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BOARD O F T R U S T E E S

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1. T h e requirement for a three-hour animal science course will be dropped. 2. T h e requirement for a three-hour genetics course will be dropped. 3. All other nonscience course requirements for those applying with a B.S. or B.A. degree will be eliminated. While not a part of the revisions to academic requirements recommended above, two procedural changes have recently been adopted by the College of Veterinary Medicine and they are reported here for the record: 1. For a three-year period beginning in the fall of 1990, both the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) general test and biology subtest and the Veterinary College Aptitude Test (VCAT) will be required of all applicants, results of the tests will be compared, and the GRE will be substituted for the VCAT if it proves to be a better indicator of student performance in the first year of studies. 2. T h e deadline for submitting applications has been moved from December 15 to December 1 for those students applying for admission to the class beginning in the fall of 1991 and thereafter. Current applicants have been notified of revisions to entrance examination requirements and application deadlines. The proposed revisions to admission requirements have been approved by the faculty of the College of Veterinary Medicine, the Senate Committee on Admissions, and the Senate. T h e chancellor and the vice president for academic affairs concur in this recommendation. I recommend approval.

O n motion of Mrs. Gravenhorst, this recommendation was approved. Establishment of Quasi-Endowment (Chester W. Hannum Estate)

(10) Dr. Chester W. Hannum, an alumnus of the University of Illinois, 1 died on June 14, 1989, leaving a will naming the University of Illinois as beneficiary of a remainder interest in his estate. T h e amount of the bequest was approximately $703,000. T h e purpose of the bequest designated by the donor is to provide scholarships for needy students in the schools of chemistry or chemical engineering at the Urbana campus. T h e director of the School of Chemical Sciences has proposed the establishment of a quasi-endowment with all of the funds from the Hannum estate. T h e income would be used to grant scholarships in the name of Chester W. Hannum to needy students in the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the Urbana campus. T h e chancellor at Urbana and the vice president for business and finance have recommended the establishment of the quasi-endowment for the purposes described. I concur.

O n motion of Mrs. Gravenhorst, this recommendation was approved. Willard Airport Runway Improvements, Fiscal Year 1991

(11) T h e Federal Aviation Administration and the Illinois Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics, have advised the University that the following project at Willard Airport will be considered for funding in the Federal FY 1991 Airport Improvement Program: Phase 1 of a multi-year project to plan and construct, light, and mark a 1200 foot southwest extension of Runway 4L-22R and its parallel taxiway, including fencing, land acquisition, and land reimbursement, the estimated cost of which is $1,800,000.

Chester W. Hannum earned a B.S. degree in chemistry in 1929.