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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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The honors conferred will be noted upon the diploma and in the commencement program. It is proposed that these conditions be used for the first time as a basis for determining graduation with honors at the February, 1952, commencement. I concur.

On motion of Mrs. Watkins, these recommendations were approved.

INCREASE IN N O N R E S I D E N T TUITION FEE

(12) Tuition fees at the University of Illinois are low compared with fees charged in other state universities. The resident tuition fee at Illinois is in the lower one-third of the fees in the state universities in the Middle West and the nonresident fee at Illinois is the lowest of this group. Other state-supported institutions of higher education in Illinois have even lower tuition rates. It is not advisable to increase the resident tuition fee at the University of Illinois unless a comparable increase is made in the resident tuition fee of other state colleges and universities in Illinois. However, an adjustment in the nonresident tuition fee at the University of Illinois is in order. I recommend that, effective September 1, 1951, the nonresident tuition fee be increased from the present $80 per semester to $150 per semester, to which would be added the present laboratory, library, and supply fee of $8 per semester, making a total of $158 per semester, or $316 per academic year of two semesters, for educational fees. All students are also required to pay an Illini Union Building service charge and a hospital service fee of $5 per semester. Comparable adjustments will be made in tuition fees for students in the Chicago Professional Colleges which operate on three twelve-week terms per academic year. This new schedule would be approximately at the median of the present nonresident tuition fees charged by state universities in the Middle West.

On motion of Mr. Hickman, the increase in nonresident tuition fees was approved as recommended.

SALE O F PROPERTY AT 805 W E S T PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, U R B A N A (13) In August, 1947 (Minutes, page 514), the University purchased the property at 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Urbana, for use as a temporary research laboratory by the College of Veterinary Medicine. The recommendation to the Board for the purchase of this property included a statement that when a new veterinary building has been provided, the house at 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue can be used for student housing. It is a three-story and basement building, solid masonry (brick with limestone facing) exterior walls, on a lot 120 feet wide and 140 feet deep. It was formerly occupied by a sorority and can accommodate about forty students. The College of Veterinary Medicine can give up this house when its new building, now under construction, is completed. While this may be by September, 1951, there is a possibility that the complete removal of activities to the new building can not be accomplished until later. The Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, which has had a chapter at the University of Illinois since 1918, is interested in buying the property at 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue. This organization formerly occupied a modern fraternity house, which it constructed on two lots at 1006-8 South Fifth Street, Champaign, until April, 1948, when the house was practically destroyed by fire. Since then, the fraternity has made continuous, but unsuccessful, efforts to finance reconstruction. The property owned by the fraternity has a frontage of n o feet on Fifth Street and is 198 feet deep. It is near other University property. It would be advantageous for the University to own this property. Alumni officers of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity representing the corporation which holds title to this property on Fifth Street, have offered the University $80,000, the present appraised value, for the property at 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue on these terms and conditions: The fraternity will convey to the University its property at 1006-8 South Fifth Street, Champaign, at its appraised value of $25,000; the balance of $55,000 will be paid in cash at the time possession of the property at 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue is given; equipment installed