Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1952
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1220 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [September 19 I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute these contracts. O n motion of M r . Nickell, these contracts were authorized. FEES FOR SHORT COURSES IN AGRICULTURE (32) The College of Agriculture will offer twelve eight-week short courses to qualified students who are eighteen years of age or over and are high school graduates with farm experience. This program will be separate from the regular curricular offerings of the College. Each course will be taught for five hours per week. No credit will be given, but students completing the schedule will receive certificates from the College. It is proposed that fees comparable with those assessed for the summer session (which is an eight-week program) be charged as follows: Tuition Residents of Illinois $20 00 Nonresidents of Illinois 75 00 Laboratory, library, and supply fee 4 00 Illini Union service charge 3 50 Hospital and medical service fee 2 50 The Committee on Fees and Scholarships recommends approval and I concur. On motion of Mrs. Holt, these fees were authorized as recommended. At this point, Mr. Megran took his place with the Board. SCHOLARSHIPS IN LAW Mr. Johnston, for the Committee on General Policy, submitted the following report: Mr. Park Livingston, President University of Illinois Board of Trustees Urbana, Illinois. DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: At the last meeting of the Board of Trustees in Urbana on July 25 there was referred to the Committee on General Policy for its consideration the proposal submitted by the dean of the College of Law that there be established annually ten scholarships at $250 each plus exemption from tuition. There are two significant phases of this proposal prevailing which have been considered by the policy committee: (1) Has the Board of Trustees the legal power to establish the requested scholarships and the legal right to pay cash stipends with University funds. (2) Considering the relationship of other departments of the University, can the Board of Trustees justify an affirmative decision of the Law College's proposal. Quite an extensive opinion has been rendered by the legal counsel of the University on the power of the Board of Trustees to establish such scholarships using state funds for this purpose, the conclusions of which are concurred in by the policy committee. They are: (A) There appears to be sufficient statutory recognition of the right and power of the Board of Trustees to establish the proposed scholarships. (B) The proposed scholarships, if established and awarded, will not contravene constitutional prohibitions against using public money for private purposes and granting special and exclusive privileges and immunities by special law. (C) Funds are available under the present appropriation act out of which the payments contemplated by these scholarships can be made. In fairness the committee wants to state, however, that none of these conclusions are entirely free from doubt, as it is always possible that a different view could be taken with respect to any one or more of them. However, it is obvious that the similar scholarships which are being maintained and have been granted for decades by the Graduate College stand upon virtually the same basis with respect to those questions, and some of the considerations which render their
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