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404 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [May 28
MINUTES APPROVED
The Secretary presented the minutes of the meetings of February 14
and March 12, 1957, press proof copies of which had been sent to all
members of the Board in advance.
On motion of Mr. Johnston, the minutes were approved as printed
on pages 247 to 338, inclusive.
BUSINESS PRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY
The Board considered the following reports and recommendations
from the President of the University.
APPOINTMENTS TO THE FACULTY
(1) The following new appointments to the faculty of the rank of Assistant Professor
and above, and involving tenure, have been approved since the previous
meeting of the Board of Trustees.
1. C. GREGORY BASSETT, Associate Professor of City Planning, in the Department
of City Planning and Landscape Architecture, beginning September I, 1957, at
an annual salary of $7,000 (A).
2. PAUL H. COY, Associate Professor of Architecture, beginning September 1,
1957, at an annnual salary of $8,000 (D).
3. WALTER H. FRANKE, Assistant Professor in the Institute of Labor and Industrial
Relations, beginning July 1, 1957, at an annual salary of $7,000 (DY).
4. JACK ISAKOFF, Visiting Professor of Political Science, for the first semester of
1957-58, at a salary of $5,000 (G).
5. DAVID M. JACKSON, Principal of University High School and Assistant Professor
of Education, beginning August 15, 1957, at an annual salary of $9,000
(BY).
6. HENRY F. KAISER, Assistant Professor of Education, in the Bureau of Educational
Research, beginning September 1, 1957, at an annual salary of $7,000
(BY).
7. DAVID A. SAUER, Assistant Professor of Architecture, beginning September I,
i957i at an annual salary of $6,500 (B).
On motion of Mrs. Watkins, these appointments were confirmed.
HEADSHIP OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
(2) The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recommends the appointment
of Robert W. Rogers, now Professor of English and Executive Secretary
of the Department of English, as Professor of English on indefinite tenure
and Head of the Department beginning September I, 1957. The salary of this
position will be determined later when the budget for 1957-58 is prepared and
submitted to the Board for approval. The appointment is to replace Professor
Gordon N. Ray, presently Head of the Department, who will become Vice-
President and Provost on September I.
All members of the Department of English of professorial rank have been
consulted in accordance with the provision in the University of Illinois Statutes
governing the appointment of a head of a department. The Vice-President and
Provost, the Dean of the Graduate College, and the Executive Committee of the
College concur.
I recommend approval.
On motion of Mr. Herrick, this appointment was approved.
HEADSHIP OF DIGITAL COMPUTER LABORATORY
(3) Professor N. M. Newmark, Head of the Department of Civil Engineering,
has also been serving as Chairman of the Digital Computer Laboratory. He has
asked to be relieved of this assignment, effective September 1, 1957. Administratively,
the Laboratory is under the Graduate College. The Dean recommends that
the Laboratory be given the status of a department and that it be governed in its
organization and administration by the provision in the University Statutes relating
to a department. He also recommends that Dr. Ralph E. Meagher, Research Professor
of Physics and Chief Engineer of the Digital Computer, be appointed Head