AUTHORITY: Implementing Section 6 and authorized by Section 9.05 of the Board of Higher Education Act [110 ILCS 205/6 and 9.05].

SOURCE: Amended and effective April 15, 1976; codified at 8 Ill. Reg. 16804; amended at 31 Ill. Reg. 3128, effective February 7, 2007.

SUBPART A: ENROLLMENTS

 

Section 1070.101  Resource Allocation

 

The allocation of resources to accommodate peak enrollments through the early 1980s should be made in a manner that is cognizant of probable subsequent enrollment declines to levels comparable to current enrollments.

 

Section 1070.102  Annual Report

 

The Board of Higher Education will issue an annual report assessing the continued validity of current enrollment projections.

SUBPART B: FINANCING: OPERATIONS AND GRANTS

 

Section 1070.201  Planning and Management

 

To meet the projected resource requirements for operating expenses through fiscal year 1985, public and private postsecondary institutions must plan and manage resource use for growth and decline.  This planning and management should continue and intensify the present commitment to reallocate resources and increase productivity.  These efforts will involve a thorough reassessment of program priorities within postsecondary education.

 

Section 1070.202  Additional Support

 

In addition to all of the efforts by postsecondary education to conserve and reduce resource requirements, increased State general revenue support will be required to support the additional enrollment and inflationary increases projected through the early 1980s.

 

Section 1070.203  Public University Tuition

 

a)         Tuition charges for resident, undergraduate students should be maintained at a level of one-third of undergraduate instructional costs, calculated on the appropriate system base.  To this end, public university systems should raise undergraduate tuitions proportionately so that the one-third policy will be fully implemented no later than fiscal year 1980. Following full implementation of the one-third policy by fiscal year 1980, tuition charges should be updated annually and routinely applied in Board of Higher Education budget recommendations.  This tuition policy should be implemented, provided that:

 

1)         The General Assembly and Governor increase funding of the Illinois State Scholarship Commission's monetary award program and/or other programs to offset the impact of any proposed tuition increases on financially needy students;

 

2)         Full implementation of the one-third policy at any one system does not result in undergraduate tuition charges higher than undergraduate tuition charges at the University of Illinois;

 

3)         In the calculation of undergraduate instructional costs to determine appropriate tuition charges, new institutions should be excluded from the calculations during the first ten years of operation, but should maintain tuition levels equal to those of other universities within the same system;

 

4)         The instructional cost base is defined as the most current undergraduate instructional cost base as determined by the unit cost study.  Instructional costs exclude State appropriations for retirement, capital improvements, research, and public service.

 

b)         Tuition charges for resident, graduate students should be maintained at a level of 133 1/3 percent of the resident, undergraduate tuition charge at each system.  To this end, public university systems should raise graduate tuitions to this level concurrently in relationship to increases in undergraduate tuition charges.

 

c)         Tuition levels for public schools of medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine should be set at the following academic year rates in fiscal year 1977 and adjusted in proportion to undergraduate tuition increases thereafter:

 

Medicine	$1,250
Dentistry	$900
Veterinary Medicine	$70

 

d)         Tuition charges for non-resident, undergraduate students should be maintained at a level of full instructional cost calculated on the appropriate system base and tuition charges for non-resident, graduate students should be maintained at a level of 133⅓ percent of the non-resident undergraduate tuition charge at each system.  These charges become effective in fiscal year 1977.

 

Section 1070.204  Public Universities

 

In its annual budget recommendations, the Board of Higher Education will continue to consider the effects of inflation upon public universities, especially with regard to salaries, the cost of commodities and services, and program support.

 

Section 1070.205  Community College Financing

 

a)         The State funding plan for public community colleges should be based upon the following principles:

 

1)         Instruction which generates credit hours should be divided into categories determined on the basis of local and State purpose and on relative statewide unit costs;

 

2)         Non-credit hour activities included in the missions of the community colleges should be considered a separate category.  This includes community education, public service, and research activities;

 

3)         For every instructional category generating credit hours the State will make flat grants per credit hour for a certain percentage of the difference between:

 

A)        The statewide average cost in the system for that category, as adjusted for inflation, marginal cost savings, and productivity savings, and

 

B)        The standard local contribution calculated from statewide average property taxes, tuition and fees, and other local revenues.

