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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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term and to provide the equivalent of a semester of credit. T h e College of Law will operate a full summer semester of sixteen weeks in 1046. T h e University Senate now recommends a calendar for the academic year 1046-1047 of three sixteen-week terms, each equivalent in instructional time and credit to a semester. T h e first term would begin with freshman registration on September 20, 1946 (instruction to begin September 25), and end January 25, 1947; the second semester would begin February 3 and end May 29, 1047; the third or summer term would begin June 9 and end September 27, 1047. M r . Davis reported that the Committee on General Policy recomm e n d e d t h e a p p r o v a l of t h e a c a d e m i c c a l e n d a r f o r 1 9 4 5 - 1 9 4 6 a n d f o r 1946-1947, w i t h t h e provision that the m a t t e r w o u l d be m a d e the subj e c t of c o n t i n u o u s s t u d y , w i t h r e p o r t a n d r e c o m m e n d a t i o n t o t h e B o a r d b e f o r e S e p t e m b e r 1, 1 9 4 7 . O n m o t i o n of M r . D a v i s , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a d o p t e d . APPROPRIATION FOR ADMINISTRATION OF ADMISSION OF WAR VETERANS TO THE UNIVERSITY (8) The processing of the admission to the University of World W a r I I veterans who are applying for benefits under Public Law 346 (the "G. I. Bill of Rights" Act) and Public Law 16 (Rehabilitation), and to serve these veterans effectively in establishing their eligibility for such benefits in accordance with the procedures specified by the Veterans Administration to carry out the provisions of these laws requires additional administrative and clerical services beyond the facilities and personnel available in existing agencies. T h e Veterans Administration requires a detailed account of each veteran's progress and of all changes in his University program and status that would affect his rights under either law. T h e reports must be accurate and submitted promptly; otherwise the veteran will not receive his benefits promptly and the Veterans Administration will be handicapped in its services. A joint memorandum from the Registrar and the Director of the Division of Special Services for W a r Veterans explaining these problems in detail is submitted herewith and a copy is being given to the Secretary of the Board for record. They recommend that the following positions and funds be added to the budget of the Division of Special Services for W a r Veterans to provide the additional administrative facilities necessary: Assistant Director $3 000 ( T o be an employee of the Division of Special Services for W a r Veterans,, assigned to the Registrar's Office) Junior Clerk-Stenographer I 440 Junior Clerk-Typist I 320 Total salaries $5 760 Wages 500 Office furniture and equipment 350 Total $6 610 Additions have been made to the budget for instruction of veterans, under the authority given the President of the University to make budgetary adjustments, but because the appropriation now being recommended is for administrative expenses this proposal is being submitted to the Board for final approval. I concur in the recommendation of the Registrar and the Director of the Division of Special Services for W a r Veterans.

On motion of Dr. Meyer, this appropriation was made as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Davis, Mr. Fornof, Mrs. Grigsby, Mr. Livingston, Mr. McKelvey, Dr. Meyer; no, none; absent, Mr. Green, Dr. Luken, Mr. McLaughlin, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Williamson.

SPECIAL APPROPRIATION FOR (9) Dean E. R. Series, of the College of Executive Dean R. B. Allen, has submitted of $9,200 for courses for veterans running COLLEGE O F PHARMACY Pharmacy, with the endorsement of a request for a special appropriation through three quarters beginning in