c leGuCps V946 -50a Illinois.University . fbur-year report,l946"50. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://www.archive.org/details/fouryearreportofOOuniv c \'0^(a - Sd a^ September 29, 1950 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUR- YEAR REPORT - 19U6-50 George D. Stoddard Mr. Kenney E. TTilliamson, President of the Board of Trustees, has asked me to submit a report on the state of the University. After four years, I am glad to do this, conscious of the fact that I am acting as spokesman for several thousand staff members and tens of thousands of students. The record is theirs, not mine. Even if the account seems long, it will barely touch upon the main achievements "of this great body devoted to learning, teaching and public sei*vice. It is indeed a privilege to report on recent events, to review major decisions and to look briefly to the future. Few institutions of higher education have experienced so much in so short a period of time - whether for better or worse, time will tell. The Board is familiar with the patterns of growth at the University of Illinois, It has set the policy and encouraged the moves, step by step, under the leadership of Mr. YJilliamson and his predeces- sors, Mr. John R. Fornof and Mr. Park Livingston. The enrollment, dur- ing the four-year period, of more than 25,000 veterans brought a dramatic increase in the size of the student body and significant changes in its composition. These conditions called for new staff on an unprecedented scale. In I9U6 two new caii5)uses were established through the combined efforts of University, State and National authorities. Other new physical facilities were sorely needed and some have been constructed. Many new educational and service programs have been established. 05<5X t^5 '.3+i 8 carton ?:t.r rti . .: ^jjn?i;-);;jtq.^i.' .is .',3c.':. 9rt;i dgyoirid^ fasrfaiXcfJsdrs© at&vr a^ajjqnijBO wen owc^ dj"?! nl ,Jb9u3ii~.J3fioo mr'Sil evsri '^moc b«£ b&;i39n xis'xoa si'iov, £cXJxi.x;;£'i .'.^.us^rlq -2- Before examining the four-year record it may be helpful to ask. What are the aims and purposes of the University? Toward what goals do we strive? The answers to these questions will define the stauidards by which change can be measured. They will also assist in defining the ways in which the University is related to the State of Illinois . What Are the Aims and Purposes of the University ? A university - especially a land-grant institution like the University of Illinois - is a complex enterprise that affects the lives of students and citizens in many ways. The First Goal First, the University educates its students. This has always been recognized as a prime function and it is not narrowly conceived. A century ago Jonathan B. Turner, a great and ardent advocate of state universities, wrote, "The end of all education should be the development of a true manhood, or the natural, proportionate, and healthful culture and growth of all the powers and faculties of the human being, physical, moral, and social . , ."■=' The 19ii5 report of the University of Illinois Committee on Future Programs states, "The University has as its first large responsibility the education of its undergraduate and graduate students . " In its rSle as educator, the University aims fully to meet the needs of young men and women over the breadth of their psychological natures , Some of the needs of youth are intellectual. Young people need to know and to develop a creative imagination that leads to action. 1/ Turner, Jonathan B. , Industrial Universities for the People , Jacksonville, Illinois, 1853. -.iiaisv ■ ■■\y. ■ ' . ■. ;v-^-.';.ri;;-! .- H -'.■■.'■.■ -.''..- -^W; ■ .b'3t'j.-!?orc'.' ,; ^ ■ rrrlrfoooST asscf ufTsnqoIsvsb 9r{;t ori blocrfs noxJsoi/ba Lis. 'to b«9 sriT" «9J^oTnr ,c9i.*xai9vjn;.: s>^} Rubb- i^ bam eJwsju^-iS'^&bci.f '-i. "io noiJ"i>ouL3 t».'lu Y,ixXi''-t.c3r:oq6S'i oj^iox ".e.tn9b0i}a . .-■ ' ■ ■;''■ '■■>■'■■■■ ^f:t ■, -3- They need to use their minds to full capacity. They need to know the enduring satisfaction that stems from productive effort - to discover the unique effectiveness of learning in human affairs. Some of the needs of youth are personal. Everyone seeks a strong and healthy body, a well-adjusted personality, and a sense of ability to achieve. Above all else, the college experience is an exercise in self-reliance and self -disco very. Some of the needs are social. Young people like to make friends, to work and play with others, to become members of groups that try to improve some aspect of living. They seek satisfactions in personal and social progress. Some of the needs are emotional. It is important to meet members of the opposite sex under wholesome circumstances so as to leam to live together harmoniously. Everyone needs the pleasure and the inspiration that go with literature and the fine arts. Recreation is seen as a part of daily life. Some of the needs of youth are ethical and spiritual. Since the dawn of history men have striven for a closer relationship to what is enduring. While religious sects are numerous, all agree on the crucial value of beliefs that deepen loyalties; all recognize the es- ential brotherhood of man. All strive toward a common devotion to truth, justice and morality. When the conditions are favorable, young people respond naturally to these dictates. The Second Goal Another aim of the University is to guide the passage of its graduates into adult life. Never before has this purpose been more re- vealed than it is to-day. The way of life that most of us know and won)! .: '>33n - oeqi*' liv'\ oi sbnJjr, ti-iTii oai; o* bg^n y" ' .vrr-'Voaei.b-'.?;IeG bns f^onsiisi-lles ni sei" .issm o>* ;JnB*ioqittf ai .;Jl ..isncXv^omg S'ib sbeftfi >fio '. : 'mo:' 0/ 3£ n^ 3«">;r.: . ." ="noS9loriw n&bras X98 ©itraoqqo sfiJ^ lo ei^' uriii '?ij/Ei>U'l- ':mm >ibB?n anoynavT .-^lauoinoiai^ri -v -■■' --.^r^.J -»^'ir '->i fTTJ33l o-ii 111 ■:^-'iT~ '"''''- . '.'iri^jr/f '^"s r*.+398 ^^jfr.r'iM':'* *» "itr.innbft© el o* noiiov'ib noinmoo £ b-it;v,'OJ 9vl^^£ II A ..nem lo boo/lfsdJo-xd Isl etas .£tW«^oin ezsxic oc xiih-.. :.:■:■ bnoqae^ slqoso believe in is under heavy pressure and attack. Hany persons over the world are seeking to reorganize society in ways that are ruinous to the beliefs and hopes of free people. At times in the past, Americans have been a divided people. They have sustained armed rebellion and one terrible war because they disagreed among themselves about what was right and necessary. In- stability is no novelty, but it is trying and unpleasant. Its severity can be reduced if educational institutions, particularly the univer- sities, send out an increasing number of graduates t*io cherish demo- cratic values. These values are spelled out in the historic documents of the United States. They are the essence of our heritage. They are best xinderstood through the general and liberal components of any cur- riculum. At the same time a university must recognize a demand for the specialist - for the person who has understanding in a particular field of knowledge and is prepared for a career. As I said at Utrecht: "The complete human being - something organically developed out of science, art and humamity - vrill work for a living; other- wise someone must work in his place. Universities should stop apologizing for this workaday aspect of their programs. Voca- tional assignment, with or without vocational preparation, is the lot of all non-parasitic men. Education is costly, but not a luxury, and it is not for the precious soul. In any democracy, a liberal education should frankly include the technical, voca- tional or professional, in so far as such experiences have been organized, documented and generalized. A solid preparation for the economic life is the good earth of liberalism everywhere." This rSle of the University in inducting able youth into adult life was recognized by the University Committee mentioned earlier: "The task of the University ... is so to perfect its educational services that it will prepare men and women able to further and to enjoy a com- munity in which they will be more than ever responsible members." 9r'i 19VC arfr5?-r9r ■ \-AoBJie btin siusa^iq yvfistrf isbm/ ex at avsilsd 9.'i.+ oi aronxui snr ieriJ 3i/;£".T ni vdaiooR- «»s}:tB«70«»T o^ saxJlssa Sib bltow ■acforf bi'^fc :iisiX?d .slqoaq bsb ivxb s ns3d evs^i .saBci:i©.-n/\ 9rivl ni 8?inx;t ik v.'Jx'3:sv3e scH .^neci-sXqrfi! farfB.anrvid ex *x i*^: t'cJlsvcn o.t ex x^xlxdsis -levirt; s.-'-'f v'[-cXfj-:;±tf-iP,c .Rm c-tr'v*ii-:;ni Xr,rci.'*£-2:i'C' H rooubp-t sc n£0 aJn-iroob oxTtoJ^aif* arld^ ni i:jc bolieqg inp asijlsv sesfIT .savlsv oLi£is -■ii.0 vnij aC. 3j.T£-.fioqi.Too linacixi ink Xii';2nt.a srfo jl^toirio boo^E'i9l:i"u.i ^e^-J ,muLvoii i-^Iaj.'i. 'isIuoxuiJtic ii tu jjnxi/nfiJC'isiif.'); disri o/iw nosT:^cj &i1J ici - vaxIi:-xo9q3 :c^fi09i-U CTB bxse I 8A .isa-iBO b ^r'i bstsqeiq zs. bns pgbsl won-^ 'lo beqoXsvsb y.XXEoxnes^o prixntgnjoe - 3.nxsd nxyiufri sJyiqicco SiiT" -T£'ri>-*o jsnivxX s tol >!'iCi-: XXxv' - v^txrusnuri bnB rf-.c ^eonsxos "Jr- duo COJ3 bX:/odc seXixsiijviiiU .s^obIvj ax/l nx jfiov onwra sfiosnioa ssrn -BO"V ,s(re'i»?o~q lisr';} lo dostcizB YsbBJiiow air,J ^.ol gaxsxgoXcas ex ,!-toi«Jiin[r>q?»'iq XsnoxJB-iov tfi/pdcfxT.' ^o r?Jx?; c?39i ^&vs nUiW snon ':?d XXrv: yarW rfoiiiw nx \vtXni'in -5- The Third Goal A third goal of the University is to extend and disseminate knowledge. Many other institutions help youth to meet their needs, but few endeavor to discover new truths - to convert the unknown into the known. The University faculties ask of nature a never-ending series of questions. They esqjlore new relationships, pushing back the frontiers of ignorance and helplessness. Experience has shown there is nothing more practical, in the long run, than the fundamental. This paradox lies at the heart of research endeavors. There will be no inprovements in machines, except as they are based upon known principles. There will be no better ways of teaching^ except as they are based upon valid theory. Knowledge is power only when it is possessed. If it remains in the laboratories where it was discovered or in the mind of the dis- coverer, it avails little. Dissemination of knowledge enables the many to gain from the woric of the few. There are many ways of dissemination: instructing students in classroom and laboratory, providing a library, establishjLng extension services, cultivating demonstration acres, pub- lishing books and pamphlets, producing motion pictures and radio pro- grams, developing field laboratories and loaning films and recordings. These methods are currently in use. All should be encouraged, and new ways should be developed and tested. The Fourth Goal Finally the University encourages the creative arts. To quote again from my speech at Utrecht: "Universities ... can, if they will, put a premium on the creative arts which they have so long admired as a past event, ■'/hat the microscope and telescope are to visual powers, poetry and drama are to general intelligence. Poetry iBotO MiffT 9^: . ■ ■ ":: o..ji!.Ci;. v.'--i'' ' ..>:-<. i'/i ^-i** aTsxcrrtoTi erkt jio£d gnxriarc jaqinefioxislst vrsf. frfoLqxe x'^t^'- .tnciJzsup Ic ._i^\;n-^B;': .nir" snoj. s/i. 3^>cAi-iq 'rice. SI lovfisbne ffoissae-: r.pd sri.t >+£ aexi xobiCiRq alflT rrcron: Y.sri- sh d-q?'.5>;' ,3'3rixr'ocm nx zi:^<■v-.'r-^Tz■•\c^\i on sd IIxav v;'^ ' -■qcJOM'? ^gxli■.rioJQ?i■J lo avcv; T^^i&'j on sd Ilrv. <5-isdT .K>i^Xqi:)nxiq .\tosriJ bxlev noqu bsscd ete j-rnrBiT'.T Ji "^.i; .bsR^isssot , . ■ rifl/i-vv vino 'i=>-?('oct ax ssi^flvcrf' -ai,.'> sjiJ io bni.-n griJ i-?x 'xo l-ri':-voo3XEi s£t-.- jjt a-isriv,- s«i•:ov'■£^cc£il 6rivr nx \i\e,vx &Ai Esaldens P3b9i'v;on3l lo noxc^enxmoariiG .eXc^JiX slisv. . .^fovoo rrf-lS^'iirT .; ■: '%'■. "10 ;:'".'SV« vfjArt' ■':\'\(. «>>'■, '-.r'T .v^*!l --id.t 'I -! ^.'Tovr -^ri^ .•.■")*r1 n/-5S '^* ,v, i.vivii ii vjaJ:Liv.,/j.5 ^YioJJt'i>x.'i-X bn:i noo'i3f.;jbXo nx sJnabuis •jn.i'j;:>t.i^3nx -duq ,8oio£ noxJB^J3^0fO?fc gnxcfsvx^Xi/o t3Goiv*i9a noicnslxp ^nxrlaiXdBd'es .Sf^'iXi •<'ii.; riinii'i jjniijfioX bfifi aslTo-Jfi'iCwifci l>Xt.X'l §iiivjoXev=ib jSiiLS'JT^ war. .sgjeiTtij-onns ad bXocfi-- .'^ - y.XJrieiit.'O -^'is .^bor'tem aasriT ■fcoO ric" '^on&inoliag 9dc^ net Bo■/8xvo^o xx;'- ofU' ■ ■ ■ ■•..'■■ -7- - A physical plant - grounds, buildings and equipment - adequate for the efficient conduct of the educational program and for the realization of the accepted objectives of the institution. - A continuous study of its policies and procedures with a view to their improvement . - A program of intercollegiate athletics to which the same policies are applied in regard to faculty, administration and the management of students as are in force in connection with the other features of the institution. The University of Illinois meets all these criteria of excel- lence. It has been accredited since the North Central Association was organized. But for the purposes of this report, it will help to ap- proach the criteria in a somewhat different fashion. The people who make up a university are the students, the staff (academic and nonacademic) and the administrative officers. Each group is important. The student body should contain a proper share of all the students of college age in the state who can profit from higher education. All able youth of college age in Illinois should be in some college or university. Too often, "... bright youth are lost sight of in a nation that is short of talent while elaborate facilities and infinite staff patience are brought to bear upon reluctant learners. Certainly we should consider college education for the lower level of stu- dents as additive to a full and fine program for the able minds," ( Ferment in Education ) For its part, the academic staff should have in it no place for the person who seeks merely to "get by." Distinction in scholarly activities, in research and publication, by itself, is not enough. Every teaching member of the faculty should pursue with devotion the art of teaching. Unfortunately, as I said last year at the University of Wisconsin, "The daring is chiefly in the laboratory, studio or clinic and the plodding chiefly in the classroom. jomehow, we who share the blame must find a way to get each student to think for him- self -vrtiile listening to and working with others. We must give I. ^ . ■ . -I'??x© 'to £it!ii.rTo '■'Ss;'* He e-^^f^T, eionilir "Jo ydrfMsvcif'i a.iT -Of; -^J qlsH IIxT a ^j-'oosi s,cfl^ lo assoq-ruq odd Ttoi Jr: .b9&ifiji§ic '.-r:j tajisi.^--.; -^iiJ j-i^ ^v'^ jt?v^::l' ^ qi^i -'>i£». Oi.v.' ©icjosr '^ '" •Tsri-i.:.- ri ,-no':'i Jxici:; itc:; or:..' •^J.'Zja 3nJ -^.i S3£ .:--^3i:j.o-j ic ...i.i-.wij-o ei-j XXb 9ffl08 nx 9d bl;jcile arofuIII ni egs sgelloo 1o ri^uo^ ©Idis LlA .nou'soubd < * ■ ( ri;:I>ti;3]jba nx Jrt'jfli-te'^ ) YXisI<"':'03 .!X uoioomvaiCi ".■40 J^jg'" cd y.I.^';9.u t^^iSc, f-.iv ,:oc-r£)q er.J lo*^ .r{§r .; ex tlXeacU v<* «nc i: J-Boxldwo bns riotsoRsi nl ,39Xdxvx;tos V,Jia^i'Vxn^i 9jii .f« 'liisiv; ^<:'^-^ ijisa I ea ^^4I'9JB^i•;t'ioL^I.' .S«r.i;*^^i>J 'i.^ «i* ^•■;x3i!.