Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1946 [PAGE 949]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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T h e University Senate recommends that additional courses be included among those which may be taken without meeting the established grade average and that determination of minimum grade qualifications be based either on their scholastic records in chemistry courses or on the general grade average earned in all academic courses, exclusive of those in military science and tactics, physical education, and hygiene. T h e courses to be included among those for which the grade average will not be required are Chemistry 10 (Qualitative Analysis), 22 and 23b (Elementary Quantitative Analysis), 24 (Quantitative Analysis), 32 and 33 (Elementary Organic Chemistry), and 34 (Organic Chemistry). As herein amended the revised statement of the requirements for registration in chemistry courses will be: Restrictions.—With the exception of students in the College of Engineering and the College of Agriculture, registration of students in chemistry courses (other than Chemistry, I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7a, 8a, 8b, 10, 22, 23b, 24, 32, 33, 34) is restricted to those having a grade point average of at least 3.5 in all subjects, exclusive of the basic courses in military training and the required work in physical education and hygiene, or an average of at least 3.5 in chemistry courses. Transfer students to be admitted must have a corresponding record in the institution from which they transfer and must maintain a similar average at the University of Illinois. A student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who desires to minor in Chemistry must maintain a 3.5 average in all chemistry courses. Should he fall below that average and his adviser deem certain chemistry courses essential to him, the head of his department may request in writing and secure his admittance, provided space is available. T h e University Senate recommends that for students registered in the Graduate School there be substituted a grade point average of 3.75 for the former requirement of 75 per cent A's and B's in undergraduate courses; also that those who have been admitted by transfer to the University of Illinois may have the grade average for their first year graduate work 4.25 instead of the former 4.5. T h e revised statement of this requirement as herein amended will be: Students who have fulfilled the undergraduate course requirements as specified in the Graduate School Bulletin may enter the Graduate School in Chemistry at the University of Illinois if they have a grade point average of 3.75 in their undergraduate subjects exclusive of hygiene, military, and physical education courses. Students who have obtained graduate credit in some other university may enter the Chemistry Department of the University of Illinois provided, (1) their undergraduate records meet the above requirements, and (2) their grade point averages in graduate work are at least 4.00. In the event that their undergraduate averages are less than 3.75 they must have received grade point averages of at least 4.25 in a year of graduate work elsewhere before being granted permission to enter the Graduate School in Chemistry at the University of Illinois. These changes have been recommended by the Department of Chemistry and have been approved by the College of Liberal A r t s and Sciences for undergraduate students and by the Graduate School for graduate students. O n m o t i o n of M r . D a v i s , t h e s e c h a n g e s w e r e a p p r o v e d . ACADEMIC CALENDAR FOR 1 9 4 6 - 1 9 4 7 (7) There are pending before the Board of Trustees recommendations from the University Senate that (1) the University's academic calendar be on a twosemester basis plus an eight-week summer session (as before the w a r ) and (2) in 1046 there be a twelve-week summer session (to run concurrently with the eight-week session) to meet the needs of veterans. This would permit synchronization of curricula for the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps program and for civilian students in February, 1946, would permit opening of the fall term in September, 1946, instead of in October, and would provide complete acceleration of educational programs for those students desiring the same, since the twelve-week summer term in 1946 would end on September 14 and the fall term would begin on September 20. This plan would require an increase in the number of class meetings during the twelve-week summer term for completion of courses designed for a longer