 

4)         Either State or local financial resources should be provided for all categories.  The State should fund a lower percentage of the difference between statewide average costs and the standard local contribution for credit hours in general studies categories other than vocational and remedial;

 

5)         Additional financing for categories more locally oriented and total costs for activities in the non-credit hour category can be funded from local taxes, tuition and fees, and other revenues, including the special source described in (f);

 

6)         One cent less than the average statewide tax rate should be used in determining the standard local contribution.  This amount is intended to support a portion of the difference between the statewide cost of locally-oriented instructional categories plus the total cost of the non-credit category;

 

7)         Special grants should also be funded by the State, as follows:

 

A)        Equalization grants should be provided for districts unable to raise the portion of the standard local contribution funded by property taxes, using the statewide median tax rate.  This method of equalization is thus built into the basic flat grant funding approach, and

 

B)        Grants for the educationally disadvantaged student should be provided to all districts for a portion of the added costs of such education.

 

b)         State and federal vocational education grants distributed through State agencies should be counted as part of State support for community college operations.

 

c)         Local districts should be permitted to levy a 17˝ cent (per $100 Equalized Assessed Valuation) educational fund tax rate and a 5 cent (per $100 Equalized Assessed Valuation) building and maintenance fund tax rate.

 

d)         Enrollments for funding purposes should be counted at midterm.  This should not prevent consideration of earlier payments of projected college claims to ease cash flow problems.

 

e)         Either in 1980, or when State expenditures for community college operations exceed 50 percent of total operating costs, a committee should be appointed to review community college financing.

 

f)         Procedures should be developed to integrate specific district enrollment projections into the funding mechanism so that financial planning at the State and local levels may be improved.

 

Section 1070.206  Aid to Private Institutions

 

The Illinois Financial Assistance Act should be continued as a program of direct grants to private colleges and universities.  The formula for awarding grants should be based on full-time-equivalent enrollments rather than the enrollment of full-time students.  In future years, the appropriation for this Act should be increased in recognition of inflationary advances so that this program continues to support a relatively constant proportion of private college and university expenditures.

 

Section 1070.207  Retirement Funding

 

In addition to an appropriation for annual payout requirements of the State Universities Retirement System, the State should appropriate yearly additional funds to reduce the unfunded accrued liability of the systems.

 

Section 1070.208  Affirmative Action

 

Data relating to affirmative action programs at colleges and universities should be considered by governing boards and the Board of Higher Education in the process of determining budget recommendations and implementing budgets.

SUBPART C: PHYSICAL FACILITIES

 

Section 1070.301  Space Data

 

a)         The Board of Higher Education will continue to collect data about space in postsecondary education physical facilities and the utilization of space.

 

b)         The Board of Higher Education will use space data more extensively in its review of requests from postsecondary education institutions for new buildings and new additions.  In particular, requests for additional space will be analyzed to determine how they will affect the overall allocation of space in an institution, how they will affect the utilization of institutional space, and how they compare to similar institutions with respect to space available per student.

 

c)         The Board of Higher Education will collect space data about facilities for the education of health professionals in its biennial space surveys and Resource Allocation and Management Program formats.  To this end, the Board staff will develop formats for collecting data about space allocations and utilization which are appropriate to such special facilities.

 

d)         The Board of Higher Education will continue to collect data about physical facilities in private colleges and universities.

 

Section 1070.302  Instructional Facilities

 

a)         The Board of Higher Education will approve additional classroom and class laboratory space in public institutions only if there is a clearly demonstrated need in terms of such factors as special program requirements, utilization and condition of existing space.

 

b)         The Board of Higher Education will give high priority to remodeling in postsecondary education capital budget recommendations.

