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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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C H A N G E IN NAMES OF BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES FOR STATE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS. URBANA (12) T h e President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the following buildings and facilities located south of St. Mary's Road and west of South First Street Road be renamed as follows: 1. T h e building presently known as "Environmental Entomology Field Laboratory" be named "Entomology Laboratory." 2. T h e building formerly known as the "Insect Biological Control Laboratory" be named "Biological Control Laboratory." 3. T h e building formerly known as the "State Natural History and Geological Surveys Laboratory-Office Complex" be named "Natural Resources Studies Annex." 4. T h e facility formerly known as "Environmental Pollution Research Ponds" be named "Aquatic Research Field Laboratory." It is further recommended that the entire complex be known as the "Natural Resources Research Facilities."

On motion of Mr. Hahn, these recommendations were approved.

TUITION WAIVER PROGRAMS (13) Since 1899, the Board of Trustees has established twelve tuition waiver programs for special categories of undergraduate students. Three of the prog r a m s — County Agriculture, County H o m e Economics, and Special County — are modeled after the statutory county scholarship program which will be terminated at the end of 1971 by action of the General Assembly and the Governor. Among the twelve programs, these t h r e e — w i t h a maximum of 1,428 waivers in effect at any time, and with 702 actually in effect for fall 1970 — a r e the only ones which do not include financial need as a requirement. They also are the only programs which are modeled after statutory tuition waivers, specifying elaborate application and testing procedures involving high schools a n d . superintendents of educational service regions. The University Committee on Financial Aid to Students and the Executive Vice President and Provost recommend that these three programs be discontinued as of December 31, 1971. It is further recommended that all students holding waivers under these programs which were issued prior to January 1, 1972, be permitted to continue to hold them during the maximum term of the waiver specified in the Board of Trustees' action establishing the waiver, provided they continue to meet the eligibility requirements in effect at the time the waiver was issued. Students entering the University after December 31, 1971, who will have qualified for a waiver under one of these three programs, and who meet the application and financial need requirements of the Illinois State Scholarship Commission, will be eligible for financial aid from the Commission. At the present time, tuition waivers are inadequate to meet the need in some of the remaining programs established by the Board of Trustees, whereas not all of the tuition waivers available are utilized in other programs. Merger of the programs would permit maximum utilization of the tuition waivers. T h e University Committee on Financial Aid to Students and the Executive Vice President and Provost therefore recommend that the remaining undergraduate tuition waiver programs (with the exception of the Thomas J. Smith Music Scholarship Program, which the University agreed to establish and maintain under an agreement with the donor of Smith Music Hall), be merged, effective January 1, 1972, under the following conditions: 1. T h e maximum number of undergraduate tuition waivers in effect at any time cannot exceed the total authorized by previous Board action (946). 2. T h e maximum number available for nonresident students will be limited to the maximum number for such students authorized by previous Board action (155). 3. T h e Scholarships for Foreign Displaced Students, initially authorized by the Board of Trustees on April 21, 1949, now provide for the waiver of tuition pins fees, except the Hospital-Medical-Surgical fee. With the merger of the programs, the waiver of fees for these awards will be discontinued.