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174 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [November 22 of students, or screen the student demand so that it will be reduced to the size and character of the facilities. If the student demand is reduced, then the supply of trained personnel will not equal another demand, the demand of commerce, industry, agriculture, the professions, and of the public welfare for a far larger number of educated people. President Stoddard and his administrative assistants are making a far-flung study of this whole problem, toward the following ends: 1. Increased strength in the foundations of higher education at the elementary and secondary school levels. 2. Increased strength for the University of Illinois in those lines of work it is best qualified to do. 3. Diversion of that portion of the potential college population which could profit more greatly thereby into junior colleges and regional institutes, thus reducing the wasteful part of the upper-class program at the Urbana campus. 4. Financial support for a State-wide system of education at all levels adequate to the wealth and the culture of the State, and to the demands of the post-war world for trained personnel. This report was discussed in detail in connection with item 14 by the members of the Board and the officers of the University; at the end of the discussion, action was taken as shown on page 175, below. ADMISSION OF NEW STUDENTS (14) In preparing for the second semester of 1046-1047, it is necessary to establish policies and procedures which will limit the admission of students to the number that can be taught with available instructional staff and other facilities in the several courses and curricula. T h e following administrative actions have been taken by the Provost, acting for the President: 1. No permits to enter will be issued to new students of advanced standing (i.e., students desiring to transfer from other colleges and universities) who if admitted would be on probation because of previous unsatisfactory scholastic records. This is simply an extension of an existing policy of long standing. Students with previous unsatisfactory scholastic records have been permitted to transfer to the University of Illinois only upon recommendation of the dean of the college or director of the school in which such student desires to enroll. The present policy will automatically exclude such students without consideration of individual cases. 2. In several curricula it is necessary to limit enrollments. COLLEGE or ENGINEERING No new undergraduate students will be admitted in February, 1947. No students now in other colleges of the University of Illinois will be permitted to transfer to the College of Engineering except in special cases where commitments have been made. Most of these exceptions will be in the Division of Special Services for W a r Veterans, which enrolled students who could not be accepted by the College of Engineering for the first semester, 1046-1947, with the understanding that they would later be permitted to transfer to engineering. COLLEGE OF F I N E AND APPLIED ARTS Architecture.—No new students will be admitted in February, 1047, and no students will be permitted to transfer from other colleges of the University except to carry out previous commitments as in the College of Engineering. Landscape Architecture.—No new students will be admitted in February. Art.—The Department of A r t will admit So new students in February. COLLEGE OF L A W T h e number of new first-year students accepted for the second semester, 10461947, will be limited to 75. SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM T h e present enrollment is 253, and in the Director's opinion the School of Journalism can accommodate up to 285 students, in addition to any students
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