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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[November 22

The tuition so paid to the University is approximately 80 per cent more than that which would be paid under the arrangement previously existing, under which the Veterans Administration paid the University the regular nonresident tuition, but the rate of $9.65 a credit hour contracted for does not yet pay half of the total cost of education of the veteran. A rate of $17.09 a credit hour would be necessary to reimburse the University for all cash expenditures incidental to instructional service in departments of the University during the same period, excluding all research, extension, and auxiliary enterprises. Furthermore, this rate does not contain any provision for depreciation of buildings and other capital assets. The State of Illinois is still, therefore, contributing more than half of the cost of the G.I.'s training, after the receipt of the $9.65 a credit hour from the Veterans Administration. The payment of such fees by the Veterans Administration has no effect on the total amount of subsistence benefits available to the veteran, so long as the total of such charges, plus incidental fees and books and supplies does not exceed $500 for any two semesters or $764 for any three-semester year, since if total costs do not reach these amounts, no credit is given to the individual veteran for the amounts not so used. The $9.65 results in total tuition of $150 to $165 a semester, so that ordinarily the charges for training are well within the allowed annual maximum. T h e Veterans Administration will not pay any fees which are in the nature of fines or fees incurred because of some action of the veteran, such as late registration, lost book charges, library fines, and change fees, and such charges will be collected directly from the veteran by the University.

The Comptroller presented this report, which was received for record.

APPROPRIATION OF AGRONOMY DEPARTMENT INCOME (16) T h e Agronomy Department has an unused accumulated balance of income of previous years from sales of products amounting to $18,368. T h e Head of the Department and the Dean of the College request that this balance be appropriated to the Department for the following nonrecurring purposes for the current year subject to adjustment within the total: soil maps and other bulletins, $8,606; equipment, $9,762. During the war it has not been possible to keep up the regular flow of printing of soil maps initiated many years ago as a long-time project ultimately to cover the entire state. Two maps and one soil report are now in process of completion, and funds are needed to cover their cost. F o u r other important bulletins also are in preparation. W i t h respect to equipment, many items of farm and laboratory equipment were not available during the war and are now urgently needed to carry on the department's experiment station and research program. T h e Comptroller concurs in this recommendation and approval is requested.

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

OFFER OF F U N D S FROM NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS (17) T h e Cook County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., after negotiations with Vice-President Ivy and Hospital Administrator Millizen, has agreed to pay the University of Illinois the sum of $143.84 a day for a period of ninety days, or a total of $12,945, f ° r hospital care for poliomyelitis patients. This sum is based on the estimated per diem cost of 16 patients a day in the Research and Educational Hospitals. T h e University has agreed to make available 16 beds in the Hospital for infantile paralysis cases. However, this arrangement has necessitated the opening up of an unused portion of the Hospital so as to make space available for the 16 beds needed. In addition, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has agreed to make available some equipment to be used in connection with the patients' care.