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BOARD OF TRUSTEES MATTERS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT W1LLARD

[June 19

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

MEMBERSHIP IN UNIVERSITY SENATE (1) T h e University of Illinois Statutes, Section 5, paragraph ( h ) , provide that the University Senate "shall elect annually by ballot at the April meeting from its own membership a Committee on Committees consisting of five persons. Not more than one member of this Committee shall be from the same college or school. After nominations made by this Committee in consultation with the President, the Senate shall elect committees on educational policy, the Library, athletics, student discipline, and such other standing committees as the Senate may from time to time authorize. Membership on these committees is open to the general faculty. Committees for special purposes may be selected by the Senate in whatever manner it may see fit." T h e Senate recommends that membership on Senate Committees which is open to all members of the faculty shall carry with it the privileges of the floor of the Senate including that of voting, and that the sentence in Section 5, paragraph ( h ) be amended to read: "Membership on these committees is open to the general faculty and carries with it the privileges of the floor of the Senate, including that of voting, so long as membership on such committees continues." This provision is not extended to include members of subcommittees of Senate committees who are not members of the Senate. This is in line with one of the recommendations of the American Council on Education Survey Commission that opportunity be given persons in the lower faculty ranks to participate in formal discussions in the formulation of the educational policies of the several colleges and of the Senate as a whole. This amendment to the Statutes herein recommended and the personnel appointed to the Senate Committees for 1943-1944 in effect will add thirty younger members of the faculty in the lower ranks to the Senate. I approve this recommendation.

On motion of Mr. Davis, this recommendation was adopted, and the Statutes were amended accordingly.

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS FOR SENIORS CALLED INTO T H E SERVICE OF THE ARMED FORCES (2) T h e University Senate recommends: 1. That a senior in good standing who at any time leaves the University to enter military service and does so enter within ten days, and who lacks no more than one-sixteenth of the total credit hours required for his degree, may, in the discretion of his College and on approval of his major department, be recommended for such degree. But no student should be considered eligible for this privilege who has acquired hours under the seven-weeks or the twelveweeks rule previously adopted by the University Senate. ( a ) By " a senior in good standing" is meant one whose progress during his University registrations has been satisfactory to the administrative officers of his College. Among grounds for dissatisfaction might be negligence in meeting requirements, or scholastic deficiencies. (b) " A t any t i m e " shall be interpreted to mean " d u r i n g any semester of residence or the interim between successive semesters." It is not intended that students who, after these rules become operative, stay out of college for any semester, and who thus do not make continuous progress to their degrees, shall be eligible for the privilege extended in these rules. 2. T h a t this action be extended to students in these circumstances who have left the University since February I, 1942. I concur in these recommendations.

On motion of Mrs. Grigsby, these recommendations were adopted.