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BOARD OF T R U S T E E S

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Funds have already been received from Union Oil and Amoco, and additional support is expected from Arco, Cities Service, Mobil Oil, Exxon, and Conoco. As part of its agreement to support the project, Conoco has requested an exception to the patent provisions of The General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure. Conoco at this time has agreed that the results of the research will be placed in the public domain via publication. Trie University will notify the other participating companies of this exception to its patent rules after board approval. The University Patent Committee has reviewed the proposal and recommends its approval as an exception to the patent provisions of the General Rules. I concur.

O n motion of Dr. Donoghue, this recommendation was approved. By consensus, the board agreed that one roll call vote would be taken and considered the vote on each agenda item nos. 12 through 20 inclusive. T h e recommendations were individually discussed but acted upon at one time. (The record of board action appears at the end of each item.) Tuition Increases for Fiscal Year 1983

(12) In setting tuition rates for Fiscal Year 1982, the Board of Trustees approved a general tuition increase and, in a departure from past practice, established a differential tuition rate for upper division students. Additionally, the board increased differential rates already in existence for graduate and professional students. The action was taken in recognition of a relative decline in general revenue funds and of the need to obtain funds for academic program improvements, and in the light of the fact that the University's tuition charges have been relatively low compared with peer institutions. The University's action was accepted and endorsed by the Board of Higher Education, the General Assembly, and the Governor. Funds available for academic program improvements (approximately $1.8 million), generated from tuition differentials, were virtually the only such funds available to any public university in Illinois. It is anticipated that the budget for FY 1983 will be even more constrained than was the case a year ago. Projections for increases in state tax revenues indicate severe limitations with significant commitments for needs outside of higher education. It is apparent that if any funds are to be made available for improvements in academic programs, again they will have to come from increases in the University Income Fund. In October 1981, the Board of Trustees, meeting as a Committee of the Whole, reviewed a range of tuition increase alternatives including general acrossthe-board increases for lower division students and a combination of general and differential increases for upper division, graduate, and professional students. In the light of that review and subsequent deliberations and with the advice of the University Planning Council, I now recommend the following actions with regard to tuition increases for FY 1983: 1. A general, across-the-board increase of 10 percent for all students. 2. Additional differential increases as follows: a. $100 for upper division undergraduate students b. $150 for graduate students. 3. Additional differential increases for students in the following professional programs: a. $205 — Law b. $325 — Medicine