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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[February 16

medical students, $187 for dentistry students, and $309 for veterinary medicine students.1 Such increases would raise undergraduate tuition to approximately 28 percent of undergraduate instructional costs as determined by the Fiscal Year 1976 Cost Study of the Board of Higher Education. Graduate student tuition would be 105 percent of undergraduate tuition. The Board of Higher Education budget recommendations for FY 1978 also include funds for sufficient increases in the awards of the Illinois State Scholarship Commission to offset tuition increases. A tuition schedule for the University of Illinois for FY 1978 (effective for the fall 1977 terms) is now recommended to the Board of Trustees. As indicated, it follows the recommendations of the Board of Higher Education. The increases proposed are believed to be reasonable and supportable. It is clear that available state resources cannot meet the agreed-upon needs of higher education in the next fiscal year, nor has this been possible for the last several years. Meanwhile, the quality of the University is continuously placed in jeopardy. Although the preferred long-range resolution of the University's financial difficulties is increased state funding, the immediate need is to generate sufficient resources to meet present needs and, in particular, the needs of FY 1978. Accordingly, I recommend approval of the tuition schedule presented below: Tuition Schedule, 1977-78 The annual tuition rates, current and proposed, for full-time resident and nonresident students, are indicated below. Rates for summer terms, reduced loads, and extension courses will be calculated in relation to the full-time resident and nonresident rates. Annual Tuition Rates

Urbana-Champaign NonResident resident Undergraduate Present $ Proposed Graduate (including Law) Present Proposed Medicine Present Proposed 1 Dentistry Present Proposed Veterinary Medicine Present Proposed 496 586 496 616 882 344 1 $1 486 1 758 1 486 1 848 1 872 4 032 Chicago Circle NonResident resident $495 585 495 615 $1 485 1 755 1 485 1 845 Medical Resident $ 495 585 495 615 882 1 344 1 783 969' 496 804* 1 486 2 412 Center Nonresident $1 485 1 755 1 485 1 845 1 872 4 032 1 773 2 907

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In addition, the Dean of the College of Commerce and and the Chancellor of the Urbana-Champaign campus establishment of a special tuition rate for the Executive ministration Program on that campus. The program is limited to experienced administrators

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Business Administration have recommended the Master of Business Adwho retain full manage-

Nonresident tuition would be increased as well and, in Hne witfa( past practice (and current IBHE recommendations), at the level of three times resident student tuitions. 1 Adjusted from IBHE recommended fiffures to accommodate whole dollar division by semester and/or quarter.