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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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The vice president for academic affairs concurs. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of D r . D o n o g h u e , these a p p o i n t m e n t s w e r e a p p r o v e d .

Establishment of an Honors College, Chicago

(7) T h e senate at the University Center, Chicago, upon endorsement of the Honors Council, has recommended the establishment of an Honors College at the Chicago campus. The primary responsibility of the Honors College is to enrich the educational experience of gifted undergraduate students. It is expected to increase facultystudent interaction, encourage curriculum development, attract a larger number of superior students to the campus, encourage a larger number to complete their undergraduate work and generally enhance the intellectual environment of the campus. T h e Honors College will have faculty members from various colleges and departments, selected on the basis of their scholarship and commitment to highquality undergraduate education. Student members will be undergraduates selected from various colleges and departments on the basis of academic achievement. Those who are freshmen are required to take the academic core of the college, a three-quarter, twelve-credit-hour sequence of courses taught by selected Honors College professors. Upper-class students are required, each quarter, to complete a special project approved by the college. All student members of the college must maintain a 4.25 grade point average and submit an annual report of their activities. All functions of the present University Office of Honors Programs will be transferred to the Honors College, and all present Edmund J. James Scholars will be invited to join the college as student members. T h e Honors College will be headed by a dean, who will be advised by an Honors College Council. No additional state funds, faculty, or library resources are needed to support the college. T h e establishment of the college will be reported to the Illinois Board of Higher Education for possible further action. The chancellor and the vice president for academic affairs have recommended approval. T h e University Senates Conference has indicated that no further senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend approval.

On motion of Dr. Donoghue, this recommendation was approved. Special Tuition and Fees for Institute and Research Conference, Urbana

(8) T h e School of Humanities at the Urbana-Champaign campus is planning an Institute and Research Conference on the state of Marxism as a method of interpretation and as a general theory of culture and art. T h e Institute, for which participants may register for two graduate units of academic credit, will be held June 9-July 8, 1983; the Conference will be held July 8-11. It is expected that 100-120 persons will attend the Institute. Costs of the Institute and Conference are expected to be between $140,000 and $160,000. Funds to meet the costs have been committed by the Miller Committee, several academic departments, the Graduate Research Board, the Office of International Programs, the Office of Women's Studies, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. T h e chancellor at Urbana-Champaign has recommended that all participants in the program (credit or noncrcdit, resident or nonresident) be charged tuition of $430 and fees of $95. Of the latter, $70 would be for health service and the student service fee and $25 would be the registration fee for the Research Conference. T h e tuition of $430 would be deposited in the University Income Fund. T h e chancellor also has recommended that the usual $20 application fee for non-continuous students be waived for participants.