-tESi;",' lo ariJ nx V -8- a lift to the art of teaching, encouraging in the quiet classroom the all-in-all participation so often found elsewhere," Similarly, the nonacademic staff of the University should possess a high degree of competence and loyalty in its chosen work. It contributes significantly to the aims of the University. Correct manu- scripts, accurate records, a constant flow of power and heat, attractive surroundings and the continuous operation of complex machinery - these and countless other responsibilities are an integral part of Univer- sity life. A good administrative staff is like a catalyst. Things are not self-made and events do not "just happen." A characteristic of leadership is that it creates freedom - an essential element in a uni- versity. As scholars are free to follow wherever inquiring minds may lead, knowledge is increased. Another characteristic is the welding of diverse interests and personalities into a team that will work as a unit. A third, and perhaps the most important factor in administra- tion, is a sense of the high purposes of the University and a zeal for their accomplishment. The external physical plant of the University of Illinois is seen readily as one strolls around the campus. What is concealed from the casual eye is more important. To choose at random: powerful machinery to convert coal into electricity, intricate electronic com- puters, models of a skyscraper, incunabula in the library all contribute individually to the fulfillment of the aims of the University; these are but four kinds of equipment. As of July 1, 1950, our inventory lists carry 250,000 items I In Ferment in Education I proposed that an educational program be based upon a matrix theory of education. - -.ro' f. '" tSiiJr 339l-tnj:;o3 br.B *:. 3B ^lov: Iliv; c^fi^J r^'3^ « oinx «?,i.-txIenoHToq cni, Bja^^'i-Jni 92~.»vit) ax 2xoniiI- •■■ -r^ = :•...":■;' • j 'io ^rr^Ir .Uox -.dq f-rr-r-^^e -riT e^fudilJnoo ilB-rcmoxi -SfiJ rti •Xudii'tran. .lecirrx,^.... .. c ^I.^f>om ,3t9^yq seer:: jx^rs-r^vrrtU sflJ 'o 8.-^^ ^rici 1c ^ne:'aini:;"i ^liJ oJ vrllsubxvxbnl ffvETsotq Ifincxctfojfba rus *srFi H^aoaotq I i_ ^iibrTl9\ nj u-i.rfv* T.^ V-09. ^ vL-; n^! fi r.o.;/' t^'scd sd -9- "The educational matrix centers in an area of specializa- tion. It needs stiim.ilation. Intellectual interests that are derived from reading or from contact with professors may be as firmly established as those crystallized in early life. A passion for academic learning in a given field may have wedge- like beginnings. . . . About this central section there can easily be placed a pattern of related studies. . . . This brings us to the third concentric circle - the area of common knowledge, the area that forms the basic content of elementary and secondary education. It is clear that common knowledge needs to be re- freshed at the higher levels. . . . The fourth area in the matrix scheme of education is given over to recreation." A program of education can be based on such a theory, but there are other theories. What counts is the attempt to inprove the curricu- lum through the use of theory . Whether the University is separated into the eleven parts indicated by the North Central Association or into four layers of a matrix, the whole may be lost in looking at details. What is the whole like? One way to answer this question is to examine two of the products of the entire institution. Is it turning out research in many areas of human knowledge? If so, it is well on the way to becoming distinguished. It has another product even more important. It must send forth gradu- ates not only capable of understanding the world, but also willing to ■ serve their fellow men. It cannot evade the responsibility of answering the question, Knowledge for what purpose ? How is the University related to the State of Illinois ? Education releases power. It spreads knowledge among the people. The early colonists in New England cut down the virgin forests and destroyed the shallow soil until few natural resources were left. Except for the sea and the ships that brought trade, nearly all that could be turned into wealth was gone. Power in the national life was achieved because the early settlers believed in education at all levels. -»?- . ' ... .... ,..^.;i • • • xJ"i06m 9ric^ ni r.3''£ ' ' ' .. - * . • /j 'ic e£'=>t£ YHEffi ni ricrtsecsr iiro 5rr.Tt'j.t iJt el .f:oxJ;;ii:*sfu anx.'ne art* lo -LffcBtS rt^-ici iwisB c}<3;ffli il .d-nfiJioofflx ^^o^^ novo iou'^-o-ic. i.;5J,>xu aar. Jl -"I.* r'nilJjv -^-.Ip .-ti'ci ,bI'iow ariJ anibn6dA'iobri:i lo eIc*Bc/sD ylno ^n Zeis a:iXT9r.-in£ ^c \.J,i.j-.; '-.oqssT erf-} ?'3SV9 .Jonnso -Jl .nerr woIK? -V- H?.t ^m--' Cv+s3-;o'i. niS'i-'-' -'f!-^ ^^-^■•:''> -"*■-• ;'■•:! iU"- ■•^''» "-^ B^aiT.-oIoo "i£Xi>;-:» ■>''^ .•- f.-^.'-.-f .vtlaX 9iftVf asoTxroaei Irnu^en ttbI Ii*nu Ixcf. vreXlBrte eriJ bet^*'^-^ ^"^ ;rfif{»; ;.Ia vlinn- .9^^,^.J Jrijjtrcfd .*fHv* "?iii? arf- bns eea srf<* lol &ceoi(S! .aXeivsI XXb Jc noictr- .bs ni bnvsiXsd sioX^Jsa vliee t*iiJ 9Bi/«oad bs^va^zriofi -10- Their school.s and colleges have made the people of the region strong and they have done well by the youth who come to them from afar. In the great fertile state of Illinois the earth yields food in abundance for people in all parts of the world. The coal and oil give the energy that moves the wheels of many factories and carries trains over thousands of miles. Provost Coleman Griffith has referred to the Midi-TOst as "the greatest cultural and economic area in the world," He states that "if its grains, minerals and men had been taken out of the world's economy at any time since the turn of the century, the whole course of peace and war would have been changed." The University can release more strength as it creates the power of knowledge and spreads it among the people. The colleges and vmiversities of Illinois are keys to the future of the State. The state university rightly should be a leader among them, initiating edu- cational advance. The relation between it and other institutions of higher education, like that between it and the state, should be one of dynamic interaction. Each should lend its strength to the other. The cause of freedom will be advanced as citizens and com- munities gain in knowledge and character. Will they set for themselves goals that conform to the tremendous needs of the Republic - of the Republic in time of danger? ■ ■) bnfi 3..'Poii.JE ■iJariT "ii br.Ji Ixo .'" .. u 'iiqo :i!jdB ax , ; ■' ;■•,•■■ r'iiiii ;■" •^.•:' ■ asiat .•■',;ri\vbi: isnoicii-'j II MAJOR PROBLEMS OF THE FOUR-YEAR PERIOD One-fifth of all the degrees earned by students of the Univer- sity of Illinois during its 82 years have been granted in the last four years. The grand total is 105,959-21,868 being awarded between July 1, 19U6, and June 30, 1950. The U,720 graduate degrees given during the same period represent one-fo\irth of all the University' s advanced de- grees. In June, 1950, the n\imber of graduate students (ii,l62) exceeded the total enrollment in the University in 19lU. During the war period the University of Illinois was among the leaders of the Nation in its training programs for the armed forces. The "re-conversion" indicated above was possible because the University staff, the Board of Trustees, the General Assembly and the Governor of the State were united in believing that Illinois should meet its post- war educational obligations. Particularly they were agreed upon a policy that was almost an article of faith, namely, that no returning veteran should be denied a chance to study at his State University if he could profit by college work. Between September, 19U5, and September, 19U6, student enroll- ment more than doubled. The number of freshmen entering in 19U6 - a total of 12,000 - exceeded the total enrollment of the University a year before. In the fall of 19U7, nearly 16,000 veterans entered the Uni- versity at its various campuses. The great bulge in enrollment called for a crystallization of policy and for action on many levels. These problems were faced: - To recruit the size and quality of staff needed for these young people and to retain this staff under highly competitive condi- tions . -11- tvci Jasx 9d^ nx ' ; (lasd ovsri e-ussv Li*-* . >fj: flnxi'a' ::;xc.UiJ.J. ic Y^le ,1 v,Xijl -^ f; -^otc 'ii -.«<'59, 30-rr9brr;t3 sJswbsia lo iBdm/n sri^ ,0??I t^iiyt fil ►s^S'i:^ fristifrtl '.r-irtr •^''."^ to"! -..tst^oi'^' ^atnlAt^ s^x r;i noxJeH Siio aO siei)*©! srfi •icrxf^iavir.j -no ^cv;;;'- ; jj:...iB8oq em f>vcrf£ beifioxtni •'iioi?':9V'io'>-'=»'«" ^(^T -.}3oq a^J-x issci bli oih crcrri-L'"'' J^i^J giixvailsd nx bscHnu me-.v oie-J?. sri^ lo r> ncq;' b^iii-.-jXj ^vjv; V3:ij <..-.iiIwsi^i!q .enoiJssildo Isf-oU^wba -.sw ?nxnii!\t9i Oft :»ati^ ♦yC^inMi ,riix£l 'lo ?Ioicfi6 tte chioml^ 3b^ SBr'a "^oxXoq 1'; .-:?.'[;- Tr\-:^' rjbJ-?, r-xfi J's Y,buiB Co 9?r^srio b bsxnab i*'i bXxon'a nfitPv^T ,?7.CV I'l-.t'XJ.OO \,-.' J '"iC'ICf Cj.jjc-.' I'll -. - •'■.!?!" •' ■ • :^'■'■^■Jris r.orTiinr-.i't V -n?'-'T>rrrt rHI .t^^Mriob rpd^ 9ioBt irrsoi -irU 9f<:! b5>^3.tfi^ Knj8if?*9V OCO^dX y.Xrt«©T JU?X lo XXa'l srtJ nl .5-(0l9d "lo : :XisJavTO £ -xol 'oall^a aiiKiUiXXoiay ux a^^ijo J-■>^a •'-'■ :b&Dfi'l n'T-'^v f.' ■ sasffl' .sXsvsX v.n^an ro noiJoa lol boe voxXpq . f, vv Aaerfi -^ " ' / a,. T^sis lo v;diXjBfp bne safe sxii ilmos^ oT! - .cnoxd -12- To develop the campuses of the University so as to take care of as many students as possible without sacrificing high quality. To secure and equip other campuses when it became apparent that emergency expansion at Urbana-Chanpaign would not per- mit the University to handle the expected enrollment. To house the new students on a cai^us where student housing had not been adequate for half as many students. To house the new staff monbers who were being asked to come into a community where rental housing was almost nonexistent. To take care of the special educational needs and adjustment problems of veterans. To take care of the health, counseling and orientation needs of all students in a University grown large and complex. To revise and expand courses and curricula in order to meet the new postwar conditions. Staff Salaries and Wages The yovmg men and women of Illinois are entitled to look to their State University for as good an education as they can get anywhere. That kind of education requires an excellent staff, working under the best possible conditions in all divisions and types of services. It was, therefore, essential to revise salaries, wages and employment attractions. Even before the war, the rising cost of living had drastically cut the real income of the teaching and service staffs. In average salaries, the University of Illinois was below the leading public and private universities. With heartening support from the General Assembly, an across- the-board adjustment in salaries and wages was made during 19U7-U9. The formula called for a 30 per cent increase on the first $U,000, a 20 per cent increase on the next $1,000 and a 10 per cent increase on the next $1,000. First proposed by the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, it was cited over the country as a model way -sx- s*t£9 ^'Aei sJ 3£ o3 xJxa'isvinU neo srfJ qnlevefa or - i .•Tir;?.3 oT - gnx'Jx/ori drtshr/Ja sisriw Ri/fjn&o s ro ejnrbihfs ■-.Tsn grid- oeuorf oT - .aorraby.JB 7.nfim es IXfiri •vol sJsjjpsii/S fls?d ion bcii -■"'-. ot i>^il3« grixE'd o-*^- ■•=•■ >i --■:■• ■'- '''•:■-'•?» ytez ^>c^i oatrod oT - .■3r.cn -zoiale. -ior.' r y^tj/iuniiioo £ odni Jrism-iei/cbE L.;.fc- ebsan Isnoic'.': •ri.bs i&iasqa ad;?' 'ic etc- ■ -^ !""'" - .arifj-'j^v 're ebssn noiJT.tnej':c b-' - -'- — ■•■■. ' • .fi 'jrfi lo ^jruio »}?£^ oT - .xfii'n'ro br"^ -5^ ' ii nx cjnt*." 1/0*3 lie lo ■i-3B^ ■ v^/i:; 'ii .j.i/^X'i'it'O fauii soettrcr- • -- ■ '-■;^ • - :V9-: oT - oo T'loox c J coijuns 3-ii; «xcnJ:III Ic rr9!ncw br,B r.or. ^inju'ov. '^riT . =rtsriTry;fi6 isj nfir> ■v:^^!-'^ ?;* noiSfOiibe ris boos 3X: lol yiiQtavlrJJ eisi?. ixsriJ- jf.&y.r 3j. .■;, .K-;jYis? "io aoq-^.f biis snoxexvib i^i: ax cr.oxJxorjcr: 3^x3:20^ ^C;):: .snoivOBiJcTij inscnfoXqpia bns ss^jjiw jasx-iBifie s3xv?^t cd" XisxJniseae tPiolarreciu brrs otid i;q grubsaX 'i^'^ woXsd bsw exonxXXT Ic v.ixsievxnU p/iJ ,e*.c'i£XBa - y^'"' r •+ j SI" ;• V f ai« ; i svxia -?,eotOi5 nn tyXdraeeiv Xs-jsosO erW noil J'locv-^i/B snirtsJtsan iiJii" 3((T .94-^4^1 snx'iyh 9b£im jjbw aagsw t)ne esx-sfil I'^n^vlbs bicod-srfcJ teq OS fi .OXjiJ^ J^i'^': ^ -"^ f;-* ■ -M-aionx *nar? ""> • '*'! r. lol bBXi.«^" BXi/imot Jx3n 9rii no saASTonl Jnso isq OX a bne CXX),!!?- ^xsn arij no sai-stonl' ictso nox^filoojsa/". msoi'.'aniA -3fic lo laJqj^rio XeooX 9tie".LT "1 ■vrTs r laoa vf ji.f [ ?'r!-')V . . . fi-bi? riamilctne 9;' . - .73 ii no V.i -lU- revised so as to maintain classes from seven o'clock in the woming un- til late evening. It was decided to avoid wherever possible large, un- wieldy classes. By I9U9 this plan was paying substantial dividends in educa- tional effectiveness. At that time U,565 undergraduate classes were listed for the Urbana-Champaign campus. Of this nmnber, 6.7 per cent had nine or fewer students; these were thesis, honors and senior courses in technical and special fields. Slightly more than 30 per cent of the classes, mostly at the senior level, enrolled between 10 and 19 students. Thirty-seven per cent were at the best size for regular types of instruc- tion, enrolling from 20-29 students. About 13 per cent of the classes had from 30-39 students and 5.U per cent had from hO-h9 students. Only 7 per cent of all undergraduate classes enrolled more than $0 students. At the graduate level, groups of more than 10 or 1? are often too large for effective work. Over 39 per cent of graduate classes en- rolled fewer than 10 students and nearly 32 per cent enrolled from 10-19 students . The second step was to expedite plans for critically needed buildings and to ask the General Assembly for funds. The Electrical Engineering Building, the Mechanical Engineering Building, the Chemical Engineering Building, the Physics Research Laboratory, the Lincoln Avenue Residence Hall for women and a large unit of the staff and student apartments were completed on the Urbana-Champaign campus. In process of construction are the Hospital wing in Chicago and buildings for Veteri- nary Medicine and Animal Science at Urbana-Champaign. The Hospital addi- tion of iiOO beds and the proposed College of Pharmacy addition will make it possible substantially to increase enrollments in Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy. The construction of a six million dollar steam plant was •■iuex;i.-..' C-l. ofi ::£tii ■ norn b^LIr-T: asJl' .-■i,ii> .''rso ■ T^U'V^ i uiwf 5098 Gii •rr f«- r-. ,,^ oXfiK-ir; .«ftrblru?! ^r. f:5t ' n^,i;Gqaer'.D-sn-'5dit) saJ no rfc/ 'M J;r& o^.-^-'c ■'■'^ nx "OiJ'-fiw £5-''i :a« •ts rroj-.tO! Ov '"^ ^i*. ''d'TF •??.!'( 1.'? f r'''-'*'^On 'i -15- started in 1950 under the name of the Medical Center Steam Company. This plant will serve at a low cost the Professional Colleges, buildings of the State Department of Public Health and the Veterans Administration and other nonprofit medical institutions. It will make the Chicago Medical Center a cleaner and quieter place. Staff members co-operated fully. They placed their desks in corridors and many are still there. They shared offices and laboratories. They taught at unusual hours. But it was apparent, even in 19h6, that no amount of good humor and sacrifice, no feasible use of space, could take care of the flood tide of enrollment on the existing campuses. It was necessary to look for new campuses on which to create new divisions of the University. Navy Pier and Galesburg A search over the State brought into focus the llavy Pier in Chicago, where thousands of men had received specialized training during the war, and the Army's Mayo General Hospital on the outskirts of the City of Galesburg. A lease for the Pier was negotiated with the City of Chicago. Within a few months it was redesigned and equipped and ready to operate as an undergraduate division of the University of Illinois. The Army made the Ifeyo plant available to the State, and the University operated it for three years as a second undergraduate division. The speedy conversion of these properties into full-fledged University divisions is an exciting story in higher education. The Galesburg Undergraduate Division was literally made in a month - from September 16 to October l5, 19U6. In that time it was necessary to pro- vide every facility of a resident college - dormitory equipment, food service, recreation, laboratory equipment, library, health services and. -.-■•■ >'f.-< r'Tv- ,tT .T■.y^f^■>^■'.r\. T r^z 'rb---r. i ':''-:' irv.cc:. -^'A*- ^r.^ ■?cJs?ic o"^ ri oiitw no aetsuqnso visn ici sool oJ vi-st: ^ ^^i^w ci ac '131-1 V''-^-- •-" ■■ o-xni. o'll^i.-oto' r'^d's.li ^ " "3"o i.^ : vLx- 'I ■« bt!B bangi- .^r -tx sri^'nom vi'^'i i njr.J'!:" . --)*•-■ '-J •■ - . . - .' vllu-rsJ-xI BBvr noxexviC a^js. ...,,, . . ' . ■^ ' ■•";.■'■" • ' ■■■.; " ""^ ■',Tl-«o^!;-• :■.•^..•i . 1.391. B ■ -16- most important of all, a teaching staff. Galesburg was closed in Jiane, 19li9, when the peak of GI enrollment had passed and the State had other more pressing needs for it. This facility enabled 2,9U0 different stu- dents, most of them veterans and some of them wheel chair cases, to begin their college careers. Navy Pier served a greater area and met a greater need. Its fall enrollment is generally around u,000 students, almost all of whom live at home, thus eliminating the housing problem. The popularity of the Chicago Undergraduate Division reveals the continuing pressure for a four-year branch of the University of Illinois in Chicago. It has been pointed out that half the population of Illinois lives in the Chicago area. The establishment of a permanent branch, however, will depend on finances - on securing a new staff, a canpus and an adequate plant. Navy Pier, owned by the City of Chicago, lacks a campus and is not fireproof. It is not a desirable setting for a pennanent four-jrear branch of the University whose ultimate population might be 20,000 students. Housing Before the war, Illinois ranked tenth in the Big Ten in student housing. In 19U6, housing was the worst bottleneck. Lack of housing, even more than lack of classroom space, had forced the University to look toward other campuses. The University could house in its residence halls less than 1,000 of the 20,000 students seeking admission at Urbana- Champaign. The Skating Rink, the East Great Hall of the Stadium and the Gymnasiiim Annex were converted temporarily into men's dormitories. Through the assistance of the Federal Housing Authority, temporary housing units were constructed during 19U6-U7 for 320 student families, 1,261^ •• >- • * "J -.^J ,B.>as3 '>flriv; .nafi:t ^o. 9Jitt>2- fans- s^nBisJ^v iT'.'dJ 1o -isrxn .ajrtfl;. . ■ 1o i-Ce c>soinIjs ,R?r"?'-:r'vt?? i.':."ct'' '<'I!£-f'='.'f«^ "rib'^rre Ltd 31.5'. V -I i-:oxaxv.f:i; yjsirbxi'ig'iatin!! ci;}«DJ:ri3. fliic) "lo y.-Jj.iBluqrq sriT ';^ T.; J .r~'T ■ V rr'J '^'r'j "io rf^.'is'ic if3-''--r;;o'l -s ft?. ettrascT" ^nrii'rrrc'roo erici' nois;fii.i(qoq iii: Ui^is ^iiiici jjjo b-cTr.xcq ^■•-■^g v.sr. Jx- .o-i&olr..: v.j. zj:cr.n.ll v+n-rnfici-x.-^q s lo ctii9nfl8xIcfjEiji9 ad'f .fie- *rfj ni eovi/. v, i.oniIII Ic. ; 'lo xiz'O SiiJ -,;o bocnso ^-l::ll \\r.\ ,Jf.x,iQ ajsupebs r,ii Df.£. aiiOKBO icl s/iijiee aXds'ilaab £ J^on 2X d"I .lootqei.n >y©n©Xovv . - v Siio o^tt :jnx ' . " T "" *.- ^^--r-f ilcioC r ;3vixiU srf.?^ heoiol ied ^oobob mooiaseXo-lo jioaX nsnj ^tom r.sv^a s^l; «».'; . lsH .JfioiO ia£.f! sricJ ,;!nxa snii^Jboli pfri- .n^x^qju^nw -17- single men students and k9 single women students. These barracks-type dwellings were not pretty, but they had roofs, they sheltered beds and study tables, and they could be made to look attractive inside. The Lincoln Avenue Residence Hall con^sleted in 19 u9 added permanent housing for 5U8 women, and the first units of the Student-Staff Apartments furnished housing for $0 student families. All this took care of only a small percentage of the need, but with help from fraternities, inde- pendent groups, private housing directors and apartment oiAmers, it meant the difference between keeping a promise to Illinois veterans and not keeping it. Staff housing was quite as desperate as student housing. There were few houses for rent in Urbana-Champaign in 19hS and the houses for sale were often poor bargains. This was the situation we faced in per- suading faculty families to move out of good housing elsewhere and come to Urbana-Champaign. The University had to take emergency action or give up the attempt to secure an adequate faculty for the returning GI's. With the help of the Federal Housing Authority, 165 temporary barracks-type units were constructed for staff use. Seventy-seven pre- fabricated National Homes were installed and 22 houses were purchased for staff occupancy. In 19U9, the University financed and completed 30 houses at Race and Florida. Staff housing by the University is intended as a stopgap. The new faculty member is expected to occupy University quarters for only a few years. The temporary units will be removed as soon as possible. The National Homes and the houses in the two cities are being offered for sale to their occupants or to other staff members. The Student-Staff Apartments will be assigned as soon as feasible to married students. The University policy is not to stay in the rental housing business beyond -TX- iijs^ byx'-J-jnii ^ianj ,;:'^':': " t\;J'i^>*'iq 'Son .i -;,. ^^^.--j eriT .©tiarJ &- se. jtool cJ obast od bljoo v.srii biw- <8eXds;t ybi/da vine 'ic 9ii50 >9r.ir'r':a,tr.'i'i "o-fO. crJf'ri f^-'•i:t^' "r.-^ .beer: erf.-t ?.o -iijR^r'^ r>^.*(' XlflOis s t'.i bR6 anei&iev BxoniXlI ocT sslocrtq b ^; .letv/^sd sor.g-isl'iji) sricf 919.^1 .gnieuori J-n9b0»*3 f-b !?:^Bi:>q29b ss 3;ti:j.p sbw §nu2ifo-i iiav;-. -13.; xi Deojs'i sw noiJfiuiie -- -- --"^ . ^f*? ^-^'^r:; trrr rr?t-o ^lar; elx-s 'bp.'on Lfie arteiiweBis r uoog lo iuo ■-v'.m o.i eeiilau,. -tJl^osi aiitOiJi'c: •jc 0'. i -as yoi-if- »":'?:'•■> liiifict c* bBfl \.ctX5i«vixTU yrl- - ' YTiEioqnsJ 5^1 tY/ o^'- xBisiisi erio 'lo qlsii afi« iiuilii' ,£'10 _..-^ j_5,^.-,f,_n^ir .'^Bt' ?.Vr.+3 -rrl Hc».toirxJBnoo 9T?w ziinv &c,YJ'-8>iofiiisa' ■xo-i i)^2B:lDix;q sie - co^uoii is xju.= urj ......ax enanv asaioH Ifinox^ti?^' f>'-^f«'ii'^rixA .sbiioIH bnB ©osfl J£ llii^'r^.-i IIbJb Iff; .'ifiBqiJoao ixaiij oJ C'UoYJ'-' .-. iBifi-.-i s;i.' 3 cJ J-un ai -(.'-■^xc>.. .^-^-^ t-k^w- -18- the time of emergency, except in cases where the houses purchased are located in areas of canqjus development. Student housing remains a severe problec Through this fall we have succeeded in supplying only 6U3 permanent student housing units. The 1,633 barracks-type units will soon reach the end of their usefulness. Studying the housing problem, the University was instrumental in securing an analysis of the Urbana-Charapaign housing market made in 19ii8 by the Real Estate Research Corporation of Chicago and financed by the Housing Authority of Champaign County. Through its membership in the Community Development and Housing Council, and a contribution of $20,000, the University also encouraged the formulation of a master plan for this community. The studies were begun in 19U8 and are now nearing completion. A study of staff housing requirements was conpleted in April of I9U9. It outlines the anticipated needs through 1955. Another survey, completed in November of 19^49, is the basis for recommendations regarding construction of Men's Residence Halls. These studies are being used as guideposts in an attempt to relieve the housing situation. Housing, in short, is an ever-pressing problem that can be solved in only one way - new construction . Special Provisions for Veterans A total of about 25,000 different veterans have been in at- tendance at the University of Illinois since September, 19ii6. A promise was made to them and to the people of the State that those who were qualified would have the privilege of going to college. This promise has been fulfilled. The basic University agency for dealing with veterans has been the Division of Special Services for War Veterans. This Division alone -ex- .u.'f." ■,.'; !:,(r.' ; .'r'-.f-.r,-.: '. *!< ..m ■ •.-^ i rf-. ••■/£ftn gr.'vf";*^". ."if '^:f. i .3-' r- ■•*v.->rf ''-'K ,E36iiIUiodi.' 'ii.n..' ;o v.lo ttti J di/i,jT tlOC-i liiW aJXTlii Oqio-a.. i't>^»X Si-i fix sbif - '-.-f-!^ -M-. '•- ." •••>'-s(Yn:ij3ffC)-.sri""'TTi •■ f.- '''^ -;•■>-.•; -.r. r. ~-,r> n? ^. 1. ;ioni;oO s^ieuoH btis .tnfjoi.iolfvsu •^J'JtnffflsnoO ariJ ^.nitijfn V'OfT «•?» has 6t\9.f tf fyr^e'f ot^w '^ ^,tr{& rtcl rj. :,.:"•-.? J..,.;' ■: ^.•vv- , .-i-v". ;•-■: ^, av:;/.u ilfict* "^o Y^^*^'- ■« .aciJsXqtfioo TteriionA .5 "iriJ ob^an i. ■:n& srtcf asnilc^ro il ... lo Itick .ncivtBt'J^xe : r.*! oi .tqnwJJfi as xit bj s S£ beau -Jr. nj .;.>9d ?v£fi' i: Jrion • 'o isioi A ssxl ssJ-motq eXri^ IXoo oi isniog lo sgoXlviio s>riJ. svsri f>.£uow faDililfliip ..anjiiis^taV i«P' to': SBoivisZ LbLv noxei -19- has granted 2,582 degrees based on programs of study that were tailor- made to fit the needs of the persons concerned. Other veterans have con- tinued their education in the regular schools and colleges of the Uni- versity. Nearly lii,000 vetersms of World War II have received degrees thus far. We have seen how housing facilities were provided, especially for married veterans. A coffee house with regular meals set up in cafe- teria style was opened on the south campus. A hobby shop equipped with machine tools and sewing machines was available for veterans and their wives and a professional supervisor was on duty five days a week. The offices created for veterans assisted them in securing benefits, solving subsistence problems, acquainting them with directives from the Veterans Administration, finding enployment for their wives and finding places to live. A fully equipped nursery school, with a staff of nine trained teachers, a director and a nurse, was opened for the children of veterans. General Services for Students Special services, however, are not restricted to veterans. The parents of students demand, and good education requires, a variety of special services for students, veteran or not. These include health services, counseling and general orientation in a University community. Accordingly the Office of the Dean of Students has been ex- panded in order to provide assistant deans of men and women, counselors for the residence halls and temporsiry dwelling units and advisers on extra-curricular activities. The Health Service Station, after two years of intense study, is planning to offer a full-scale program in public health, preventive medicine and emergency service. -a- . . ... ';'^'•-r 1Slwj»f>'^ ■^'.t'-v. '■■ 'r'fvfi . ' I. "^ r. •"> .'■ . rt r ."^ T fi ' 'i lo'l -. _ . -Bb evil V'^L-b . ^••— .:.<_,£ Xfinoiae"'^' -^^ ^' 'v"^ f*v •• h i'j:«id^ ^nxn lo i'ii^.tB & ciyjrvi ^Xcofioe • A .avil ■> ...v pf?;} -rot ben-qc sisw ,«*3rf!L'.- i .:=:-i9:ias9 - "isvixiU a : no siocxvjcA bnfi ac^frsi/ :1 -20- The Student Counseling Bureau nov/ renders special services to about 2,600 students per year. The High School Testing program reaches more than ii6,000 high school juniors and seniors per year. The results of tests and reports are supplemented by an effective Freshman Week program so that a beginning student may find his right place in the University. Associate and assistant deans have been added to the College and School offices in order to provide educational guidance for the in- dividual student. In many divisions these officers are working with student councils and committees. Reading, speech and psychological clinics are open to any stu- dent who requests aid in an effort to improve his study habits or atti- tudes . Some departments have developed orientation weeks at which time lesson plans are reviewed, methods of teaching are practiced and the special needs of the students are mapped out. Courses and Curricula The bone marrow of a university is found in its courses and curricula; here teachers and teaching activities develop the cells on which ideas thrive. Here is where students grow in mental power. In 19hl and 19U8, every course and curriculum in the University was reviewed, brought up to date and reclassified in terms of its place in the educational experience of students. This is a considerable faculty accomplishment in view of the number and variety of courses offered in a large university. This reform was guided by principles tested in many institutions. Thus the first two years are considered basic in mastering the tools for advanced work. They are years of testing and maturing the ii' j--'*ri 3-iri^f- r.'*? 9rn£>x-v .40 rf!.'>." •jclls nu .b'»v"? JDHfi 'i.j..."; :/r.-.J .'i^fc GC'VTv X*xc ai;t>6T; or'w c^^«»h ;'j:?ac/! j.iujL3£?q3 •TI.ODI •refI)je3Ct r-rp. :r.'t;r.i;Ti:i:r sx s> -^wfl ,6i: VU^I ill arid lo .'WPiv nx ..Trff^fluinllan i... 30 i ■trw bson-wJb* lol elooJ ari^ -21- learner, stabilizing his motives and interests and giving him the general and specialized knowledge he will need later. The second two years are devoted to majors and minors. For most students, they marie the end of formal education. The courses are more specialized and the distinctive achievements of staff members bring the near-graduate closer to the frontiers of knowledge. The trend is toward an increasing amount of work in general education. In many divisions it is also toward a firmer union between the last two years of college and the first year of graduate ^vork. In any event, all members of the staff are, or should be, deeply concerned with the central questions: TiTiat is to be taught? How should it be taught? A major study, now in process, of programs of study for the education of women is one example of the steady search for the right answers to these questions. .r :'".;!. b3?r Iliw 3ri ^^brrvr^nM h?s;i:l£XD£r3 tnp . •. :ir. .■.at s-ioc^' o..! ii. '.a£9'<; ov/J naoijga Sii'I 9T.B 3of5iuoo sdT .COX J£i3;;b9 Issnol 1. ,Q-fr» ^.^mi •r^jj i:.c >;iot; lo Jfii/oo^s ^iuzss-ival cis inswo^ si bnsij arf? ;T?cr/rsd rrfirr' : -flm- :" j ',■t'^^^■•^.t • •'^ci:3xvxb y/uai nl .nf>i::^s?t'c- Ill PROGRESS IN TEACHING AND RESEARCH The last four years have seen intense reviews of teaching and research in all areas of the University. The comprehensive divisions of academic activity are: (1) The physical sciences and technology.. (2) The life sciences, agriculture and health. (3) The social sciences, education and law. (U) The humanities and the fine arts. In each of these great areas there has been extraordinary progress; this we owe to staff members who are highly competent in their chosen fields. Some of these men have been at Illinois for a long time; others have come here within the last four years. To an already distinguished faculty we have been able to add nationally known experts in many fields - for example, in the genetics of corn and of cattle, in mathematics, statistics and machine calculation, in archi- tectural design, in physics, chemistry, physiology and geology, in clinical and educational psychology, in the practice and philosophy of education, in economics and business management, in insurance, inter- national finance, and labor relations, in dramatic production and staging, in the theorj' and practice of communication, in veterinary pathology, in food technology, in medical chemistry, in musical composition, in Latin- American culture - to name a few that come to mind. Other experts are working in areas classified as secret by the armed forces. -22- ■'... l;i ■:};uJvii; 'jvj;c,n-.ii3 iCjfWj jjil ."^J j.c'i'SivinfJ ori ' to' ej^ei** lie ni rioifisesT :<»'rp ytrv htoB ntnT'^bBOB ' ni.ij . ft iifssoria lisii t nw-;-"'; vIIrnottB^ hbs ■'■*■ yUir. ;:'--id ^^-j^r! ^v^ r.