Anticipating the annual report of the Committee on Scholarships and Student Aid, Chancellor Hooker announced that he is working on a plan to dedicate a portion of our unrestricted endowment income to merit scholarships. Horace Williams tract. The Chancellor noted that the committee that has been appointed to produce a conceptual plan for use of the Horace Williams Tract has begun its work. He said that despite the impression that might have been left by some newspaper accounts, there has been no decision to locate a life sciences research park there. Neither are there any current plans to move academic programs to the Horace Williams tract.
All options remain open.
The entire campus community is invited to submit suggestions as to how best to use this property. Chancellor Hooker praised Vice Provost Thomas Meyer and Assoc. Vice Provost Francis Meyer for splendid work in encouraging an enormous increase in technology transfer activity over the past three years. We have experienced major growth in the number of patents that the University has secured in intellectual property and the number of commercial licenses negotiated, leading to a very large increase in revenue from royalties and licensing agreements. Collegiate licensing code of conduct.