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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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who hold a baccalaureate degree from a college or university in the United States, the regulation covering domestic students will apply. Adoption of such procedures is deemed necessary in the interests of orderly and systematic consideration of applications. Heretofore, many prospective students who have not previously submitted applications appear during the registration period or, even later, hurriedly complete applications, and receive provisional permits which enable them to proceed with registration. Provisional permits are necessary because in most cases the applicants can not present official credentials. Following the registration period, the Office of Admissions and Records determines whether or not such applicants meet the requirements. Such special handling requires additional staff time and results in added expense. Furthermore, the effort to process new applications immediately preceding or during registration interferes with the registration of the large majority of students, old and new, whose credentials have been evaluated and approved. At the same time there should always be provision for considering the applications of prospective students who have legitimate reasons for delay in filing their applications beyond the deadline, but there would be relatively few such cases. These late applicants could reasonably be required to defer registration until after the regular registration period, if this seemed desirable in order to avoid the difficulties just mentioned. Special procedures would be established for the registration of those late applicants for admission to the Graduate College who had been selected for assistantships or other University appointments. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . P o g u e , t h e s e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e a p p r o v e d . REORGANIZATION OF COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (5) The educational, research, and public service programs of the College of Education have heretofore been administered under nine divisions, which have had informal status, and five other administrative units — the University High School, the Bureau of Educational Research, an Evaluation Unit attached to the Bureau, the Institute for Research on Exceptional Children, and the Teacher Placement Office which also serves the University Council on Teacher Education. The Dean and the Executive Committee of the College have recommended the reorganization of the College of Education by the establishment of seven departments, each with an Executive Committee and a Chairman: Department Chairman Administration and Supervision Associate Professor L. E. McCleary Educational Psychology Professor R. Stewart Jones Elementary Education Professor John E. McGill History and Philosophy of Education Professor William O. Stanley Secondary and Continuing Education Professor R. Will Burnett Special Education Professor Samuel A. Kirk Vocational and Technical Education Professor M. Ray Karnes T h e University High School, the Bureau of Educational Research, and the Institute for Research on Exceptional Children will be continued as separate administrative units. By administrative approval, the Evaluation Unit has been separated from the Bureau of Educational Research and is now the Office of Educational Testing; and the name of the Teacher Placement Office has been changed to Educational Placement Office. The University Statutes provide that a new department may be created by the Board of Trustees on vote of the faculty of the college in which the department is to be located and on recommendation of the college and with the approval of the appropriate Senate and of the President. In the present case, the seven departments proposed are not new, in the sense that they will encompass new programs or units of instruction, research, or public service, but will constitute a formal reorganization, administratively, of existing programs which will be the equivalent of the prior informal divisions or units. Hence, action on the recommendation by the Urbana Senate is not indicated; nor does it appear necessary to submit these changes to the State Board of Higher Education for approval since that Board requires only that the State universities report "the establishment of a college, school, division, institute, department or other unit in any field of instruction, research, or public service not theretofore included in the program of the institution. . . ."