\r-r.,-:'^ ;'=>,•- ;,,v.r- •■o-.r^ ^- -'■■'--' -i'l yn&r ni ejtsq.x. -xrf»-t£ ni ^r- i/jbo •sn.rnosin oi ,:• snj-ta,ri«.ta ^83i,:tem;^;i.ti , .iW^en io \;f..T:-soIirjq bofi joit : .iSiq -suJ a . IsnoiJi.:oi.'rs bns Xsoinxlo -f "X ni , . ea^ninttd bn« Bnj.iion-'io'a rrr ^not+fl^vb? ' ' «•/. riojsv ex . o 1o 93i.T « -cioariJ ^tji nl ^■•»'K-'9e G3'i/? ni gnxi/TOW -23- Physical Science and Technology The Big Betatron On February 2h, 19^0, I received a dramatic announcement from Professor Donald ¥. Kerst, the inventor of the betatron, as follows: "We obtained a beam of radiation on the very first trial, Wednesday afternoon, February 1$, 1950, Tests the next day showed our electron beam to be so intense that it will exceed all others in this country in producing radiation. We expect, there- fore, to carrj"" on research here that can be done nowhere else. On subsequent brief trials the beam has been pushed upward to higher and higher voltage and we are now approaching the full operation point of 300 million volts. We are delighted that the instrument has come to life immediately on the completion of the 15-month assembly period, because other accelerators are re- quiring periods exceeding a year to get a beam." The betatron began as pure research at the level of mathematics and abstract physical concepts. Computations led to walls of concrete and lead, to magnets and a source of electric power - all in one function- ing machine. The process of construction was itself a rich vein of teaching material to scores of advanced students . Long before the big betatron had been completed, a smaller unit had been constructed and put into service in the study of cancer and other medical problems. The basic and the applied, the scientific and the technological, the master and the student - marched forward together. This is an illus- tration of progress in a university. Engineering Mathematics, physics and chemistry are the principal sciences that support engineering technology. The Nation has long known the excellence of these three departments. I have been told by a man who should know, himself a leading chemist of this centuiy, that the Chemistry Department of the University of Illinois is the best in the United States. Similarly the Physics Department is near the top and mathematics gains rapidly. -cS- noil Jr.im^onuonnii oWen •r»ci9i I ^OS^I «ji- Tf!^'-''"^'*'^ ^^ « • - X..' ■ ■ ■ ^ •■■•■■• :ri 9r(J- lo noWaXqmc).') art-J- n<: '{,1 . oJ snioc- sfi! - tani -31 SIC BT ^I •'P ^:. •• • .3c;j*t -j'ii'q as ."J69jd ncWiJJSii oriT al'j'ionoo lo aXJavr oJ- brjl enoxtjsjfqinoD .aiqeonoo I^- r-rJad* br.'- to ni3V \ioJn & 'li'ja.Ji asw noitOin.Hnoo ";o assoo-tq &!ti . ^n j./ioj8iE gn. * 5iO'^9d • -9 bsorRvhP "^o as-iooa of Ic'^stRm ^a'air o.. . . .- D^Jofr:*'- ■" ' tU3^9lqrao3 naaci .5ra9l •?(•! 'ifiu^fo one ^9^ Jta srl.t ^i aaxvrw oJn. . V ■ :ei9vi:nv s ni a&9T;,'.iq lo noWsi" ajor.j^ci: ifiqic.iji'xq 'in' 9'i£ '{;•;.>• jjia'aui oii£- 3JX£"^1. r-'-T ;7<--T E yd bic.t j-ra^d 3v<-:-' •.Tn;r:.+'rtc9b '^^•1^,+ '^serft "^c '9*.-:- ■siI^oxt; vxl■'3JLiu.••♦^;J ^i,3 JsiiJ- ^'ijifL-Jnaa -.Id. ;. ■^c. i:o£,3 L £ .a9*£j-a beirn? .»fiJ . tontlL 'to .fne -2ii- Moreover, the engineering sciences, in their own right, have moved forward in research, instruction and public service. The most notable improvements in physical equipment have been the addition of the Mechanical Engineering Building, the Electrical Engineering Building and the Physics Research Laboratory. Much equipment for instruction and research has also been added, some of it built on the design of members of the staff. In many instances the shop facilities of the departments involved have been used. There has been a marked expansion in the co-ordinated fields of research and graduate study. The Electrical Engineering Department has developed a program covering the field of vacuum tubes, antennas, radio direction-finding, ultrasonics, infra-red, semi-conductors and power line analysis. The vacuum-tube laboratory is especially well equipped. The number of graduate students in electrical engineering last year exceeded 200, and 103 students received advanced degrees. Similarly, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the entire undergraduate program has been revised, and new courses and programs have been developed in the graduate field. The graduate enroll- ment has increased to over 80. The co-operative research program, sponsored by the National Warm Air Heating and Air Conditioning Association and the Institute of Boiler and Radiator Manufacturers, has made note- worthy contributions. The Civil Engineering Department has continued to be the leading department in its field. The scope and breadth of its research work is common knowledge among engineering firms over the country. In addition, the Engineering College has several committees at work studying how to make our graduates better prepared as citizens as well as technical experts. SV£:r '.'ilea t, . f!99d 3Vijr! tiiamqicpo- A :8om ed: ■ '.! j-ii^iiji-v :.j)- .■ 'Sivui^a ..30' .■ '^ J- '.i snc ..'iic ;.: ■ .■•i/aii.;"^;. . no il'risd ii. r 3d osla asrs rioiBse- rct-touxtaf 2?xJ'xIiofi'i ... -.f 29or.fif-f!J v.rsni nl .^Ij; -i-isd-r • rt!?ib 5rJ' .i.53u .:>sa c-v£ii aavIov.Tj: £^i:ni.',tTsq!vb sfij io . • ' ' -rr-*;-^ "■■ . — .TTifi.'3i'v --.^rfpno '*^,i£ ,?. ■"5'TosI'> fcgfifTBvhP bavf^i^T 3:fr""'V»te fn/ i9b?9or9 i^njs se. .ins ,b'je.r/9'T nssd asri . ■ .u 9iitn9 fioiJ'j5ir'&-:?,A siii/icx.+xbnoO ixA bi,.- mitsW ' .•^tctncqz ei : . 03 9,"IT rit ad oJ .•.■■■• Inror orf.' ■-.:« ^v:^ ■;.~r; .?, -- f-^, f •.•"•, -■^ n'^.'^i:'?'-"^ ?- ' ■•'-',.•..• r'lTff. •rg'^'r ■ ij'JIP'.'. • - • • ' ir.ts j^- , "i.\-i fro f - ■■'•^ if rs!-; f' -25- Chemistry and Biochemistry In the Department of Chemistry aLmost the whole range of chemical events is studied and taught. There is a world-wide demand from other institutions, from industry and government for graduates of this Depart- ment. Its researches are notable, some of them - on amino acids, synthetic rubber and processes in chemical engineering - having played an important part in the war effort. For the eleventh time in 16 years, a graduate of the division of chemical engineering has received a first prize from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Members of the chemistry staff are literally loaded with honors! The jump from basic studies in the field of chemistry, whether on the Urbana -Champaign campus or in Chicago, to health and the profession of medicine is easily made. The division of biochemistry at Urbana has been extremely productive. In the Department of Biochemistry in the College of Medicine, laboratories and courses of instruction have de- veloped rapidly. The science of chemistry is being applied steadily to the main source of all food - the earth. The University continues to lead in the study of soil fertility. Last year nearly one-third of all the soil testing in the United States was done in Illinois - chiefly in the 80 farmer-owned county soil testing units under the direction of the Univer- sity's central laboratory. Geology and Geography Long steps forward have been made in the last four years by the Departments of Geology^ and Geography. There has been added to struc- tural and descriptive geography an emphasis on the values of these sciences to commerce, industry and military affairs. These two departments have Tf jSs-abt: ',> .'. ,' 'J Pi Jr rifi b"-- sJ-sf'L .119; vtxnqqG a 3 Ir- :•?--•'■-! Fa -r '■' £ '' ■ fro j"'" ■•.<='}■ o"!>' .i-Tieni . '"'5R':) ^ J-3 OiSfiC ■. '■Tf'ir •' •..'r 9r■ lOO g»7 vd< ! .' ■'f'-' c "fid STr. !V -26- led the way in surveying teaching materials, dropping out topics which, because of the changes in world events, had a low priority. By a fortunate arrangement, the University now has access to a most important geological area. It has established a simmer laboratory and teaching \init at Fort Lewis in southwest Colorado, New forms of co-operation with the Natural History and Geological Surveys likewise have added to the vitality of teaching and research in these basic areas. Aviation The Institute of Aviation, an agency that unites many divisions of the University into a single task force, has completed its fourth full year of operation. During this time it may be noted that: The aircraft maintenance curriculum has been developed. (1 (2 (3 (U (5 (6 (7 (8 (9 (10 (11 A charter air service for University staff members has been established. The "Illinois Plan" for private pilot flight instruction has been developed. Tests have been constructed which make the University the only school in the United States permitted to give its own commercial pilot written examinations. All possible surplus equipment which could be used by the Institute has been obtained. The airport has become a "going concern." The public ser-vices of the Institute have been extended. Co-operative aeronautical research has been intensified. Extension publications have been increased. Extension education and information by conference and radio have been developed, A fleet of University-owned aircraft has been maintained. jfTirrqo'ib ^3X6r■t'»»J^p•1I ■•^n r.rioB^f na f\;3V'f.i!Z ,'i yjsw •sriJ' bei .V-: ■- .jr.-' ... '9§nerir •• ■ "'- ^- : p*^^- ' ^vsri 36x^:3:^ • leaigoIosO bns x^oiztii Lbiu&b'A 9ri^ ri:fJniT no Ms'iaqc-o-j no.t-'£xvji nosci a«ri aiacj csiJii! 'i7.i>ja v"'r3"isvxnU lol aoxvtsa lit; • a o> nciioutizai irigxll d-oixc, gJ-svx'iq 'lol "nsH sxonilll'- jiil (C) srfj- •/txaiovrnU sriJ^ 9>ism lioxrlw be.+'jiniiRnoo ne-^d avsn s.te^T (ii) ' -:• •:- - r-j-tipTsq BQfziZ ba-tin" ar'd- ni locdoe vino . ? • ■; O i T £ ri f "' '->'=» f'^ !*■ * / T W .to ! f T r ? i; C l r^TWO *? :?hi/ 'ii: ;:,i^su a,.' ^.-Lt'Oy fiyx:iW «n;>:.ii.;j.;';.:'V> 'iuj rH'o -< lO .t.;awi.; j..i.^ (^) ".ri'i;3i)o.'V! iiiii '■' ■■ i;^*ii- ^:.' \,o,i ,bebnetx9 fl^sd svBri 9tx/^ivtaril sri* 1o aaoh'f '• ? sdT (T) .buir'^ Jsn^-tfif: n-39d aeri rimjGoasi: Isn rjcjsncf^s ?vx.+.c-foan-'5? (C) ..h.-^aBaiof-.i nascf avBil snoiijsrtxijjjq nciaa^j^i-i i,\ ; bns sonstslnoo yd noWsn-tolni: bna nolcfaotrbs nolarratx^ (01) ,b9qr./'»v9b n=^^ 9VBri oibfi't .b-^niafncBm iTjgd esd i'tsioiJts bsinvfo->c:H8iovxrtU "Jo J- a all. A (IX ■ -27- Air transportation involving 637 trips amounted to 391,122 passenger-miles in 19U9-$0. (The mileage was 68,000 in 19U6-U7, 128, OUO in 19U7-U8 and 292,318 in 19U8-U9.) The Life Sciences, Agriculture and Health The three broad areas - the life sciences, agriculture and health - are allocated to many different departments and colleges on different campuses. Nevertheless, they are closely allied with one another. Thus the production of foods goes back to the chemistry of soils, to genetics and breeding, to the role of bacteria, viruses and photosynthesis in all life processes. It calls for engineering, espe- cially in the food processing stages. Bacteriology Because of war-born changes in problems, points of view and methods of work, it has been feasible completely to reconstruct the Department of Bacteriology. Five major appointments have been made. Outside observers state that the University has created a strong depart- ment. Extensive research is under way in enzymes, virology and in other phases of microbiology. Physiology The Department of Physiology, during recent years a branch of the Department of Zoology, has now been organized as a separate unit. All courses of instruction have been revised and a nevir progrsim of research has been set up. Studies are being made of the physiology of respira- tion, of cell growth and development, of the primary conditions of physical fitness and of the effects of pressures and temperatures on reactions. At a basic scientific level, the Urbana -Champaign campus ■4r^- !P£ oi bslfiooiitfi ^zxu. bns 9^^<' • .ij srfT :o V'ld'c . ' 3boo^ 'to r.oiyaisbo-: . bns w^rv ' -.sldoTq ni assnsrto rrrod-TLsrsr 'r * •■ = - ■ . ■ - T'fgqeb ■ " • ).TS9-io SBri Yw''i:3i3ViT;U e.i"' isAs ajsja s-iev ^wC' ■■.~IT ^o rrc^nsTd s STS3'/- J-,TDG9-i '^cirTL'b . -.ricic J-- rr-^CT . '.'• riniB-^Ba-f "Jo mai^onq rts he- sv'Sil- nc i. Vdi. i;u« .;."wo 10 ^UOiJ .Tir.^.t r. .'0 IL.-. -28- oan supplement and support the distinguished work in physiology at the medical level in Chicago. Botany and Plant Breeding The Department of Botany has become a nationally recognized center for research in photosynthesis and cytogenetics. These are the areas in which basic questions are asked about the behavior of cells during reproduction and under the influence of sunlight. As so often happens, the enthusiasm and drama of research have broupht about a marked change in the contents of courses and in teaching effectiveness. This basic program supports and is fed by field studies in agriculture. There is, for example, the current corn breeding program of the Department of Agronomy. Plant breeders are trying a new drug called maleic hydrazide in their attempt to produce a male sterile hybrid and thereby eliminate detasseling in seed com production. (Detasseling in Illinois alone costs about $1,^00,000 each year.) Genetics and Breeding A great advancement in teaching and I'esearch is found in genetics and breeding. Some of the basic work, at the level of the cell, is carried on in the Department of Botany. This vrork is closely related to work in genetics and to field studies of breeding in the Departments of Animal Science and Dairy Science. It is reported that the number of Illinois dairymen who profit from the production testing of their cows has doubled in the past four years. Expansion of the arti- ficial breeding program, supervised by the University, has been still more rapid. Much research is directed toward an integrated attack on problems related to the economic production of milk. Illinois staff members presented more reports of scientific work at the annual meetings of the American Dairy Science Association than any other group. ;i; Rjc &ef-jja J.ntiE 10 r si biiB sc'toqijt'r i^T an. T« T f^rt* "f - *.. 1. 'i -^ f ■'r-t >.. I'v.. • t: • i:., J,. jodp eizvn Qnnla e 80x.J=»n ?:'- b.'iB •tin A Ic c:ii-:.3m.t-rts~9(3 .91 sr: -29- Public Health and Preventive Medicine In 19U9-50, after an intensive review of facilities and personnel, a Department of Public Health and a Department of Preventive Medicine were created at the College of Medicine. Chicago, Cook County and the State of Illinois offer one of the best field laboratories in the world for training in public health. The University of Illinois graduated its first nurse in June, 1950. This event coincided with the establishment of the University of Illinois-Cook County School of Nursing. This new service was augmented by the development of an affiliated program for hospital schools of nursing. Medical Research The Aeromedical and Physical Environment Laboratory has been constructed at a cost of $UO0,00O. It has already led to the execution of Army Air Force contracts in the amount of $60,000, A 25-million volt betatron was installed on the Chicago Pro- fessional campus in January, 19U9, at a cost of approximately $150,000. Equipment worth $20,000 was provided by the American Cancer Society and the sum of $30,000 for grants-in-aid was received from the National Cancer Institute. Experimental treatments of high promise are going on. The researches in the College of Medicine on peptic ulcer, high blood pressure, mumps, typhoid carriers, mental disease, epilepsy, rheumatism, allergy, bone diseases and nephritis are noteworthy. The increase in research activities in the Chicago Professional Colleges is indicated by the fact that a total of approximately $600,000 for grants-in-aid to research was made in 19U9-50 - more than five times that made in 19U6. ■■■■I I ■ iiai- n II nil II .■■^■■■■ n ij - M i^M Ml — ii 111 H I iMr ■■■■^1 ni; ashroifiT-'daX bl'^il ;^asd «r?vt "lo^ sao lOtlo gjorrrJTIT ^o ad'£^S 9.-ft or.e .-:*'"' --^ ■ ^^c- -■ ^n..^ .. ■ . '-'- bj.'i^... -. :■ "'■is'^^vir'"' "^fl: ' '■.'jir'.'i 3 .ffc's ■+■?'* ^fft Hf/"' bsb.r^r.Joo trffv"? sfrfl lo eloorioa.Iscfiqaorf io1 niBigoiq batcfj rfiB nB It: +n9(tiqol9V9b sri* yd - ,nf' '■?.": -■:■. ens yi'^ioo^ TsonjBO nso rrsraA -^nj "fd bsDivo-rq sfiv.' cOO, tow :tn'vi:qi:x;p3 ■■^■" 3:^n-^'^ji'i-iJ V __■ <-...u ./ro-^U.' oxJqsq ?ibsM lo 'o^alloD sdi ni ssrionss:;-?