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professorial staff member might pursue an advanced degree in a department on another campus of the University without prejudicing the objectivity of the latter. In order to allow such action, I recommend that the Board approve provisionally the following revision in Article IX, Section 7, of the Statutes (new language is italicized; deletions are in brackets): No person shall be admitted to candidacy for an advanced degree [who] on a campus of the University if he holds an appointment as professor, associate professor, or assistant professor in any department or division of that campus of the University. Any person engaged in graduate study who accepts an appointment with the rank of assistant professor or higher at a campus of the University will be dropped as a degree candidate at [this] that campus of the University. The Chancellors at the three campuses and the Vice President for Academic Development and Coordination concur in this recommendation. In accord with the procedures for amendment of the Statutes, this recommendation, if approved, would be submitted to the Senates and the University Senates Conference for their advice and subsequently submitted to the Board for final action.

On motion of Mr. Forsyth, this recommendation and the proposed revision of Article IX, Section 7, of the University Statutes were approved provisionally.

HEW Grant to Support National Survey of the Aged, Chicago Circle

(20) The Social and Rehabilitation Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) proposes to award a grant to the University of Illinois for research at the Chicago Circle campus in the amount of $578,246 for a threeyear period. The first year award is $348,246. The grant is in support of a research project entitled "National Survey of the Aged." The principal investigator will be Professor Ethel Shanas, Department of Sociology. The survey, of 2,500 non-institutional persons in the United States aged 65 and over comparable to proposed studies in Denmark and Britain, will give a picture of the state of the elderly at the present time as well as indicating the magnitude and nature of groups with particular difficulties such as isolation, physical impairment, low income, etc. Comparisons of the results of the proposed study with a 1962 study will make possible an estimate of the effect of social policies on the situation of the aged in the last ten years. The Chancellor at the Chicago Circle campus has recommended acceptance of this award, and the Vice President for Academic Development and Coordination endorses the recommendation. I concur, subject to further action by the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

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

HEW Grant to Support Medical Information Systems Laboratory, Chicago Circle and Medical Center

(21) The Health Resources Administration of the U.S. Public Health Service (HEW) proposes to award to the University of Illinois a grant of $1,053,945 for a three-year period in support of a research project entitled "Medical Information Systems Laboratory." The project is under the joint supervision of Dr. Bruce H. McCormick, Head of the Department of Information Engineering (Chicago Circle) and Dr. Morton Goldberg, Head of the Department of Ophthalmology (Medical Center). The clinical setting for the research will be the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary.