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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944
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1056 BOARD OF TRUSTEES quired to take whatever tests were prescribed by the Personnel Bureau and, at the same time, be placed under the special charge of the dean of the college concerned. The changes made in the admission requirements at the University of Illinois during the past ten years have tended to minimize the importance of specific subjects taken in high school and at the same time to emphasize the general ability of a student as measured by his rank in his graduating class without regard to the subjects which he had pursued. With few and minor exceptions, these trends in general admission requirements at the University of Illinois are similar to those requirements set up by other midwestern state universities and are in conformity with good modern educational practice. On the basis of facts concerning rank in high-school graduating class, scholastic average of freshmen, student mortality, and general admission requirements, there is no justification to assert that the quality of students admitted as freshmen at the University of Illinois has deteriorated between 1934 and 1942. T H E C H A R A C T E R A N D QUALITY OF THE CURRICULA Once the University has selected the persons to be admitted, the considerations of importance are: What are these persons to be taught ? And how are they to be taught ? It is not going too far to say that these two features constitute the heart of the undergraduate educational program of any university. This statement assumes still greater importance in the light of the fact that 80 percent of the great increase in the total enrollment of the University of Illinois since 1934 has been in the undergraduate divisions on the Urbana campus. 4 Furthermore, the real importance of this fact can be fully appreciated only when it is recalled that most of the increase has been in the undergraduate body of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Because of this fact, and also because of the fact that so many of the professional schools of the University require preprofessional study in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the curricula and the teaching in liberal arts assume positions of great importance. 'See page 32. [38 —A.C.E. Report]
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