Caption: Book - Four-Year Report of UI President (1950)
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The atmospheric chambers, at Urbana-Champaign and Chicago, create low pressures and other controlled atmospheric conditions for testing animal and human reactions to high altitudes. The electron tube laboratory is a center for some of the advanced research and teaching in electronics. The electron calculator for high speed mathematical computation will aid research in a dozen fields. The measurement laboratory provides for the calibration and repair of high-precision instruments. The microscope repair laboratory handles the maintenance of hundreds of microscopes over the campus. T h e doubling of the University has been done in response to the new needs of the students and of the state. T h e University looks to the future. T h e hope is that the college-prepared youth of Illinois will compete successfully with youth anywhere, and, further, that American youth will never be at a disadvantage. T H E INTEGRATION OF W O R K ON T H E SEVERAL C A M P U S E S T h e prewar University had two campuses; now we have three. T h e conviction is general that the state economy and the state'> needs will be best served if these separate campuses operate as om closely knit University. T h e continuing problem is how to maintain a close integration of work on the several campuses without reducing the natural pride of each campus in its own accomplishment When the Galesburg and Navy Pier Divisions were established an effort was made to give their students an educational opportunity equal to that offered at U r b a n a - C h a m p a i g n . This policy continues in the case of Navy Pier. It would continue if a four-year branch of the University were to be established. T h e differences lie in physical surroundings and in the restriction, to one campus or another. I certain curricula that should not be duplicated. It would be . asidered indefensible, for example, to duplicate the costh rcsO! es of the Professional Colleges. In forming the administrative structure ^\ the Several Campus ve have tried to Strike a balance between autonoim and int itior. The Chicago Professional campus is in chai c oi a Vice Pi and the Chicago U n d e r . a a d u a t e Division in charge of a P an, 52
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