Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1978 [PAGE 615]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April 12

T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, Miss Conlon, Mr. Overstreet, Miss Winter; no, none. O n motion of Miss Conlon, authority was given as recommended by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. H a h n , Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, M r . Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Governor Thompson. 1978 Intersession, Urbana (27) Students at the Urbana campus have expressed increasing interest in the development of short-term, intensive courses for periods between the academic year and the summer session. Such a program will allow students to take courses which are not well adapted to extended periods, as well as permit the greater use of facilities which would otherwise be idle. An Urbana campus committee has recommended that such a program, to be known as Intersession 1978, be conducted on an experimental basis from May 22 through June 9. It would involve approximately 200 continuing students in six to seven courses in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The courses, in fields such as anthropology, geology, English, and biology, have been selected to test the intersession format in field trip settings as well as laboratory and classroom situations. Tuition for the three-week intersession program would be the same as that charged for the eight-week summer session with identical credit ranges. Tuition waivers currently authorized for students and staff would be applicable. Because this program is limited to continuing students last enrolled for spring 1978 whose service fee and hospital-medical-surgical coverage extends through June 13, 1978, no additional fees for these purposes need be assessed. Faculty on regular academic-year appointments will be given an additional appointment (analogous to a summer session appointment) providing up to oneninth of their academic-year salary. Funds for the program, estimated at $16,500, are available in the summer session budgets of the Chancellor's Office and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The chancellor at the Urbana campus has recommended the adoption of the Intersession 1978 program as outlined above as an amendment to the 1978 summer session budget for the Urbana campus approved by the board March 15, 1978. The vice president for academic affairs concurs. I recommend approval. T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, Miss Conlon, Mr. Overstreet, Miss Winter; no, none. O n motion of Mr. Livingston, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. H a h n , Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Livingston, M r . Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, n o n e ; absent, Governor Thompson. SECRETARY'S REPORT T h e secretary presented for record appointments to the faculty and changes of status made by the president, resignations, leaves of absence, and retirements. A copy of the report is filed with the secretary.