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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 17

T h e chancellor at Chicago Circle and the vice president for academic affairs recommend approval. 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 . H a h n , 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 .

Tuition and Fee Waiver for Student Exchange Programs, Urbana

(12) Since 1977, some thirty undergraduate students each year from the UrbanaChampaign campus have spent an academic year at Konan University in Kobe, Japan. It is now proposed that the University of Illinois provide tuition and fee waivers for up to five Japanese students each year to study at the Urbana-Champaign campus. Under the existing program, the Illinois students pay approximately $3,200 to cover tuition and fees at the Urbana-Champaign campus and other instructional costs, room and board while in Japan, and transportation costs. Actual cost to the student would be approximately $6,200, except for grants and scholarships from funds contributed by the Japan Illini Club in Tokyo and by the Johnson Wax Company. T h e University pays a fee of $2,000 for the use of space, an amount well below actual cost. Konan University provides the Urbana-Champaign resident director with a house and will provide funds for instructors who teach Japanese language and culture courses. Konan also provides indirect support for the students. It is estimated that the support, direct and indirect, provided by Konan University exceeds $20,000 per year. In addition to the tuition and service fee waivers now proposed, the campus would provide without cost, reports and transcripts for the five Japanese students. T h e Konan students will be responsible for all other expenses. T h e Urbana-Champaign campus will continue to send up to thirty-two students per year and a resident director to Konan University and receive all of the services and benefits described at no further expense. T h e chancellor at Urbana-Champaign has recommended approval of the award of five tuition and service fee waivers to students from Konan University. The executive vice president concurs. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . H a h n , 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 .

Tuition Adjustment for Study Abroad Programs

(13) For some time students from the Urbana-Champaign and Chicago Circle campuses have had the opportunity to enroll in formal study abroad programs, each of which is sponsored by a department of the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences. It is now proposed that the tuition of such students be assessed at an amount equal to the Range I V level rather than the Range I level. 1 Specifically, the programs in question are conducted at the Federal Pedagogical Academy in Lower Austria at Baden, the University of Barcelona (Spain), and the Konan University (Japan). Although the students who successfully complete these programs earn credit equal to full-time students, the instructional load is borne by the foreign institutions. The Board of Trustees in February 1981 approved a similar adjustment for students studying at the Washington Center for Learning Alternatives. Students in these programs are assessed University tuition as well as a program charge covering payments to foreign institutions for instructional costs and for payment of certain other costs related to the University's provision of a faculty administrator. These unique program costs may be retained and expended locally

1 The current Range IV level of charges lor undergraduate tuition is $147-174/year. The affected students would not pay service fees; they are eligible to pay health insurance.