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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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and field work in public or private agencies, participation in team and individual research projects, and teaching. Each must also satisfactorily complete and defend a dissertation for 48 hours of credit. Admission requirements include a 4.0 (A = 5.0) grade point average for the final 90 quarter hours of undergraduate study and satisfactory scores on the Graduate Record Examination, including an advanced test in a policy-relevant field. It is proposed that eighteen students be admitted in Fall, 1975, and that enrollment be increased to a total of 45 students by the fourth year of the program, a total to be held constant during the fifth and sixth years. The principal cooperating faculties are the Department of Economics in the College of Business Administration, the Department of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Urban Policy and Planning Program and the Center for U r b a n Studies in the College of Urban Sciences. It is envisioned that the program will be flexible enough to provide for the future participation of the departments of Architecture, Criminal Justice, Educational Policy Studies, Energy Engineering, Finance, Geography, Geology, Information Engineering, Management, Psychology, Quantitative Methods, Sociology, and Systems Engineering, the Jane Addams School of Social Work at Chicago Circle and the School of Public Health at the Medical Center. There will be a committee of faculty from this program and from Urbana-Champaign departments exploring future joint campus involvement in policy analysis. T h e resource requirements for program implementation will be satisfied entirely through reallocation. Those requirements are: Total Incremental FY76 $51 500 51500 FY77 $81 800 30 300 FY78 $131 100 49 300 FY79 $175 500 44 400

The Chicago Circle Graduate College will be responsible for the general supervision of its implementation. The Chancellor at Chicago Circle and the Vice President for Academic Development and Coordination concur in this recommendation. The University Senates Conference has indicated that no other Senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend approval, subject to further action by the Board of Higher Education. O n m o t i o n of M r . N e a l , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d .

Doctor of Philosophy in Biology and Experimental Pathology, Chicago Circle and Medical Center

(18) The Chicago Circle and the Medical Center Senates have recommended the establishment of a Ph.D. degree in Biology and Experimental Pathology at the Chicago Circle and Medical Center campuses. This is a joint proposal of the Chicago Circle Department of Biological Sciences and the Medical Center Department of Pathology. 1 The cooperative program has been designed to give students an opportunity to compare normal and abnormal life processes at biochemical, functional, and morphological levels of organization. Each student will receive a broad understanding of the life sciences as a whole and intensive training in one of the sub-areas of specialization which include evolutionary and environmental biology, regulatory biology, and pathology. Students in all sub-areas will acquire facility in quantitative biological methods and in the areas of mathematics, chemistry, and physics, while developing skills to analyze one particular biological unit (cells, organisms, or populations) or system (plant, animal, or microbe).

1 The Board of Trustees previously approved a proposal for a Ph.D. in Biology at Chicago Circle on July 24, 1968. The proposed cooperative program supersedes this earlier proposal.