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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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the Office of Business Affairs, the costs associated with the collection of this fee approximately equal the income. The campus wishes to expedite the processing of transcript requests and to provide the best possible transcript service. Moreover, it is believed that a temporary waiver of the fee might improve the University's relationship with its former students and alumni. Therefore, the Chancellor at Chicago Circle recommends that the transcript fee at the Chicago Circle campus be waived on a temporary basis for one year beginning July 1, 1974. At the end of that period, an assessment would be made to determine whether cost savings and public relations benefits are sufficient to warrant dropping the fee on a permanent basis. The Vice President for Planning and Allocation concurs in this recommendation. I recommend approval. O n motion of M r . H o w a r d , this recommendation was approved.

UNDERGRADUATE T U I T I O N WAIVERS

(17) On October 20, 1971, the Board of Trustees took action which established guidelines for all undergraduate tuition waiver programs at the University of Illinois. This action combined a number of separate need-based programs, designated a specific "non-need" (merit-based) program (The Smith Music Tuition Waivers), and acted to comply with legislative elimination of county tuition waivers which were also awarded on a merit basis. Before this action, the total number of undergraduate tuition waivers permitted was 2,374 (930 need-based waivers, 1,428 county waivers, and 16 Smith Music Tuition Waivers) ; and after the action the total was 946 tuition waivers, of which a maximum of 155 was authorized for nonresident students. However, in the autumn of 1972 (FY 73), the total need-based waivers awarded was only 343, partly due to the many other available programs of the Illinois State Scholarship Commission and Federal Government. In addition, there are a number of students within the University who could avail themselves of tuition waivers within the limit of 946, but cannot at present because the guidelines do not make them eligible. The need is particularly evident for programs in the performing and creative arts and in intercollegiate athletics for men and for women. The Vice President for Planning and Allocation recommends that the following modifications be made in the October 20, 1971, action: 1. The maximum number of undergraduate tuition waivers in effect at any time cannot exceed the current maximum of 946, with the maximum number of out-of-state waivers limited to one-third at any one time (315). 2. The minimum number of undergraduate tuition waivers available on the basis of financial need, in accordance with the policies and procedures at each campus for determining financial need, shall be 473 (compared to 343 awarded in FY 73). The remaining 473 may be awarded on a basis of need and/or talent in the performing and creative arts or in intercollegiate athletics. 3. The allocation to each campus shall be administered by the University Planning Committee (which took the place of the University Committee on Fees) with the Chancellor of each campus responsible for the distribution of the talent waivers between performing and creative arts and intercollegiate athletics. The University Committee on Financial Aid to Students shall advise the University Planning Committee on the allocations based on financial need among the campuses, and shall continue to have the responsibility for recommending minimum academic requirements for such waivers. 4. All other procedures established by the October 20, 1971, Board of Trustees action shall remain in force. The essence of this recommendation is to maintain the total number of undergraduate fee waivers at a level no greater than previously established, to assure a level of need-based undergraduate fee waivers equal to or greater than is now being awarded, and to provide for a category of talent waivers which replaces the phased-out waivers.