Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1952 [PAGE 1200]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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(b) Credentials from principals or superintendents of four-year accredited high schools or accredited secondary schools showing the completion of fifteen units of high school work. (c ) A certificate of admission without condition to any college that is accredited by the University or by one of the regional accrediting agencies. ( d ) A certificate of graduation from any state normal school in the United States. ( e ) A certificate showing that the applicant has passed examinations on the subject matter of a four-year high-school course under the supervision and direction of educational bodies whose certificate would be accepted for admission to the University of Illinois. (f ) The passing of examinations set for admission to the accountancy examination by the University. The Study of Accounting and Related Subjects ( a ) Official credentials indicating the successful completion of the required number of semester hours of residence or correspondence study in the specified subjects in institutions acceptable to the University. Credentials of schools which specialize in business training are acceptable provided satisfactory proof is presented that at least fifty per cent of their courses in accounting are taught by certified public accountants. (b) Passing examinations in college subjects offered by the University. 23. The Director of Admissions and Records of the University is authorized to conduct four sets of examinations in high-school and college subjects per year in Chicago (in March, June, August, and December) to which applicants for the C.P.A. examination may be admitted upon the payment of a fee of $4.00 for each examination giving, one unit1 of high school credit and $4.00 for each college subject. 24. A candidate seeking to meet the preliminary education requirement in part or in whole by these examinations should first submit to the Secretary of the University Committee official credentials covering his formal education above the eighth grade. These will be evaluated and a program of examinations necessary to complete the preliminary education requirements will be outlined for him. The Committee can not accept as satisfactory evidence of educational attainments statements from private tutors or certificates of examinations conducted by private individuals or by school officials acting in a private capacity. Neither is the Committee authorized to accept business experience or life experience of any kind in lieu of the educational requirements specified in the Act. Examinations 25. Examinations as prescribed in the Act shall be held by the respective Boards of Examiners at the times and places determined by the University Committee. The time and place of holding examinations shall be advertised, for not less than three consecutive days in one daily paper published in each of the places where the examinations are to be held, not less than thirty days prior to the date of each examination. 26. Examinations shall take place as often as may be deemed necessary by the University Committee, but not less frequently than once each year. 27. The examination shall be in the subjects prescribed in the Act. 28. The time allotted to the examination in each subject shall be determined by the University Committee, OH the advice of the appropriate Board of Examiners, and shall be printed on the examination questions. 29. The University Committee will supply paper for the examinations. 30. The examination papers shall be graded on the scale of 100. The passing grade in each subject is 75. Grades shall be certified by the respective Boards of Examiners to the University Committee. The list of successful candidates shall be certified to the President of the University by the University Committee.

1 By the word "unit" is meant t i e amount of ground ordinarily covered in any single subject in one year of work in a standard high school.