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BOARD O F T R U S T E E S

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The Senate Coordinating Council has indicated that no further Senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . P o g u e , 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 . AN INTERINSTITUTIONAL GRADUATE STUDY CENTER IN THE QUAD-CJTIES AREA 1 (7) In adopting A Master Plan-Phase II, the Illinois Board of Higher Education approved the following provision: 9. An experimental project be planned to test the feasibility of establishing a graduate center in the Quad-Cities area (Moline, East Moline, Rock Island, and Davenport). a. A study committee be appointed with representatives from the Quad-Cities Technical Advisory Council, the universities currently offering graduate instruction in the area, and other personnel agreed upon by the Illinois Board of Higher Education and the Iowa State Board of Regents. b. Funds from private sources (industry and/or foundations) be solicited to plan this interstate project. c. A consultant competent in graduate education be employed to pursue the study. d. The project would determine: (1) The extent of local resources — library materials, classrooms, instructors, etc. — necessary to establish a graduate center. (2) Effective means for augmenting these resources to produce quality graduate programs leading to master's degrees in fields of greatest demands. (3) The formulation of policy involving cooperative arrangements in administering the center. (4) The feasibility of continued financing and sources of funds to operate the center. An effort to develop a plan for implementing this proposal has been carried on during the past year by an "Interinstitutional Committee on Graduate Education for the Quad Cities." The joint chairmen of the Committee have been Messrs. Arthur D. Browne of the staff of the Illinois Board of Higher Education and David A. Dancer of the Iowa Board of Regents. At its meeting on June 10, 1968, the Interinstitutional Committee approved a statement entitled "A Design for a Graduate Study Center in the Quad-Cities" and agreed that the plan would be submitted to the several institutions for consideration and possible approval in principle. Essentially, the plan calls for the establishment of a not-for-profit corporation whose board of trustees would have members from the cooperating institutions and from the Quad-Cities Council for Graduate Education (a local group). The cooperating institutions would include four Illinois universities —- Northern Illinois University, Southern Illinois University, University of Illinois, Western Illinois University; three Iowa universities — Iowa State University, University of Iowa, University of Northern Iowa; and two local colleges — Augustana College, Marycrest College. Tentatively, it is proposed that master's degree programs be offered in the fields of business administration, education, and engineering — partly through extension courses offered locally and partly through on-campus study. The proposed corporation would serve primarily as a means whereby the "consortium" of institutions would coordinate their course offerings in these fields in the Quad-Cities and share facilities. The corporation would have no control over educational policies, and the several institutions would continue to control their own admissions and degree requirements. The Executive Vice President and Provost and the Dean of the Graduate College have served as the University's representatives on the Interinstitutional Committee. They recommend approval in principle of participation by the University in this program — with the understanding that detailed educational and financial commitments involving the University would be submitted through proper University channels for review and approval before becoming effective. Such approval

•The Quad-Cities area includes the following cities: and Davenport. Moline, East Moline, Rock Island,