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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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transferring from the Division of Special Services for War Veterans, who will be admitted without limitation. T h e Director and the Registrar have been authorized tc close enrollments when the quota of new students is reached.

SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

In the professional curricula, the number of new first-year students entering in February will be limited to 50 (15 women; 35 men) who will be admitted only upon approval of the Director. All transfer students with at least two semesters of credit for advanced standing, and who will not be on probation, will be admitted without limitation as to numbers. T h e University of Illinois will admit new freshmen to the Undergraduate Divisions at Galesburg and the Navy Pier and to the Urbana campus in February, 1947, with the following exceptions. Because of limited facilities on the Urbana campus, new freshmen will not be admitted to any of the curricula in the College of Engineering or to the curricula in the Department of Architecture. T h e number of new freshmen that can be admitted to Physical Education, Art, and Music will be restricted to the facilities available, as indicated above. Because of the limited facilities on the Urbana campus, the University reserves the right to assign new freshmen to Galesburg or to the Navy Pier. New students with advanced standing will be admitted to the Urbana campus in February, 1947, except that no such students can be accepted for curricula in Engineering and in Architecture and except that restrictions must be placed on the number that can be accepted in Law, Journalism, Physical Education, Art, and Music. Students completing two years at Galesburg or the Navy Pier will have priority in transferring to Urbana. In the College of Law and the School of Journalism, the restriction on the number to be admitted will apply both to new and to former students. The College of Engineering and the Department of Architecture will not accept transfers from the other schools and colleges on the Urbana campus excepting cases of individual students to whom commitments have already been made.

On motion of Mr. Davis, the President of the University was requested to formulate and present to the Board at the earliest possible moment a complete plan for an educational system for the State of Illinois, at all levels, adequate to the wealth and culture of the State and to the demands of the post-war world for trained personnel, with estimates of the funds involved for all branches and recommendations to be made to the General Assembly, and the President of the University and the President of the Board were authorized to discuss this matter with the Governor and other State authorities.

CONTRACT W I T H VETERANS ADMINISTRATION (15) T h e Comptroller reports that he and the Bursar, with the assistance of the Legal Counsel, have concluded a contract with the Veterans Administration under Public Law 346 which provides for the payment to the University by the Veterans Administration of costs of teaching personnel and supplies necessary in the training of veterans under the G.I. Bill. This payment is in lieu of tuition and is in addition to the Union Building, matriculation, and hospital fees, which are also paid by the Veterans Administration. The contract covers the second semester of 1945-1946 and subsequent terms. Costs of teaching personnel and supplies, following the instruction of the Veterans Administration, were arrived at by adding the total salaries paid the teaching staff of the University during the most recent semester prior to the contract, which was the first semester of 1945-1946, excluding the portion of any such salaries devoted to administration, research, or extension, and dividing by the total credit hours earned by all University students during such period. T h e regulation directed that 15 per cent be added to this amount to provide for personnel related to actual teaching, and supplies; and the result gives a teaching cost per credit hour. T h e resulting rate is $9.65 a credit hour. This rate will be revised annually.