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recommendation. The University Senates Conference has indicated that no further Senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Hahn, this recommendation was approved.

MODIFICATION OF ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS. CHICAGO CIRCLE

(13) The Chicago Circle Senate has approved a proposal from its Committee on Student Admissions, Records, and College Relations that campus policy on high school subject patterns for admission be revised by discontinuing all current pattern requirements and substituting instead the following requirement: three units of English and thirteen additional units. At Chicago Circle, six different patterns are currently required, depending on whether or not the student is entering the program of Architecture; Business Administration; Elementary Education and Physical Education; Engineering; Art and the Liberal Arts and Sciences General and Secondary Education Curricula; and Chemistry Curriculum. Students who do not meet the specific subject pattern requirements have generally been denied admission regardless of high school rank or performance on the American College Test. These requirements have tended to exclude students from high schools where counseling staffs are less effective, from schools which do not emphasize the traditional college preparatory programs, from vocational schools, and from high quality schools whose curricula have changed from the traditional to the nontraditional. They have also tended to discourage otherwise well-qualified prospective students from applying. Recent studies have shown that there is little, if any, demonstrable correlation between high school subjects completed and successful completion of college-level programs. Such studies point out that it is maturity, overall performance (measured by high school rank and test scores), and motivation that are more likely to determine success in collegiate programs, rather than the particular subject patterns which the student presents on admission. In accepting the Senate Committee's recommendation, the Senate also accepted the suggestion that in all appropriate campus publications each college list the high school subject patterns that are recommended (but not required) for a particular college or curriculum. Current admission requirements of high school rank and test scores are not affected by this modification. The Chancellor at the Chicago Circle campus and the Vice President for Academic Development and Coordination recommend approval. The University Committee on Admissions has endorsed the proposal. The University Senates Conference recommended action by the Urbana-Champaign Senate, which on May 6, 1974, affirmed that admissions policies on the Urbana-Champaign campus will not be affected by the action of the Chicago Circle Senate. The proposal would be effective immediately upon approval. I concur. O n motion of Mr. Livingston, this recommendation was approved.

PRESIDENT'S REPORT O N ACTIONS OF T H E SENATES

Conversion of Majors and Minors to a Field of Concentration in Classics, Urbana (14) The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a recommendation from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences that the undergraduate majors and minors, offered by the Department of Classics, be converted to a Field of Concentration in Classics with options in Latin, Greek, and Classical Civilization. The proposed conversion exemplifies the substitution of fields of concentration for majors and minors in the Sciences and Letters curriculum in that it responds to the need to integrate departmental course work with related courses in other fields. Revision of the Curriculum in Physical Education, Urbana The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a recommendation from the College of Physical Education for a revision in the Curriculum in Physical Education by reduction in the total number of hours for graduation from 132 to 128.