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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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graduate study in business administration programs with international aspects. T h e option will provide students with an understanding of the language and customs of the business world in German-speaking countries and will require 29 hours in German language as well as 20 hours of cognate work in business administration, finance a n d / o r economics, and occasionally also from political science and geography. T h e establishment of this option will not require the appointment of additional teaching staff. It will be instituted with existing resources.

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Revision of College Preparatory Requirement Patterns, College of Education, Urbana

(11) T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a revision of the college preparatory subject requirement patterns for admission of freshmen in the College of Education. This revision increases the admission requirements through the establishment of a fifth subject requirement pattern. Currently, there are four college preparatory subject requirement patterns as approved by the Board of Trustees. T h e College of Education uses pattern I (below). T h e college proposes increasing the requirements in algebra, science, foreign language, and social studies to improve the quality of the undergraduate student body in the college. Currently approved patterns do not meet the college's undergraduate student admissions needs. Upon the senate's recommendation and with the concurrence of the chancellor, I propose that the following pattern of college preparatory subject requirements be approved effective spring 1985 and published in the Undergraduate Programs Catalog as Pattern V. Current: Pattern I Proposed: Pattern V Subject Required Recommended Required Recommended English 3 4 3 4 Algebra 1 2 2 2 Geometry 1 2 1 1 Trigonometry V4 'A Advanced Mathematics . . . ¥i 'A Foreign Language 2 2 4 Science (not general science) 2 Biology 1 Chemistry 1 Physics 1 Social Studies 2 2 2 O n m o t i o n of M r . H o w a r d , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d .

Revision to Policy and Rules— Nonacademic Chapter IX, Vacation and Personal Leave

(12) A resolution of the Merit Board of the State Universities Civil Service System, approved on June 24, 1970, recommends that all institutions have substantially uniform benefits for nonacademic employees. Since 1970, benefits have remained approximately the same within the four systems of public higher education in Illinois. However, one system, Southern Illinois University, has changed its policy to allow use of accrued vacation time during the original probationary period, which can be six months or twelve months depending on the classification to which a position is assigned. The Administrative Advisory Committee, the Employees' Advisory Committee, and the Personnel Directors' Advisory Committee to the Merit Board have recommended that the improved benefit be approved, by resolution, by all systems. T h e Merit Board has approved the recommendation.