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1956] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IO9
A. A backlog of needs deferred during the depression and World War II when
either funds or materials for new construction were not available.
E. The increasing age of existing buildings which forces a program of improvements
and rehabilitation to maintain the state's investment in the plant, increase
utilization, and improve safety.
C. A continuing increase in enrollment during, at least, the next eighteen years,
within which period the enrollment of the University will probably double.
These needs make it imperative that long-range planning services be increased,
that the public and the legislature be fully informed, that construction
be materially accelerated, and that appropriations be enlarged accordingly if the
University is to fulfill its responsibilities.
ASSUMPTIONS
The recommendations made in this report are based on the following
assumptions:
A. That the major responsibility of the Building Program Committee is to
recommend the most urgent capital needs of the University.
B. That building plans and specifications will be prepared during 1956-57 to
permit construction of the major projects recommended for completion during
the 1957-59 biennium.
C. That the construction required at Urbana-Champaign has been estimated on
the basis of demand for increased enrollment without regard to the possible
desirability of limiting either overall size of the University at Urbana-
Champaign or of specific curriculum enrollment.
D. That the previously reported housing program will go forward at Urbana-
Champaign.
E. That, in general, power plant and utility capacity will be included only for
those facilities in the "AA" list and the housing program.
F. That the land for site expansion at the Chicago Professional Colleges will
be acquired through the Chicago Medical Center Commission.
G. That additional steam capacity will not be needed by the Chicago Professional
Colleges in the 1957-59 biennium. It is further assumed that in the
event of non-University projects requiring additional steam capacity, such
capacity would be financed through the Medical Center Steam Company.
H. That a laundry building will be constructed at the Chicago Professional
Colleges from funds other than state appropriations.
I. That the G. A. Miller Meadow will be made available as a site for the Chicago
Undergraduate Division.
RECOM MENDATIONS
The University Building Program Committee submits herewith its recommendations
for the 1957-59 biennium. The projects recommended, including preliminary
estimates of costs, are as follows:
I. Land and Planning
A. Site for the Chicago Undergraduate Division $ 1 250 000
B. Building and site plans, Chicago Undergraduate Division 750 000
C. Land:
1. Urbana-Champaign:
a. Housing 1 000 000
b. Academic expansion 500 000
2. Chicago Professional Colleges 1
D. Campus planning and building studies:
1. Urbana-Champaign 375 000
2. Chicago Professional Colleges 150 000
3. Plans and specifications for Agronomy Unit of Plant
Sciences Building, Urbana-Champaign 200 000
(4 225 000)
1 The land for the Chicago Professional Colleges will be acquired through the Chicago Medical
Center Commission.