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BOABD OF TRUSTEES

[March 14

recommends the adoption of the following requirement for graduation and the establishment of a qualifying examination in English: 1. A satisfactory proficiency in the use of written English shall be made a requirement for all undergraduate degrees awarded by the Urbana divisions of the University, and, in order to assure such proficiency, all upperclassmen who pass the Rhetoric 2 course or its equivalent with a grade of "C" or " D " shall be required to take an English qualifying examination before graduating. 2. Students who fail on the qualifying examination shall be required to pass an extra one-semester course in rhetoric, specifically Rhetoric 5; Rhetoric 5 shall be offered every semester and summer session, and the individual colleges and schools shall decide at what point in his University career the student who fails the qualifying examination shall take the course. In general, Rhetoric 5 should be required as soon as possible after the qualifying examination, but each college and school should adopt a general policy relative to the placement of this course. 3. T h e present regulation which requires students who receive a grade of " D " in Rhetoric 2 to take Rhetoric 5, and which requires transfer students having the same deficiency either to take this course or to pass a "proficiency examination" in rhetoric, shall be cancelled for students matriculating in the University after September 1, 1944, providing the other recommendations here proposed are put into effect; the new requirements here proposed shall apply to all undergraduate students who matriculate in the University after September 1, 1944, and the qualifying examination shall be given for the first time at the beginning of the first (fall) semester, 1944-1945. In accordance with the experience of the Committee on Student English, the University Senate has approved and recommends the adoption of the following provisions relative to the organization of the Committee and faculty cooperation: 4. T h e Committee on Student English shall be expanded next year (19441945) so that it shall include a representative from each of the undergraduate colleges and schools in the Urbana divisions of the University, and the Director of the required rhetoric courses shall be made an ex-officio adviser to the Committee. 5. T h e Committee shall be authorized to plan, and to initiate in the first semester of 1944-1945, a program of faculty participation designed to effect further improvement of students' use of English; the Committee shall be authorized to have each of its individual members solicit the assistance of the dean or director, department heads, and any pertinent committee of his college or school in interesting and informing faculty members with respect to the Committee's program of cooperative activities. I concur in these recommendations. O n m o t i o n of D r . M e y e r , 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 p p r o v e d and adopted. APPROPRIATION TO PHYSICAL PLANT DEPARTMENT (6) T h e Committee on Special Appropriations and Non-Recurring Expenditures recommends that an appropriation of $4,000 be made to the Physical Plant Department for the following improvements in the Abbott Power Plant: (1) installation of ventilating equipment in the coal conveyor room, $1,500; (2) completion of installation of desuperheating equipment, $2,500. I concur in this recommendation, the appropriation to be made from the General Reserve Fund as a non-recurring item.

On motion of Mr. Nickell, this appropriation was made as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Davis, Mr. Fornof, Mrs. Grigsby, Mr. Jensen, Mr. Livingston, Dr. Luken, Mr. McKelvey, Dr. Meyer, Mr. Nickell; no, none; absent, Mr. Green, Mr. Karraker.

ADJUSTMENT IN BUDGET OF COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE (7) T h e Comptroller requests an addition of $8,700 to the budget of his office for operating expenses for the current fiscal year. This may eventually become