Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1976 [PAGE 72]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Illinois is a recognized world leader in the production of soybeans, and the University, through the College of Agriculture and the Agricultural Experiment Station, is a leader in research on the production, protection, and utilization of soybeans. The University is developing a prototype of a new family of commodityorientated international resource bases that may play a central role in the improvement of world human and animal nutrition in the last quarter of this century. T h e agreement under consideration results from an invitation to the University by the United Nations Development Program to assist in the development of a national soybean program for Sri Lanka. Acceptance of this agreement would substantially strengthen the University by providing a major outreach project to complement on-campus research and instructional activities. T h e University would benefit in the following ways: 1. I n the expansion, through external funding sources, of a major research and development program emphasizing soybeans. 2. By gaining experience and knowledge in basic and applied research into the production, protection, and utilization of soybeans that can be used in domestic as well as international programs. 3. In a demonstration of leadership in an innovative program combining the best features of a commodity-orientated overseas-based international center and the resource base provided by an established land-grant institution. 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 and the Secretary be authorized to complete negotiations and execute a contract, along the lines described, subject to such further action by the Illinois Board of Higher Education as may be required.

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

Contract for Administrative Computing Services to Be Provided to the Illinois Community College Board

(23) T h e Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) has requested teleprocessing services for the purpose of establishing and operating a management information system through the central computer facilities operated by the Consolidated Administrative Computer Center (CACC) of the University. Computer time-sharing will be accomplished initially by means of two terminals in Springfield with access to the CACC IBM 370/158 system at the Urbana-Champaign campus. The agreement will provide for time-sharing for ten hours per day, Monday through Friday, although no specific operational guarantee is made. (The support to ICCB will be on a "best-effort" basis.) Charges to ICCB for services during the period September 20, 1974, through June 30, 1975, are estimated at $20,000 and will be based on the University-wide Administrative Data Processing rate for system usage. The agreement will be subject to re-negotiation six months after the starting date and may be renewed for an additional one-year period by agreement of both parties and may be terminated by either party upon thirty-days written notice. ICCB will provide terminals, modems, data access arrangements and switched network service at the terminal end, with the CACC communications staff assisting in specifying the characteristics of such equipment. T h e Vice President for Planning and Allocation has recommended that a contract be entered into with ICCB as outlined above. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Howard, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr.