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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Increase in Service Fee, Medical Center

(11) T h e Chancellor at the Medical Center campus has recommended an increase in the Service Fee in the amount of $7 per quarter for full-time students at that campus, effective September 1, 1975. Proportionate increases would be assessed students with less than a full-time program. The Service Fee is now $60 per quarter for full-time students, and the recommended increase would bring the amount to $67 per quarter. The recommendation for the increase is based on a need to adjust for cost escalations which have occurred in the past year. T h e increase is not proposed for new programs or services but, rather, to sustain existing functions in the face of inflationary costs. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, this recommendation was approved. Mr. Forsyth asked to be recorded as voting "no," indicating that he had reservations about the applicability of this service fee to students at the Peoria and Rockford Schools of Medicine.

Increase in the Hospital-Medical-Surgical Fee, Urbana

(12) The Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended an increase of $5 per semester in the Hospital-Medical-Surgical Fee, to become effective for the fall term of 1975 and thereafter, in order to cover the cost of the student health insurance program and meet increasing costs associated with existing student health 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 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 full-value ISSC awards. A request for increased funds originated with the Director of the Health Service and was reviewed by the McKinley Health Service Student Advisory Committee and the Service Fee Advisory Committee. T h e Vice Chancellor for Campus Affairs reviewed the several funding proposals advanced by the committees and recommended an increase of $5 per semester in the Hospital-Medical-Surgical Fee. Since August of 1974, students on the Urbana-Champaign campus have paid a Hospital-Medical-Surgical Fee of $39 per semester or summer session. This $39 fee includes $15 to cover the cost of health insurance and $24 for the cost of care at the Health Service. On April 17, 1974, the Board of Trustees approved a reallocation of $2 of the regular $58 Service Fee per semester ($1 of the $29 Summer Session Service Fee) for a special health care reserve account; authorization for this reallocation terminates on June 30, 1975. No change in the $15 health insurance premium will be required for the coming year; the $5 increase in the HospitalMedical-Surgical Fee which is now recommended is intended to make up for the funds which were made available through the special health care reserve account, to meet increased expenses, and to avoid major reductions in health care services. This increase will bring the Urbana-Champaign Hospital-Medical-Surgical Fee to $44 per semester or summer session. I concur in this recommendation and recommend its approval.

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