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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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evaluation and selection has been carried out by a campuswide committee which makes its recommendations to the vice chancellor for academic affairs. From eighteen applications for the summer of 1978, the vice chancellor has recommended to the chancellor grants to the following six faculty members whose projects are believed to hold the greatest potential benefit: Salary

ROBERT J . BECK, assistant professor of physical

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HAROLD H. NEMOTO, assistant professor of phys-

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PHILIP E. FREEDMAN, associate professor of psy-

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N E A L J . GORDON, assistant professor of educa-

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HARRIET B. HARRAL, assistant professor of com-

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munication and theatre

EDWARD L. SUNTRUP, assistant professor of man-

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It is further recommended that, of five projects supported under this program during the summer of 1977, special awards of $500 be given to the following two individuals: Dale E. Layman, assistant professor of education, T h e Diagnostic-Prescriptive Process: Video-tape — Programmed Instruction. (Diagnostic-prescriptive teaching is a process which requires a teacher to understand the implications of and evaluation of psychological-educational test data to plan educational programming for exceptional learners.) William M. Kaplan, associate professor of music, Development of a course in which actual excerpts from music literature were incorporated into the ear training curriculum. Funds for this program have been included in the appropriation bill of the General Assembly to meet the ordinary and contingent expenses of the University for Fiscal Year (FY) 1979 and will be included in the Chicago Circle campus operating budget authorization request for FY 1979 to be submitted to the Board of Trustees. These grants and awards are subject to the availability of such funds. T h e chancellor at Chicago Circle concurs in the recommendations as does the vice president for academic affairs. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of Miss W i n t e r , these r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e a p p r o v e d .

Administrative Leaves, Chicago Circle and Urbana

(6) In accordance with the plan for administrative leaves approved by the Board of Trustees, 2 the chancellors a t the Chicago Circle and Urbana-Champaign campuses have recommended such leaves for the following persons: C h i c a g o Circle TUNIS H . DEKKER, director of the Office of Extension since September 1, 1973, has requested leave for the period January 1 through April 30, 1979. H e plans to study methods, sources, and amounts of funding for continuing education and extension at member institutions of the Committee of Urban Public Universities and to review the educational projects and programs for which such funds are designated.

1 One-month award. All others are two-month awards. 1 The plan, approved on June 20, 1973, provides for paid leaves of two to four months for certain administrative officers for the purpose of "keeping abreast of developments in their profession and to find time to design new approaches to their tasks."