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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[May 16

PRESIDENT'S REPORT ON ACTIONS OF T H E SENATES

Elimination of Foreign Language as an Entrance Requirement, College of Engineering, Urbana (29) The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a recommendation from the College of Engineering that the two units of foreign language credit presently required for entrance to the College be dropped as a requirement and listed instead as recommended and acceptable general entrance credit. The change was proposed by the Engineering College Policy and Development Committee because the requirement appeared to have little correlation with the qualifications sought in entering students and because it penalized otherwise wellqualified students from schools where language programs were limited or nonexistent. Substitution of Fields of Concentration for Majors and Minors in the Sciences and Letters Curriculum, Urbana The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for the elimination of the concept of majors and minors in the sciences and letters curriculum and the adoption of the concept of fields of concentration. Under the present major-minor concept, the "major" frequently presupposes course work within one department while the "minor" is often used by students to take elective courses disassociated from the major. The term "fields of concentration" will be used to signify concentrated study which may extend beyond the bounds of departments, thus encouraging broader definition of undergraduate disciplinary study. Departments which wish to retain their presently existing requirements, however, may do so. Change in Designation of Bachelor of Science in Industrial Education, Urbana The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a recommendation from the Department of Vocational and Technical Education of the College of Education that the name of the Bachelor of Science in Industrial Education be changed to Bachelor of Science in Occupational and Practical Arts Education. Developments in occupational education have outdated the present title of the degree; those in the curriculum involved are not in industrial education. The change in name will more clearly reflect the function and purposes of the curriculum and more effectively communicate those purposes to prospective teachers and employers. Preprofessional Program in Physical Therapy, Urbana The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a recommendation from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences that a preprofessional program in physical therapy be offered. The two-year, sixty-hour program provides the necessary background for the professional curriculum in Physical Therapy offered by the School of Associated Medical Sciences at the Medical Center campus. The program is consistent with previously established preprofessional programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for medical dietetics, medical record administration, medical technology, and occupational therapy. The program in Physical Therapy and the School of Associated Medical Sciences at the Medical Center were co-sponsors of the program. Revision of the Undergraduate Curriculum in Recreation and Park Administration, Urbana The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved several changes in the undergraduate curriculum in recreation and park administration proposed by the Department of Recreation andPark Administration of the College of Physical Education. Changes involved inciude: a liberalization of the general education requirements to comply with new university policies and to recognize the changing capabilities of entermg students; division of the four-year program into preprofessional and professional programs to align it more closely with the needs of the increasing