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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[February 24

Urbana and Chicago Undergraduate Division Senates, 1 recommends the following changes in existing admissions requirements for entrance to the College of Medicine: An increase in the total number of semester hours of premedical college work from eighty-eight to ninety-four semester hours. A change in specific course requirements to include the study of nuclear physics, and the addition of six hours in one subject-matter area in advanced (junior and senior) undergraduate courses not presently included in the specified requirements in chemistry, physics, biology, English, foreign language, social sciences, and humanities. The number of electives permitted, twenty-eight semester hours, remains the same. The objectives of this change are to assure that students planning to study medicine are provided adequate preparation in certain sciences on which the medical curriculum is based, a breadth of education, particularly in nonscience areas, and depth in education in at least one subject-matter area. It is proposed that this change become effective for students beginning their premedical studies in September, 1062. A supporting memorandum giving the details of these changes and a statement from the Dean of the College of Medicine is submitted herewith, and a copy is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. 1 concur in these recommendations. O n m o t i o n of M r s . W a t k i n s , 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 . LEASE OF SPACE FOR AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE (6) T h e Director of the Agricultural Extension Service and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend the lease of Suite 301-303 in the 188 Randolph Tower Building, Chicago, from March 1, i960, to June 30, 1961, at a rental of $300 and $450 a month. Since the space will not be completely used prior to July 1, the rental for the first four months has been reduced to $300 a month. The space will be occupied by the 4-H Club staff which will be expanded through private contributions obtained through the Steering Committee for Urban 4-H Club Work. The rental will also be paid from these funds after July I, i960, and from federal extension funds prior to July 1. 1 concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . J o h n s t o n , t h i s l e a s e w a s a u t h o r i z e d . REASSIGNMENT OF FUNDS (7) On July 29, 1959, the Board of Trustees approved several appropriations to provide additional classroom space for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, one item of which was $29,500 for remodeling in the Natural History Building. The cost of the work was less than estimated, and the Vice-President and Provost and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend that $5,425 of this amount be reassigned for remodeling in Davenport Hall and in the Woodshop (0 provide two additional classrooms. O n m o t i o n of M r . H a r e w o o d , t h i s r e a s s i g n m e n t w a s a p p r o v e d by the following v o t e : A y e , M r . Clement, M r . H a r e w o o d , M r . Hughes, M r . J o h n s t o n , M r . P o g u e , M r . S w a i n , M r s . W a t k i n s , M r . Wilkins, M r . Williamson; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . Herrick, M r . Stratton. SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS (8) The Vice-President and Provost and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend the following assignments from the General Reserve: Remodeling in the Physics Laboratory to provide additional laboratory space for the Departments of Physics and of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering $13 640 Equipment for producing liquid nitrogen 5 00° T o be supplemented by $15,000 from funds budgeted for assignment

1 The Senate Committee on Educational Policy, acting for the Urbana-Champaign Senate on this matter, has approved the change and has advised that in its judgment action by tne Urbana-Champaign Senate is not required.