Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1952 [PAGE 424]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

i95i]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

521

On motion of Mr. McLaughlin, this appropriation was made by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Livingston, Mr. McLaughlin, Mr. Williamson; no, none.

APPROPRIATION FOR GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS FOR 1951-1952

(6) The Dean of the Graduate College recommends that an appropriation of $150,000 be made at this time for graduate fellowships for the year 1951-1952. This amount was appropriated for the current academic year and is included in the biennial budget estimates for 1951-1953. It is necessary that the funds be committed now so that fellowship awards can be made and announced by April 1, 1951. No change in the nature or amount of the stipends is proposed. Of the total, the sum of $18,000 will be budgeted for fellowships in the Chicago Professional Colleges and $132,000 for fellowships at Urbana-Champaign. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, these funds were appropriated, as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Livingston, Mr. McLaughlin, Mr. Williamson; no, none.

SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR N O N R E C U R R I N G EXPENDITURES

(7) The Committee on Nonrecurring Appropriations recommends assignments of funds as follows: Urbana-Champaign 1. Equipment for departments in the College of Agriculture $ 30 208 Instruments and equipment for soil and water engineering $1 464 Instruments for rural electrification research and teaching I 480 Food processing pilot plant equipment 6 900 Foods and nutrition 2 000 Equipment for home furnishings courses 7S O O Textiles and clothing 2 314 Motor analyzer I 400 Apparatus for crop conditioning research 600 Equipment for food technology 6 550 2. Improvement of research and teaching facilities in the Department of Physiology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 14 566 3. Remodeling and equipment for School of Music 23 600 4. Repairs and alterations in North Greenhouses, Department of Botany. 7 550 5. Remodeling in Natural History Building, Department of Botany 2 950 6. Physical Plant Department 17 000 Improvement of main campus steam condensate return system.$14 000 Installation of window safety anchors in Talbot Laboratory... 3 000 7. Parking lot at 202 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana 5 500 8. Lighting improvements for University High School 8 100 9. Expansion of facilities for Radiocarbon Laboratory 135 000 Chicago Professional Colleges 10. Sliding microtome for the Animal Hospital 700 11. Equipment for photofluoroscopic project in the Departments of Clinical Science and Psychiatry 2 200 Total $247 374 I recommend that appropriations for these purposes be made from the General Reserve Fund. On motion of Mr. McLaughlin, these appropriations were made, as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, M r . Livingston, M r . M c Laughlin, Mr. Williamson; no, none.

APPROPRIATION FOR RESEARCH A N D EDUCATIONAL HOSPITALS

(8) The Medical Director of the Research and Educational Hospitals and the Vice-President in charge of the Chicago Professional Colleges recommend an additional recurring appropriation of $21,200 on an annual basis and a nonrecurring appropriation of $2,400 for the operating rooms. This additional appropriation will