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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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for academic affairs has reviewed the applications for the leaves and recommends approval of one leave for Chicago Circle and one leave for the Medical Center. (A list of those recommended has been filed with the secretary of the board for record.) I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . N e a l , t h e s e leaves w e r e g r a n t e d as r e c o m m e n d e d . A m e n d m e n t s , University of Illinois Statutes1

(19) In May 1977, the board approved a group of amendments to the Statutes proposed by the senates of the three campuses and coordinated by the University Senates Conference. The conference has now completed its work of coordinating a final group of amendments in various versions proposed by the senates over the past several years. It now has forwarded the text which represents agreement among the senates and the University Senates Conference. I recommend approval of the proposed amendments. T h e student advisory vote w a s : Aye, Miss Conlon, M r . Overstreet; n o , n o n e ; a b s e n t , Miss W i n t e r . O n m o t i o n of M r . L i v i n g s t o n , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n a n d t h e p r o p o s e d a m e n d m e n t s t o t h e U n i v e r s i t y Statutes w e r e a p p r o v e d b y t h e following v o t e : Aye, M r . Forsyth, M r . H a h n , M r . H o w a r d , M r . Livingston, M r . Neal, M r s . R a d e r , M r s . Shepherd, M r . Velasquez; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . Lenz, Governor Thompson.

Masters' of Education Degree(s), Chicago Circle

(20) In April 1972, the Board of Trustees approved a Master of Arts in Education degree at the Chicago Circle campus with areas of concentration in: administration, counseling, special education, early childhood education, measurement and evaluation, and instructional leadership. The program was submitted to the Board of Higher Education. In the five-year period since that action was taken, discussions and negotiations have been carried out between University and Board of Higher Education staffs concerning the framework through which the Chicago Circle campus can best serve its students and the Chicago area in the field of education at the graduate level. In addition, the board staff has been, engaged in a study, "Graduate Programs in the Education Professions in Metropolitan Chicago." The study, which was submitted to the Illinois Board of Higher Education in June, was approved at its meeting on July 12. Recommendation # 1 of that study encourages institutions in the Chicago region to develop a limited number of in-service programs at the master's level in health education, physical education, bilingual/bicultural education, special education, and vocational education. Recommendation # 2 calls for the Chicago Circle campus to plan and develop a limited number of graduate education professions programs at the master's level. As a result of this study and staff discussions, on July 12 the Illinois Board of Higher Education approved (with the University's agreement) the following programs for the Chicago Circle campus:

1 Amended sections were: Article II, Section 3: Article III, Sections 2b, 3b, 3d. and 5; and Article XV, Sections la, 2a-2e, 3a-3e, and 4. In addition to updating and editorial changes, the amendments provided for the evaluation of performance of deans, directors, heads, and chairpersons; and modifications in methods of determination of departmental and college faculty membership and membership and powers of the Faculty Advisory Committee and departmental executive or advisory committees. The complete text of the amendments has been filed with the secretary of the board for record. The amendments will be included in the next publication of the complete Statutes.