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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June io

MODIFICATION OF REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION IN THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

(7) The Council of Administration, acting for the University Senate on June 7, 1927, recommends the following changes in the requirements for graduation from the College of Education: I. That students must specialize in two subjects commonly taught in high school (instead of one). 2. That the requirement in technical agriculture in the curriculum in agricultural education be reduced from 56 to 49 hours. I concur in these recommendations. O n m o t i o n of M r s . Grigsby, these changes w e r e adopted. REVISED CURRICULA IN CERAMICS AND CERAMIC ENGINEERING (8) The University Senate (meeting of June 6) recommends the following revision of the curricula in Ceramics and Ceramic Engineering. I. That a requirement of thirty-four semester hours of credit be replaced with twenty-five semester hours in the Department of Ceramic Engineering; 2. That a reduction of aine hours of chemistry, with a corresponding increase in the number of hours of physics, electrical engineering, and geology, be made in the curriculum in Ceramics; 3. That the following modifications be made in the curriculum in Ceramic Engineering; (a) Replace a three hour elective course in electrical engineering by a requirement of eight hours in the same subject; (b) Reduce the requirement of differential and integral calculus from ten to six hours (substitution of Mathematics 8a, 8b, for Mathematics 7, 9 ) ; (c) Elimination of the requirement of quantitative analysis (Chemistry 5b) to give time for the required courses in engineering subjects. I concur in this recommendation. O n m o t i o n of M r s . Ickes, these changes w e r e adopted.

SALE OF JOSEPH CARTER PROPERTY IN NORMAL, ILLINOIS

(9) M r . A. R. Hall, attorney for the Executor of the estate of Joseph Carter, has advised the Comptroller that the time for contesting the will of Joseph Carter has expired and that in his opinion the title to the property at Normal, Illinois, devised to the Board of Trustees in the Carter will, is now fully vested in the Board, and the Board m a y give merchantable title to it. O n M a y 15, 1926 (Minutes, page 594): the Board authorized the Comptroller to sell the property if a satisfactory offer should be made. The Comptroller has secured estimates of the value of this property which run from $6,000 to $7,000. I recommend that he be authorized to place this property in the hands of a local agent with instructions to offer it for sale at not less than #7,000, net. O n m o t i o n of M r . Barr, this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s approved.

SCHEDULE OF CONTRACTORS' SURETY BONDS

(10) T h e Comptroller submits the following schedule of companies which have furnished surety bonds for contractors on new University buildings from June, 1926, to M a y 15, 1927. This schedule shows the companies writing the bonds, their financial resources, and the number and total amount of bonds which w e hold from each company.