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BOARD OF T R U S T E E S

[April 19

want to divide his time between the University and the Department. The details of this have not been completed.

On motion of Dr. Meyer, these recommendations were adopted.

GRADUATE CURRICULA AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN (6) The University Senate recommends a reorganization of the graduate curricula in Geography and Physiology (see Appendix, page 1097). Memoranda giving the details of the required and elective courses in these several curricula are attached hereto and copies are being given to the Secretary of the Board for record. These new curricula have also been approved by the Executive Faculty of the Graduate College. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, these curricula were approved as recommended.

GRADUATE CURRICULA IN THE CHICAGO PROFESSIONAL COLLEGES (7) The University Senate recommends that the following curricula leading to advanced degrees in the Chicago Professional Colleges be established (see Appendix, page 1008). Memoranda giving the details of the required and elective courses in these several curricula are attached hereto and copies are being given to the Secretary of the Board for record. These new curricula have also been approved by the Executive Faculty of the Graduate College. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . M c L a u g h l i n , t h e s e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e adopted. RESERVE OFFICERS TRAINING CORPS AT CHICAGO UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION (8) A Committee of the faculty was appointed late in 1948 to study the advisability of offering a Reserve Officers Training Corps program at the Chicago Undergraduate Division. It had previously been ascertained that the University was under no legal obligation to establish military training in any of its branches. Hence, the study of R.O.T.C. at Navy Pier assumed that it would be an elective program. We now have a recommendation from the Committee, concurred in by the University's Military Department, that there be established at Navy Pier the first and second year basic Army R.O.T.C. program. A minimum of one hundred and a maximum of two hundred trainees is contemplated. Applicants will be screened and admitted on the basis of previous high-school or freshman college work. The instructional personnel will be provided by the Department of the Army, supplemented by Reserve Officers on inactive status or short tours of active duty. The University will need to provide a secretary and a property custodian. Classroom and other space is available for both out-of-door and indoor foot drill. Some remodeling is necessary to provide office quarters. The cost of providing the necessary physical facilities is estimated at $11,000 for preparation of offices and storerooms and $2,800 for the purchase of furniture and other equipment. Aside from the desire of the National Military Establishment for such training in colleges and universities, many of the high schools in Chicago, from which most of the students at Navy Pier come, have junior R.O.T.C. units and their graduates who wish to work for reserve commissions are handicapped in this respect at the Pier. I recommend that: 1. The Board of Trustees approve this program. 2. An assignment of $13,800 be made from the Nonrecurring Reserve to provide the facilities.