Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1936 [PAGE 113]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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T h e Scholarship Committee of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Farmers' Institute recommends that the regulations be revised as follows: 1. Students applying for scholarships in agriculture and home economics must be in the upper fifty per cent of their high school classes in scholastic standing. T h e statement of the principal of the high school on the application blank will be accepted in determining a student's scholastic standing. 2. One scholarship in agriculture and one in home economics shall be available in each county (except Cook and Lake) and one in each of the first ten Congressional Districts. 3. Scholarship applications will be received in the Farmers' Institute office beginning March 1st of each year and thereafter until the September registration is completed. T h e revised regulations governing scholarships in agriculture and home economics will then read as follows:

AGRICULTURE AND H O M E ECONOMICS SCHOLARSHIPS

Revised Regulations Number of Scholarships: T h e r e are established two scholarships for each county (except Cook and Lake) and two for each of the first ten Congressional Districts, one for students in Agriculture and one for students in H o m e Economics. /. 2. Eligibility for Scholarships: A candidate, to be eligible for either scholarship, must meet the requirements of the University for admission, either as a candidate for a degree or as an unclassified student, and must be at the time of recommendation and must have been for not less than one year prior thereto, a bona fide resident of the county or district from which he or she is recommended. Awards to students entering the University from the high schools will be made only to those students who in scholarship stood in the upper fifty per cent of the classes with which they graduated. T h e standing in class must be based on the student's complete high school record in the school from which he graduates. T h e applicant will be required to present a statement from the principal of his high school certifying his graduation and his scholastic rank within his class. Awards to students entering the University from other colleges or universities, will be made only to those who have achieved an average of fifteen points above the passing mark of the college or university in which they were enrolled; the student's average in such a case will be computed on the basis of his full college record. If the student has attended college less than a year before the award, he must qualify on the basis of his high school record. No person who has been a student in the University is eligible for appointment to one of these scholarships. 3. Appointments to Scholarship: Appointments to scholarships in Agriculture and H o m e Economics are made on recommendation of the Illinois F a r m e r s ' Institute. Scholarship applications will be received in the F a r m e r s ' Institute office at Springfield beginning March 1st of each year and thereafter until the September registration is completed. It is provided, also, that the President of the University may appoint suitable candidates where the Illinois F a r m e r s ' Institute has failed to make recommendations. In making recommendations the Institute will enforce the scholarship requirement as indicated under eligibility above and will consider the character and energy of the candidate. In counties from which there is more than one candidate the Institute, in order to assist it in arriving at a conclusion with reference to the most acceptable candidate, shall require all candidates to take the County Scholarship Examination, which is held each year in each county on the first Saturday in June. It will not recommend candidates unless, with the