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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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the Department of Urban Planning recommended by the College of Fine and Applied Arts, to become effective in September, 1968. 1. Admission to the undergraduate program in urban planning to be approved on the basis of a grade-point average of 3.25 for transfer students from other departments in the University and from outside the University. (The present requirements specify no minimum average.) 2. Change the subjects required for admission from Pattern II to Pattern I I I , as shown on page 52 of the 1966-67 Undergraduate Study catalog, to be effective September 1, 1968. The Senate Coordinating Council has indicated that no other Senate jurisdiction is involved. Formal approval by the Board of Trustees is not required, but the changes are being reported for record. T h i s r e p o r t w a s r e c e i v e d for r e c o r d . DISCONTINUANCE OF DESIGNATION OF VALEDICTORIAN AND SALUTATORIAN, URBANA (15) The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a recommendation of its Committee on Educational Policy that the naming of the valedictorian and salutatorian be discontinued after the Commencement of June, 1968. The recommendation was based on the difficulty of selection of students for these honors arising from the following considerations : 1. Present regulations are rather strict: " T h e highest and second highest eligible students are designated as valedictorian and salutatorian." The number of decimal places required to effect this separation is, in some instances, greater than the reliability of the grading system. 2. The colleges do not use the same bases for calculation of grade-point averages. 3. Larger numbers of transfer students who will earn degrees in coming years will increase the difficulty of selection, inasmuch as the institutions from which they come may use (as in No. 2) differing bases for calculation of gradepoint averages. The Senate Coordinating Council has indicated that no other Senate jurisdiction is involved. Formal approval by the Board of Trustees is not required, but the changes are being reported for record.

This report was received for record.

TRANSFER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, CHICAGO CIRCLE (16) The Chicago Circle Senate, with the concurrence of the Deans of the Colleges of Engineering and of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Chancellor at the Chicago Circle campus, and the Executive Vice-President and Provost, recommends the transfer of the Department of Physics at the Chicago Circle campus from the College of Engineering to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. At the present time, essentially all students majoring in physics are enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Of the existing curricula in physics, two (leading to the baccalaureate degree in the physics curriculum and the physics major in the general curriculum) are administered in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. T w o (the Bachelor of Science in Engineering with a major in applied physics and the Bachelor of Science in the teaching of physics) are in the College of Engineering. It is proposed to transfer the curriculum in the teaching of physics to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Moreover, departments representing subject matter areas of considerable relevance to physics, such as biology, chemistry, and geology, are already within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The suggested change has the approval of the faculties involved. The Senate Coordinating Council has indicated that no other Senate jurisdiction is involved. I concur.

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

MASTER'S DEGREE IN SOCIOLOGY, CHICAGO CIRCLE (17) The Chancellor of the University at Chicago Circle recommends approval of a program leading to the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology. The program