Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1984
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348 BOARD O F TRUSTEES [September 15 Undergraduate Admission Categories and Policies1 (20) T h e University Center Senate and the Urbana-Champaign Senate have approved modifications or replacements of certain portions of existing undergraduate admission categories and policies2 to achieve the following objectives: 1. Provide definitions of various categories of applicants for admission as a prelude to statements of admission policies. 2. Consolidate existing Board of Trustees undergraduate admission policies. 3. Simplify and update the language of existing policies. 4. Remove references to procedures. 5. Continue to provide for campus flexibility. 6. Expand the criteria that may be used in consideration of applicants for admission. T h e intent of these policies is to recognize academic components as primary to the admission decision, to permit consideration of other factors so that the University may allow access by its various constituencies on an equitable basis, and to permit the University of Illinois to take affirmative action to overcome the effects of conditions which resulted in limiting participation by persons of a particular race, color, or national origin in order to benefit from the racial/ethnic diversity which the State of Illinois affords. The major change from existing policies is contained in the provision for greater flexibility in considering freshman and transfer applicants who are near the dividing line between admission and denial. T h e consideration of additional criteria is permitted, but not mandated, in determining the admission of such applicants on a college or curriculum basis following review and approval by the dean of the college, the director of admissions and records, and the senate committee on admissions concerned. These revised undergraduate admission categories and policies would become effective for admission to the spring term, 1985. Undergraduate Admission Categories Beginning Freshman A beginning freshman applicant is one who applies for admission while attending high school, regardless of the amount of college credit earned, or who has graduated from high school but completed fewer than 12 semester or 18 quarter hours (or the equivalent) of transferable college classroom credit by the desired term of entry. Special provisions may be adopted by the campus concerned to accommodate such groups as mid-year high school graduates and applicants with college work in progress. Transfer A transfer applicant is one who has completed a minimum of 12 semester or 18 quarter hours (or the equivalent) of transferable college classroom credit by the desired term of entry, and who does not meet the definitions of a beginning freshman or a readmission applicant. Readmission (Chicago) A readmission applicant is one who has previously registered on the campus as an undergraduate degree candidate, or in a college on the campus as a nondegree student. Excluding the Colleges of Associated Health Professions, Nursing, and Pharmacy. ' Policies that are based on Illinois Statute or on previous Board of Trustees action include references in parentheses to the Statute or the date of the Board of Trustees action. (Appendix A contains Board of Trustees actions affecting undergraduate admissions that are amen ded or replaced. Appendix B contains all other Board of Trustees actions affecting undergraduate admissions which will remain unchanged. Appendix C contains an administrative action referenced in the undergraduate admissions policies statement.) 1
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