Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1954 [PAGE 514]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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At the present time, the joint program calls for the admission of ten students who agree to practice in a rural community. The Joint Resolution No. 25 recommends that this number be increased to twenty. This increase is not required under present conditions because the largest annual number of applicants recommended for admission to the College of Medicine under the joint program has been nine. Applicants qualified by scholarship achievement appear to hesitate, except in a few cases, to make, as a condition of making a loan or of being admitted to medical school, a contract which would fix their place of practice after the completion of their medical training. Conclusion and Recommendation The Committee, therefore, concludes that, since the Illinois Agricultural Association and the Illinois Medical Society will, according to present plans, continue the joint program now in operation, and that since the number of applicants now applying under that program is less than ten each year, there appears to be no immediate reason why the number should be increased to twenty. The Committee recommends that the number remain fixed at ten until such time as that number is inadequate. PAYMENT FOR LEGAL AND ENGINEERING SERVICES REQUIRED FOR TELEVISION APPLICATION (5) The Board of Trustees has authorized employment of the law firm of Landis, Taylor, and Scoll, New York City, and the engineering firm of Jansky and Bailey, Washington, D.C., for the legal and engineering services required in connection with the University's television application to the Federal Communications Commission. Payments of bills for services are also subject to approval by the Board. The firm of Jansky and Bailey has presented a bill of $489.84 for services to date requiring several days of work. I recommend that this payment be authorized. It is estimated that the total cost of engineering services needed in preparing the application will be approximately $1,700. Once a television station license is received, additional engineering services will be required to get the station on the air properly and to prove to the Commission that the station meets all stipulated engineering standards. It is estimated that such additional engineering services will be $4,500. The estimated total legal cost is approximately $1,000.

On motion of Mr. Grange, this payment was authorized.

RESPIRATOR CENTER AT CHICAGO PROFESSIONAL COLLEGES (6) The University has been asked by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to establish at the Chicago Professional Colleges a respirator center for poliomyelitis patients who need treatment in such a center. As a result of conferences between representatives of the University, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and the Chicago Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, it has been proposed that an agreement be entered into between the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to establish a respirator center in one of the pediatrics wards in the addition to the Research and Educational Hospitals now under construction. The tentative provisions of such an agreement would be: a. The Foundation will pay the University $47,902 a year for salaries of additional personnel needed to operate such a center. b. The Foundation will pay the University for certain structural alterations needed for the center. The estimated cost of such changes is $12,500. c. The Foundation will provide $13,500 for the purchase and maintenance of the special equipment required. d. The University will operate the center and will accept up to a maximum of twenty patients at any one time. A committee made up of staff members of the Research and Educational Hospitals and the College of Medicine will formulate a policy to govern admission of patients. e. The Foundation will pay the University a per diem rate for each patient