Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1978 [PAGE 170]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

1976]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

159

the 1974-75 spring semester, and the terminology was also changed from "passfail" to "credit-no credit." A substantia] decline in participation was noted: credit-no credit courses taken by students at Urbana-Champaign in fall 1975 represent 1 percent of the total courses taken by students on that campus, compared with 4 percent in the fall of 1973. The actual number of courses taken on a credit-no credit basis dropped from 5,729 to 1,963 during this period. The proportion of students taking pass-fail or credit-no credit courses who fail or, under the revised policy, receive "no credit" for the course has increased slightly, from 4.61 to 6.16 percent of the total grades in such courses. Chicago Circle There are two major differences between the pass-fail option at Chicago Circle and the credit-no credit option at Urbana-Champaign: at Urbana-Champaign, a student may take two courses per term under the option, whereas at Chicago Circle only one may be taken; under the Urbana-Champaign credit-no credit option, a C is the passing grade, whereas under Chicago Circle's pass-fail option a D is considered passing. The greatest use of the pass-fail option was in courses offered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, from 1 to 4 percent. Those offered by the College of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation ranked second, from 1 to 3 percent. In the other colleges at Chicago Circle, with the exception of the Jane Addams School of Social Work where pass-fail registration hit an atypical high of 11 percent summer quarter 1974 and then dropped to less than 1 percent, pass-fail registrations were less than 1 percent for most of the period studied. A comparison of grades taken under the pass-fail option at Chicago Circle and under the regular grading system indicated that the incidence of failure is lower in courses taken pass-fail than in courses taken for a letter grade.

This report was received for record.

Levis Faculty Center Report for Information (8) The Chancellor at the Urbana campus has provided the following report: Macke Company, which has been operating the Levis Faculty Center since January 27, 1976, is terminating its agreement with the Levis Faculty Center Sponsors, Inc., effective with the close of business on December 23, 1976. Food and beverage services have been operated successfully over the last two months under new management provided by Macke, and there is now substantial evidence that the center can be operated on a break-even basis with a reasonable level of dues support from Sponsors' members. Accordingly, the Sponsors' Board of Directors has recently taken action to: 1. Operate food and beverage services within the center through a manager it proposes to employ. 2. Negotiate to retain Macke's current manager as Sponsors' manager of the faculty center; such negotiations are nearing a successful completion. 3. Increase the level of dues of Sponsors' members by 75 percent (raising the average level of dues from $2.00 to $3.50 per month) so as to provide the necessary level of ongoing support to center operations as well as to finance programs and Sponsors' organizational housekeeping expenses. 4. Commit retained balances from previous operations and dues collections to the establishment of a working capital fund from which to finance center operations (payroll and food and beverage inventories).