-! s.iT e9^3.[IoO Xfinox33^1oT=? ossoxriO arid' al asiJ-xvitts riote^ns-. r:l aassionx Tv^: ...L . . " ■ '. '. ;: - -^T o,-i.: •,.-- . . --^ ■- n-i i ."iT , Of ?9rri+ ovxl ftjoikf arcm - Or-'^y^I iii sbBm Sj^w .riife^etit oo Lujs-iri-isJiiBi^ -30- Postgraduate Education With the financial assistance of the Kellogg Foundation, the Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry have conducted extension and post- graduate courses on a state-wide basis. Pharmacy and Dentistry For some years, the staff of the College of Pharmacy has been at work on courses and curricula, on the problem of securing essential drugs from natural- sources and on the development of research programs for pharmacists. This was done in the interests of safety, purity and high professional standards in the handling of prescriptions. The first steps have been taken toward a doctoral program. The College of Pharmacy has been designated by the American Society of Allergy as the home of the only authentic herbarium of North American plants and, pollens. The Drug Plant Experiment Station near Lisle, Illinois, is an active center of plant breeding for drug bearing plants. One of the goals is a safe stockpile of plants yielding rare drugs for use during national emergencies. The College of Dentistry has devoted itself to experiments in methods of teaching and to the development of the arts and techniques of dental surgery. An attack is being made on the cause and prevention of dental caries. The investigation of the prevention of dental caries ty ammoniated dentifrice among school children was initiated two years ago and the findings will soon be announced. Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine The Department of Animal Husbandry has been divided into the new Departments of Animal Science and Dairy Science. Among other re- searches in Animal Science, the staff has been conducting experiments ^ptfbf"r> )'f!gj>c>« ^'* iTI' iirvO; >VV%;j "5: •fC .+IC . ir^iyJe^-: , ^roi-far; i o :*! . /?n i" , .i:. -J ; -^ ,-^ f- f f rs :-• ^r*i> '"."^r UijJW'j.r ri-r>«8J n«9Cl •?9a( si'sf -.-r.fi.-ii ,«»C^?T .L O.^) 4« .-- . -.••i i_.' ..-;j,z^_ r ;vv . ' ^ ■^.0 :3vnx ?iT .='o>f3- Te- • CO. jf: ironas a iM v-ri!n/^-^*5V bnfi -^^nnh*.? iBtnlnA -31- on the growth requirements of young animals. Lately it has reported that a group of 20 experimental chicks reached an average weight of one pound at four weeks of age. This weight is about twice that which has long been considered normal. Research with experimental rations under con- trolled conditions has also led to the doubling of the growth rate of young pigs, with some lots reaching an average weight of 70 pounds at eight weeks of age. The new veterinary medicine building will be completed next year. It viill be one of the finest buildings to be found in the 16 veterinary colleges in the United States. Utilizing temporary housing and facilities, the College enrolled 2k students in 19U8 and 2k additional in 19 U9; this year, 3k new students will be admitted to the 6-year course of instruction. A large number of nonprofessional students receive training in courses offered by the College of Veterinary Medicine. Food Technology A new Department of Food Technology is actively at work. It was created to train students, conduct research and otherwise serve the food processing industry. Yifith respect to both magnitude and diversity, the State of Illinois ranks near the top in the largest of all manu- facturing industries - food processing. The new department includes all dairy manufacturing activities. Food technology work is in the "tooling- up" stage - in chemistry, microbiology, processing and engineering. A pilot plant is nearing the operatinf?; stage in temporary quarters. .91 Ci3 -32- Social Science, Education and Law "The proper study of mankind," said Alexander Pope, "is man." In a sense, the only University study is man. Telescopes are pointed at the skies and electron microscopes at infinitesimally small things in order to msike a contribution to human understanding. The great machines in Talbot Laboratory smash cement blocks and bend steel girders in order that we may find out how to build stronger buildings and bridges. The University's $000-acre Dixon Springs Experimental Farm in southern Illinois is operated so that we may get better sustenance from the earth. Every program of the University, in one way or another, is expected to push back the horizon of knowledge and to improve the conditions of life. But the area primarily charged with studying human structures and behavior is the social sciences. Here is centered scholarship and teaching about mental and emotional behavior (psychology); social behavior (sociology); political behavior (political science); economic behavior (economics and commerce); the origins and development of cultxire (anthro- pology); how man learns and may be taught (education); the laws that govern in society; communications and special social problems such as labor and industrial relations. This is an important area of any modern university. In a state university, especially, social sciences should be strong. Space permits only a few illustrations of what is happening in this vast area. In the College of Commerce and Business Administration a study of the educational program has resulted in a substantial modification of the undergraduate curriculum. The emphasis is on liberal education, on a wider range of choices available to students, on raising standards of performance and on adjusting the professional part of the curriculum to >e- ; -'TM TOfit;. .ric)"ie'3i srit moil: anrrsr! .-©"ill "^.0 ' -1 ^; • I.; ' J- |i;. vbtftp s nfii?g-t'+r f" j(nh.' "•'i^n.'arjt fro ,-.^-.» ■ --'^-^ M-n* sS^ffoO i»rit ni osiirjooo asd rf-?';!. 139-1 ni ^ijamcci^v^b 9t«isqs3 OCX :?vo bsJetf y^oJ'navni inso':- . '' •-"' '-■ ■'^* '^ninub is ncxtaorjbe lo ypL'jQ Is^: iq sr.t ni lo^ir bns el II t^c rrvo-:} ear. no^Js .jjiJS iji.oissj- 'tc nse' .•:i.v-\;Jxa rov.'i.'l; ^ai nc xJss xrts? to bstiJTgsirsl-XXaw fl o^ aaiob'sco :q yiRtcqjso.* lo eerirja s noil i;f;£nnq lis jiit-uibni; ; 9t« odw e/nabuta XoorJoe riairt Oxt ofo'sXi^va ebsm raod sari sont 'txaeA -3h- considering teaching as a profession. Counseling services have been provided for students who enter a teacher training curriculum. Each of the 19 four- and five-year curricula approved in 19U5 has been modified and, in addition, 10 new curricula have been formulated and approved, including preparation for teaching in an elementary school and teaching handicapped children. The placement service has been vitalized and a follow-up divi- sion added. This latter division, established only a year ago, has developed working contacts with l,llU graduates of the University. Enrollments in undergraduate teacher training curricula have increased from 1,$00 in September, 19U6, to 2,33U in September, 19U9. The revision of the undergraduate program has resulted in an improved series of courses, student teaching on a full-time basis in selected schools throughout Illinois, and more functional work in edu- cational psychology. The graduate program of the College of Education has also been modified extensively to meet, in a more meaningful and individual manner, the needs of persons ivho are preparing for professional work in education. The number of graduate students with majors in education has increased 2U5 per cent during the past four years. Of the 10,5l8 different graduate students registered in the first and second semesters of 19U9-50 and the summer session of 1950, U22U had majors in education. The staff has been increased ty 100 per cent during the past three years. The newer appointees and persons already on the staff have rapidly developed into an effective team. During the past year alone, the staff published 60 research reports and $3 books or substantial pam- phlets. Twenty-two members of the staff occupied important positions in professional organizations. ••J,'. ,li.l UU- 'S-'J.i. ... V . . .v.tr?.'i'^vt''U ?nt I0 ^.gJr-irbP'^T! .'JlXtX diivf 3^.ofid-noo gnxritow fasqalavoo , . _ ^ „ . ■ -. ,-^',- - v >■ riff-, fffi.^ ,.(r». r ■' ■■ r; frtari T r.-f'. -i.'b5 nx 'A'To-M Ic-noiiomi'i sfom bn« ,8JtoniI tTsm'Sfn IsjLibivibnl bna li/lsf^xnfiera '^iion fi ni tSoar .vie/i^.tx^ boT. .f'oxisou:,- r' ■ "-■ >-.-^^-' ->".--" --r> ",- rA-^,-^,:; ^r;-: orfr; ano:"r?:; 'tn s, bsBisatont 8Bn noxJsoub© nx etotsm d.) iv/ aJHs-ovJa s»i(ii;b*iTca 'to t^' en.; .one ■..'-•> Vi:'.' - 10 a-ia.*^ •■'« ■-: wv ... . r . ^ ...r^...;(ix - ' . .^^r, 'i.- ^- ■. ';^d£ :? Tr, £.f~"?5 r";) ba."! :;.+'ro!7'?"r '''^fij^^tOT Oi^ b«»ri8 ''r<^iro 'tli'-J'a 9dt ieE9lo-jq -35- Members of the staff have been leaders in the Illinois Secondary- School Curriculum Program. This program, sponsored by the State Super- intendent of Public Instruction, has won national recognition. Three hundred school systems in Illinois are presently participating in this Program. Six-sevenths of the school principals of Illinois and approxi- mately 8000 teachers and laymen have attended one or more workshops sponsored by the Program. In addition, the staff of the College completed, during the past year, 2U surveys that ranged from a building survey to comprehensive studies of an entire educational program. The Illinois State High School Testing Service has tested, during the past four years, about 180,000 students in 700 different high schools. The Elementary English Journal , Progressive Education and the Illinois Secondary School Curriculum Program Series now have headquarters in the College of Education. Physical Education and Recreation In the last four years the School of Physical Education has prescribed curricula leading to: (a) the Bachelor of Science in Health Education, in order to train teachers of health for public school service and (b) to the Bachelor of Science in Recreation, in order to train recreational leaders and administrators for service to public, industrial and commercial agencies. The capstone is now supplied by a degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Physical Education. One of the finest programs of its type is Illinois 's research and teaching program in physical fitness, The goal is to help men and women to remain fit in heart, muscle, diet and skill at all age levels. As a University facility and as a laboratory for the training of leaders in hesilth education and recreation, the recreational offerings -c'' •1^ - .-; r-ir, r • vrrfT .nos&in^nn^t iKfrortr ^ "lo +rrf»};r -.rxo^acE one BiontiJ.I 'to ^l&atontrq ioorbe 9t*i lo BriJnevM-xi;' at-ji~i&^:iii iivzri won e^ito<:. iTf-fic-rl in;;Xr. o>tf;n Icoric' esri noi^js')!-. ^vff'I xr Ic^^na 9riJ- 8*Tfi9^ luol tad sriJ -' ■:.y latrrc < ■S9t095T ni 9 on ©Id 8 lo tol-^tiofia -^ /i) bna I''-"' ■.'■:''a TO' f^-Totr-^^-^n f,-! r.-:':, . ■ c.-<-r.j,- -> s -^j jaeii-qqus './on ax 3nuJoqoO St.; .eaiord^s »' .'.->^ftoimco n;;(j ''..TLPTT^o-f .rru.riB0i/b3- ISO- 5J!:)2^r(n .j'j^\7ii nx -Jxl niBai'S-i c r unj» iit^.i ^I^ £fit>8 ari^ -36- of the campus are being expanded. Plans are being set up for the creation of a state-wide community recreational service. Allied with our growing work in public health, social welfare and clinical psychology, it should prove beneficial. Communications In the field of communications, the University has devised a new organization that has attracted nation-wide attention. For several decades the mass media of press, radio and film have grown in importance to higher education. Universities have been asked to train professional personnel for these media. Educational broadcasting stations, university presses and educational film libraries have been developed. More and more, these media have been used in teaching. Now that we face the pro- spect of higher campus enrollments in the middle 1950 's, and of a greater need for extension courses throughout the State, these mass media will prove to be an essential part of the University's program. With this future in mind, we have created a Division of Communications, headed by a dean who, with a policy committee, has the assignment of integrating the work in this field and of developing the program. The School of Journalism, a leader in the field for a quarter century, has become, in this new organization, a School of Journalism and Communications, offering work in journalism, radio and advertising. The Library School, second largest in the Nation, has added to its program advanced degrees and a series of courses dealini^ with the use of audio-visual materials. Broadcasting services have been over- hauled with the addition of new programs and personnel. Beginning some- time this winter we should be on the air with a 50 kilowatt Ffl station. _.^f_ c'^^rscrx'^ -an i '{.•■'.-rifsr -^t^.i !<" j:iJ:v;r;ig 'iif fori* '3-:s't/9vr LbIocb ^r Cb '01^ "•'.":* «VG-.'; B h6i .tx3'i9vin'J Si1i , .t i^.!: '.-t-^'^Q ','•'*■ -OIC 9d''' sort 3"? t?': • '-'VCi '■-'■ 'I'*' t^TTu. £^ ■ '• ■ '.^^^xa ri:^!'* ,oriw nB9i> fi V ■ - -^11 r -f r-.f -^.i-* -^i r Iff!*' P.^'^t; '£ S' ."* ■ I" .- .pre r.!/ •.i 'J C '»T'!«r?('- 1 tiij n Ttf \, ■'-•'■--■■ ri'.\:\ci^^oJfoiiq jgm.; •-fOi'^iU.- e;i\' L.I . '.•■•»: I > I I III! i n II :i^£ al i'^Tse.t :\> ■y.'iT.^ . !•• lu i.n -38- process of interaction of labor groups with those of management and other groups - all in relation to common social goals and the public interest. The University of Illinois is recognized as a major center in this field of knowledge. Three main aspects of the work have been devel- oped. An extensive research program is \inder way, seeking to analyze the basic relationships between labor, management and the public in American society. Graduate students are being trained for work in manage- ment, government, labor and education. The curriculum is centered- in a master's degree in labor and industrial relations. Extension activities in this area, under the general sponsorship of the Division of University Extension, provide classes and conferences over the State to meet the educational needs of labor, management and public groups. They are well received. Law For a number of years the College of Law has been working toward a comprehensive program of expanded service to students, lawyers and the people of the State. This concept has been given the name, "Law Center." Two elements of the concept have already been realized and a third has been approved for 1951. The University of Illinois Law Forum , a quarterly magazine, first appeared in the spring of 19U9. It is built around the symposium idea: each issue covers several aspects of a single topic. Topics are chosen, with the aid of an advisory committee of lawyers , from among those questions which are of pressing interest to members of the bar of this State. A second activity is a program of short courses for lawyers. The first of these was held in November, I9I48; L^Rnerr: o.i-ff^ 'Vf> r»)>/^*^r>«^c nt •fjtms TOfp-'r; s a ;i*i iiSfus' -Jsiv^ ir/rr '3f?i br'e jT- •a;?:?7,Br;5rr . '-.dEL ri'onfsd roj.-fr^i'T" r-f-'I^T oicfid •-■;d.* 3n.t tsL/rx; jSeifi elrlJ' nx vtc ?»ri'' Tovo c^r\"9VX9T9T -~-_. , . _ if I ... ■r^yroz ai^vo" Tj'i'ii r'rifis "!f'i:3ocr:r^3 9r*+ '."votb . rioiriv/ anoxiaai^p 980iit -^noniP. mcTl ,3i9v,v.«I Ic .hii.;_i ,-t:. ■ . ■ To'i s^os-ti--') yrcne ji..^.-.u-j .