Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920
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1920] MEMORANDUM UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 703 VOCATIONAL FOR FEDERAL BOARD FOR EDUCATION I. SPECIAL VOCATIONAL COURSE I N AGRICULTURE (ONE YEAR) This course if offered specifically for students who may be sent by the Federal Board for Vocational Education. This course will include special work in farm crops, soils, fruits and vegetables, the operation and care of farm machinery, live stock and farm management. In this course students will be accepted at any time and without reference to the extent of their previous education, and every effort will be made to provide them with practical vocational training and, when necessary, with supplementary instruction in the common branches. This work will be differentiated to meet the needs of the individual students. Those who are qualified to profit by regular University courses will be admitted to such courses and given individual assistance if necessary in mastering the work. In addition, special classes and practise sections will be organized. A certain amount of supervised study will be undertaken, if it seems desirable, in which the students can be given individual attention. For students enrolled in this Special Vocational Course fees will be charged as follows: Per Month For 1-9 students $50.00 For 10-19 students 25.00 For 20 or more students 12.50 These contracts were approved. BUDGET FOR WORK DONE FOR FEDERAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION BOARD FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS (18) A tentative budget for the fiscal year 1919-20 for the work done by the University for the Federal Board for Vocational Education in accordance with the special contract, and a recommendation that expenditures as itemized herein be authorized to be made from the income under this contract, and that any surplus remaining at the close of the year be turned into the general University income. March 6, 1920 President David Kinley, University of Illinois M Y DEAR PRESIDENT KINLEY: I enclose, as per your request, a proposed budget for the special contract with the Federal Board for Vocational Education for the fiscal year 1919-1920. The estimate of income is on the basis of our records of fees due for the first semester and of the Registrar's records of enrollment for the second semester. The estimate of expenditures is on the basis of information furnished by Dean Babcock. I recommend that the enclosed budget be approved, and that the expenditures as itemized therein be authorized to be made from the income under this contract, and that any surplus remaining at the close of the year revert to the general University income. Very truly yours, LLOYD MOREY Comptroller
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