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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[March 21

Expenses 100 500 -0-0-0500 796 200 300 $7 329 Total 3 025 3 345 4 083 3 014 2 980 3 385 7 852 3 345 4 525 $67 183

Salary THOMAS F. CONRY, Assistant Professor of General Engineering ROBERT A. JONES, Assistant Professor of Sociology PETER G. BOCK, Associate Professor of Political Sciences and Director of Graduate Studies.. PAUL G. SCHMIDT, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry J. A. KATZENELLENBOCEN, Assistant Professor of Chemistry ALAN W. HANEY, Assistant Professor of Botany.

JAMES W. MARCHAND, Professor of German and

2 925 2 845 4 083 3 014 2 980 2 885 7 056

of Linguistics and in Center for Advanced Study

HAROLD M. ROSS, Associate Professor of An-

thropology 3 145 BETTY GLAD, Associate Professor of Political Science and Acting Head of the Department... 4 225 Total $59 854

The Vice Chancellor further recommends that half of the funds for these awards and associated expenses come from the budget of the units submitting the proposals, the other half from campus reserves. The Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus concurs in these recommendations and they have been endorsed by the Vice President for Academic Development and Coordination. (Nominations for the Special Award will be made following the end of the summer term.) I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Hahn, these recommendations were approved.

C O M M U N I T Y V I D E O ACCESS PROJECT. CHICAGO CIRCLE

(10) The Chancellor at Chicago Circle has recommended approval of an agreement with Videopolis, Inc., an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, for the development and implementation of a Community Video Access Project to serve the following purposes: 1. evaluating the social and educational uses of new video recording and playback systems;1 2. developing instructional and archival material for programmatic use in the University; 3. providing community-based organizations with experience and expertise in the utilization of this new medium; and 4. providing training and experience for University faculty and students in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of community uses of video systems. This project will be administered through the College of Urban Sciences. The advent of economical, lightweight television recording and playback equipment may lead to significant change in the education and information-processing areas. Direct involvement by faculty and students at Chicago Circle in communitybased explorations of the impact of this medium can be a part of the development of university skills in this area. A variety of local organizations has agreed to participate in the implementation of the project and to provide support for its operation. These include: Chicago Board of Education, Hull House, Urban Gateways, Industrial Areas Foundation, Amalgamated Meat Cutters, North Lawndale Association, Roosevelt University, Operation PUSH, Loop College, and the 9th International Congress on Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. The project would be under the joint direction of Anda Korsts, president of

1 Recently developed portable equipment for use with one-half inch video-tape is compact, easy to use, and relatively inexpensive. The tape does not require outside processing and may be reused much in the same way as sound recording tape.