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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Establishment of Dentistry Equipment Fee, Chicago

(17) The College of Dentistry at the Chicago campus faces a critical need to replace a large portion of its instructional equipment, much of which — in particular, dental chairs and related equipment which support the clinical program in the third and fourth yean — is unique to instruction in dentistry. T h e original equipment provided when the College of Dentistry building was opened in 1972 is still in use. T h e College of Dentistry and the campus administration have developed a six-year plan to replace the equipment: students in the college have voted to share in the costs of the plan through the creation of a special dental equipment fee of $100 per quarter ($300 per academic year), beginning in Fiscal Year 1989. Over the six-year period, the special fee will provide approximately 30 percent of the total resources required; the College of Dentistry will provide approximately 45 percent; and the remaining 25 percent will come from other campus sources. After the last year of the plan, the student fee and College of Dentistry resources will be sufficient to maintain the new equipment and to replace worn-out equipment on a systematic basis. This fee has been reviewed and recommended by the University Planning Council, the chancellor at Chicago, and the acting vice president for academic affairs. I concur.

On motion of Mrs. Gravenhorst, this recommendation was approved. Special Tuition and Fee Increases, Urbana

(18) T h e Urbana-Champaign campus provides several academic programs on a "full cost recovery" basis, i.e., all costs are met through a combination of tuition and fee charges. These include: the Executive MBA Program and the Program in Policy Economics, both offered in the College of Commerce and Business Administration; and a newly developed M.S. in Library and Information Science to be offered in the Chicago area by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Tuition and fee requirements for each of these programs are reviewed annually.

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For Fiscal Year 1989, the following actions are proposed for the Executive MBA Program: Proposed, FY 1989 FY 1987 FY 1988 FY 1989 Increase Tuition $6 100 $6 500 $6 500 $ 0 Fees 1 400 1 700 2 400 700 Total $7 500 $8 200~ $8 900 $700 (8.5 percent) Each class pays the same tuition and fee charges for each of the two program years. Thus, the tuition increase approved last year affected only the students in the first year. T h e additional income which will result from students in both years paying the same tuition in FY 1989 will be sufficient to cover academic program costs, and no further increase is recommended for FY 1989. Likewise, the income derived from the fee increase recommended for FY 1989 will apply only to the first-year class. Fee increases were not made in either 1986 or 1987, since sufficient balances were available to cover fee-related costs. Increases now are required to maintain the current level of service for fee-supported activities. These include: housing and meal costs, books and materials, special orientation programs for beginning students, a variety of special travel and speaker series, and computerrelated services.