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room and board rates will be increased by the following amounts: single accommodations, $74; double accommodations, $66; and triple accommodations, $62. b. In four cooperative houses (78 spaces), beginning August 1977, academicyear rate increases are: Alpha and Gamma Houses, $30 shared, $32 single; Delta House, $36; and French House, $60. 2. In graduate residence halls (986 spaces), beginning August 1977, academicyear room rates will be increased as follows: Sherman Hall, single accommodations, $46, and double accommodations, $44; Daniels Hall, single accommodations, $38, and double accommodations, $34; optional board contracts, $30. 3. In student-staff apartments (201 units), beginning August 1977, monthly rental rates will be increased as follows: Sleeping r o o m — $ 3 students, $3 staff; Zero bedroom — $3 students, $3 staff; One-bedroom — $4 students, $4 staff; Two-bedroom — $5 students, $5 staff. 4. In family housing (784 units), beginning August 1977, monthly rental rates will be increased as follows: Orchard Area (furnished), one-bedroom — $4, and two-bedroom — $5; Orchard South (unfurnished), two-bedroom — $3. 5. In faculty housing (65 units), a rate increase of 3 percent applicable only to new tenants will be effective in August 1977 (increased charges will range from $5 to $9 per month per dwelling). Alternatives to present services for undergraduate residence halls and proposed rental rate increases for all student housing units were developed by the Housing Division and reviewed with the Student Housing Advisory Committee.1 The recommended increases are required because of rising costs of salaries and wages, food, supplies, utilities, and other services. I concur in these recommendations and recommend their approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . V o l g m a n , these r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s were approved.

Modifications, Installment Plan for Payment of University Charges, Urbana

(5) Since 1959 students at the Urbana-Champaign campus have had the option of paying tuition, fees, and housing charges each semester in four installments, the first installment payable at registration, the remaining installments in each of the following three months. This plan has been effective with the present arena-type registration, but fails to correlate appropriately with a registration-by-mail plan now scheduled for implementation in the fall of 1978. (Under the new registration plan, advance enrolled students will receive their class schedules by mail and may report directly to their first classes if no modifications are required. As soon as residual registration is completed for other students, billings will be mailed to all students on the first day of classes, and collections will be completed by mail during the first ten days of instruction.) Since the timing of collections under the present four-installment plan cannot be integrated properly with collections under the plan for registration-by-mail, it is recommended that the installment plan be amended to provide for three installments in each semester, the first payable during the first ten days of instruction, the remaining two payments due in each of the following months. Since 1959 a $2 service charge has been assessed students electing the installment plan; the amount charged now reflects neither the value of the service

1 The Student Housing Advisory Committee consists of representatives of undergraduate residence halls, graduate residence halls, married student apartments, Undergraduate Student Association, Graduate Student Association^ Interfraternity Council, Panhelleuc Council, Independent Housing Association, and private certified housing.