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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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selected from Biochemistry (BC) 410 or 4 1 1 ; (2) reduced the additional hours at the 400-level from seven hours to five hours; total hours required in 400-level microbiology courses are reduced from 17 to 13 hours; (3) reduced the requirement in didactic coursework taken outside the department from eight to six hours; (4) reduced the hours required in M I 493, Research in Microbiology and Immunology, from 73 to 71 beyond the M . S . ; and (5) added five hours of M I 355, Microbiology Laboratory Methods, beyond the M.S. requirement. These changes are part of the reevaluation of the department's graduate degree programs and courses, and changes nos. 2-4, above, are the direct result of the specific revisions to the M.S. in Microbiology and Immunology. T h e revised program requires a total of 13 hours in didactic microbiology courses at the 400 level. T h e department proposes to drop specific requirements and to allow the students and their advisers to select the courses that best fit the students' program objectives.

Revision of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Dance, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Urbana

T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate has recommended an increase in the number of units required for the M.F.A. in Dance from 14 to 15, effective immediately. T h e recommendation to increase requirements for the M.F.A. degree to the equivalent of 60 semester credit hours was made by the Committee on Accreditation of the National Association of Schools of Dance in conjunction with our accreditation review in 1984. T h e report stated that "individuals with Master of Fine Arts degrees having fewer than 60 semester hours are often penalized or inconvenienced in the promotion and tenure process."

This report was received for record. Change in Status: Establishment of Department of Genetics, Chicago

(19) T h e senate at the Chicago campus has approved a proposal from the College of Medicine to change the status of the Center for Genetics to redesignate it as the Department of Genetics of the College of Medicine. The proposal also recommends that the appointment of the center's director be changed to that of a headship. T h e current designation, "center," is not consistent with the way in which the unit is organized and functions. T h e Center for Genetics now has a regular annual budget, is staffed by tenured and tenure-track faculty whose appointments are in the center, and offers a graduate degree program, the Ph.D. in Mammalian Genetics. Thus, in every respect, it operates as a department. T h e change has the unanimous support of the center's faculty, the dean and the Executive Committee of the College of Medicine, and the heads of the interested departments, the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, Biological Sciences, and Chemistry. T h e chancellor at Chicago and the acting vice president for academic affairs recommend approval. T h e University Senates Conference has indicated that n o further senate jurisdiction is involved. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Wolff, this recommendation was approved. Center for Urban Educational Research and Development, Chicago

(20) The senate at the Chicago campus has approved a proposal to establish a Center for Urban Educational Research and Development in the College of Educa-