-> J-Ixt -39- since then these courses have been held three times a year. The support of these two projects by the legal profession has been enthusiastic. The third step will be to offer graduate work in law. Graduate work vdll be an intrinsic part of the research and educational aspects of the center. Other aspects of the Law Center must await the attainment of new physical facilities for the College of Law. So much by way of illustration of what is happening in the social science areas; let me add that work in anthropology has now been established at Illinois (the Department of Sociology has become the Department of Sociology and Anthropology); that the Speech Clinic has moved into a new home where it may expand its widely known services; that a Speech Research Laboratory, equipped with excellent scientific apparatus and headed by nationally known personnel, has been established in mini Hall; that the Division of Social ^^/elfare Administration has been given independent status; that the Department of Psychology, long known for its work in experimental psychology, has developed remarkably during the last few years in the fields of social and clinical psychology; that the Institute of Oovernment, established several years ago at the request of the General Assembly, will have its ovm director this year and will accelerate its program. The Humanities and the Fine Arts This is said to be an age of science and technology. It is characterized by the discovery and use of techniques for the mastery of physical events. Since the purposes for which things are used are more important than the things themselves, this age, more than any previous 1^ ."■ L'- J.l. J. ■ OR to o'<^fi nc 9d -. et siriT aitoi^^aic] ■ . ,e e.iriJ »2 -liO- one, needs to establish a system of right and wrong that will be univer- sally accepted. A failure to do this will bring disaster on a new scale. Moral values - concepts of the good, the just and the true - are what hold the culture of a people together. They give it distinctive characteristics. Philosophy reveals values and compares them with those that have emerged elsewhere. Literature presents them as they affect the lives and aspirations of persons. The classics reveal how great questions have been dealt with down through the ages. Esthetic values also distinguish one culture and one era from another. Ideas of the beautiful, of the appropriate have influenced the design of apparel, of dwellings and monuments, of paintings, sculptures and musical compositions. All such ideas are saturated with emotional appeal. How each, person feels is not only important to himself but also to the world at large. The decision to make wsir or peace may come in this way. The images that cause tears or smiles, rage or compassion, rejection or sympathy differ from folk to folk and from time to time. These images are developed in the works of creative artists - in poetry, music and the other fine arts. The door to all societies and to all ages is opened by the humanities and the fine arts. Library The University Library is a truly great repository of the products of man's creative efforts. On June 30, 1950, the Library held 2, 383*500 volumes, representing an increase of 379,800 volumes in a four- year period, an average increase of 9U,900 volumes per year. The average for each of the past three years has been over 100,000 volumes, a rate of growth exceeded only by Harvard and Yale, At present Illinois ranks first in size among state universities and third among all American universities. -Oii- • •'■-■ ' ' ■ "; -^^'-'''t-; s.iLia'ii.'jp moil 61;- 9no bns g^rntlyo 9nc iieiijgni.JSiO oats p.^iii&v oiiariie"? r^or^ ?"?H .If-O'Tcr. ifinoiiofii'i dJlv/ b3,+;?-.'Cf.t£3 .;•■''•,-■■•.-: rfo^s ■.-£ 1JJ.-1G7,' ant oJ oslsi Jtrd ! luanifl c: o+ns^t-toqrai ^-tf^*-' -^^^'i sc alo&l noeijq ■3iiT .YBW eiriJ ni entoo tc&t ^'OB'-n to -ib'.v sjiBin o.+ noxeiogb sriT S'SgjBfnJ >o9rji .a-iUi Ov)" iJiaiJ moil onk, isioi oj Axoi jmvr'i T^Tiib y**^-~' fif!:^ one. olaim , V-T-^soq ni: - eje.r.^is svcisato lo sjftow «»!it ni b^no.C^veh ^is .BJTS =>ai: 9rii bns 3sxi.cn£ini/fi 9ti) hXsri ■•{ifitoij 9dt «05^X tCj; 3ni/I. nO . .8.tio'»>9 ^vtSB^no e'cwn Io s^oubotq Io &^iiT 6 ,89ffiuXov OC . ^vo nea f zeii qig^x s^*^- ' ^o sioBa lol &z'il1 z-la&i a2-nt.!IT ScijZr . :r7 trii^ h-, vtsK vf « rx-^ /ftwi- .••4&i"xa'i3viau ii&r.j,L.i..i.-. . ji t>'ii;;jj jljos asi-^iaiovixw i.iou'i t-.. ^a nx -ia- Diiring these four years, the Library has acquired some notable collections, for example: - The Ward library on parasitology and microscopy, one of the largest and most important in the field, - The Oberholser ornithological library, which was the leading collection in private hands. - European wartime publications; 37,000 volumes obtained through a Library of Congress co-operative project. - Many volumes of rare and early printed books and manuscripts, particularly for the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries in English literature. - Extensive additions to the collection on labor and industrial relations, - A comprehensive collection of contemporary Spanish literature. - The Oppolzer mathematical library. - A remarkable collection on organ building and manufacture. - A collection of 50,000 United Nations documents. The University of Illinois Foundation's gifts of sets of Audubon's Birds of America and of a facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible were noteworthy. For this four-year period, the recorded use of the Library was more extensive than at any other time in its history, with an average of nearly 1,250,000 volumes per year. In the field of public relations, three programs were carried on by the Library, aimed at stimulating reading and informing the community of our resources. These were the weekly "Library Hour," the "Library Presents" radio program and exhibitions of library materials. Fundamental changes were made in the Library School curriculum in 19U8. In line with extensive revisions in the field of library educa- tion going on throughout the country, the School's faculty overhauled 'COGBl 'U- : xLra^x.i 'j. '. ,e- OilJ^/i ^JjbVi*^! lrtfi^r lo m ■o --,ffn> _ '-^Uu ;'>->r.'},r„ i.i.ij L -i.1/ J ,';_ In ;» • :. ;j*;i ■97." " Tr *^4 ■"• y^\ o. ! ',?'/'- ir. UiJ Itij -U2- its entire program, beginning at the junior-senior level and continuing through the doctorate in library science. In 19h9 the Library School sponsored the Windsor Lectures in Librarians hi p. These lectures, dealing with new problems, are delivered each spring and are published by the University of Illinois Press, Festival of Contemporary Arts One of the original developments in the field of fine arts has been the Festival of Contemporary Arts. It was held for the first time in the spring of 19U8 and is an annual event. This is a month-long occasion in which all the fine arts represented on the campus co-operate in exhibiting the best current work in their fields. At the time, an exhibition of contemporary American painting is hung in the Fine Arts building. Leading composers, conductors, poets, dramatists and artists take part in a carefully planned program of events. Visitors are numbered in the many thousands, and the Festival has the effect of making the Urbana-Champai gn campus a Mecca for all who practice or enjoy the arts. Extension and Off-Campus Developments The roots of the University of Illinois run deep in the lives and the hopes of the people who pay the taxes. The sturdy trunk of the tree is the staff and student body in residence on the several campuses of the University. The great branches of this tree represent the University at work in the field through extension classes, conferences and special services. The major extension divisions are the Agricultural Extension and the Division of University Extension. The Agricultural Extension program, supported in part by the Federal Government, is an outgrowth of the original land-grant plan. Through the years, it has grown in r'fioX-ri' ^.t srriT .drt^VA renrf»r.r ^rp PJ9I Ic '^rr/r-^? ^rf* nx ^mi.. "^ " '"'"^- - Ji snj ii.: ::.£!, r iU noissooo na ,9rxi arii iA .ebfer^ tier :OVi' drjafTuo .ts^d srlr -j^/TiJ-icflilxs ni b'^T'-.dffujr SIS aiocTxei-V .etnovs lo nfitgotq bannslq yllxnaiBo s ni -ttsq 9;lood ^nuoooB mtsl COO^OJ: Io noUiJdJnisib 9riT C''l.mo:\ J &fjft noi'.+iSfTro'^n ■' ■ "' .?.'-"> Id (5■t°>■^^■>v bii;? ^..t .hf "'*. .■vr't.r"0'7 .rt';^9 • r ■ ■ ■ ■ ' -AJ Lie ': . .• (!l.t rj'rjimB"^ s/onlill" y-£^39w ;b "io ncJJ^Ii/oijTi abivr sdcf no/:;, ' ■ ■■ - ^ iGr^x in"^ Jsaor ??n* ^^ni-'tf^l centers in the larger high schools. This was a significant "assist," providing an educational opportunity to students, particularly veterans, vrtio could not be accommodated on any of the University campuses. Thirty high schools joined in the establishment of these co-operative centers, •with an opening enrollment of 3,100 freshmen. The second semester 3,600 enrolled, two-thirds of the students being veterans. It was understood that the entire venture was a temporary expedient from which the Univer- sity would withdraw as soon as the emergency passed. The management of the program was directed toward the fostering of local community schools that might continue as independent junior colleges. In spite of the Illinois school law, which is unfavorable to the rapid growth of the junior college, three such schools have been established. The number of students in credit correspondence courses has jumped in four years from 92U to 3,160. The students in noncredit courses have increased from 2,562 to 6,222. These courses are now being offered in hi counties (6U cities and towns). Excluding Allerton Park, the number of students enrolled in short courses and conferences has increased during the four-year period from 772 to 3,328, and the number of projects carried forward in special types of adult education has jumped from 10 to $8. The University of Illinois is serving the entire State through its lending library of educational films. The num.ber of films shipped to secondary and other schools has increased from U0,000 in 19U6-U7 to 60,000 in 19U9-50. An important addition to the University's facilities for extension and public service is the Allerton Estate near Monticello, presented to the University in 19U6 by Mr, Robert Allerton. The formal booizt^bciu CSV.' , .'■■-■.■ .^offa'.oon.; g-i -fen bLvoo otin ■, ■ -'■ •■-"1 .+i5fl.T JoniXII 00 TOlnt't 3? mo- :yt ■J-dil9J rroo T4 nx r. -•fr. )■ "fl-.r j^nibn'jl zii to"} asxJiiioBT: . .X) rroltlbbfi tne&'iaciinl nA 'M -Cd -U5- gardens and woodland areas have been thrown open to the public and are visited by several thousand persons each week. Long planning and con- siderable remodeling were required before the great house on the estate was ready for the use envisaged for it, but the work was completed and the house opened in 19U9. It is a confference center for the University and the State. The center can now accommodate 65 persons overnight, and several hundred for meals and meetings. In the first year of the use of Allerton House, nearly 10,000 persons came there to conferences and short courses. Off-campus forms of advanced professional and practical training have taken a dramatic turn. Through the College of Dentistry, for example, the University conducts the largest professional -educational extension program in the world. This is done by the transmission of the courses by telephone. The courses are now being attended by more than 12,000 dentists in 2$0 cities in North America. This extension work has proved to be of high value to dentists, especially in rural communities. The College of Dentistry was the first to use television for the presentation of postgraduate courses, and television is now emphasized in both on-campus and off-campus teaching. First trials have proved its value in surgery and in dentistry, and shortly it will be used in other areas. Clinical 5er'nfi3L'ori.' If.T>vt^ •'-'■ b?+xaiv bns bsd'slqnroo exjw >hc"'r 9!i+ trftf .ft '\o'y b'^f&flvci'^- ■.jpr/ er*+ f^"^ yf>ROT sbvt bns ,trij^xnio,vo anoBT^ 5d 'J^Bbonoooae won ri^o idJrtao sriT .slfiiS 9r?i brtf. br-.c ssorrste'irtp') oi a-torfj smso finnatsq '.>oL<^c'i xnBf'f: ,93i(Or noJ-ia^-A lo .3 5»2''.i»00 itoiir IfinciJ'ROjJba-IjBnox'.ealoiq ^Zf>:^i&I. 9fl^ sioi nnoo ytisiavifrn ad* j9lc _ ?o noisaimsneij srict' yji snob ax BxriT .biiow jtiJ nt wai ; i.^^t^udJ'xs 97oc: x6 bsbned'+B gnlsd v/on sib 898itroo 3riT ." J ci Bsaiaoo ©d* noian9t>:'? BcrfT .JSoxTemJi d'^ioH nx v^i^tx-? C^*^ nx sieiinafc CCO.Sf nfir'.i Ir-il'i- r.ii v^xii-O-^qas tStcxJi-iOi) o.t ajiav fi;^iri zc sa oJ bavctq ajsn «.iOw noxaivalect 98t» oi J^btH gift ar-v TrivJ-aitnafl "i-^ eriT .a"*!* ) ■woe ;:i noi^.tvyL^i tiP.r-, , em ;,•;<- o ^^iAribsig^ ;c.-' T''"' .k ?.+*-* ^'•t-m 3.'-* ir** 9Vi5r.' aitxT.* iQil% .gni.'ioBsJ suqciso-lio kas suqinfio-no iJ"od i!\l Lssiefirii-iiua 90 Iljw it '^IJ'toris fans »v'ri8x^n9b nx bnij Yisgiue rri ouXev eJ-i be-roiq Hsrf Bron*.I.tJ lo ^ix8iovxnU 9rf.* ^tcvr srit lo 930I0 eriJ ei. ^Bionilll lo dJ^aig 9ri>t lo ©XqoQo grii Ovt 39oxvi3g IfiLftoxeasloiq xf£m bg-rei-ii-ji .alK.HciBo^! lenoidBouba bne riaTfiaeaH sri't lo >i'iot.' t :-':& or,'* gnlbuXonx .\tK£ at ^oIoo±xol -U6- The University of Illinois undertook a co-operative program with the Museum of Science and Industry in 19ii8. The University also has produced two major exhibits for the Museum since the end of the war - "The JEracle of Growth" and "Cancer, The Story of the Wayward Cell." The Division of Services for Crippled Children provided treatment for a total of 9,075 children in 19h9. Clinic service was rendered to 6,016 children in all areas of the State . The Staff of the College of Medicine provided the medical service at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary. At that institution, more than 3,100 patients received bed care last year, and an additional 89,000 were seen in the outpatient clinics. The clinics and hospitals of the University of Illinois in 19U9-50 admitted 7,hlli patients to the hospitals for a total of 107,596 patient days and cared for 191,763 patient visits in the clinics. Other Programs and Services The trend is to weld curricular and extracurricular activities into a common life experience for the students. Thus residence halls have educational counseloi^, classrooms have "workshops," and great centers of academic and social experience, such as the Illini Union, offer some- thing of value to all students. Student Affairs Marked progress in this area has been achieved during the past four years. The wholesome influence of the Office of the Dean of Students has been extended to the Chicago Undergraduate Division and to the Chicago Professional Colleges. The establishment of a Division of Student Affairs at the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy is among the first of its kind. A new philosophy is being applied to the persistent problem of student discipline. Many troubles arise from a lack of opportunity to make the best use of leisure time. The plan is to reduce the occasions "dii- Sr- , . .- .... .... ::-. . ■• . -3 ^Tf^i'tftCfj L".; j.^i i-x .' c- -I ■,-.-^- ■. .. . -i ■ J . ■ .-■• - - ■ - 3X .oi:i. BaH-^/i-toS If ii,3ri:iifosi.tx3 fan* •xBl.ioi.nL.') bl9w o* 8i bns 8te^tn&o i'H^sv^ ixtii '\Eqc'i5i>iCiW»' svc; fT.oofeasIo tCTCiaSiiroo i£:i?i.-i;i;_.:F) :r/?r. -9OTC3 T»-t1o ^nclnV in J e« .lore ,« ■ :» Ifiiooe h.