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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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LLOYD WITHERS, director of Renal Dialysis Program, University of Illinois Hospital, beginning May 20, 1985 (NY), at an annual salary of $35,000. O n m o t i o n o i M r . F o r s y t h , these a p p o i n t m e n t s w e r e c o n f i r m e d .

Student-to-Student Financial Aid Program, Chicago

(14) T h e chancellor at the Chicago campus has recommended that a Student-toStudent Financial Aid Program be adopted for that campus to begin with the fall quarter 1985. The program is similar to the Students for Equal Access to Learning (SEAL) program established at Urbana by a student referendum in 1970. Chicago students voted in a referendum of May 1984 to establish the program, beginning with the fall quarter 1985. Students will be assessed a fee of $2 per quarter. Those individuals not desiring to participate will receive a refund. The Illinois State Scholarship Commission will provide matching funds equal to the amount donated by the students. T h e program for dispersing the funds will be administered by the Office of Student Financial Aid. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . F o r s y t h , 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 .

Increase in Student Organization Resource Fee, Urbana

(15) The chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended a $1 increase in the Student Organization Resource Fee ( S O R F ) . T h e fee would increase from $3 to $4 per semester, and the change would be effective with the fall semester 1985. Students at the Urbana-Champaign campus voted on March 26-27, 1985, to approve the increase. Some 4,311 students cast ballots; 57 percent indicated yes, and 43 percent, no. The fee which supports specific programs of student organizations, including the Student Legal Service, was authorized by the board on June 21, 1978; it is mandatory, but refundable. A board composed of students, faculty, and staff reviews requests from organizations for support of their programs and makes formal recommendations to the vice chancellor for student affairs. The vice chancellor acts on behalf of the chancellor in reviewing requests. Each semester now, approximately 200 organizations apply for funding — double the number since the fee was established. In addition, student enrollment has stabilized, resulting in a plateau of collectable fees. That situation, combined with other factors such as increased costs, a refund rate averaging 21 percent per semester, and inflation, leaves the S O R F Board with a continually shrinking amount of real dollars available. 1 I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Forsyth, this recommendation was approved. President's Report on Actions of the Senates Revision of the Master of Science in Accounting Degree Program, Chicago

(16) T h e Chicago Senate has approved of the following curricular modifications to the Master of Science in Accounting degree program: (1) replaced a research methodology course with an accounting research course which will provide all MSA students with the common analytical foundations that will allow them to

1 The increase recommended is the first since the SORF fee was authorized in 1978. The SORF predecessor, the "Voluntary Student Collection Fee," established in 1971, was also set at $3 per semester.