 

c)         The Board of Higher Education will approve construction of new facilities for public community college campuses on the basis of enrollments, taking all permanent space and projected enrollment increases and decreases into account.

 

Section 1070.303  Special Facilities

 

a)         The Board of Higher Education will approve additional space only for health professions education programs for which there is a clearly demonstrated need.  Need should be demonstrated in terms of the total utilization and condition of existing space, and special program requirements.

 

b)         The Board of Higher Education will consider as a low priority State participation in the debt retirement of revenue bonds for public university capital projects.

 

c)         As a general rule, the Board of Higher Education will encourage governing boards to seek student participation in the process of approving capital improvements funded from student fees or income from student fees.

 

d)         The Board of Higher Education will not approve construction of dormitories for commuter institutions.

 

e)         The Board of Higher Education will consider as a low priority State participation in such facilities at community colleges as outdoor athletic and recreation fields, field houses, and spectator seating.

 

f)         The Board  of Higher Education will consider among others the following factors before approving performing arts facilities at public universities and community colleges:  institutional program directions, student body composition, campus type, and total allocation of institutional space. Furthermore, universities and community colleges should show evidence of having explored the possibility of cooperative arrangements with other institutions and agencies for the use of such facilities.

SUBPART D: STUDENTS

 

Section 1070.401  Financial Aid Programs (Repealed)

 

(Source:  Repealed at 31 Ill. Reg. 3128, effective February 7, 2007)

 

Section 1070.402  Affirmative Action

 

a)         Colleges and universities should increase efforts to recruit and retain more minorities and women in fields of study where they are underrepresented, especially at the graduate level.  Special attention also should be given to increasing the enrollment of underrepresented minorities in educational opportunity programs.

 

b)         There should be improved career counseling, academic advising and retention programs, especially for minority and women students.  Special courses should be arranged to help women and minorities overcome prior educational deficiencies.

 

c)         Postsecondary education institutions should assure that women and minority students receive an equitable share of graduate student employment and financial aids.  Where possible, institutions should place funds only in those banks that have equitable lending policies for all students.

SUBPART E: INSTITUTIONS

 

Section 1070.501  Programmatic Directions

 

a)         The program directions for public universities and public community colleges will serve as general guides to future programmatic developments and the allocation of financial resources.

 

b)         Public universities and private colleges and universities should continue to facilitate the transfer of students from community colleges.

 

c)         All colleges and universities should explore fully the possibilities of the development of cooperative programs with other public and private institutions.

 

d)         More complete integration of postsecondary education should be accomplished through the greater involvement of the private sector in statewide program planning and coordination.

 

e)         More formal mechanisms for communicating the program plans and resources of private institutions to the Board of Higher Education should be developed.  This should be done to assure that new programs in the public and private sector do not unnecessarily duplicate other programs in either sector and that existing programs effectively use the public resources supplied to them.

 

f)         As a general rule, the Board of Higher Education will not approve additional programs in architecture, agriculture, teacher education, engineering, and foreign languages.  Whenever approval is given in these areas, the programs should relate to existing undergraduate or graduate programs.

 

g)         As a general rule, the Board of Higher Education will not approve additional doctoral and sixth-year programs, but in any event such programs will be approved only at institutions which have existing doctoral or sixth-year programs.

 

Section 1070.502  Affirmative Action

 

a)         Every college, university, governing board, and coordinating board should assign priority to affirmative action as an institutional objective.  Accordingly, the chief administrative officer should actively and positively promote affirmative action in all practices and policies regarding employment, enrollment, and the allocation of resources.

 

b)         Every institution, agency and board should assume the initiative for public accountability regarding its own affirmative action commitments and:

 

1)         Develop a written affirmative action plan;

 

2)         Complete EEO-6 federal compliance reports of employee data for submission to the federal government and to the Board of Higher Education;

 

3)         Publicly report annually on progress made in implementation of affirmative action plans and goals.

