Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1954 [PAGE 451]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[October 24

Engineering. Original request: $367,202. Additional teaching staff of 15, principally in Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Mechanical and Civil Engineering. Additional research staff of II in various departments, and the transfer of many others from contract research funds to University funds. Nonacademic staff of 21, including 15 in Electrical Engineering (chiefly transfers from special funds), and also in Administration, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, and Physics. Wages, expense and equipment in the amount of $73,830, chiefly in Administration, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mechanical, Civil, and Mining Engineering. Graduate College. Original request: $154,078. Research staff of 6J4, particularly for the Electronic Digital Computer program which has become a general University service unit. Nonacademic staff of 5, chiefly for the Computer. Wages, expense and equipment in the amount of $97,038, with over $20,000 for Special Graduate Fund and General Research, somewhat more than $10,000 for the Computer, and over $5,000 for the Radiocarbon Laboratory. All of these increases are really restorations of items deleted from the 1952-53 operating budget. Commerce and Business Administration. Original request: $53,000. Teaching staff of 4, plus an Associate Dean. Nonacademic staff, 1 person in Administration. Education. Original request: $176,344. Teaching staff of 10, chiefly in the Department of Education, plus 12 teachers for the proposed new Elementary Laboratory School. Research staff of 8 in the Bureau of Educational Research. Nonacademic staff of 6j/ 2 in the Bureau, in the Department of Education, and in the new Elementary School. Wages, expense and equipment amounting to $17,886, principally in the Bureau and in the Department of Education. Fine and Applied Arts. Original request: $134,530. Teaching staff of 15 in Music, Architecture, and Art. Nonacademic staff of 3 ^ in Music and Art. Wages, expense and equipment in the amount of $46,470. Over half of this amount is for Music, and the balance chiefly for Administration, Architecture, and Bands. Physical Education. Original request: $34,375Teaching staff of 4 and research staff of 3. Expense and equipment, $9,750. Veterinary Medicine. Original request: $51,150. Teaching staff of 4 and clinical staff of 3. Nonacademic staff of 3. Wages, expense and equipment, $19,350. Communications. Original request: $325,814. For the teaching of television and the operation, maintenance, and programming of a television production unit, $289,600. Teaching staff of 2 in the Library School. Nonacademic staff of 2 in the Radio Station. Wages, expense and equipment in the amount of $14,739, including $5,000 for Alumni Relations and Records and smaller amounts for other divisions. Law. Original request: $11,950. Teaching staff of 2. Wages, expense and equipment, $4,950. University Extension. Original request: $49,444. Extension staff of 2^2 and one nonacademic staff member. Wages, expense and equipment, $28,644, chiefly for extramural courses and conferences. Institute for Research on Exceptional Children. Original request: $157,180. Not listed in original summaries; an additional $80,000 is allocated to carry on a program for this new Institute. It is hoped that cooperating State agencies will supplement this item with substantial amounts.