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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944
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240 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [January 23 Under these provisions a student withdrawing for active service during the first seven weeks of a semester will receive full refund of his fees, since this is the period during which he receives no credit for his work. If he withdraws after the seventh week and before completing the twelfth week of the semester he will receive a refund of one-half of his fees, since this is the period during which he is entitled to one-half credit for his work, except that a second semester senior in line for graduation at the end of the semester, who withdraws during this period, will receive no rebate, since he will receive full credit for his work. If the student withdraws after the close of the twelfth week, he will receive no refund, since he is entitled to full credit for his work. Thereafter withdrawal will not entitle him to any rebate, since he will be receiving full credit for his work. On motion recommended. of Mrs. Grigsby, these refunds were authorized as CHANGES IN REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO THE UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGES (22) T h e University Senate has approved a recommendation from its Committee on Admissions from Secondary Schools that the requirements for admission to the University be amended to provide for the admission of selected pupils who have achieved senior standing in high school, i.e., students who have completed the junior year in high school. T h e Senate recommends the following plan to the Board of Trustees: An applicant for admission to the University of Illinois who has achieved senior standing in high school may be admitted under the following conditions: 1. An applicant must be at least 16 years of age. T h e dean of the college concerned, however, may admit on petition a student 15 years of age who meets all other requirements for admission and who is to reside, while attending the University, with his parents or guardian or with someone selected by them. 2. H e must be recommended for admission to the University by a committee of his high school faculty, consisting of the principal and at least three teachers, one of whom shall be a pupil counselor if the school has in operation an organized guidance program. 3. H e must have completed not fewer than 14 units acceptable towards admission to the University, including all subjects prescribed for admission to the particular curriculum in which he wishes to enroll. 4. H e must rank in scholarship in the upper 25 per cent of his high school class. ( T h e scholastic rank of the pupil is based on his achievement in all subjects for which he is allowed credit towards graduation from high school.) 5. H e must demonstrate that he possesses the intellectual ability, social maturity, and emotional stability essential to success in college by passing satisfactorily such tests as may be prescribed and administered by the Personnel Bureau of the University. In general, a rank below the 75th percentile on University of Illinois norms will be cause for denial of admission. If the pupil has taken the tests given in many high schools through the Illinois High School Testing Program, the results of those tests will be considered along with the results of tests given at the University by the Personnel Bureau. On motion of Mr. Jensen, this plan was approved, under the conditions recommended and subject to review and reconsideration after the war. CONTRACT FOR WEATHER STRIPPING (23) It has been the policy of the Physical Plant Department in recent years to install weather stripping in various buildings where saving of heat and other benefits would accrue from such installations, as funds are available. In line with that policy, eight firms were asked to bid on such installations in the Transportation, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Men's Old Gymnasium buildings. Three firms requested plans and specifications. Only one bid was received on time, and one other was received late and therefore rejected (this bid was not lower in any event). One firm explained it was not bidding because it could not get materials without priority ratings. The Champaign Weather Strip Co., the only bidder, submitted the follow-
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