 

c)         Each institution, agency, and board should if they have not already done so, develop an internal system of equitable grievance procedures for all employees, including a widely circulated policy and procedural statement.

 

d)         Each institution, agency, and board should develop a written policy, if one does not already exist, that states explicit salary and promotion criteria and a written policy that sets forth procedures to be followed in search recruitment, and hiring practices.

 

e)         To eliminate salary and promotion inequities, every institution, agency, and board should, if they have not already done so, initiate biennial salary, rank and title analyses studies and biennial salary and promotion equalization programs for all classifications of employees.

 

f)         In instances where it is not a current policy all colleges and universities should provide on-campus advertising of all employment opportunities (faculty, administrative, nonacademic) in campus print media, and, correspondingly, see that complete descriptions of those positions are available for reference in specified offices.

 

g)         The Board of Higher Education will assume leadership in the assignment of a task force to review all aspects of the University Civil Service System and their effect on affirmative action.  In the interim, the University Civil Service System should establish rules and procedures to eliminate stereotyping by race or sex in interviewing and employment assignments and eliminate all sex-identifiers in job titles.

SUBPART F: PROGRAMS

 

Section 1070.601  Review Process

 

a)         In the review of new program requests by public universities at the baccalaureate and master's degree level, the review criteria used by the Board of Higher Education will include:

 

1)         A determination that the program relates to the institution's program responsibilities;

 

2)         A demonstrated need for the program including, but not limited to, student demand, manpower need, and possible contributions to the solution of societal problems;

 

3)         An assessment of the total operating and capital costs of the proposed program and the feasibility and availability of financial support;

 

4)         An assessment of whether the program unnecessarily duplicates existing programs, and whether all avenues of cooperative approaches have been explored with other public and private institutions;

 

5)         An assessment of the impact of the proposed program upon existing programs within the institution;

 

6)         A determination that the program, if approved, will be regularly evaluated.

 

b)         The criteria used in the review of new program requests by public community colleges will parallel those established for public universities, with the following additional considerations:

 

1)         The local or regional manpower demands for proposed programs, especially occupational programs, should be given added emphasis;

 

2)         Program proposals should be in conformity with locally approved campus mission and scope statements, although the Board of Higher Education must consider statewide priorities and needs in its review process.

 

c)         Through a joint staff effort of the Illinois Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Community College Board, working with representatives of the community college system, a process will be established to develop guidelines concerning adequate numbers and appropriate placement of community college programs within the State to enhance program accessibility and efficiency.  Consideration will be given to the establishment of program categories that will include programs located in each district, regional programs, area programs, and ones that focus on a statewide plan.

 

d)         The Illinois Community  College Act, in its description of a comprehensive community college program, has defined in part the mission of community colleges.  The scope of programmatic offerings is a determination to be made ultimately by the Board of Higher Education, utilizing criteria for the review of new program proposals.

 

e)         Public colleges and universities should more closely correlate their programmatic expansion efforts with their academic and technical plans as indicated in their annual Resource Allocation and Management Program submissions to the Board of Higher Education.

 

f)         In the approval of new programs at public colleges and universities, the Board of Higher Education will give special consideration to those programs which can be supported through internal reallocation of funds.

 

g)         The Board of Higher Education, with the cooperation of the public colleges and universities, will periodically update existing inventories of all programs offered for degree credit, or which receive State funding. This inventory will be extended to private postsecondary education institutions as soon as possible, and eventually become an integral part of the Board's computerized management information system.

 

h)         Public community colleges and universities should continue their review and evaluation of existing units of instruction, research, and public service.  The Board of Higher Education, whenever possible, should utilize information provided by systems and institutions and will complement, rather than duplicate, existing evaluation efforts by institutions.  Indicators that a program should be reviewed would include, but not be limited to, enrollment decreases and increasing costs as indicated through the Board's annual Unit Cost Study and other special studies.  For public universities, this should be a three-tiered review process involving selected representatives from institutions, governing boards, and the Board of Higher Education.  For public community colleges, the review will be conducted by the representatives of the local districts, the Illinois Community College Board, and the Board of Higher Education. Outside consultants may be employed.  The review should result in recommendations from the Board of Higher Education to the appropriate governing board that a program be continued, modified, eliminated, or expanded.

