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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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The chancellor at Urbana-Champaign has recommended that the pattern of College Preparatory Subject requirements described in the following be approved effective spring 1986 and published in the Undergraduate Programs Catalog. The vice president for academic affairs concurs. I recommend approval. (A copy of the subject requirement patterns is filed with the secretary for record.)

On motion of Dr. Donoghue, this recommendation was approved.

Affiliation Agreement, First Health Care Associates, Chicago

(12) The chancellor at Chicago has recommended approval of an affiliation agreement with First Health Care Associates, Ltd., Rosemont, an Illinois corporation which owns and operates long-term health care facilities. The corporation now provides high quality care in eleven such care facilities and wishes to acquire or build an additional facility, as a "Teaching Nursing Home," affiliated with the University of Illinois. The home would provide the University with a clinical site for research, development, demonstration, and teaching in the field of long term care. University faculty and students would be assigned to or would rotate through the home, much as is now the case with many other affiliated hospitals and clinical sites. The field of gerontology and the development of programs to prevent and treat disability in the aged are of increasing importance. The University has need of a clinical setting in this field. No funds are required to execute the affiliation agreement or the cooperative programs presently planned. The vice president for academic affairs concurs in this recommendation. I recommend approval.

On motion of Dr. Donoghue, this recommendation was approved.

Special Tuition Rate, M.S. in Economics, Option in Policy Economics, Urbana

(13) The chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended the establishment of a special tuition rate for the Option in Policy Economics, an area of specialization in the existing Master of Science in Economics. The Option in Policy Economics is an enriched, intensive one-year program of study leading to a Master of Science Degree in Economics, and is intended mainly for promising administrators in government and private institutions in foreign countries who desire additional training in economic analysis and quantitative techniques. It is also anticipated that some participants in the program will come from domestic businesses with international operations. The program will provide such administrators with a broad program of study and experience to better prepare them to take advantage of new opportunities and demands that they will likely face when they return to their native countries. Therefore, the standard master's program has been enriched by offering specialized training and experience in areas such as microcomputer training, field trips to business and government agencies, an intensive intersession course in English as a Second Language, and special lectures and workshops. Since the program is designed to provide special services to foreign and domestic business and government administrators and their organizations, it is intended that the University be reimbursed by the participants or their sponsors. On the basis of cost estimates for a startup enrollment of 15 students, an annual tuition rate of $8,100 per student is recommended, effective with the 1984-85 academic year. Tuition will support 1.25 F T E faculty, administrative costs, intersession in-