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UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S

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HEADSHIP OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRONOMY (4) The Dean of the College of Agriculture recommends the appointment of Dr. Marlowe Driggs Thome, Professor of Agronomy and Head of the Department at Oklahoma State University, as Professor of Agronomy on indefinite tenure and Head of the Department of Agronomy beginning March 15, 1963, at a salary of $19,500 a year on a twelve-month service basis. This appointment is to fill the vacancy created by the promotion of Professor M. B. Russell, former Head of the Department, to the position of Associate Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. A search committee 1 appointed by the Dean to consider candidates for the position of Head of the Department of Agronomy invited recommendations from all members of the Department and from other sources, and submitted the names of several candidates whom the committee felt possessed the necessary qualifications for the headship position. Dr. Thorne was among the top candidates in this list, and letters of recommendation and personal interviews with persons well acquainted with his competence and effectiveness as an administrator support the Committee's recommendation. All members of the Department of professorial rank have been consulted and the recommendation is supported by the Executive Committee of the College and Station, the Dean of the Graduate College, and the Executive Vice-President and Provost. I recommend approval of this appointment.

On motion of Mr. Hughes, this appointment was approved.

PAYMENT OF UNIVERSITY FEES AND HOUSING CHARGES ON INSTALLMENTS (5) The Vice-President for the Medical Center and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend authorization of an optional installment plan effective in September, 1963, for payment of tuition, fees, and residence hall charges by students at the Medical Center; and extension of this plan with respect to payment of fees to the Chicago Undergraduate Division and to Congress Circle: 1. Tuition and fees for each quarter will be collected in three installments, onethird payable at registration, and one-third in each of the following two months. 2. Housing charges will be collected monthly in advance. 3. Students electing the installment plan for payment of tuition and fees will be assessed a $2.00 service charge; however, there will be no service charge for payment of University housing accounts in installments. This is similar to the installment plan in effect at the Urbana campus, approved by the Board of Trustees March 12, 1959. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Swain, this recommendation was approved; and extension of this plan to include the Chicago Undergraduate Division and Congress Circle with respect to installment payment of fees when and if there is a need for the same was authorized.

CHANGES IN REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION IN THE ADVERTISING CURRICULUM (6) The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a recommendation from the faculty of the College of Journalism and Communications that two courses, Journalism 204, Typography, and Journalism 211, Newswriting, be dropped as requirements for graduation in the advertising curriculum of that College, effective immediately. This change is to enable students to take more elective courses in the humanities and social sciences. The Senate Coordinating Council has indicated no other Senate jurisdiction is involved. I concur.

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

1 Walter O. Scott, Professor of Crops Extension, Chairman; Denton E. Alexander, Associate Professor of Plant Genetics; Wayne M. Bever, Professor of Plant Pathology and Head of the Department; Daniel F. Dayton, Associate Professor of Plant Breeding; John R. f^aughnan, Professor of Plant Genetics and of Botany; Sigurd W. Melsted, Professor of Soil Chemistry; Fred W. Slife, Professor of Crop Production; Frank J. Stevenson, Professor of Soil Chemistry.