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no BOARD OF TRUSTEES [October 22
II. Protection of Life and Property and Public Improvements
— Urbana-Champaign
A. Green Street (Wright Street to Mathews Avenue) safety
improvement 150 000
B. Armory roof replacement 296 000
C. Stock Pavilion repairs 275000
D. Public improvements (the University's proportionate share) :
1. Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District 233 000
2. Green Street (east of Mathews Avenue) 77 000
(1 031 000)
III. "AA" Building Projects Most Urgently Needed
A. Biology Building equipment and utilities, Urbana-Champaign 665 000
B. Library addition, Urbana-Champaign 2 175 000
C. Art and Architecture Building, Urbana-Champaign 2 640 000
D. Hospital and other remodeling and minor additions, Chicago
Professional Colleges 3 840 000
K Research Laboratory, Chicago Professional Colleges I 925 000
F. Remodeling, rehabilitation, and minor additions, Urbana-
Champaign 1 000 000
G. Physics Building, Urbana-Champaign 5 425 000
H. Commerce Building, Urbana-Champaign 2 610 000
I. Education Building, Urbana-Champaign 2 640 000
J. Physical Plant Service Building, Urbana-Champaign 1 275 000
K. Power Plant and Utility Distribution System for recommended
buildings in Urbana-Champaign:
1. Power Plant addition 1 985 000
2. Utility Distribution System 3 238 000
L. Matching funds for federal grants for science and research
facilities, Urbana-Champaign and Chicago I 000 000
(30 418 000)
Total Program $35 674 000
The above recommendations are only the most urgently needed projects to
meet the immediate requirements. Other needed projects are indicated under
the following categories in the Appendix: "A" Projects Urgently Needed and
Projects Considered Highly Desirable if Financed to a Substantial Degree without
State Aid.
(The Building Program Committee's report includes a category of "Projects
Considered Deferrable for 1957-59 Biennium" which, however, is not included in
the Appendix. — Secretary's Note.)
PLANNING POLICIES
The University Building Program Committee has considered both immediate
and long-range problems in formulating the 1957-59 program, and has developed
the following general policies:
A. To Anticipate the Result of Enrollment Trends.
1. Further enrollment studies by the Bureau of Institutional Research indicate
that the 23,000 level for Urbana-Champaign by 1963 was much too
conservative. Latest estimates place this figure at 26,500.
2. While upward enrollment trends can be seen among the various departments,
they are much more rapid in some departments of the University
than in others. The most striking growth is in the College of Engineering
where undergraduate enrollment increased 85 per cent between 1951 and
1955; during which period the undergraduate enrollment in the rest of
the University increased 16 per cent.
B. To Build for Enrollment.
1. The main, but not the only objective in constructing space in the 1957-59
biennium is to permit the University to continue taking only its proportionate
share of the increasing college enrollment.