Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1939-1942)

486

DECEMBER M1EETING, 1940

WHEREAS, The officers of the Foundation recommend that the School of Public
Health at the University of M\iichigan be developed at an earlier date than originally planned due to recent developments in the national and international field;
and
WHEREAS, The officers recommend that the participation of The Rockefeller
Foundation and W. K. Kellogg Foundation be placed on a different basis than
that adopted at the Board meeting held on February 19, 1940; and
WHEREAS, The W. K. Kellogg Foundation recognizes that a strong public
health school at the University of Michigan is an essential part of the graduate
and postgraduate training facilities now being developed in the Michigan Community Health Project;
Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Board of Trustees of the W. K.
Kellogg Foundation authorize the officers to negotiate and prepare an agreement
to be presented for the consideration of the Board at its next meeting, to be
entered into between the University of Michigan, The Rockefeller Foundation, and
the W. K. Kellogg Foundation for the development of a program for, and the
staff of, a postgraduate and graduate school of public health at the University of
Michigan and the construction and equipment of a building for such: a school.
WHEREAS, The University of Michigan has expressed the desire to broaden the
scope of its activities in the teaching of public health and preventive medicine,
and to strengthen its facilities for so doing; and
WHEREAS, The University of Michigan, in August, 1939, established a School
of Public Health on a parity with the other schools in the University, and in
the operation thereof expects to place particular emphasis upon public health
administration, medical epidemiology, biometrics, public health engineering, and
public health nursing under the direction of a new Dean and a strengthened
faculty; and
WHEREAS, An excellent opportunity exists for integrating into the program
of the School of Public Health of the University of Michigan practical field
demonstration and experience in the fields of public health, medicine, dentistry,
nursing, engineering, and education by co-operation with the Michigan Community Health Project of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and with other public
health agencies; and
WHEREAS, The School of Public Health of the University of Michigan if so
operated will be a regional training center for providing suitably trained and
experienced public health personnel; and
WHEREAS, The University offers the opportunity for making the teaching of
public health an integral portion of a broad State responsibility; and
WHEREAS, The President of the University has invited a contribution of
$500,000 from The Rockefeller Foundation to be paid to the Board of Regents
of the University of Michigan, $250,000 to be contributed for the purpose of
paying a portion of the cost of obtaining a site and constructing and equipping
a suitable building thereon for the School of Public Health, and the remaining
$250,000 to be contributed at the rate of $25,000 per year, for ten years, towards
paying the costs of providing new teaching personnel and teaching facilities for
said School;
Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the W. K. Kellogg Foundation grant to
the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan the sum of $500,000 upon
the following terms and conditions:
(a) $250,000 of said total sum shall be expended towards paying the cost
of obtaining a site and constructing and equipping a suitable building for the use
of said School of Public Health, and the remaining $250,000 of said total sum
shall be paid in installments of $25,000 a year for ten years to be contributed
towards paying the costs of providing new teaching personnel and teaching facilities for said School of Public Health.
(b) The contributions of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to be made pursuant
to Clause (a) above shall be matched dollar for dollar by similar contributions
to be paid by The Rockefeller Foundation to the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan for the same purposes.
(c) Other outstanding commitments of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation for a
School of Public Health of the University of Michigan are to be canceled and
released.
(d) The above-mentioned sums of money so granted by the Foundation shall
be paid by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation from time to time according to the
terms of an agreement to be entered into between the Board of Regents of the
University of Michigan and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation (to which The Rocke