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U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S

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bana, for the period from September 16, 1968, through January 31, 1969 ( E ) , at a salary of $10,000. Administrative Appointment 18. JAMES P . MARTIN, Associate University Counsel (Legal Counsel at the Medical Center), beginning October 1, 1968 (BY), at an annual salary of $18,000.

On motion of Mr. Grimes, these appointments were confirmed.

UNDERGRADUATE MAJOR AND MINOR IN SOCIAL WELFARE, URBANA (5) The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a proposal, sponsored by the Jane Addams Graduate School of Social W o r k and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, for an inter-departmental undergraduate program in social welfare which satisfies the basic requirements of the sciences and letters curriculum leading to the degree of A.B. or B.S. A 1965 report published by the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare estimated that at least twenty times as many graduates with baccalaureate degrees are needed on a national basis to fill existing demand for social work personnel, as were then being produced. In Illinois, as in the nation as a whole, the social work manpower shortage is severe. Projections by program planners and graduate schools of social work indicate that a high proportion of social workers holding undergraduate degrees will continue to be required in the years ahead. T h e proposed program will present fundamental knowledge on which the social work student can build as he enters practice in a social welfare setting or as he pursues graduate education. In order to provide the necessary inter-disciplinary background to the field of social welfare, students electing a major in social welfare will be required to complete the basic requirements of the sciences and letters curriculum; complete a course in statistics or non-statistical research methodology; complete at least twelve hours in courses in social work; and complete at least twenty-eight hours in selected courses from eight departments. 1 Completion of these requirements will, in addition, satisfy the minor requirements of the sciences and letters curriculum. The Senate Coordinating Council advises that no further Senate jurisdiction is involved. This proposal has been approved by the Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus and by the Executive Vice President and Provost. I recommend aproval subject to further action by the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

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

REORGANIZATION OF THE BUREAU OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH (Modification of Section 2 of The General Rules Concerning Unwersity Organization and Procedure) (6) T h e Bureau of Institutional Research is now organized under the following section of The General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure, for the purpose of conducting administrative studies of certain University operations : Sec. 2. T h e Bureau of Institutional Research, serving as a fact-finding agency for the University, shall study the academic loads and their budgetary implications. It shall make such reports as are asked by the President, the Vice-President and Provost, or the Vice-President and Comptroller. T h e Director of the Bureau shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees on nomination by the President and on recommendation of the Vice-President and Provost. With the establishment of the chancellorship system, it has become desirable to differentiate the University-wide from the campus-level activities of the Bureau, and to establish corresponding organizational arrangements. Accordingly,

1 The departments are Anthropology, Economics, History, Home Economics, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology.