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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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President and Provost concur in this recommendation. The Senate Coordinating Council has indicated that no other Senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . H a h n , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . DISCONTINUANCE OF UNDERGRADUATE MAJOR IN LATIN-AMERICAN STUDIES, URBANA (15) The Urbana-Champaign Senate recommends the discontinuance of the undergraduate interdepartmental major in Latin-American Studies. After more than a decade of experience with the program, the executive committee of the Center for Latin-American Studies has concluded that the program, composed of courses completed in disparate subject matters, does not provide students with the same depth of intellectual training that is provided by a single discipline for the undergraduate major. Moreover, for students planning graduate study, the Latin-American Studies major has in recent years put students at a disadvantage in competing for entrance into disciplinary graduate programs. The combination of a major in a discipline with a minor focussing on the area seems to offer the soundest kind of academic program for students pointing toward career goals requiring training in the Latin-American area. The undergraduate minor program, whose requirements have been identical to the undergraduate major, would be retained. The Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus and the Executive Vice President and Provost concur in this recommendation. The Senate Coordinating Council has indicated that no other Senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend approval.

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

CONTINUATION OF TUITION AND FEE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR DISPLACED PERSONS (16) The University Committee on Financial Aid to Students recommends the continuation of the program of tuition and fee scholarships for displaced persons or refugees, which was established by the Board of Trustees in 1949 and renewed in 1957, 1961, and 1965. The proposed renewal would be for a four-year period beginning September, 1969, and would provide up to fifteen scholarships per year. Although use of these scholarships has not been heavy in recent years — during 1968-69, one was awarded at the Chicago Circle campus and four at the Urbana-Champaign campus — the availability of them for displaced persons has been invaluable in the individual cases where they have been granted. In recent months, there has been an increase in the number of refugees from Czechoslovakia and Poland. These persons are usually in need of financial assistance. Because of their immigrant status, they are not eligible for most of the funds which the University is able to provide. The University Committee, therefore, recommends an extension of this scholarship program at the level previously authorized. The Executive Vice President and Provost recommends approval of this proposal. I concur.

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

REORGANIZATION AND EXPANSION OF THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE (17) The Board of Trustees at its meeting on October 16, 1967, approved in principle a set of proposals for the expansion of the University's programs in the health professions. That statement was used as the basis for the preparation of a comprehensive report entitled Proposals for the Expansion of Education in the Health Professions —1967-1980, which was presented to the director of the Board of Higher Education's study of education in the health fields on December 13, 1967. Most of those proposals were substantially endorsed in the final report of the study issued by the Board of Higher Education under the title Education in the Health Fields for State of Illinois (June, 1968). Prominent among the University's plans was a massive program for the