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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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care; and a capstone course to prepare the newly trained nurse to enter the demanding field of nursing as a professional. These changes are supported by students, alumni, and employers of nursing graduates.

Revision of Admission Requirements for Transfer Students, Chicago

The Chicago Senate has approved a proposal to raise the minimum hours for admission as a transfer student from 12 semester (18 quarter) hours to 24 semester (36 quarter) hours. An applicant who presents fewer than 24 semester hours of transfer work will be evaluated for admission based upon two sets of criteria: (1) as a beginning freshman, which includes ACT/SAT score, high school rank, and the appropriate high school subject pattern requirement; and (2) as a transfer student, which requires a minimum cumulative transfer grade point average of 3.00 (A = 5.00). Some colleges at the Chicago campus require higher transfer grade point averages for admission. It has been UIC's policy for many years to consider strictly as a transfer applicant any student who attempts, prior to applying for admission, a minimum of 12 semester hours (18 quarter hours) of university-level work, whether with passing or failing grades, at an accredited college or university. Students who transfer with fewer than 30 semester hours are considered transfer freshmen. Studies of the performance and achievement of transfer students have been made at Chicago, and they have raised serious concerns about the success rate of freshmen transfer students. All of the data and information indicate that students who transfer to UIC at the freshman level (i.e., less than 30 semester hours of attempted work) are not graduating. Their five-year graduation rate of 23 percent is significantly below that of transfer sophomores (42 percent) and transfer juniors (55 percent). Just as disturbing as the low graduation rate is the 32 percent of freshmen transfer students who are dropped from UIC due to poor standing during the same five-year period. UIC is one of two public universities in the State of Illinois that accepts transfer students at the freshman level. The research data show that freshmen transfers are not succeeding, and if UIC is to do a more effective job of retaining and graduating its transfer students, one solution may be to raise the minimum hours required for admission as a transfer student. If transfer students can be persuaded to remain at the sending institution for at least one year, they will be more successful in the program and increase their potential to graduate.

This report was received for record.

Comptroller's Financial Report Quarter Ended March 31, 1994

(36) The comptroller presented his quarterly report as of March 31, 1994. A copy has been filed with the secretary of the board.

This report was received for record.

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY: SELECTION OF STUDENT NONVOTING MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 1994-95

Chicago Campus The election was held on March 23 and 24, 1994, and Christopher Didato-Castillo, a senior in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was elected.