Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1976 [PAGE 268]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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f. For cooperating teachers and administrators who receive assignment of practice teachers. Such persons who register in University courses are exempted from both tuition and the service fee for one semester, quarter, or summer session for each semester or quarter [during the calendar year, September to September, in which service is rendered.] of service rendered. The exemption shall apply to the semester, quarter, or summer session of registration, as designated by the student, which is concurrent with, or following, the term of service, but must be applied no later than one calendar year from the beginning of the term of service. Concurrent registration on more than one campus of the University or in University extramural courses constitutes one semester, quarter, or session of eligibility for exemption. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . Livingston, this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n was approved.

Amendments to the Urbana-Champaign Senate Constitution, Urbana

(12) In accordance with the University of Illinois Statutes the following revisions to Article I, Section 2, and Article V , Section 5, of the Urbana-Champaign Senate Constitution are being presented. These amendments were approved by the required two-thirds vote of the Senators present at the December 1974 meeting of the Senate: 1 Article I, Section 2 "The Senate shall consist of persons [from] who are members of the faculty [and] or student electorates, elected in accordance with the provisions of [the] this Constitution. Elected members shall have full floor and voting privileges on all matters before the Senatef;]. [ex] Ex officio members shall have full floor privileges on all matters before the Senate, but shall [not] have no vote except as provided in Article V, Section 7." Article V, Section 5 "The Senate is empowered to appoint to Senate committees such nonSenators as the Senate may determine. Such committee members [may] shall have Senate floor [but not voting] privileges, including the privilege of making motions, [in the Senate] on matters relating to the committee on which they serve, but they shall have no vote in the Senate." The University Senates Conference has indicated that no further Senate jurisdiction is involved. The Chancellor at Urbana and the Vice President for Academic Development and Coordination concur in the action of the Senate. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Howard, this recommendation and the proposed revision of Article I, Section 2, and Article V, Section 5, of the UrbanaChampaign Senate Constitution were approved.

President's Report on Actions of the Senates Merger of the Institute for Research on Exceptional Children and the Children's Research Center, Urbana-Champaign

(13) The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved the merger of the Children's Research Center, Graduate College, and the Institute for Research on Exceptional

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