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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Departmtnt Dentistry, Postgraduate Studies Extension Division Vendor American Telephone and Telegraph Co,, Chicago

[July 26

Cost $12 700 00

Item Telephone service for transmission of five postgraduate telephone extension programs on Current Advances in Dentistry

On motion of Mr. Hickman, these purchases were authorized.

INCREASE IN HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL SERVICE FEE (30) All students enrolled in the University at Urbana-Champaign, with certain exceptions, 1 are charged a fee of $5 each semester for insurance for hospital and medical services. The income from this fee is used to purchase insurance providing certain specified benefits to students including hospitalization, additional hospital services (such as laboratory tests, anesthesia, and d r u g s ) , physician's fees while in hospital, and surgical fees. The extent and value of these benefits obviously depend upon the insurance which can be purchased. T h e fee has remained the same since 1943, while hospital costs have gone up so that it has been impossible to secure increased allowances under the insurance program. T h e Advisory Committee to the Health Services recommends an increase in the hospital medical service fee from $5 to not over $8 a semester to provide the following improvements in benefits: 1. Increased allowance for hospitalization from $7.50 a day to $10 a day up to twenty-one days each semester. 2. Increased allowance for additional hospital services such as laboratory tests, drugs, etc. from $37.50 (not including x-rays) to $100 (including x-rays) a semester. 3. Increased allowance for physician's and surgeon's fees. The Advisory Committee recommends that this program be put into effect beginning with the first semester of 1954-55. T h e proposal was received too late for consultation with the University Committee on Fees and Scholarships regarding the increase in fees and too late to secure competitive bids from insurance companies on increased schedule of benefits. In view of this situation I recommend that ( a ) the program be approved in principle, and (b) the Comptroller be authorized to negotiate with the Continental Casualty Company, the present carrier of this risk, all subject to review and final approval by the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees.

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

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR UNITED STATES BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE EMPLOYEES (31) The United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue desires to contract with a university to provide advanced training in accounting, management, and business for employees of the Bureau. H e has invited all educational institutions which have accredited colleges, schools, or departments of commerce or business to submit proposals for participation in this training program for a contract with the United States government. T h e Bureau proposes to inaugurate a program for 1954 with one hundred of its employees to be assigned to the institution selected. A second group of one hundred employees would be enrolled for the second semester of 1954-55. T h e number of students will increase materially if the program is successful. On recommendation of the Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration and the Comptroller I have authorized the submission of a proposal from the University of Illinois to the Bureau of Internal Revenue that the University will accept an initial group of one hundred students with the understanding that they will take courses regularly offered and that the Bureau will pay the out-of-state tuition fee for each trainee. Confirmation of this action and authorization of the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board to execute any necessary contracts is requested.

On motion of Mr. Johnston, this action was confirmed and authority was given as requested.

1 Except students enrolled for not more than one unit of graduate work or five hours of undergraduate work in a semester or a corresponding schedule in the summer session. A student who presents evidence of being in another insurance system providing substantially the same benefits as the University insurance may have the fee refunded.