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112 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [October 22
2. In developing the program through 1963, a higher priority should be assigned
to building studies.
a. The University should recognize the value of allowing adequate time
for a thorough study and analysis of departmental requests for space,
and for a preparation of building studies and designs.
b. The University must also recognize the physical impossibility of preparing
plans and specifications, taking bids, and completing construction
within a biennium.
c. Therefore, funds should be obtained for building studies and, whenever
possible, for plans and specifications in the biennium prior to that in
which construction is to be started.
(1) This would eliminate the need for reappropriating funds, and
(2) This would allow more effective planning and designing of future
University buildings.
APPROPRIATION REQUIREMENTS
A. Preliminary estimates of the rate of building construction and of the appropriations
required for the University to take its proportionate share of
the increasing college enrollments through 1963 — even if usage of classrooms
and laboratories at Urbana-Champaign might be materially increased
— show that the building requirements at Urbana-Champaign, the remodeling
needed at the Chicago Professional Colleges, the acquistion of a site and
initiating a permanent Chicago Undergraduate Division will necessitate
appropriations more than three times as large as have been available during
each of the last three biennia.
B. The program for providing permanent facilities for the Chicago Undergraduate
Division will require increasingly large appropriations during the
the 1050-61 and 1961-63 biennia if occupancy is to be realized by 1963.
1. During the interim, nearly all enrollment increases will have to be
absorbed at Urbana-Champaign;
2. During the 1957-59 biennium, therefore, the maximum amount of capital
appropriations for building construction and improvements should be
allocated to Urbana-Champaign.
APPENDIX
"A" Projects Urgently Needed
The list of projects which follows was developed as a result of reviewing
the total requests and as an aid to future planning:
A. Library, Urbana-Champaign, second addition
B. Administration Building addition
C. Additional remodeling and minor additions
D. Plant Sciences Building, first unit for Agronomy
E. Central Receiving Station, Urbana-Champaign
F. Physical Plant Service Building, Chicago Professional Colleges
G. Fire protection and building repairs
H. Agricultural Library
I. Additional public street improvements
J. Electrical Engineering Building addition
K. Plant Sciences Building — Plant Pathology
L. East Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building completion
Projects Considered Highly Desirable if Financed
to a Substantial Degree without State Aid
A Student Services Building
Besides being valuable as a center for the various student services (such
as offices of the dean of students, student organizational offices, the coordinating
placement office, student counseling facilities, and the like), such a building
would release much badly needed space in many cramped areas on campus,
particularly in the Administration Building. Some universities have financed