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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 18

Administrative Staff

11. ARNOLD B. GROBMAN, Special Assistant to the President and Professor of Biology at Chicago Circle, beginning September 1, 1974, at no change in salary ($40,000).

On motion of Mr. Swain, these appointments were confirmed.

Change in Organization, Department of Theatre, Urbana

(3) The members of the Department of Theatre at the Urbana-Champaign campus have voted unanimously to request a. change in departmental organization from that of a department with a chairman to that of a department with a head, effective August 21, 1975. The Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts has recommended that the form of organization requested be approved. The Chancellor and the Vice President for Academic Development and Coordination concur. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Howard, this recommendation was approved.

Grant Proposal, Cooperative Program in Law and Society, Urbana

(4) The University of Illinois has submitted an application for a grant to the Department of Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, for a project entitled "A Cooperative Program in Law and Society and a Research Support Activity" to be carried out under the auspices of the Graduate College at the Urbana-Champaign campus. The grant, if awarded, would be fully funded by the government at a level of approximately $300,000 for a nine-month period beginning January 1, 1975. The objective of the project is to establish cooperative programming between the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (NILECJ), and the University of Illinois' Program in Law and Society and Center for Advanced Computation. The proposed program consists of three related and mutually dependent components: a research support activity, a policy-oriented research activity, and a faculty-initiated research activity. The cooperative program would be of major use to teaching and a research resource in the program on law and society in particular. The research support activity, to be administered by the Center for Advanced Computation, will be a criminal justice-related data archive in research computation service, using the technical facility of the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency computer network. The policy-oriented research activity, administered by the Program in Law and Society, will provide NILECJ with consultation and research services in substantive areas of criminal justice policy. The faculty-initiated research activity, also to be administered by the Program in Law and Society, will provide a continuing liaison with University faculty members who are involved with policy-oriented research activities. The Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended that the Board approve the University's participation in this project. I concur and further recommend that the Comptroller be authorized to complete negotiations and accept the grant subject to further action by the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

On motion of Mr. Swain, this recommendation was approved and authority was given as recommended.