 

i)          All university programs are approved by the Board of Higher Education to be offered at a specific location.  All community college programs are approved by the Board of Higher Education to be offered at a particular campus within a district.  If such programs are transferred or duplicated at another location, or out-of-district in the case of community colleges, they are to be considered new units of instruction requiring approval by the Board of Higher Education.

 

j)          The Board of Higher Education will establish a process for reviewing all instances in which two or more postsecondary education institutions, public or private, are offering competing degree programs or courses in the same area.  This process should result in recommendations for eliminating unnecessary competition and duplication.

 

Section 1070.602  Public Service

 

a)         Institutions should more closely articulate their various public service activities, programs, courses, and services with those of other institutions and agencies which may be affected by such efforts.

 

b)         Public service efforts should continue to be primarily of an educational nature and closely related to the level of institutional academic offerings.  Public service activities should be consistent with the program directions of the institution and should develop from institutional capabilities and priorities.

 

c)         Cooperative public service efforts are to be encouraged within and among institutions in the public and private sectors.  Postsecondary education institutions are encouraged to seek cooperative public service arrangements with public and private service agencies and organizations.

 

d)         Institutions should not ordinarily duplicate professional continuing education courses or programs traditionally offered under the purview of professional organizations or associations, but should develop continuing professional education activities that complement those offered by professional associations, and should co-sponsor such activities when this would strengthen the activities.  Public institutions should usually conduct such efforts on a cost-recovery basis.

 

e)         To as great an extent as possible, public institutions should utilize user fees to pay for the costs of public service programs and activities. Such pricing policies should be commensurate with the recipients' ability to pay.

 

f)         The Board of Higher Education will establish in cooperation with educational institutions a public service information system in conjunction with the Board's present data collection mechanisms.  This will provide a means for improving the coordination of higher education programs, for assessing the level of resource requirements, and for maintaining a current inventory of existing public service programs and activities.  The information system could also be utilized in assessing needs, evaluating planning, developing policies, and in providing information to member institutions.

 

Section 1070.603  Educational Television

 

a)         The Board of Higher Education will recommend a coordinating mechanism for the development of a system of educational and instructional television to serve all of the citizens of the State.

 

b)         The Board of Higher Education will work in cooperation with the Board of Education in the development of a coordinating mechanism for a statewide system of educational and instructional television.

 

c)         The Board of Higher Education will immediately recommend to the Governor and General Assembly initial program and construction priorities for the further development of educational and instructional television.

 

Section 1070.604  Special Concerns

 

a)         The University of Illinois should have the major responsibility for conducting research associated with environmental and energy problems, and should utilize its existing research capabilities and resources.

 

b)         Southern Illinois University at Carbondale has the major responsibility within the State for research and educational activities associated with the extraction and utilization of coal.

 

c)         Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville should structure its existing environmental programs under a single unit and focus efforts on addressing the energy-related problems of the Metro-East urban area.

 

d)         The University of Illinois Chicago Circle campus and other Chicago area public and private institutions should explore cooperative research efforts with industry concerning solutions to the environmental problems created by urban transportation and industrial energy use.

 

e)         Recommendations will be developed by the Board of Higher Education outlining a cohesive programmatic plan for the Center for Legal Studies to be contained within the Courts Complex to be built in Springfield.  This programmatic plan will include a third-year law school clinical option and paralegal programs.

 

f)         There should be a third-year law school clinical option at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle campus.

 

g)         There should be increases in the enrollment capacity of public law schools  located at the University of Illinois and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

 

h)         Based upon an analysis of the current supply of lawyers versus employment opportunities and projected enrollments, the Board of Higher Education will not recommend the establishment of any new public law schools in Illinois.

