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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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mental organization from that of a department with a head to that of a department with a chairman, effective August 21, 1976. T h e Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has recommended that the form of organization requested be approved. T h e Chancellor and the Vice President for Academic Affairs concur. I recommend approval.

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

Tuition and Fee Waivers for Graduate Students, Medical Center

(21) Effective September 1, 1968, the administration of graduate education and research was reorganized at the University of Illinois. Prior to September 1, 1968, there was one Graduate College and one Graduate Dean for the campuses located at Chicago Circle, the Medical Center, and Urbana-Champaign. T h e Dean of the Graduate College was headquartered at the Urbana-Champaign campus and had full administrative responsibility for all graduate and research activities on the three campuses, but the Dean delegated appropriate authority to two Associate Deans who exercised special administrative duties at the Chicago Circle campus and the Medical Center campus. Beginning September 1, 1968, separate graduate colleges were established at the Chicago Circle, the Medical Center, and the Urbana-Champaign campuses. I n separate actions on May 16, 1967, February 19, 1969, and July 16, 1975, the Board of Trustees authorized tuition and fee waivers for graduate students enrolled in the Graduate College at the Chicago Circle campus, with the latest action authorizing a total of 125 such waivers. At the Urbana-Champaign campus 500 tuition and fee waivers are available on the basis of a Board action taken on July 26, 1960. T h e Board of Trustees has not acted specifically to authorize a fixed number of tuition and fee waivers for graduate students enrolled in the Graduate College at the Medical Center campus. T h e Acting Dean and the Executive Committee of the Graduate College at the Medical Center campus have recommended that the Board take such an action and that forty tuition and fee waivers be authorized, a number approximately proportionate to the number of waivers authorized at the Chicago Circle and the Urbana-Champaign campuses. Enrollment of graduate students at the Medical Center campus has increased substantially over the past several years, e.g., from 207 in 1960 to 536 in 1975. T h e Chancellor at the Medical Center and the Vice President for Academic Affairs concur. I recommend approval.

The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Conlon, Mr. Summers, Mr. Szegho; no, none. On motion of Mr. Howard, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn; absent, Governor Walker.

Tuition and Fee Waivers for Student Exchange Programs, Urbana

(22) Since 1971 approximately twenty students per year from the University of Illinois have studied at the Federal Pedagogical Academy in Lower Austria, at Baden, near Vienna. They have been exempt from the payment of tuition and fees by the Austrian authorities and have been given the privilege of using housing and dining facilities at the same rates as those paid by Austrian students. T h e