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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 18

LIMITATIONS O N REGISTRATION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS W H O ARE UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES (5) Present University regulations specify the amount of graduate work which teaching and research assistants are permitted to take. This schedule was adopted by the Board of Trustees many years ago and has, in general, been satisfactory. During and after World W a r II, research assistants were granted overloads in thesis credit where their thesis work and their research work as assistants were virtually identical. This practice resulted in some inequities between research and teaching assistants and the latter were then also permitted to register for overloads in research. T h e need for more teaching assistants to service the increase in enrollments has produced a demand for continuing to allow some students to take more graduate work than the standard schedule. The Graduate College supports the present regulations, but favors having formal authorization of reasonable exceptions, to be approved by the Dean, in order to encourage qualified assistants to continue teaching and working as research assistants. They thus are able to reduce the total time required to complete their graduate studies while working. T h e Executive Faculty of the Graduate College and the University Council have recommended that the following policy be authorized until September I, 1959: The Dean of the Graduate College is authorized to approve registration for graduate work by University employees according to the following schedule: Present StatuProposed DiscreTerms of Employment tory Maximum tionary Maximum Full time I unit 2 units Three-quarters time 2 units 2 ^ units Half-time 3 units $}i units One-quarter time 4 units \}i units Maximum registration during the summer session shall be one-half of the above. T h e proposed discretionary maxima shall not supersede the present statutory restrictions, but shall be considered a privilege to be granted or withheld at the discretion of the Dean of the Graduate College. In granting permission for registration in excess of the statutory maxima, the Dean shall be guided by ( a ) the extent of the student's progress toward the completion of degree requirements; (b) the caliber of the graduate work completed; (c) the nature of the teaching, research, or other employment in which the student is engaged; and ( d ) such other considerations as seem pertinent to the Dean. I have authorized the implementation of this policy as an administrative measure effective September, 1956, and request confirmation. O n m o t i o n of M r . W i l l i a m s o n , t h e P r e s i d e n t ' s a c t i o n w a s c o n f i r m e d . REAPPROPRIATION OF UNEXPENDED BALANCES AS OF J U N E 3 0 , 1 9 5 6 (6) T h e Vice-President and Comptroller recommend that the following balances in appropriations for special services and projects not completed on June 30, 1956, be reappropriated for the fiscal year beginning July I," 1956, in accordance with usual policy. In addition to the appropriations listed below, unexpended balances on June 30, 1956, in departmental appropriations, up to 5 per cent of the original appropriation, were carried forward and will be available in 1956-57 to the various departments concerned. I concur. Urbana-Champaign General administration and expense $ 11 292 Agriculture 5 457 Engineering 3 944 Fine and Applied Arts 12 043 Graduate College 270 Law 1 565 Liberal Arts and Sciences 2 423 Veterinary Medicine 355