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1958] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 1195
program would be subject to further consideration by the Board later. The Dean
of the College has submitted a recommendation that the Executive Development
Center be established on a permanent basis as an organizational unit within the
College of Commerce and Business Administration according to the following
plan:
Organization. The Executive Development Center will be a unit of the
College of Commerce and Business Administration, with full responsibility for
the development, organization, and administration of executive training and
executive development programs, subject to the usual University review with
regard to educational and fiscal policy and operations. The courses offered will
not count for credit toward University of Illinois degrees. The Executive
Development Center will be under a Director responsible to the Dean of the
College. The Director will be appointed biennially on an eleven months (BY
tenure) contract. It is expected that the Director will also qualify for appointment
as Professor of Business Administration. The Executive Development
Center will use faculty members from departments and bureaus of the College
of Commerce and Business Administration, with suitable adjustment within
normal University budgetary provisions, but as a general policy they will not
be given full-time assignments in the Program.
Operation. The key problem of staffing an executive development program
is that of providing teaching personnel with the maturity, vision, and understanding
of practical business that enable them to assist men of business who
look to the College of Commerce and Business Administration for knowledge
of newer and better business methods. It is expected that teachers thus qualified
will come from three sources. The College of Commerce and Business Administration
is staffed with senior professors who can make outstanding contributions
to the Program. Outstanding men in other universities will be engaged for
special assignments. Leading businessmen will be brought in to discuss their
problems and their methods with the executives enrolled in the Program.
Development. The College inaugurated the Executive Development Program
in the summer of 1957 on a one-year trial basis. Although the number of participants
was small there is reason to believe that the Program was successful.
Establishment on a permanent basis will permit development until the Program
can be offered three times each year. A forty-man Advisory Council of leading
businessmen has been working with the College staff on the development of the
Program.
Budget. It is proposed that the Executive Development Program be carried
forward on a self-sustaining basis. A revolving fund has been established for the
Program in the University Business Office. Collection of tuition, fees, and gifts
to the Program are deposited in this fund, out of which the expenses of the
Program are paid. In the first year or two it may be necessary lo seek some
aid toward financing the salary of the Director, but it is expected that this will
be on a temporary basis. A detailed budget will be submitted each year to the
Vice-President and Provost and to the Vice-President and Comptroller for
their review.
I concur in these recommendations.
On motion of Mr. Johnston, these recommendations were approved.
EXPANSION OF UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
(8) The University Committee on Undergraduate Scholarships has been studying
the question of what constitutes a suitable program of undergraduate scholarships
at the University of Illinois, in terms of present and future needs. The
purpose of a scholarship program is to serve superior students requiring
financial aid, a large group among those who rank in the upper 25 per cent of
their high school graduating classes and who do not now go to college. Reconsideration
of the University's scholarship structure is timely because the expense
°f a college education has increased steadily in recent years, partly through
increased tuition charges but chiefly through increased costs of living. It is
estimated that a student who is a resident of Illinois will need approximately
WAS 0 to meet all expenses for two semesters of attendance at the University