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BOARD OF TRUSTEES MINUTES APPROVED

[May 28

The Secretary presented the minutes of the meetings of February 14 and March 12, 1957, press proof copies of which had been sent to all members of the Board in advance. On motion of Mr. Johnston, the minutes were approved as printed on pages 247 to 338, inclusive.

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

The Board considered the following reports and recommendations from the President of the University.

APPOINTMENTS T O T H E FACULTY (1) 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. C. GREGORY BASSETT, Associate Professor of City Planning, in the Department of City Planning and Landscape Architecture, beginning September I, 1957, at an annual salary of $7,000 ( A ) . 2. P A U L H . COY, Associate Professor of Architecture, beginning September 1, 1957, at an annnual salary of $8,000 ( D ) . 3. WALTER H . FRANKE, Assistant Professor in the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, beginning July 1, 1957, at an annual salary of $7,000 ( D Y ) . 4. JACK ISAKOFF, Visiting Professor of Political Science, for the first semester of 1957-58, at a salary of $5,000 ( G ) . 5. DAVID M. JACKSON, Principal of University High School and Assistant Professor of Education, beginning August 15, 1957, at an annual salary of $9,000 (BY). 6. HENRY F . KAISER, Assistant Professor of Education, in the Bureau of Educational Research, beginning September 1, 1957, at an annual salary of $7,000 (BY). 7. DAVID A. SAUER, Assistant Professor of Architecture, beginning September I, i957i at an annual salary of $6,500 ( B ) .

On motion of Mrs. Watkins, these appointments were confirmed.

HEADSHIP OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

(2) The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recommends the appointment of Robert W . Rogers, now Professor of English and Executive Secretary of the Department of English, as Professor of English on indefinite tenure and Head of the Department beginning September I, 1957. The salary of this position will be determined later when the budget for 1957-58 is prepared and submitted to the Board for approval. The appointment is to replace Professor Gordon N . Ray, presently Head of the Department, who will become VicePresident and Provost on September I. All members of the Department of English of professorial rank have been consulted in accordance with the provision in the University of Illinois Statutes governing the appointment of a head of a department. The Vice-President and Provost, the Dean of the Graduate College, and the Executive Committee of the College concur. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Herrick, this appointment was approved.

HEADSHIP OF DIGITAL COMPUTER LABORATORY (3) Professor N. M. Newmark, Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, has also been serving as Chairman of the Digital Computer Laboratory. H e has asked to be relieved of this assignment, effective September 1, 1957. Administratively, the Laboratory is under the Graduate College. T h e Dean recommends that the Laboratory be given the status of a department and that it be governed in its organization and administration by the provision in the University Statutes relating to a department. H e also recommends that Dr. Ralph E. Meagher, Research Professor of Physics and Chief Engineer of the Digital Computer, be appointed Head