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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[February 20

MATTERS P R E S E N T E D BY P R E S I D E N T WILLARD

The Board considered the following matters presented by the President of the University.

REVISION O F R E Q U I R E M E N T S F O R ADMISSION T O T H E C O L L E G E O F MEDICINE (1) The University Senate recommends a reduction in the requirements for admission to the College of Medicine from three years, or 90 semester hours, of pre-professional studies to two years, or 60 semester hours, provided that immediately after the end of the war the College of Medicine be directed to review the situation and inform the Senate when it may expect to restore the present requirement of three years of pre-medical studies. The two-year pre-medical program will include the following course requirements: Uows Chemistry (including four hours of organic chemistry) 12 Physics (including at least two hours of laboratory work in mechanics, heat, sound, light, and electricity) 8 Zoology (including a course in general zoology and one in vertebrate zoology, with at least four hours of laboratory work) 8 English 6 Modern Language (French, German, Spanish, etc.) 6 Electives outside the chemical, physical, and biological sciences 6 Free electives 14 Total 60 This constitutes in general a return to the former two-year pre-medical requirements with the exception that the language requirement of French or German is now liberalized to include six hours of any modern language. All other regulations governing admission to the College of Medicine as heretofore approved by the Board of Trustees, including a minimum scholastic average of 3.5, the distribution of admissions between applicants from Cook County and down-state Illinois, and approval of all applications by the Committee on Admissions, will remain in force. These recommendations have been forced on the College of Medicine by circumstances growing out of the war. All medical colleges find themselves in the same situation, which in a word is that it would be extremely difficult for medical colleges to maintain entrance requirements which necessitate more than two academic years of college work. T h e W a r and Navy Departments have been very cooperative with medical schools and colleges in maintaining high standards of pre-professional and professional education. Under the new programs, however, although the details are not yet available, the W a r and Navy Departments undoubtedly will not permit more than two academic years of preprofessional study. This fact is now generally recognized, and all the medical schools are moving in the direction we are taking. Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and Loyola University, our local sister institutions, have already taken steps to reduce their requirements to a two-year basis. I concur in these recommendations. O n m o t i o n of M r s . G r i g s b y , t h e s e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e a d o p t e d . LEAVES O F A B S E N C E (2) A recommendation that the following leaves of absence be granted mem-. bers of the staff for the reasons and periods and under the conditions indicated in each case, which are in accordance with the regulations of the Board governing such leaves: M B S . MABIE M. BIERFELDT, Senior Clerk in the President's Office, sick leave with pay from November 28, 1942, through January 2, 1943. M R S . KATHERINE H . PEER, Clerk-Stenographer in the English Department, additional sick leave without pay from February 1 through May 31, 1943. Mrs. Peer has already been granted the maximum amount of leave with pay to which she is entitled under University regulations. DR. LOUIS S. ROBINS, Associate in Pediatrics, on the clinical faculty without salary, sick leave from January I through August 31, 1943.