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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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however, firmly of the opinion that such instruction should not be undertaken by the University as a regular service unless credit towards graduation is allowed in it in some measure, but is willing to undertake to provide temporary war courses of the character described to be taken without credit towards a degree. This recommendation was approved by the Council of Administration at its meeting of July 16, 1918.

The President of the University was authorized to organize such courses in the College of Commerce if the budget adopted for the present year permits.

WAR EMERGENCY COURSES (11) Recommendations in regard to War Emergency Short Courses. July 31,1918 Dr. Edmund J. James, President

DEAR M R . PRESIDENT:

At the meeting of the Council of Administration yesterday afternoon, it was voted to approve the special war curriculums and courses recommended in the letter from Dean Richards, of which I enclose a copy herewith, with the exception of M. and S. E. 11, which, in view of the possibility of duplication between it and courses offered in the bacteriological division of the department of botany, was referred to a special committee for report. You will note that the Council's action involves a recommendation to the Board of Trustees that a special fee of $25.00 be established to be paid in lieu of all other fees by persons registering in the Short Curriculum in Drafting and Inspection for Women, and a special fee of $35.00 in lieu of all other fees for persons registering in the Short Curriculum in the Mechanic Arts; and a further recommendation "that the fees received from students should be held in a fund from which extraordinary expenses connected with conduct of these curriculums would be paid with the understanding that any surplus in this fund at the close of the semester would be returned to the University general fund." The fee of $25.00 for the Short Curriculum in Drafting and Inspection for Women is slightly in excess of the fees regularly paid by a special student, which amount to $22.50 (incidental fee $15.00, special fee $7.50). The fee of $35.00 for the Short Curriculum in the Mechanic Arts was arrived at on the same basis with the addition of an allowance of $10.00 for laboratory fees. Sincerely yours,

THOMAS ARKLE CLARK

Secretary, Council of Administration July 29,1918

To THE COUNCIL OF ADMINISTRATION:

Due to the absence from the city of a number of the heads of the departments of the College of Engineering, I have found it difficult to secure sufficient information to formulate a complete report concerning possible new courses, designed exclusively for the discussion of wartime problems, and short curriculums of intensive training.