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Board of Trustees minutes, September 2 1 , 1977, pages 395-396.

Revision of Subject Matter Pattern Requirements for Admission of Freshmen, Urbana

(17) The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a recommendation from its Committee on Admissions for modifications in the subject pattern requirements for admission of freshmen. ("Patterns" are combinations of college preparatory high school subjects required of applicants to the various colleges and curricula.) The patterns are generally similar in content to current patterns. The principal changes are: 1. T h e number of patterns is reduced from six to four. 2. In addition to statements of subjects required for admission, a statement of recommended courses is included for guidance of prospective students and their advisers. 3. T h e term college preparatory high school subjects is introduced and defined. 4. Applicants to the College of Agriculture formerly admitted with 10 units of college preparatory courses must now present 12 units, but 2 of these may be agriculture or home economics. This exception will allow admission of wellqualified students who have taken career-oriented courses in that field, yet will not create a "back door" entrance for admission of other students. 5. The possibility of granting waivers to specific subject requirements or rank-inclass for otherwise well-qualified students, long practiced, is now stated in the requirements. Upon approval, the various colleges will choose the revised patterns which are most appropriate for their curricula. (A copy of the appropriate section of the Undergraduate Programs catalog incorporating the proposed revisions has been filed with the secretary of the board for record.) T h e acting chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus and the vice president for academic affairs concur in this recommendation. T h e University Senates Conference has indicated that no further senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . N e a l , t h i s 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 . Board of Trustees minutes, M a r c h 17, 1983, page 177.

Revision of College Preparatory Requirement Patterns, College of Education, Urbana

(11) T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a revision of the college preparatory subject requirement patterns for admission of freshmen in the College of Education. This revision increases the admission requirements through the establishment of a fifth subject requirement pattern. Currently there are four college preparatory subject requirement patterns as approved by the Board of Trustees. T h e College of Education uses pattern I (below). T h e college proposes increasing the requirements in algebra, science, foreign language, and social studies to improve the quality of the undergraduate student body in the college. Currently approved patterns do not meet the college's undergraduate student admissions needs. Upon the senate's recommendation and with the concurrence of the chancellor, I propose that the following pattern of college preparatory subject requirements be approved effective spring 1985 and published in the Undergraduate Programs Catalog as Pattern V.