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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[February 20

presidents to stimulate voluntary cooperation, has inaugurated a plan to encourage graduate students to move freely from one institution to another. The chief purpose of this plan is to enable a graduate student enrolled in one of the C I C universities to have the advantage, on a short-term basis, of special opportunities (such as laboratory facilities, a library collection, or working with a faculty member who is a highly qualified specialist in a particular field) available at another institution. Under this graduate student exchange program, students will transfer from one institution to another for one semester (or two quarters). Their participation in the program will be initiated and directed by faculty advisers, approval of graduate deans of both institutions involved will be necessary, and each university will retain full control over the graduate program of its students. A visiting student will be registered at his own university and will pay his fees there. He will be exempt from payment of fees at the institution to which he transfers temporarily. The central purpose of the graduate student exchange program is to avoid costly duplication of effort and expenditures whenever possible. Such exchanges will be particularly acceptable in areas where the costs of the best is high and duplication would not only be an unnecessary expense to an institution, but might result in inferior programs. It would also be applicable where resources of personnel, equipment, and materials are so limited that concentration offers the best hope for quality. Each university will determine its own methods in serving as host to CIC scholars. The exchange program will begin in September, 1963, and will run for a two-year trial period, with the expectation that graduate student exchanges will be more fully developed after that initial period. Support for CIC operations since 1958 has come chiefly from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, but since July, 1962, the eleven member institutions have provided the basic support for the CIC staff office now located at Purdue University. It may be said that as a voluntary effort by eleven of the largest universities— both public and private — the CIC approach is a pioneer program in providing for free exchange of graduate students. The Committee on Institutional Cooperation will also offer five rotating Far Eastern Language Institutes, the first of which will be held at the University of Michigan. T h e College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has recommended that for qualified University of Illinois undergraduate students who participate in the program, the courses taken at other institutions be considered on the same basis as though taken at this University, viz: the courses will count toward the degree at Illinois; they will count as residence credit; for students in Liberal Arts and Sciences, they will count as though taken in the college and not as part of the thirty-two hours of electives a student is permitted to take outside the college. I request authorization of the participation of the University of Illinois in this program as outlined above.

On motion of Mr. Swain, authority was given as requested.

DEGREES CONFERRED IN FEBRUARY, T9 6 3

T h e Secretary presented for record the degrees conferred as of February 11, 1963, on recommendation of the Urbana-Champaign Senate and by authority of the Board of Trustees.

Summary Degrees in the Graduate College, conferred at Urbana: Doctor of Philosophy Doctor of Education Doctor of Musical Arts Master of Arts Master of Science Master of Music Master of Education Master of Fine Arts Master of Accounting Science

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