Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1978
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1977] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 397 addition of the statement: "Each college may establish requirements above this minimum." The basic qualification of an average of B (4.0) or better in all courses, excluding required service courses in physical education, in a program of not less than 12 academic hours was established in 1965. However, major differences have developed at the Chicago Circle campus among the colleges as to the percentage of students qualifying. The proposed revision is an attempt to allow the colleges to adjust their criteria above the minimum to provide for their particular situations. Revision of Master of Science Degree in Advertising, Urbana The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a recommendation from the College of Communications that the Master of Science degree in advertising be revised so that students entering the program without an undergraduate major in advertising may be required to take up to 14 units of graduate work. In order to strengthen the training of students graduating from the master's program in advertising, students deficient in undergraduate training in advertising will be required to make up such deficiencies before advancing to graduate-level courses. This change will mean that all students will have a similar base of undergraduate content. T h i s report w a s received for record. Amendments to Senate Constitutions and Bylaws (20) The University Statutes provide that amendments to the constitutions of the senates shall take effect upon adoption by the senate concerned and approval thereof by the Board of Trustees; changes to senate bylaws are reported to the board. (Proposed amendments to the constitutions of the Medical Center and UrbanaChampaign Senates and bylaws of the three senates have been filed with the secretary of the board for record.) The University Senates Conference has indicated that no further senate jurisdiction is involved. The chancellors at the Chicago Circle and the Medical Center, the acting chancellor at Urbana-Champaign, and the vice president for academic affairs concur in the recommended changes in the constitutions and bylaws. I recommend approval of the changes in the constitutions of the UrbanaChampaign and Medical Center Senates and receipt of bylaw changes for the three senates. O n m o t i o n of M r . Livingston, this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n and the proposed revisions were approved. Renaming of the Physics Building, Urbana {21) The Department of Physics at Urbana has recommended that the Physics Building be renamed the Loomis Laboratory of Physics in honor of Professor F. Wheeler Loomis, former head of the department, who retired in 1959 and died in February 1976. Professor Loomis came to the University as head of the department in 1929. Except for the period 1941 to 1946 when he served as associate head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory, he headed the department until 1957, building it into one of the leading physics departments in the world. A noted physicist himself, he excelled in identifying and motivating talented young scientists and in creating a climate for their work. Over a period of several years, Professor Loomis appealed for the construction of the Physics Building; when it was authorized, he was instrumental in its planning and design.
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