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1944]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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America might be allowed to combine certain courses in agriculture with other courses in business management and language. The foregoing statement is based on the report and recommendations made by the Committee on Educational Policy and considered by the University Senate at a special meeting held for this purpose on January 17, 1944. The University Senate has approved for transmission to the Board of Trustees the following plan: I. The University Senate believes that the problems, desires, and needs of returning veterans will be sufficiently complex to necessitate the creation of a University agency to serve them. It suggests that the agency be known as the Division of Special Services. It therefore recommends that a Division of Special Services be authorized, and that the facilities of the Division be restricted to men and women who have come from the Armed Services. II. T h e purpose and function of this Division shall be: 1. To study the needs of the returning veteran. 2. T o inform him of all the various services of the University, and to advise him in matters of educational aim and adjustment. 3. T o help him to find among existing curricula the one which will best satisfy his purpose, and to assist in making such adjustments therein as may be desired by the student and accepted by the college or department in question. 4. T o administer the educational programs of those veterans whose special needs are not satisfied by existing curricula. I I I . It shall be understood that all veterans, on entering the University, shall have the privilege of applying for admission to any college or curriculum. They shall at all times have free access to the counselling services of the Division of Special Services, and may come under its direct supervision under these conditions: 1. If they so elect at the time of their first registration, and if they are accepted by the Division. 2. When they are referred to the Division by any school or college. 3. When they voluntarily transfer to the Division from any school or college, according to the usual University procedure. IV. T h e Division of Special Services shall comprise: 1. A Director, who shall be chosen by the President from our own teaching faculty. Pending the arrival of veterans and the beginning of operations, he shall be appointed on a part-time basis; the amount of time he shall give thereafter shall be determined by the President. 2. An Executive Council of not fewer than five members, in addition to the Director as member ex officio. Its duties shall be to share with the Director the responsibilities of planning and administering the program of the Division. It shall be elected by the Senate, from a panel submitted by the Committee on Committees after consultation with the Director of the Division and the President of the University. 3. Such offices and clerical assistance as may be necessary. 4. An adequate budget. V. T h e Director and the Council should be appointed as soon as possible, so that they may begin studying the needs of veterans and the best means of receiving, counselling, and providing for such students. VI. F o r all students enrolled under its administration the Division shall be empowered to arrange programs of study leading to undergraduate degrees, and to certify those degrees to the Senate. Such degrees, however, shall be so phrased that they can not be subject to confusion with any other degrees offered by the University. V I I . Before the system is scheduled to begin operation, the Director shall present to the Senate for its information the general regulations under which the Division proposes to act. V I I I . T h e above recommendations are intended to apply only to the undergraduate colleges and schools on the Urbana campus, and we recommend that the Division of Special Services endure only until the needs of veterans have been satisfied.