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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[November 15

at Kobe City, Japan. T h e administrative-instructional costs of the program were financed jointly by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the UrbanaChampaign campus and by Michigan State University, with the student participants meeting all additional costs. During recent years, this program has become more difficult for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to support due to increased costs and competing pressures on the budget of the college. Accordingly, it is now proposed that the program be established on a selfsupporting basis whereby the tuition charges in each year of the program will reflect its full cost. The administrative-instructional costs are projected at approximately $75,000 for FY 1981. Since the program is designed for approximately twenty-five students, the tuition and fee cost per student will be $3,000 ($2,340 for tuition and $660 for program fees). 1 As in the past, all students continue to pay for room, board and transportation (approximately $2,800) and for personal expenses (approximately $1,600). Therefore, the chancellor at the Urbana campus now recommends that tuition for the program for study in Japan henceforth be set at an amount which will fully support the program. The vice president for administration concurs in this recommendation. I recommend approval. President's Report on Senate Action (8) The president reported on the following action of the senate. Urban Transportation Center, Chicago Circle T h e Chicago Circle Senate has approved the establishment of an Urban Transportation Center. The multidisciplinary center is designed to coordinate Chicago Circle's existing strength in urban transportation research and service and to nurture the growth of such activities. It will provide a focus for research in transportation, generate research opportunities in transportation, and provide direct support in the initiation of transportation studies. T h e center will serve as a source for analysis and planning services to local and regional groups and as the focus for development of consortium activities with other universities. The center will be managed by a director who will report on budgetary and administrative matters to the director for the Office of Sponsored Research. A policy committee composed of the deans of the Graduate College and of the Colleges of Architecture, Art, and Urban Sciences; Business Administration; Engineering; and Liberal Arts and Sciences will advise the director of the center. The establishment of the center has also been approved by the Board of Higher Education based on the University's budget request document for FY 1980. T h i s r e p o r t w a s r e c e i v e d for r e c o r d . A r e a Health Education Center Contract, M e d i c a l Center (9) Negotiations have been completed with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for a one-year contract to fund an Area Health Education Center, administered by the University's Medical Center campus. Support for this eighth year of the project will be $1,607,778, inclusive of indirect costs. The new contract will support, although at a reduced level, primary care

1 Fortuitously, for the present the Japan Illini Club (University of Illinois alumni living in Japan) has decided to lend support to the program. The club will provide grants in FY 1981 for all participating University of Illinois students and these grants will pay a portion of the new tuition and fee costs. With the grants, the FY 1981 cost to the students will be about $500 above the normal tuition and fees for students who are studying at the Urbana campus.