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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1974 Version B
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1974] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 535 cal Center now be assessed at Peoria and Rockford. Important student services have been initiated at these locations and administrative officers with student affairs duties have been employed at Peoria and at Rockford to give continuing leadership to the planning of additional activities and services. Under the proposal, the tuition and fees total would be the same for medical students at the Medical Center, at Peoria, and at Rockford. Students in the College of Medicine enrolled at the Urbana-Champaign campus are assessed the same tuition assessed all other medical students, but are assessed the fees paid by other students at that campus (Urbana-Champaign). The Vice President for Planning and Allocation concurs. I recommend approval. On motion of Mr. Swain, these recommendations were approved. INCREASE IN THE HOSPITAL-MEDICAL-SURGICAL FEE AND TEMPORARY REALLOCATION OF THE SERVICE FEE, URBANA (9) The Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended an increase in the Hospital-Medical-Surgical Fee, to become effective for the fall term of 1974 and thereafter in order to cover the full cost of the student health insurance program and the student health services. The Chancellor further recommends a temporary reallocation of the Service Fee for one year only. The increase in the Hospital-Medical-Surgical Fee is required to meet the increased costs of the services presently rendered and does not reflect any changes in those services. The health insurance portion of the fee may be waived upon the presentation of evidence of insurance coverage equivalent to the University program. The health service portion, designed to cover the cost of providing on-campus health services to students, is not subject to waiver on the basis of other insurance coverage. The increase recommended will be covered by the Illinois State Scholarship Commission for Illinois resident undergraduate students with financial need who hold fullvalue ISSC awards. The proposed fee increase originated with the Director of the Health Service, who recommended an increase of $5.00 per semester; the McKinley Health Service Student Advisory Committee concurred in the recommendation. Such recommendations are also reviewed by the Service Fee Advisory Committee, which is composed of four students and three members of the faculty and staff and is convened by the Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus Affairs. This committee recommended that any increase of the health service portion of the HospitalMedical-Surgical Fee be held to $3.00 per semester and that other sources of funding be explored. At present, students on the Urbana-Champaign campus pay a Hospital-MedicalSurgical Fee of $37.00 per semester or summer session. This includes $15.00 to cover the cost of health insurance and $22.00 for the cost of care at the Health Service. An increase of $2.00 is now recommended, bringing the total Hospital-MedicalSurgical Fee to $39.00 per semester or summer session. In addition, the Chancellor has recommended that $2.00 of the regular $58.00 Service Fee per semester ($1.00 of the $29.00 summer session Service Fee)_ be earmarked for a special health care reserve account for the 1974-75 fall, spring, and summer session terms only. The reallocation of $2.00 of the regular Service Fee is made possible as a result of a balance in the operating surplus account of the Assembly Hall. The $2.00 to be transferred from the Service Fee would be made available to the Health Service to supplement funds derived from the proposed increase in the Hospital-Medical-Surgical Fee. To the extent that these funds are not required to meet the budgeted needs of the Health Service, any balance remaining in the special health care reserve account as of June 30, 1975, will revert to the Assembly Hall. This shall not constitute an established practice but is subject to annual review. Based on the financial information available, the reduction of $2.00 in the amount projected for allocation to the Assembly Hall will not adversely affect the financial operations or balances in that fund during the 1974-75 academic year. The recommended changes are summarized below:
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