Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1980 [PAGE 110]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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a. Physical handicap of the student, b. Maturity and experience achieved outside the undergraduate classroom, c. Presence of multiple LSAT tests with significantly differing scores or an undergraduate record marred by poor grades for only a brief period of time, d. T h e student's success as an undergraduate in spite of the need to work significant hours outside the classroom, and e. Ethnic and cultural background of the applicant. At its meeting on September 25, 1978, the faculty of the College of Law approved the proposed new procedures. (The full report of the Admissions Committee of the College of Law is filed with the secretary of the board for record.) O n motion of M r . Lenz, approved without dissent, the report was received and the procedural changes approved, with the understanding that a report would be submitted to the board by the College of Law Admissions Committee after one year's experience with the new procedures; and with the understanding that the chancellor at U r b a n a will report a t an appropriate time as to whether or not the policy on admissions of the College of Law needs review. Renaming of the Fine and Applied Arts Building, Urbana (10) T h e Fine and Applied Arts Building at Urbana, which was constructed in 1960, initially housed the Department of Art and Design as well as a portion of the Department of Architecture, both of which are a part of the College of Fine and Applied Arts. T h e building now houses only the Department of Art and Design. T o better reflect the current and anticipated usage of the building, the chancellor, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, has recommended that the Fine and Applied Arts Building be renamed the Art and Design Building. I concur. O n motion of Mr. Livingston, this recommendation was approved. Contract with Rush University, Chicago Circle (11) Rush University, a division of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, has proposed a cooperative agreement with the University of Illinois, under which graduate students from Rush would be permitted to take courses at the Chicago Circle campus in order to expand their curriculum opportunities in a qualified doctoral program in biochemistry. T h e arrangement is agreeable to the University officers involved, provided that such students meet normal and customary admission standards at Chicago Circle and provided space is available. Accordingly, a contract has been negotiated providing for such cooperation, subject to the trustees' approval. Under the contract, Rush University students attending Chicago Circle campus would enjoy a status common to all other students, with the exception that they would not be billed individually for tuition and fees; rather, a charge would be made to Rush University for each student so attending, the charge t o be based on the Chicago Circle campus standard schedule of tuition and fees for Illinois residents. This arrangement could be terminated at the end of any academic quarter by either party giving notice in writing on or before the first day of classes of the next academic term. ( T h e contract is similar to agreements which were made between Shimer College and the University of Illinois as approved by the Board of Trustees on June 20, 1973, and between Spertus College of Judaica and the University of Illinois approved on July 16, 1975.)