Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1924 [PAGE 481]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[May 17,

(a) The upper 1 0 % of each class shall be entitled to have their names printed on the convocation program. (b) The upper 3 % of the sophomore, junior, and senior classes shall be entitled to wear a badge or other suitable emblem to be selected by a committee of three faculty and six student members appointed by the President of the University. (c) Those seniors w h o are in the upper 3 % of their class in both junior and senior years shall be entitled to have their names inscribed on a suitable tablet to be placed in the University Auditorium. After the fourth convocation on Honors Day. the names of those placed on the tablet four years before shall be removed from the tablet and transferred to a book kept by the University for that purpose. This book shall be a permanent record of the University. 6. The basis of award shall be the attainments of the student, or group of students as shown by the scholastic records on file in the office of the Registrar. The students and organizations to be given honors shall be selected by the University Senate upon the recommendation of the Council of Administration. 7. A student whose name is among the upper ten percent of his class in accordance with the foregoing plan at the convocation held in his junior year shall be permitted so to adjust the studies of his senior year as to allow him freedom to put a considerable proportion of his time on some selected subject of study or investigation under the supervision of the department concerned, provided that such arrangement shall not cause omission of prescribed subjects in set curricula except by special permission of the dean of his college. In lieu of a final examination the department m a y require such reports or theses as i t deems most suitable. The amount of approved work which m a y be thus taken during the senior year shall not exceed the equivalent of a total of ten semester hours if taken within one department or of sixteen semester hours if in two departments. A student availing himself of the opportunity which this plan offers shall not register for more than a total of eighteen hours either semester of his senior year. II. G R A D U A T I O N W I T H H O N O R S . The Committee calls the attention of the Senate to the large variety of honors that have come to be offered at the University. For example, on pages 78 and 79 of the current Register, you will see that we offer Preliminary Honors in all colleges, Final Honors and Special Honors for the candidates for certain degrees, Freshman Honors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Graduation with Honorable Mention and with High Honors for candidates for the degree of bachelor of arts. It is the judgment of your Committee that honors should be of the University type and not of different kinds for different colleges and for different degrees. The plan outlined for an Honors D a y in the first part of this report would take the place of Freshman Honors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Preliminary Honors now awarded at the close of the sophomore year, and Final Honors at the close of the senior year. W e therefore recommend that these types of honors be discontinued. W e recommend that special honors also be discontinued and that graduation with honors be substituted and made available for all the Colleges of the University. The plan recommended for these honors is a modification of that n o w available for candidates for the A. B. degree and is as follows: The University Senate m a y recommend candidates for the bachelor's degree with honors in a particularfieldunder the following conditions: I. For the degree with Honorable Mention the student must have received the grade of A in at least one-half of the semester hours accepted in satisfaction of the requirements for a major, or in a minimum of twelve hours in approved courses his field of e must in attained work offered field of in and no grade specialization,any of the a beginning courses than or freshmen,specialization. Hbelow C have exclusive ofgrade of notinlower major toin his open B