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and nationally. The consolidation of these programs into the redesignated Department of Performing Arts will require no additional funding. The vice president for academic affairs concurs in this recommendation. The University Senates Conference has indicated that no further senate jurisdiction is involved. I concur, pending further action by the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

On motion of Mrs. Gravenhorst, this recommendation was approved.

Establishment of a Center for Writing Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Urbana

(16) The chancellor at Urbana, upon the recommendation of the Urbana-Champaign Senate and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, recommends the establishment of a Center for Writing Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The center will support undergraduate instruction, graduate programs, and faculty research in rhetoric and composition studies. The purposes of the Center for Writing Studies (CWS) are threefold. First, CWS will provide individual help in improving writing to students at all levels throughout the campus through the Writer's Workshop. Second, it will provide assistance to faculty and graduate teaching assistants across the campus in implementing writing assignments and in improving the quality of writing instruction in courses they teach. Third, it will coordinate interdisciplinary graduate education for students specializing in composition studies and will promote faculty research in rhetoric and composition studies. The mission of the proposed Center for Writing Studies is a campuswide one that is critical to the implementation of the composition portion of the new undergraduate education requirements, and workshops and other support provided by the Center to faculty and teaching assistants will affect the entire campus. The centrality of the instructional support mission to the composition portion of the revised general education requirements, the involvement of a number of departments in the work of the proposed center, and the high visibility of its work are arguments in favor of a center rather than a program as the permanent unit. The State provided new program funds in 1989-90 to establish the Writers' Workshop and to seed the development of the Center for Writing Studies. Further development of CWS will be supported by internal reallocation and new program funds, if such are available. The vice president for academic affairs concurs in this recommendation. The University Senates Conference has indicated no further senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend approval, pending further action by the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

On motion of Mrs. Gravenhorst, this recommendation was approved.

Transfer of the Master of Science in Criminalistics Degree Program, Chicago

(17) The chancellor at Chicago, upon the recommendation of the Chicago Senate and the joint approval of the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) and Pharmacy, recommends the transfer of the Master of Science in Criminalistics degree program from the Department of Criminal Justice in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to the Department of Pharmacodynamics in the College of Pharmacy. The criminalistics program offers professional training in all aspects of forensic laboratory science. The program is currently administered through the Department of Criminal Justice in the College of LAS, but for the past two years the Department of Pharmacodynamics in the College of Pharmacy has assumed a major share of the teaching responsibilities. This arrangement arose as a cooperative response to the