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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April 18

As noted, the combined increases total 8.1 percent, a level consistent with the anticipated rise in the University's overall budget for FY 1986. An increase of this magnitude will help meet salary and cost increases which will match those of other University programs. There is a shift of costs currently borne by fees to costs borne by tuition. Recent experience has indicated that fee revenues are more than adequate to cover full costs of the portions of the program which they support, while increased revenues are required to cover those portions of the program funded by tuition. Hence, a fee reduction is proposed, with a corresponding increase in tuition. For the Program in Policy Economics,1 which was begun in the current year, the following actions are proposed: P t> A Tuition Fees Total FY 1985 $ 8 100 2 450 $10 550 FY $ 9 2 $11 1986 175 125 300 Increase $1 075 —325 $ 750 (7.1 percent)

Initial enrollment projections anticipated a total of 15 students who would complete a 10-unit academic program over the course of two semesters plus a summer session. Actual enrollment for the current year reached 29, and included 9 students whose language requirements produced a need for an additional semester of work, thereby requiring greater expenditures than originally anticipated. As with the Executive MBA Program, the fee charges set for FY 1985 have proved more than adequate to meet those areas of the program which fee revenues cover, permitting a fee reduction which offsets, in part, the need to increase tuition costs for other areas of the program. The chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended the increases noted above. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . H o w a r d , these r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s were a p p r o v e d .

Student Fees, Chicago and Urbana (Student Services, Health Services, Facilities, Health Insurance)

(19) The chancellors have recommended increases in student fees which support auxiliary operations and student activities, student health services, and the student health insurance program for Fiscal Year 1986. The increases are required for continuing components (salaries and wages, utilities, and general and raw food price increases) and for certain program needs at the Chicago campus. In addition, the first year of a two-year increase in fees is required to fund the debt service and repair and replacement reserve requirements for capital projects associated with a bond issue proposed for the summer of 1985. The projects include a new residence hall and commons area in Chicago and a new recreation structure, renovation of the Ice Arena, and renovation of McKinley Hospital and Health Service at UrbanaChampaign.

Student Service Fee

The student service fee at Urbana-Champaign supports the services and programs of the Assembly Hall, Illini Union, Intramural-Physical Education Building, Student Services Building, Ice Arena, and campus recreation. The recommended increase is required to meet increased operational costs and the first year's debt service as well as repair and replacement requirements for renovation of the Ice Arena and the construction of a new recreation structure. The service fee for Health Sciences Center students at Chicago supports the operation of the Chicago Illini Union, student programs, student government, and

1 An option under the M.S. in Economic!, a special program designed for foreign and U.S. administrators.