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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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to seek an agreement, if possible, among all concerned as to (a) the title of the program and (b) its relation to the Graduate College. The Senate Committee gave long consideration to the subject, and on A.pril 5, 1954, presented to the Senate recommendations that the curriculum be approved, that the program be left within the College of Commerce and Business Administration but without the use of the term "graduate." The Senate by a vote of two to one disapproved these recommendations of its Committee on Educational Policy and took the following actions relating to the Graduate School of Business Administration: 1. That the Senate is in sympathy with the aims of the professional program in Business Administration leading to the Master of Business Administration degree. 2. That the term "graduate" should not be employed in connection with programs which are not within the Graduate College. 3. That 400 numbers should not be used for courses outside the Graduate College. 4. It is the opinion of the Senate that all programs leading to a master's degree or to a Doctor of Philosophy or Doctor of Education degree belong within the Graduate College. 5. It is the judgment of the Senate that the proposed professional program in Business Administration should be within the Graduate College if a master's degree, or other degree resembling those granted by the Graduate College, is granted and the term "graduate" is used. 6. That all proposals of programs which require a bachelor's degree for admission be submitted to the Executive Faculty of the Graduate College in order that the Executive Faculty may have the opportunity to make recommendations as to whether the program properly falls within the general program of the Graduate College. 7. That the Senate request the Executive Faculty of the Graduate College to examine the records of the three students, now scheduled to complete in June, 1954, the requirements for the Master of Business Administration degree in the proposed program, and that further the Executive Faculty be asked to present at the next regular meeting of the Senate its recommendations with respect to granting degrees to these students. 8. That the proposed curriculum leading to the degree of Master of Business Administration be referred to the Executive Faculty of the Graduate College for study and that this body make its recommendations to the Senate Committee on Educational Policy within one month so that the Policy Committee may present its report to the next regular meeting of the Senate. This last action would make it possible for the College of Commerce and Business Administration to offer the M.B.A. program within the administrative framework of the Graduate College. The Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration was requested by the Dean of the Graduate College and by the President of the University to submit the proposed curriculum to the Graduate College. Eventually, a copy of the curriculum was supplied to the President's Office and was referred to the Graduate College, but the course proposal outlines essential to the examination and the evaluation of the curriculum were not provided. Hence, the Executive Faculty of the Graduate College was unable to carry out the instructions of the Senate. ( T h e Executive Faculty has authority over all Graduate College curricula, and its approval is required before such curricula can be acted upon by the University Senate.) The present status of this matter then is that the College of Commerce and Business Administration has not submitted a curriculum for the new M.B.A. program to be offered in the Graduate College, and the University Senate has not approved a curriculum for the M.B.A. program to be offered by a graduate school of business administration. On June 7, 1954, the University Senate voted to request the Board of Trustees to rescind its action of July 16, 1952, establishing the Graduate School of Business Administration outside of the Graduate College. In this connection, attention is called to the following provisions in the University of Illinois Statutes which had not been followed by University administrative officials prior to the submission to