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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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as well as the opportunity to concentrate in one of them. T h e program will provide training for teachers at the secondary and community college levels as well as for students seeking careers in business concerns with interests in the Frenchspeaking areas of Europe, Africa, and Asia, or for individuals in foreign or diplomatic service or international service organizations. T h e program will also serve the needs of students wishing to prepare for doctoral studies at other institutions. No additional state resources will be required for this program. T h e department has sufficient teaching assistantships to provide support for graduate students as well as to enable the department to increase its undergraduate offerings while freeing senior faculty for graduate offerings. The chancellor at Chicago Circle and the vice president for academic affairs recommend approval. T h e University Senates Conference has indicated that no further senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend approval, subject to further action by the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

On motion of Mr. Velasquez, this recommendation was approved. Student Exchange Program with the University of Aston and the University of Dundee (Urbana)

(22) For several years undergraduate students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been able to spend a year at one of approximately twenty universities in the United Kingdom under programs sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Office of International Programs and Studies. Each year from thirty to fifty Illinois students have taken advantage of the program. The University of Aston of Birmingham, England, has, through the Urbana campus's Office of West European Studies and its own Management Centre, proposed a plan of reciprocity involving the exchange of one undergraduate student for the 1979-80 academic year. T h e intent is to increase the number to two students in each direction in subsequent years. T h e University of Dundee, Scotland, an institution that has for several years accepted Illinois students in the Study Abroad Program, now has proposed a plan of reciprocity involving the direct exchange of u p to three undergraduate students in an academic year. Students at both locations will pay tuition and fees as required at their respective schools. I n addition, each Illinois student will make a payment to provide for the housing and insurance costs of the student's coming to Illinois, in return for which the Illinois student will receive housing and insurance at the overseas university. Since the overseas universities will provide tuition and fees for the students attending their institutions, it is proposed that Illinois waive tuition and fees for exchange students attending the University of Illinois. Thus, the costs to all will be approximately the same. The chancellor at Urbana has recommended approval of tuition and fee waivers as described for students from the University of Aston and the University of Dundee. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . H o w a r d , this 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 .

Allocations to Student Legal Services Plan from Student Organization Resource Fee, Urbana

(23) O n June 21, 1978, the Board of Trustees approved a Student Organization Resource Fee for the Urbana-Champaign campus. T h e mandatory, but refundable, fee of $3.00 from each registered, on-campus student provides the funds for the