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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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in the case of Miss Day), Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; absent, Mr. Livingston, Governor Walker.

Proposed Service Fee Increase, Medical Center

(11) T h e Chancellor at the Medical Center campus has recommended an increase in the service fee in the amount of $6.00 per quarter for full-time students effective September 1, 1976. Proportionate increases would be assessed students with less than a full-time program. The service fee, which is now $67.00 per quarter for full-time students, would be $73.00 per quarter. This recommendation is based solely on the need to adjust for cost escalations which have occurred in the past year and does not involve new programs or services. I recommend approval.

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

Increase in Student Service Fee, Urbana

(12) The Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended a student service fee of $63.00 per student per semester for the 1976-77 academic year. This is an increase of $5.00 per student per semester over the current assessment. T h e fee provides a portion of the funds for bond and loan retirement, interest payments, and certain maintenance costs for the Assembly Hall, the Mini Union, McKinley Health Service Clinic, the Intramural-Physical Education Building, and the Student Services Building as provided for in the bond and loan agreements. The fee was last increased in 1971, coincident with the opening of the Intramural-Physical Education Building. There have been no increases since that time, nor has there been an increase in the fee level for all of the other units combined, exclusive of the Intramural-Physical Education Building, since 1962 in spite of inflationary pressures on costs. This recommendation is related directly to increased costs of building maintenance and utilities, and in reserve needs for major repairs and replacements. I concur in the Chancellor's recommendation.

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

Requirement of a Test of Competency in English of Applicants for Admission Whose Native or Primary Language Is Other Than English

(13) T h e Senate Committee on Admissions at Urbana-Champaign, the Senate Committee on Student Admissions, Records, and College Relations at Chicago Circle, and the University Committee on Admissions have recommended, and the three campus Senates have approved, a change in the January 12, 1967, Board of Trustees policy regarding a test of competency in English. As indicated below, the current policy limits the requirement to foreign students. The proposed change would extend the requirement to all applicants whose native or primary language is other than English, with stated exceptions. The proposed change also recommends that the tests to be used and the minimum scores be subject to the approval of the University Committee on Admissions with the advice of the Technical Committee on Testing. T h e proposed change would assure a measure of English competency for nonEnglish-speaking applicants, regardless of citizenship, while continuing to provide for a waiver of the test requirement if evidence presented by the applicant clearly justifies such action.