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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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WHEREAS, registered pharmacists will be needed in the future to replace the total number, and WHEREAS, the most recent estimate of replacements required is 3.1 per cent of a total of 7,363 full registered and assistant registered pharmacists, which signifies a need for 228 newly trained, full registered pharmacists in the State each year, and WHEREAS, this figure does not take into consideration the making up of the current national shortage of competent registered pharmacists, as well as the replacement factor more than a total of 228 registered pharmacists in the State each year, indefinitely, and WHEREAS, the University of Illinois does not have adequate facilities to train and teach a sufficient number of students in pharmacy, medicine, dentistry, and nursing, nor a sufficient number of graduate students qualifying them for teaching and research, and WHEREAS, the University of Illinois offers the only curriculum in pharmacy in the State of Illinois, and WHEREAS, while some of the pharmacy colleges in nearby states have in the past educated pharmacists for practice in the State of Illinois, the nearby state institutions having colleges of pharmacy do not now accept students from Illinois, devoting their facilities to residents of their own state; therefore, be it Resolved: That the Illinois Pharmaceutical Association recommend to the President of the University and the Board of Trustees that facilities be established to graduate 200 pharmacists each year. Be it further Resolved: That the Illinois Pharmaceutical Association concur in and support the proposal of the University of Illinois Building Committee to establish this building unit at an estimated cost of $6,000,000, including $900,000 for equipment, to further the adequate development of pharmaceutical education in this State, and at the same time alleviate the urgent need of space and facilities for the teaching of medicine, dentistry and nursing. WHEREAS, the Chicago Professional Colleges of the University of Illinois are located in an area defined by the Chicago P a r k Planning Commission as distinctly a slum area, composed of many uninhabitable structures or buildings of such character as should be condemned for use, or encumbered by the close infringement of low-grade industry, and WHEREAS, the only housing facility now available for the students and staff of the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, and Nursing is represented by the West Side Professional Schools YMCA, which is only temporarily available, and WHEREAS, students from outside of the City of Chicago have been unable to secure any living quarters, and thus have been deprived of attending these colleges, even though their qualifications might have admitted them and WHEREAS, even staff members have found it impossible to secure housing for their families, and have left the institution; therefore, be it Resolved: That the Illinois Pharmaceutical Association recommend to the President of the University and the Board of Trustees that due consideration be given to the establishment of adequate housing facilities for students immediately, in order that this disgraceful situation may be corrected; and be it further Resolved: That the members of the Illinois Pharmaceutical Association, in convention assembly, hereby endorse the recommendations of the Advisory Committee, and pledge themselves, individually and collectively, to employ every means of legitimate influence in the immediate consummation of this important task; and be it further Resolved: T h a t copies of these resolutions be transmitted to Dr. A. C. Ivy, Vice-President in charge of the Chicago Professional Colleges; Dr. George D. Stoddard, President of the University of Illinois; Mr. Kenney E. Williamson, President of the Board of Trustees, and such other State and government officials whose assistance will be required in the consummation of these projects. These above resolutions were adopted at the Annual Convention of the Illinois Pharmaceutical Association, on Wednesday, May 24th, 1950. This resolution was received for record.