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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 13

BUSINESS PRESENTED BY T H E PRESIDENT O F T H E UNIVERSITY

The Board considered the following recommendations and reports presented by President Stoddard.

PURCHASE O F RESIDENCE PROPERTY FOR FACULTY HOUSING

(1) In 1947 the Board of Trustees approved a policy under which the University has purchased residence properties from time to time specifically for the purpose of renting them to new members of the faculty who were being appointed to important positions and whose services could not be secured unless nouses could be provided. Subsequently, some of these members of the faculty have purchased or built homes of their own and the houses have been rented to others. In some cases, the houses will be purchased from the University by the occupants. It now becomes necessary to ask the Board for authority to purchase another house in order to secure the services of a professor whom all concerned recommend as being highly qualified for an important position at the University of Illinois. This position will become vacant at the end of the current academic year. We are not prepared now to make a specific recommendation for a purchase, and I therefore request that the Executive Committee of the Board be authorized to purchase one residence property upon recommendation of the President of the University, supported by an official real estate appraisal. On motion of Mr. Johnston, the Executive Committee was authorized to purchase one residence property in Champaign or Urbana at a price not to exceed $25,000, upon recommendation of the President of the University and based on a real estate appraisal. This authorization was given by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Fornof, Mr. Grange, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Hickman, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Megran, Mr. Nickell, Mrs. Watkins; no, none; .-absent, Mr. Stevenson.

PAYMENTS FOR LEGAL SERVICES

(2) Mr. John H. Armstrong, Attorney, Champaign, has submitted a statement of account of $3,419.84 for legal services rendered and expenses incurred up to June 7, 1951, as special counsel and consultant in connection with the University's contracts with the Warner Construction Company. Chapman and Cutler, Chicago, have submitted a statement of account of $4,757.95 for legal services and expenses in connection with the approval of the revenue bonds issued to finance the housing projects in Chicago. Funds are available for payments of these fees which will be charged against the costs of the projects. I recommend that these payments be authorized. On motion of Mrs. Watkins, seconded by Mr. Hickman, payment of these fees was authorized.

APPOINTMENT O F MORELL B. RUSSELL AS PROFESSOR A N D HEAD OF T H E DEPARTMENT O F AGRONOMY

(3) The Dean of the College of Agriculture recommends the appointment of Dr. Morell B. Russell, now Professor of Soil Science at Cornell University, as Professor and Head of the Department of Agronomy in the College of Agriculture and the Agricultural Experiment Station on indefinite tenure beginning September I, 1951, at an annual salary of $10,750 (AY basis). I concur. On motion of Mrs. Watkins, this appointment was approved.

APPOINTMENTS TO T H E FACULTY

(4) The following new appointments to the faculty of the rank of Assistant Professor and above, and involving tenure, have been approved since the previous meeting of the Board of Trustees. 1. JOHN BARDEEN, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics, beginning September 1, 1951, at an annual salary of #10,000 (A).