Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1976 [PAGE 94]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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the Board of Higher Education inquiry, based upon preliminary analysis of cost and manpower data and after consultation with campus academic officers:

(a) Yes, there is interest [by the University of Illinois] in providing legal education based in the Springfield area. (b) The University of Illinois College of Law should be asked to establish an administrative clinical program for third-year (extern) law students in Springfield. Such a program would be available to advanced law students from any approved Illinois school, and would focus upon the issues confronting state government. The University presently offers limited clinical law opportunities in conjunction with the State's Attorney's Office, the Office of the Public Defender, and a number of legal service agencies. (c) Whatever legal education activity is undertaken in the Springfield area should be assigned a lower priority than the expansion plans recommended in Master Plan I I I . T h e University's first concern for legal education, and the higher quality, most cost-effective alternative available to the state, remains the immediate expansion of the College of Law at Urbana-Champaign. (d) On June 4, 1974, the Chicago Circle Senate passed a resolution supporting the establishment of a college of law at that campus. The Board of Managers of the Chicago Bar Association recently endorsed a special report calling for the development of a preliminary plan analyzing the parameters and goals of the Chicago Circle law school. The University administration proposes that such a plan begin with a clinical year parallel to that outlined above, focusing upon problemsolving in an urban area and upon the legal issues facing any large megalopolis. T h e Board of Trustees directs the administration to review and present at a later date the necessary documentation and report regarding the establishment of a law school at the Chicago Circle campus. Report of Surveys of 1972 and 1973 Graduates of the University of Illinois

The President presented Mr. Frank Duff, Associate Director of the University Bureau of Institutional Research, who presented slides and commentary concerning the study referred to above — its purpose being to appraise the success of recent graduates of the University in finding employment within the field for which they have been trained, the rate of employment and underemployment, and additional information. Following discussion by the Trustees of the significance of the data presented, on motion of Mr. Hahn, the Board asked that arrangements be made for the continuation of this type of study on an annual basis and that data developed from such studies be made available for counseling purposes to students in college and those at the high school level.

Communications

At the request of the President of the University, the Secretary presented a letter from Professor Roger P. Link, Professor of Veterinary Physiology