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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 13

medicine is $448 per quarter; for students in dentistry, $323 per quarter; students in graduate programs are charged $205 per quarter; and undergraduate students $195 per quarter. A survey of eight state public health schools reported a median charge for annual tuition and required fees of $797, with a low of $129 and a high of $2,580. All of the schools charge the same amount for both the master's and doctoral programs in public health. Including the required fees, the recommended level at the University of Illinois would be $996 annually, based on current rates, \ T h e chancellor at the Medical Center therefore has recommended that, effective with the 1978-79 academic year, tuition charges for students enrolled in the Doctor of Pharmacy, Master of Public Health, and Doctor of Public Health degree programs be set at the same level as that for students enrolled in degree programs offered by the Graduate College at the Medical Center. Thus, the specific tuition charge in 1978-79 would be $205 per quarter for a resident, fulltime student. The rate for a nonresident, full-time student would be $615. T h e vice president for administration concurs in the recommendation. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . S o b o t k a , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d .

Revision of Dollar Limits on Purchases, Leases, and Contracts Requiring Specific Board of Trustees' Authorization; Deletion from the Generaf Rules

(7) In November the board approved in principle a proposal to increase the dollar amount of each purchase requiring specific prior authorization by the trustees. T h e proposal reflected the impact of inflation on such transactions and recommended an increase from $10,000 to $15,000 in the dollar amount of each purchase which may be processed without prior Board of Trustees' authorization and an increase in the range of transactions which must be reported from $7,500-$ 10,000 to $12,500-$ 15,000.

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I now recommend that the board formally approve the above change and, consistent with it, approve other related changes as follows so that the authorized amounts now are as follows: 1 1. Specific prior authorization of the board is required for purchases, new leases, and contracts of $15,000 or over, contract change orders of $17,500 or over, and renewals of leases where the increase exceeds $2,500 (the present amounts, respectively, are: $10,000, $12,500, and $2,500). 2. The following transactions must be reported to the board: purchases, new leases, and contracts involving payments in the range $12,500 to $15,000; contract change orders involving payments in the range $12,500 to $17,500; and renewals of leases with $2,500 or less increase in rental but involving rental payments in excess of $15,000. (Existing amounts are $7,500 to $10,000; $7,500 to $12,500; and $10,000, respectively.)

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T h e specific dollar limits recommended above revise limits which are now stated in the General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure. Very few dollar amounts are specified elsewhere in the General Rules. Since recommended changes in these amounts are rarely adopted coincidentally with revisions of the

1 The most recent action on dollar limits for leases, contracts, and renewal of leases (without increase in rental) by the Board of Trustees was on April 18, 1973, for contract change orders on May 15, 1968, and for renewal of leases with an increase in rental on June 19, 1963.