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program. After all applicants who meet the requirements of (a) or (b) above have been considered, and spaces remain, applicants who have completed 45 quarter (30 semester) hours with a grade-point average of below 3.25 but 3.0 or above will be considered for admission. (Modifies sections titled "Grade-point Average Requirement for Undergraduate Transfer Students" and "Requirements for Admission of Nonresident Undergraduate Students" approved by the Board of Trustees on July 22, 1964.) Transfer applicants who have not completed an associate degree, or an equivalent number of credit hours, in a baccalaureate-oriented program will be considered for admission if the applicant cannot obtain, at the college or university which he had attended, a course of study leading to the bachelor's degree which he hopes to attain. Procedures at Urbana-Champaign A beginning date for receipt of transfer applications and a beginning date for action on transfer applications shall be established. If, on the action date, the number of qualified applicants in a college or curriculum exceeds the number that can be admitted, those who are best qualified will be approved in the order of their qualifications until all spaces are filled. If, on the action date, the number of qualified transfer applicants does not exceed the number of transfer students who can be accepted, other qualified applicants will be accepted in the order of their completed applications until all available spaces are filled. (Modifies section titled "Progressive Admission of Undergraduate Students" approved by Board of T r u s tees on July 26, 1960.) General Policy Chicago Circle The University shall give priority to those transfer applicants who are best qualified. When spaces are limited and applicants with equal qualifications are being considered, priority will be given to junior college and four-year college transfer applicants whose curriculum choice is not available at the institution from which they apply for transfer. Minimum Requirements The dean of a college and the Director of Admissions and Records will establish admissions standards to implement this policy for each admissions period, provided, however, that the minimum requirement shall be a pre-transfer grade-point average of 3.0 (C). The Chancellors at the Chicago Circle and Urbana-Champaign campuses and the Executive Vice President and Provost concur in these recommendations. The University Senates Conference has indicated that no further Senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Hahn, this recommendation was approved.

ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES INSTITUTE (URBANA-CHAMPAIGN CAMPUS) . AND PROVISION FOR INTERCAMPUS COORDINATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (8) T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate on February 8, 1971, approved a plan for the establishment of an Environmental Studies Institute at that campus. The proposal was then forwarded to the University Senates Conference for the customary review. In view of the special interests of the two Chicago campuses in environmental studies, the proposal was then considered by their Senates. The Medical Center Senate approved the proposal, but the Chicago Circle Senate passed a resolution urging that the proposed Institute become an all-University agency which would support or conduct programs at all three campuses. The University Senates Conference then decided to appoint a three-member committee of representatives from each campus, with the charge of resolving the differences between the Urbana-Champaign and the Chicago Circle proposals. The committee reached agreement upon the following recommendations to the University Senates Conference: That a resolution be submitted to each Senate which resolves that the University establish an academic unit on each campus to be concerned with inter-