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students, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare has awarded an increase of $490,000 in E O G funds to the University for 1968-69. F o r each student receiving an Educational Opportunity Grant, certain matching funds must be provided. Illinois State Scholarship Commission Grants, which cover tuition and fees for undergraduate students, are available and are being counted as a part of the matching funds. However, some disadvantaged students will be admitted after the July 1 deadline for application for the Illinois State Scholarship Commission Grants. In addition, some students at the Medical Center will have completed their period of eligibility for the grants. In order to help match the federal funds for disadvantaged students who will not be eligible for the Illinois State Scholarship Commission Grants, the Chancellors have recommended the establishment of a total of 150 (including all campuses) waivers of tuition for disadvantaged students, in the amount equal to resident tuition, to be awarded annually by the appropriate financial aid officers on each campus, effective in September, 1968. Allocation of the waivers would be made among the three campuses in accordance with relative need as recommended by the University Committee on Financial Aid to Students. I concur.

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

NON-REFUNDABLE APPLICATION FEE (11) The Executive Vice President and Provost, as Chairman of the University Committee on Fees, recommends the establishment of a non-refundable application fee of $15, effective with applications for admission to terms beginning in September, 1970. This fee would be required of each applicant for admission or readmission to the University at the time he submits his application, with the exception of extramural non-degree applicants and members of the University faculty and staff, and would not be applicable on tuition and/or other fees. Graduate degree students who register in consecutive summers would be subject to the application fee only one time since they are not required to reapply each summer. It would help to discourage multiple applications and to offset in part the constantly increasing costs of processing applications. Since 1963, total applications for admission to the fall term on the three campuses have increased 58 per cent — from 26,452 to 41,730. All of the universities operating under the jurisdiction of the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities and the Board of Regents now require a $15 non-refundable application fee which may not be applied on tuition and fees. Of the state-supported universities, only Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois presently do not require an application fee. Among the Big Ten Universities, non-refundable undergraduate application fees which may not be applied on tuition and fees are now assessed by all institutions except the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois. Seventeen of twenty-three graduate colleges surveyed have application fees. Procedures to identify qualified applicants who, because of extreme financial hardship could not meet the cost of the application fee-—and to waive the fee in such cases — would be established by the Office of Admissions and Records and Business Office on each campus. I recommend approval.

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

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREES IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, GERMAN, PHYSICS, AND PSYCHOLOGY, CHICAGO CIRCLE (12) The Chancellor at the Chicago Circle campus recommends approval of programs leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the following fields: Biological Sciences, German, Physics, and Psychology. The programs, in common with the doctoral proposals for Chicago Circle approved by the Board on July 26, 1967, will facilitate the accommodation of the campus to increasing demands for expanded enrollment capacity and production of college teachers. The degree candidate will be required to meet the admission standards and degree requirements set forth in catalog statements which are being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. The Executive Vice President and Provost concurs in this recommendation.