-F oi lo and- oc^ fanB noxelvia 9J-6r;D£'c»i3bnTI o'lsoirfO sri^ o^ b9ijfr3.;xs' ad*a' a»fl -U7- that call for disciplinary action, -with less emphasis on a system of penalties. Hence, an effort is being made to improve the recreational facilities for students. The mini Union and student organizations such as the Theatre Gaild enlist the active support of young people in a wide variety of creative activities. New assistant deans of men and women who devote their time to organized groups have led to marked improvement in inter- group relations. The work of the Security Office is outstanding. Other specific developments include the following items; - The Placement Service, established immediately after the war, with offices on the Urbana-Champaign campus and in Chicago, has grown rapidly. - The mini Center in Chicago has been remodeled into a unit serving the Placement Office, the Alumni Association and other divisions of the University. - Steady services have been given to foreign students through co-operation with the Department of State and the Institute of International Education. - The High School Guidance Conferences are in the hands of expert counselors. There has been increasing activity on the part of the students themselves. This is regarded as a sign of good health in the student body. For example, the Committee on Student Affairs, formerly composed of faculty members, is now a joint committee of students and faculty. The Student Senate has gained in strength through the additional authority granted to it, and students have been added to a number of University Senate committees and subcommittees. The following new functions in student life and welfare have been developed: - The Campus Chest is the outstanding fund-raising campaign on any campus in the country at the present time. i T.gJ- 'tc -, ■"-H.Vv»X ^ :.'S5if!if' •ij 901 tT; .'. Ofit •i9.Tlf5 xi£j::t? ibaaE?! . >3 .tnan. ; •- "io zbfiRn 'icii i'ii 9tc 69 on" oubj Isno i +jsr[t r> .BlOiC ■, <=• :3Vfifj atsllsw Jj/ie 9lii rrjsbuJ-a ni x.ir.-oo :'^J£ri->j :"59rro.r'3T':'b ~-----if{ -U8- - The Vocational Conference held in the fall of 19li9 was successful in its experimental form and is being sponsored in 1950 by the University. - A series of all-University lectures is supervised by a faculty-student board, - The President's Panel, with monthly meetings, gives a group of 30 student leaders the opportunity to present directly to the President numerous problems and to discuss them freely. - The University of Illinois Dad's Association has been reactivated with a County Chairman in each county in the State. It has a paid membership of nearly 3,000 and its own publication. The Mother's Association is being re- organized along similar lines. - A complete disaster organization has been established on the campus. This was begun at the time of a threatened tornado, but the plan would be helpful in other emergencies. Athletics Since September, 19U6, University of Illinois athletic teams have won nine Western Conference championships: two in track (19U7)j two in baseball (19i47, 19U8), one each in football (19U6), wrestling (19U7), basketball (1919), fencing (1950), and gymnastics (1950). Six of these teams also gained national recognition in post- season competition. The 19U6 Illini football team won the Rose Bowl game of January 1, 19U7> defeating U.C.L.A. kS-lh before more than 93,000 spectators in Pasadena, California. Illinois 's 19U7 track team captured the NCAA championship and was regarded as one of the greatest squads in American track history. The 1950 gymnastics team won an NCAA title J the basketball team was third in NCAA tournament play in 19U9; baseball teams of 19U7 and I9U8 competed in the Eastern playoffs of the NCAA eliminations. Millions of sports fans have watched Illinois teams in action during this period. In each of the four seasons the total football attendance for games, at home and away, varied from U35,000 to 50U,000. CL'c-i.-j e naoa j^;.. . 3>ji b,'.T. 000 ,c y.i -,••■■ r « «»ff.t I aeX--'.''iOS.-.ifti;l:j 'f)f* . a^:. 3.->i.+9tirfiA ■ij3.'T:n!y;i) lUiiJt. AAOi'i nr now ma- nri.i. .!M rf.r e;i .oco,).' -h9- It is estimated that the attendance at intercollegiate contests, including football, on the Illinois campus each yeai-, was iiliO,000. From a recreational standpoint, for students and faculty, reopening of the Ice Rink and the opening of the new l8-hole golf course near the University Airport have been major events. University Bands Without a pause in step or a false note, the University of Illinois Bands, made great by A. A. Harding, have continued the tradition. The Marching Band has added to its laurels in music and in the appeal of its formations. The Concert Band continues its fine performances in the spring of each year. Admissions and Recor ds IVith the increase in enrollment and the opening of under- graduate divisions at Galesburg and Chicago, changes were made in the former office of the Registrar. The name of the office was changed to Office of Admissions and Records; the title "Registrar" was discontinued. Identical systems were put into effect in all parts of the University. At Urbana, the system of registration has been completely modernized. Registration forms have been placed on I.B.M. cards and the routine aspects of the work are machine operated. The amount of writing required of students has been reduced by 80 per cent, with a corresponding saving in time. The administrator receives better records and more promptly. In order to conserve expensive filing space, the office is microfilming the older permanent student records. Business Office The Business Office has made a thorough study of the use of business machines in handling the financial transactions of the University. uiiiriSJ.' . l.A. ■ ■Mir us ,->3i "■jyoiMj lo snxrtar ^Sin^ti'- ^y }-rtiJ r ■ SC" ^,31 10 Wh 'J^KRiivJaa Ac. ':'■■ \- ■ r, ** >--v '■- p isaiol lOZilO::, JIO ill v»^Iei:^v. lUbffisrl ni 8' seoalBifd -50- Tabulating machine equipment is now used extensively. In I9I47, the University became its own withholding agent. Improved accounting machines are being installed in the Business Office. A separate division of the Business Office has been established to handle purchases ana insurance, and to administer the staff health and accident insurance program established in 19h9. There has also been set up a Central Receiving Station for the Urb ana-Champaign campus to receive and route shipments to departments. Although limited as to cash funds, the Business Office has worked out procedures with local banks in order to cash checks, espe- cially veterans' subsistence checks. The Business Office has carried on a continual audit of cost plus contracts which were necessary in the postwar period. These audits assured the University of the accuracy of charges incurred under such contracts . The Business Office has worked with other University Divisions in simplifying procedures. Examples are the placing of registration on tabulating equipment, the new fee schedule and the new rules for student loans. The Business Office has published a manual that outlines the procedures followed in the University. This publication is in loose- leaf form and is kept up to date. Office of Nonacademic Personnel During the past four years, the Office of Nonacademic Personnel has faced a huge task in recruiting and training persons for the many new positions required by the University's expansion. It has developed a program of training and education that reaches two-thirds of all employees. It has revised and kept up to date a classification and 93T8iir.> ..tiv? iwo Ail ■■ ■ ■-:■■' . t.3d 91£ , a+'j'STiTCL- aes.-i 'in w--> i'lO saanxBuS 3( ■ ■jit.ojDje '.■>f{R B to ffFT^O^C P -51- compensation plan that insures fair treatment to all employee groups. Other accomplishments include: - A visiting nurse service that has decreased absenteeism. - New recreational and social activities. - Safety measures, - The organization of employee councils. - Publication of the first "house organ" of its type in the field of higher education - the monthly Illini Worker , which is distributed to all nonacademic and to many academic and administrative staff members. - Reorganization of the Civil Service procedures to meet legislative changes, - An examining program. - Collective bargaining relations -with thirty-six recognized labor unions. It can be said that these steps, in the aggregate, indicate a gratifying degree of mutual respect in this great area of University service. There is no conflict between the goals of the academic and the nonacademic - all seek a better University; frequently the work assignments, in laboratories for example, shade into one another. U. C5 ILU Lia ■ .a-jxcflvjcfoii ifiiooa brie r.Mr i v^-'-oiT rrsW - V'- ••■■ •■ \;:1'^e-t3vait; io e^'ifi J^^i^ eiri*^ nx JoaqasTC l5i,xuiE ^c -3-1;^ •>• ^ni:.:' '■'■" bns oJ^itobsofi ertct Ic elsc^ 9ri«t nsewtgd vtolllnoo on ax sisriT .90r sriJ" au ncijts: to ':n,. icj- bjjw IIpz •rf.j- . -..^.t'.'S onz- r.'i .\;.tis'i9v oofla'' s ^o - ■ •»r "'q.-;'-.i --.iij o.." ■'J"r'?rf?/' rTnlJnrir5'^ in.''r.>'( T)rT'-J'r-^r2 ..;->nn"T' .8cq jinsT-tno-rl 3:ri br-: ,b .£»«8r ' ' .-• '- v; j.-:3- -iiiji sisriv sosX'f erW lo offloa lol 'laJnso b ai ■^rroJ.-^-iotfBl ed;i.t ao-rJ-jsIo sdT - . Eoiijoi. T»l9 III' gnlricflsJ 6.1J3 rfTUBc-cel toorrnvfis -sttqnior) lBDC^83ia/ijr.rT h' -Hia rialri tot 'JOcfaiwsiBo ncn:foDlo aoT - .cfcietl nssc6 a ni ifoiiseBS'i bin litw nor* .aJflsflK/tJaai acx?!io5Tq: rlgiri "ic lie'^aT 'lo o-.>afifis:rrTiBfii exit z'^hibtiaA ytorfSTcdfd :!i ■; ;?'i rq^ceot: tc :;riT - aJoniill -io ATwov: csiBrs-jq-ssf.IXo:) 9d:r tddt ni aqod 9dT . o-xyitTi ori:^ r- tsfii ^isri^'iyl fena , OT.'-jr?'.-.--.t.- rft;-rv .'?1-fw v;lj;i.ftp. ••-.■-.'-«'?' ?-? rt,-?,'-^-- . ■»t'^.-j 9V6/1 riw wen issauqficdo ovi \.s:.A xiixnmlnM iBwyiq ^dT -.''"•■-- : ' 'fr^-yp. ■3dJ' bur. vi^.-^no-^r^ ^.i-.\?, ■?''•' tnu't .' ■•' ,..>-•. •- s- ,'-■ ^.^^.^,. .- it -XJ.:.",i-j sflo ea ^:;rrgqc b jiUiqiUJb'i ■-.Tji'iscian irugcT U b»viea .tat?d od iii iBtui^pn etit antcn£'-i'r T0orftfw s-^wnr-.i ; ".-r ■•.•cr. ..; -,- .-•>"•- • r., ;*,..,■ -51i- When the Galesburg and Navy Pier Divisions were established the effort was made to give their students an ediacatlonal opportunity equal to that offered at Urbana -Champaign. This policy continues in the case of Navy Pier. It woxild continue if a four -year branch of the University were to be established. The differences lie in physical surroundings and in the restriction, to one campus or another, of cer- tain curricula that should not be duplicated. It would be considered indefensible, for example, to duplicate the costly resources of the Professional Colleges. In forming the administrative structure of the several cam- puses, we have tried to strike a balance between autonomy and inte- gration. The Chicago Professional campus is in charge of a Vice President, and the Chicago Undergraduate Division in charge of a Dean, and both are given wide powers. The business offices of the Chicago campuses are integrated with the Urbana -Champaign business office under the direction of the Comptroller of the University. The offices of nonacademic personnel are similarly organized. The Dean of Students has ultimate responsibility for student welfare at all campuses. The libraries at Navy Pier and the Professional Colleges, as well as at Urbana -Champaign, are under the general supervision of the Librarian of the University. The Chicago campuses are represented on the major committees of the University, and the President presides at meetings of both the Chicago faculty Senate and the Urbana -Champaign Senate . A continuing study is made of means by which courses and curricula at the several branches may be integrated, and of ways to share resources without wasteful duplication. Our nursing students may take their undergraduate work at Urbana -Champaign and their hos- pital work at Chicago, Certain programs in clinical psychology and 0/ 3jtl S60n9*X9'' .;-> ed Oi ST3V V*iai8Vi 3'J -iSfU X.-. yvj:iou'iy:i r.vi?B-ii-8iiii.,:uJ:o c.iJ gjiii-v. a.l .oaoiiie aspirtsd oonaJjjd ii ftj^hrtv+r . -• »j.v .ni;'"a ,s 1" ayieJ;. a'. T;:.'..3ivi:CI :-j£HJii£ o^tioiiiJ i-.'.J Liv .e3i4 w'iPr.riO «dj 1o 3«>o otficiicf erf? .aiawc q"!?- ts~- .&■ FINANCL^ RESOURCES OF THE UNIVERSITY Institutions are like persons; they cannot do their best vork unless they have the full support and confidence of others . Confidence in the postwar University of Illinois vas expressed in convincing fashion by the thousands of veterans and other students who sought to enroll, and to an equal degree by hundreds of persons who sold their homes and broke former ties to Join our staff. To these sources of support may be added one of the largest organized Alumni Associations in the country, and certainly one of the most loyal. Another demonstration of loyalty to the University has been the mini Achievement Fund of the University of Illinois Foundation. In its first full year of operation, it broke all records among college funds for the number of contributors . All such demonstrations, however, would have been fruitless if the people of the State, through their elected representatives from the Governor down, had not wholeheartedly voted the appropriations necessary to meet the problems which have been reviewed in this report. A brief summary of the extent of this support will suffice, for it is found in annual reports . From tax funds the biennial appropriations by the General Assembly went from $43,000,000 in 19*^5-1*7 to $70,000,000 for 19*^9-51. The initial appropriations for the bienniura 19'+5-47 were: for current purposes, $20,264,000; for capital purposes, $16,809,000; total, $37,073*000 . These appropriations were increased by emergency appropriations of $6,l8U,000, to provide funds for operation of the new Chicago and Galesburg Undergraduate Divisions and for staff housing. -58- ri: or. no lit of" &-^'-lZtiC , '.in' "'i'--n 3 31 JarJJiXlilO- ao vtaU 8d^ a .iio'ttr^ .^" On^' i'.*'-; ;..+ ' '•^i';".^ ';(•-. f\ri •;■• ':y -,. ^ ^-. . ..^fpr'.;. ^,,j ^ ba. ■^a oii-j \^8 nuo aloi of esiS v ■■•iri'»i"i.* .'o!.* >"i '--if" f>'i?f - ' v-.Tf •»•;,- 1 Jl^ To VI ..■f■^ r.T .-f^? 'loo :3aofafc fciiiori-r'i Xlt> ftao r,1 \r-l r the corresponding appropriations were: for current purposes, $5^,^79>000; for capital items, $15,7^0,000; total, $70,219,000. These sums were from tax revenues only. Appropriations were also made of Universitgr income from student fees, and from operations, all of which are deposited in the State Treasury. For 19't9-51> "t^e added amount was $15,000,000, making a total appropriation from all funds of $85,219,000 for the two years. By state law, the University handles its own treasury receipts from Federal grants and all trust funds. Included in the latter are public and private research contracts, private gifts and activities operated under trust indentures or bond issues. The total of current operations in 19^5-'+6 was $18,1|15,000; for 19^9-50 it was $Ult,27'*,000. At the Chicago Professional Colleges, expenditvires from trust funds were a little over $200,000 in 19h6 and $962,000 in 19't9-50. Income from Federal grants and contracts increased from $2,90i*,000 in 19U5-'+6 to $1^,233,000 in 19'*9-50. Income from expendable private gifts and endowment income increased from $469,000 in 191+5-1*6 to $1,323,000 in 1949-5O. During the years 191*6-50, funds for new capital projects to the extent of $2,83U,700 were secured by borrowing, not including $825,000 of refunding operations on previous loans. The range of interest on these transactions was from 1.52 per cent to U.OO per cent. From the Illini Achievement Fund of the University of Illinois Foundation, the University received gifts of $88,000 during 191*9 and I95O. .OOC . % ^itviot ;OO0,?c!0,TX$ teejaoniuq iotigao io1 i^.vx9V 3tiolJfix-iC[cnq5A .yiloo 8«wfl9r»'i xat reo-rt er&w aBiun fia-iffT IXfi s;v.r:':i f locD-xijq.^ iai' . "00,000, rM;?. asw ;Jawomf( ti^bbp ,o .-.p.