings Due to Decreased Enrollment The total enrollment in the University of Illinois in 1949-1950 was larger than in 1948-1949; at Urbana-Champaign it was the highest in the history of the University. For 1950-1951, however, a downward turn of about 10 per cent has occurred

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Decrease.