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membership implies continuity of student service on the Board even though the individual student member would change. A student member would in all likelihood have a period of service limited to a year or two; were he to continue beyond graduation, the precept of student membership would be violated inasmuch as he would no longer be a student. Yet, the quality of a member's service on the Board is enhanced by experience and the time given to that service. If he had but one or two years to serve, his departure would remove him from the Board at the point at which he would be best able to serve the University and the public. It is most important that faculty members and students have a continuing contact with the work of the Board. We believe that the valuable contribution of student interest, perspectives, and experience can be best achieved by students participating where policy is largely initiated — at the department, college or campus committee levels; through various arrangements in the senate at each campus; and in relationships to the administrative officers. Convinced that a broad spectrum of student involvement at each policy stage is the basic objective, the Trustees have adopted the following plan for studentboard communications for 1970-71: 1. Those students most competent to comment upon specific issues will be called by the Secretary of the Board to participate as resource people during considerations of student-related items by the General Policy Committee or the Board of Trustees' Committee on Student Welfare and Activities. Thus, students with a variety of interests and experience will be available for consultation and interaction. 2. The practice will be continued whereby the Chancellors and the President make special arrangements for student representation before the Board or its committees whenever the administration makes recommendations contrary to those received from student groups. 3. Several days before the Board meeting copies of the agenda topics will be made available for distribution by the Chancellors to the University community. 4. Student-initiated issues will be channeled through the Chancellors' and the President's offices to the Board of Trustees' Committee on Student Welfare and Activities and then to the Board. Where appropriate, the President of the Board may direct subjects to another appropriate committee of the Board. 5. The established arrangement for formally addressing the Board of Trustees or its committees after proper introduction will remain open to all members of the University community. 6. Occasions for informal discussions between students and the members of the Board will continue to be arranged and, if possible, extended. 7. Each month at one of the campuses, a conference will be arranged by the Chancellor at that campus to which members of the student government and other student leaders will be invited. Members of the Board of Trustees' Committee on Student Welfare and Activities will make themselves available to attend these conferences and other Trustees will be invited to attend as well. The agenda and attendance at each conference will be developed by the Chancellors in consultation with students. This Board has long sought methods to encourage greater understanding and communication among all constituents of higher education. The above plan, supplemented by increased student participation at the department, college, and campus levels, seems to offer the most promising solution yet suggested to achieve these goals throughout the University of Illinois. O n m o t i o n of M r . S w a i n , t h e r e p o r t a n d r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w e r e approved. AWARD OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT CERTIFICATES (2) The Committee on Accountancy recommends that the certificate of Certified Public Accountant be awarded, under Section 5 of the Illinois Accountancy Act of 1943, as amended, to seven candidates who have presented evidence that they are holders of valid and unrevoked Certified Public Accountant certificates obtained by passing a standard written examination in another state or territory of the