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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[February 15

Establishment of Applied Psychology Option, Chicago Circle

The Chicago Circle Senate has approved a recommendation from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences that an applied psychology option be established within the psychology major. The option would require 44 hours: 36 hours of preparatory courses and 8 hours of field work. The new option is designed primarily for students who are not preparing for graduate study and who wish to utilize their psychological training in fieldwork settings. They may choose among three sequences of courses: organizational-industrial psychology, mental health services, and developmental disabilities.

This report was received for record. Student Exchange Program with the University of Sussex at Brighton (Urbana)

(9) Since 1973 undergraduate students from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign have been able to spend a year at one of approximately twenty universities in the United Kingdom under a program sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Office of International Programs and Studies. Each year thirty to fifty Illinois students have taken advantage of this program. The University of Sussex, the first of Britain's "new" universities, has now proposed a plan of reciprocity involving the exchange of four undergraduate students from each institution annually (for the initial year only, three Illinois students and two Sussex students will be involved). To make the costs as equitable as possible for students from both countries, it is proposed that the University of Illinois waive the nonresident portion of tuition for Sussex students studying at Illinois. Illinois students' costs at Sussex will then be approximately the same as those for Sussex students in Illinois. In both cases, the two universities will act as agents in the collection and payment of fees and other costs for students who participate. The chancellor at Urbana has recommended approval of the waiver of the nonresident portion of tuition for Sussex students under this program. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Neal, this recommendation was approved. Grant from the Community Service Administration, Chicago Circle

(10) The University has received through its Energy Resources Center at the Chicago Circle campus a grant of $297,690 by the federal Community Service Administration for a fourteen-month project entitled "Training and Technical Assistance for the Community Service Administration Weatherization Program." The program will provide technical assistance and associated training to Community Service Administration personnel and to the personnel program directors and field assessors of thirty-six community action agencies for the weatherization of residences of low-income persons. The program consists of the training of personnel, data analysis and management, fiscal control methods, and postweatherization analysis, as well as a continuous update and improvement of the weatherization program both technically and operationally. Architects and engineers from the Energy Resources Center will be assisted by faculty from the College of Business Administration. I recommend that the secretary of the board report this grant to the executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. O n m o t i o n of M i s s W i n t e r , this 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 .