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College of Engineering

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 16

Department of Information Engineering EARL E. GOSE, Associate Professor of Information Engineering, winter quarter, 1971-72, full pay. College of L i b e r a l A r t s a n d Sciences Department of English DALE E. WOOLLEY, Assistant Professor of English, fall quarter, 1971-72, full pay. Medical C e n t e r College of D e n t i s t r y Department of Orthodontics EARL W . RENFROE, Professor of Orthodontics and Head of the Department, six months beginning January 1, 1972, full pay. Urbana-Champaign College of L i b e r a l A r t s a n d Sciences Department of English P A U L H . JACOBS, Associate Professor of English and Counselor in Teacher Education (College of Education), second semester, 1971-72, full pay.

On motion of Mr. Grimes, these leaves were granted as recommended.

DISCONTINUANCE O F ACADEMIC CREDIT FOR COURSES OFFERED BY RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS. URBANA (13) In December 1965, the Board of Trustees approved a proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for the establishment of a program in religious studies. At the time the faculty of the College made that proposal, it further recommended that as soon as the program became operational, credit no longer be given by the College for courses taught by religious foundations. Since that time, a minor in religious studies has been approved by the Board and a director of the program has been appointed. Currently some thirty Universityauthorized courses are offered under the religious studies program. T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate has now acted on the second part of the earlier proposal by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and recommends that granting of credit for courses taught by religious foundations be discontinued as of September 1972 on a campus-wide basis. In taking this action, the Senate recognized that such courses can still be offered on a non-credit basis, should the foundations desire to do so. Further, those courses presently offered by the religious foundations which are adjudged by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to be appropriate as University offerings, could be authorized as University courses within the inter-departmental program in religious studies. Such courses might also be staffed by qualified religious foundation personnel under "Visiting" or "Adjunct" appointments to an appropriate academic unit. In this way, the University can be assured that the courses of this type that are offered for credit are under the continuing control of a regularly constituted academic unit. The Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus and the Executive Vice President and Provost support this recommendation. The University Senates Conference has indicated that no further Senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend approval.

The Board had agreed to receive a presentation concerning this recommendation from the Reverend Edward J. Duncan, Director of the Newman Foundation at Urbana. Fr. Duncan was accompanied by Rabbi Edward Feld, Hillel Foundation, and the Reverend R. T. Eissfeldt, Director of the University Lutheran Chapel. A memorandum from Fr. Duncan had been submitted to the Trustees in advance of the meeting. Fr. Duncan requested the Board not to discontinue the grant-