* • ^•^'^ SQibaM Yi-^iaiavniu oiiJ O00j on June 30, 1950, the total was $2,667,000. On June 30, 19't6, the investment in University plant and equipment, at cost, was $1+8,027,000; on June 30, 1950, it was $78,719,000. .000»<>IT»8Y$ VI WHAT LIES AHEAD? It is clear that profound external forces have been acting on the University of Illinois during the past four years. This can be said of all American universities. We have grown by forced draft beyond all reasonable plans that could have been made. The influence of the "GI Bill" was decisive. The country attained new levels in the production of wealth. There can be no pause for contemplation of past achieve- ments. The new blueprints highlight present deficiencies - in student housing, in buildings, in scholarships, in the organization of curricula. What trend lines are discernible? What questions should be asked, even if the answers cannot be given without further policy clarification? Question 1. How big will the University of Illinois become ? The number of persons of college age at any given time can be predicted with accuracy. To predict the niimber who will actually enroll is another matter. Per capita income, business conditions, the availability of scholarships, the resources of colleges and uni- versities, the chances of war or of peace, are among the factors to be weighed. Clearly the size of the University of Illinois is not determined simply by the number of persons who are born in a given span of years. In the long run, the twin forces of public policy and of a need for educated persons will determine the size of the University of Illinois. -61- IV ftfliE) Deoi"^ Yd nwoi£ overi eW . 2eJ tiaisvxrru flfloii?ciA IIjj lo btisa od aan'JL'i'lni: ciT . <5&nnj ri-jncf avsrf h/uo:) j.>5tij ericlq olrfsncsfio"? II« ^0CV-i :»i<3iiij*3 lu - £i^x„„&xt.j.isr^ jasi^iq J-fi^j j.;I^xxi a:iuiiciz,uL'J wsn erlT .ainenn 'o noiiasiai»aio arit ni . ajidciflJorina n.*: , asnif»Ili/d 0! ,5niatfOfl . j-Xi"'' t-fjf- • it'oxia tnci.j39op janW laldi.neasiri' sis sanxl ^^.=«3■ irrfV7 y;:;il->q lorfjiirt iuoriJ-iw nsvig ocf .-honnfj a^ovane 'jal 11 rrsre t6s;{c!a ©(i ? .1 n ■ ; '1 'y ^ '1 ' "l B.( p ?g Qgogcf sronilll l o yTJre-r^viflU rrt t IXi j :i l -lef^aJ/I o/j.ouj lo iii*io>iii arict evioa ion S'jot ogaoiriO nr 8xoa'II.T Ana ffx 89vil ata*3 sri* lo aofJBlt/qoq adt 1.[»H .r^-i/s ,tM+ ni .-jcttiT aj. 3rt!5il; ,Jij^Xq bus auqisej '3Jdjjp9d« rja d&fv ^aB-^aq ■ie3\;--xijn\ IXifi .?. A) .^^:l■■f::.Ja 000,0^5 evios 6L;ow -ilatiJnsvo .+ : iajl- av^ilocf 0.J ao?.B'.n joa '-'.rrv r^pr. r,r.. COO. ^i' '■ -^tcd *neiSui3 aionf " '- "{tj -ravtirU i-^j^^ ( .a'^:>ne-*t'?'n.5 5 r»e?-tB.r!.'.:o.f 7:0"=! Tjnlwclia .%"•?& erf:' -r' i-rfirjOT ^^^ :rx:-3 prrucij .loi^frtioyrj .f^o'I3^i»'■^»rr ypK)T .moo" Jf"jria fl nt trir, £.',■>:>• ^.-f Wyrt' n^; -■•■: .i.-^riw -63- To some degree what is true of physics is trxie of other sciences. Mathematics, long a pencil and paper science, now calls for intricate com- puters as it reaches into numerous areas of hxnuan inquiry. It is likely that facsimile reproduction and television will exert a strong influence on teaching and learning. Few men could have foretold the dramatic changes that have taken place in bacteriology. The microscope that relied upon li^t has been supplemented by one that relies upon electrons; workers can now observe directly certain viruses and large molecules. The study of fluid dynamics, of sonic and supersonic speeds, urgent in both war and peace , makes heavy demands . The need for student and faculty housing will increase propor- tionately to the size of the University. These needs, as we have seen, are already criticed. As recent events have shown, in a complex University the size of the staff is only moderately correlated with the size of the student body. Advanced types of tiraining reduce the student -professor ratio. Increasingly, staff members work In teams. Personnel must be available in order to provide for numerovis public services expected of a state university. Question 3- How is the University related to the national government ? The early land -grants and subsequent federal payments, the crucial bvisiness of producing and distributing food, the need for unity of action in a hostile world, the overriding demand for full preparedness - these conditions tend to strengthen the bond between state and federal government . No one questions the historic rSle of universities in con- fronting tyranny, medieval or modern. The spirit of any free university is against Fascism, Nazism and Communism. The University of Illinois .;..,.• .,.,.; i,,.:.' •• •ioievJ'i ^o suit aj; c^^ifv ^eTjjafi 50OE oT -moo e* lXi30 worr ^^mqIos -^^^^i t>na n^nxi b 5110I ^aoi&susBdf&li f^-^Usi .?Brid- 'vTot'?C'i-)iji oifT .NT^i-.T: -1- ; .,: ft*^ vi'-fv. ,-t^v«,' -.vBd J/;J.+ se^asrfo y£«/;te sffT .asIif-Xon n^xei ^cts ssairiiv aiaifino Yl:fo©til6 i5v^s3cfo woa neo .IfioiJ-ti? Y^snijD eTs 9SXS srL' Y'^ia'i'JVinU y^I^flioo e al ,avorie ■••vBd arn«5'/f> tff&ooi eA ^iflM> " '^:, f •■r'>o(Tx& aeDlv-"-- -Iidixct ei/o^™;;.- 1.. r^t., ,.m>^ cJ --ri- ni . l.'jgjL-Mt- -•* ^'^^^-t^T v;.3'l:3T9vin U axU 3i woU . ^^ no ij^aggfi . iacTtiinovos -fro:. It e9ic»-i?;-f]-io+2tjtf Mt p^ol^n'iup ano cH '.r-r I •I'v . -61- will surely play an important part in the deepening struggle. This part is not fundamentally different from its regular life, for the University does not, in a crisis, abandon the search for knowledge. It cannot be stated too bluntly that something abstract, remote, on the fringes of knowledge, at the start of a war, may suddenly grow into the chief weapon - or the chief idea - of the pattern of victory. During times of conflict, theories and principles retain their importance, for they are the prelude to the practical device. The device itself - a killer, a preventive, an item of ideological warfare - is usually best developed off the campus. Excessive dependency upon government contracts reduces independence of action. Such income is usually restricted income, good only for the pxirpose of fulfilling a contractvial obligation. If the contracts are excessive, the demands of the federal govern- ment, rather than the desires of the people of the State, determine the nature of the University. Without going that far, the University can do much to help the Nation in a time of crisis. It can develop its basic research with unusual vigor. It can strengthen the edu- cational programs of the Reserve Corps. It can make its staff available for consultation and service to governmental agencies. Finally, the University can strengthen its teaching of a devotion to the democratic way of life, making sure that the minds of men will not be confused by alien doctrine but will remain free to pursue the truth. Question k. How can the quality of teaching be improved ? Teaching has at least four elements - the student, the teacher, the subject and the environment. Each of these must be considered in plans for improvement. To some extent, each must be changed if the quality of teaching is to be bettered. ,.•,'. ...,;. .® acq,. -ib «ivi<:a?'.xS » -■ .f*e'>*f y.r/fi«-,'«i' ; ,., .-"■,-. -> y_o !>.-•.■ ..nJ '?^ "^^l^ to ^Tics^ f'f:t ''o ■ ,:.; ,; . ' : tr. . ^i'jioi; »r<»x! •X9VO.^. o-t - bats :< •^' ri^ooi' neiXa ^d i>oai;'^no:» ad toa lilv ' ' "fit -fCJ cd .*a:rc r-?:-r'* Tc- r! • .";n -..' '-'n' 'vft t.i-. tr»A?>-f.» nrfi sd rjd o;t 81 -65- It would be comparatively easy to change the natiire of the student body at the University of Illinois by adopting highly selective procedures for admission. This is a plan followed by some of the great private universities. It would be difficult for a professor to teach so poorly that extremely bright students could not learn. The great state universities have wisely chosen a different course. They tend to admit, to the general curriculum at least, all high school graduates who seek further education. They endeavor to carry forward the ideal of universal education. For his part, the teacher is full of questions about meth- odology. What can be discovered about motivation? About level of aspiration? About problem solving? About the ways in which youth seek to adjust to learning sitiiations? What is the role of the teacher in facilitating learning? Problems of motivation, learning and mental hygiene have a parallel in the effects of the environment upon teaching, A university tries to create a specialized type of environment - an environment favorable to mental growth. Class size, visual aids, laboratory equip- ment, field trips, tests and television may be among the variables for student and teacher alike. What are their effects? How can they be used efficiently? What new devices and methods are needed? In what ways can the methods developed during the war be translated into daily practice? The problems of content and subject matter are no less difficvLLt. The more a man learns, the more he can learn; each item of knowledge opens a new door. The scope of the intellectual disci- plines expands in geometric progression. Still, the time a student can spend in the University is limited. How, then, can more and more ■ "" ' ■ '^<"! . • •; ::>■i.^J.i. * nccoc:; v: .:t v.- ■vorl t.siJ'iai9\unij &JjWn J COM odi bi/nriol ^it«>ij> ,xt -vovaslirts i^ciT .aoI'cfaDi.'h'? f rfj-a-j ;fns^, cH-w .CiOJ'.iiia.'.ii-.i \B8X0VliW 1'. TO". B9lc'sl-.3V 9riJ rjHowe od yJ^ noiaivrsis* bna a^'.-vJ- taqi-tt Sloil .^risa ►'b oinl ft^iiieni- jjal-orfi baqclsvofi ahorit-jia adt aap b\,'- ■ aaoi on 9i« t^i^im JoftGff-.f?~. tne ina+nos ';c ai>:t?.[doicx srii' -66- be put into a coxurse, in order to keep up with the expansion of human knowledge? Choice and a new order of generalization are indicated, but the practical implications in teaching are rarely brought to light. The University is trying to help along these lines: - By encouraging the investigation of teaching and learning. - By finding new ways of discovering and rewarding great teachers. - By calling upon judgments of students. - By making the results of research in the improvement of instruc- tion available to the entire faculty. Question 3. How can the services of the University be related more closely to the needs of the people of the State ? The mental maturity that is gained on a campus is a permanent acquisition of the student. Habits of adjustment and reasoning that have been learned will continue to serve our graduates in their lives. The public often thinks of service from the State University in other terms. Some know of the work of the extension division in agriculture, family living, education, business, government, labor relations, music or library and think that the help they receive is all that is meant by service. Others know of extramural classes, of short courses, both on and off campus, of correspondence courses. Still others know the bulletins and publications of the university, the films and recordings made available, the paintings exhibited throughout the state or the tests that are rented to high schools. All these activi- ties are desirable; we intend to continue them, although they cannot be expanded to meet all the needs of all of the people. If the people of the State are to receive valuable help, they must come to know the latest discoveries in many fields. It is not enough to acquaint them with something that will work well enough, when another procedure will aimud ^o flolsneoTce s/it rid t.v .ji.' qse;;! at Tofcio nt ^aeiuoo & cx^nr j-uq oc -oijxtrii!; io ctn^iffiavc.'iqffii grit ni xfaissBQ-i 'to sJXoae'i firi.+ iiaiX^tJia ^^ - ,i(cHyro'i s'xicfrjs ori* at 6XcfflIt«v.r\ xioit aiom bo j&Js'i so' Y:frn':av .tfiTj » rf j '*c aszivz & a oriJ fTP o vo B .(! fro^ctsai-'C ; 3^^:13 sxfJ Jo '. la c!i.i CidJ' "jo e.b^'^ n sri.t u f '{ieo f 'iJieiovioU !»JatS ^xij- nf:/i'i eoivrtoa ^o aXnltJc; rfP«o ollcfi/q ^/IT lodai ,d'n:ricn':tovcjj ^z^oalcuKi ,fioi,j4;ojJi:) i ,ai3JVu.i x-t-uiB'i , :^u;ctlJJC■I-iSf 3l civiens'i ■^sxit qlsri eri* d'BrfJ^ jfniirfc'' baa ^iBidil 7c oiauo ,8noWjBXe7 . roi.elt: I,a'tymi^'r.t-i:o 'l .. won?' s-inj-i'; ,'>-.;vf':r. n •'tifyj.t .' :^a{'^ TTs liiv>- iiJwo &:.«3i;no;i&3Vio:i .to ^ HJ'ifjo:; 'ixj bii& jo lirod ^uta-iyoa wioiift 7:mi>.'t mis ^_\,tta't9'7itw srfj 'to enoideoHdt'q hria onlJaliird <«tt vonW 8i^:»o ■''•■,'{».■, t;;->T if { f-.nf f rf? rf '.•■'■. "^TjriT f li" r:, ,,• .' f'n.' '■ . v\ -.i-.-tn P-j'; ' Fv-i ■^•: vv ^.•^R .-•fir,-- , ■ ; T ' ■'' • r;f' ■■'•■n oriJ" J-'''' hfj.M-ft ci ■jt-iii o;t fjaO'j izuiH x;?aJ" ,iiLi>ii ^liiaiiLfiv aviQjifi oJ •''m mjb/o sii* lo ii-odJ Jnijeirpos c-+ rfsworr?* .too aJt *I .abloil \;n/«u aJ: eoiisvooaiJb ia&itai -67- work twice or three times as well. Whatever the University communi- cates through its service to the people of Illinois should be of the best. What is best is discovered through scholarly work and funda- mental research. Question 6. How can the staff of the University of Illinois be brought into close and harmonious relationship with one another and with the administrative elements of the University ? A university, more than any other institution, Is always on the march. If alive at all, it can never call its work done. It should be among the first to adapt its programs and its policies to new truths. New Ideas often eliminate old ones or change their priority. This gives rise to frustration. Whenever men are expected to carry on new duties, or to perform old ones in new ways, a resistance to change is created. True, faculties are familiar with the idea of change but faculties are human. There will always be some who will walk the new path with reluctant feet, uncertain where it will lead them. It takes time also for both old and new staff to create new social groups and common interests . It is to be expected that, during a period of rapid expansion, some mistakes in the selection of personnel would be made. They tend to be self -corrective but, on occasion, they call for administrative decisions in which the all -University interests are kept paramount. Organization charts, rules and regulations, statements of the duties and powers of officers and other formal arrangements do not constitute administrative leadership nor do they automatically open channels of communication. It is the common give-and-take among like- minded people that is important. In a university, an administrative officer is frequently surpassed ae a scholar by many members of his ■-,;, .-- r.iotfilll "ia t'-qoriii '^fl.t - • ■-■•;.■-'• ,'r, . -i ,;••;• ^.-:^so -ebnui baa »-iov ifXiBJiorioQ flauo-fdi b^-iavoaaib aJt .^h&ii ai ttofiii .+3ed .rl anise r.git liaJTfxo -"*'' ■■i - ■■ ■■ ■ . " : . V . - .'.-xgytnU q dJ ; ] lto 'il- stt-; orfi m:r . '..oH .0 noi;?8ouP '■row Hit ijioo levsn nso Ji tii« ^« S'vUb 11 .riotMB *Mli -■-;,-•-■ ., . ;^-,i^ pI: ■'■tsv.if: .' • "-■+'-, v-.- r -.-v- , .rf-r^-i* ytn m v;"ni3> ot bnrocqxs sib nsin r^vinsriv/ .noxjeicreui'i oi '^6J.*i aevly aiifP ii,i -i-n ^■•i.i. ->• . ■'■;> -"j:J-Ii3t.fri r-ifi sslJ'iu^B'i bm" p.qur.ia xaxowG wen ?i."" i :•.•?- •; ,15 l:.-;!;! ..^^ .yod ic'- . .^.j v^i.-; ^viteiJ-airiiinbB ir/t liBs Y^rf-* ,,ftola»oco ao ,,ti;cf avttaoiico-'iXee od . .i:^J.J•.^Ji;.■^iiO■■l rnj S3[i.'.'. ^cj-ira'^ uyi.'i^ji • t*-: : jvilfliJal 8 ^TftjBievlnr.' fl al - t ai Jadj- ?Xqc.;>i fiemXn -68- faculty. His assignment is different. Each should learn to appreciate the full worth of the other, and both should respect the devoted work of nonacademic employees. All university problems can be solved by persons of good faith working together toward a common end. The human resources of the faculty are tremendous . They generate a power that can be brought to bear upon the hard problems that lie ahead. Perhaps the last four years have been like the country that Alice found when she went through the looking glass, and the Queen said, "Now, here , you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that'." Now is the time to plan the future of the University of Illinois. The general lines are laid down, as, indeed, they have been for many years. Learning and Labor are on our shield and that device should not fail. •9i bhmd'. .:tnoi^1'.:ib fj ,gf- v.(i- Tit;'. .'.'"' i*iO '' ''^ .TPcryri ftflT ,f>0(r- •. /o:? it' .■."row it? lei " e'Uf;^w^ ari' aai;i c;t ooi-' ©nJ 3. wold '■"-.rvri,- jJK'd': 'uc ao in^ i oJ^m ihij': ^,:.i:; 1 n ■ ' ■ • '