 

i)          A general oversupply of elementary and secondary school teachers exists at the present time, and all teacher education programs should be evaluated from this perspective.  Public colleges and universities should not plan to increase current levels of total enrollments in teacher education programs.

 

j)          The Board of Higher Education will provide encouragement and means for developing qualified teachers in areas of teacher shortage, such as occupational education, special education, bilingual education, and health education.

 

k)         The Joint Education Committee of the Board of Higher Education and the Board of Education should continue to explore issues involving teacher education, including:

 

1)         Certification;

 

2)         Monitoring supply and demand;

 

3)         Elimination of unnecessary programs;

 

4)         Evaluation of existing curricula;

 

5)         Improving in-service programs and making them more accessible;

 

6)         Graduate study in professional education.

SUBPART G: HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION

 

Section 1070.701  Meeting Health Manpower Needs

 

a)         The medical schools in Illinois should meet their current enrollment projections.  In particular, by 1980 or as soon as is possible,

 

1)         The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine should plan to graduate about 100 physicians per year;

 

2)         The University of Illinois College of medicine should plan to graduate about 500 physicians per year in its regional network of medical schools;

 

3)         The private medical schools should plan to graduate about 750 physicians a year, distributed approximately as follows:

 

Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine	100
Chicago Medical School/University of Health Sciences	120
Loyola University	130
Northwestern University	180
Rush University	120
University of Chicago	100

 

b)         The three Chicago-area dental schools should meet their current enrollment projections.  In particular, by 1980 or as soon as is possible,

 

1)         The Loyola University School of Dentistry should plan to graduate about 130 dentists per year;

 

2)         The Northwestern University School of Dentistry should plan to graduate about 100 dentists per year;

 

3)         The University of Illinois College of Dentistry should plan to graduate about 150 dentists per year;

 

4)         The Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine should expand to graduate about 64 dentists per year, as soon as possible.

 

c)         The University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine should expand its class size to 100 as soon as is feasible.  As the only school of veterinary medicine in the State, the College should maintain and expand its instructional, research, and public service programs to serve the needs of all of Illinois.

 

d)         The University of Illinois College of Pharmacy should continue its planned enrollment expansion through 1980.  As the only school of pharmacy in Illinois, the College should maintain and expand its programs to provide pharmacists for all parts of Illinois.

 

e)         Master's degree nursing programs should continue to be expanded to meet the needs for nurse educators and nurse specialists.

 

f)         No new educational programs for practical nurses, associate degree nurses, diploma nurses, or baccalaureate degree nurses should be established unless a compelling need can be demonstrated.

 

g)         The School of Public Health of the University of Illinois should continue the development of its master's and doctoral level programs.  As the only school of public health in Illinois, it should strive to meet the needs of students and employers throughout the State in those disciplines it offers.

 

h)         Several health administration programs in public and private universities should be supported.

 

i)          The regionalization of medical education should continue to be supported.  The medical schools should expand their clinical affiliations into health-service-poor areas of the State.  The medical schools should provide leadership in cooperative efforts to regionalize clinical education in the other health professions, particularly nursing and allied health.

 

j)          Each medical school in Illinois should be responsible for a network of clinical affiliations to enable the development of residency programs with the following characteristics;

 

1)         By 1980 each medical school should have educational responsibility for at least as many first-year residency positions as it will have graduating physicians.  The number of post-first year positions should be adequate to permit sufficient opportunity for all first-year residents to complete their residency training;

 

2)         The medical school should assume responsibility for recruiting new physicians to its residency programs.  Emphasis should be placed first on recruiting graduates of Illinois medical schools and then graduates of other American schools;

 

3)         At least one-half of all the first-year residency positions should be in the specialties of family practice, internal medicine, and pediatrics;

 

4)         At least one-half of the first-year residency positions should be offered in institutions and facilities, affiliated with the medical school, which provide predominantly primary and secondary health care to their communities.

 

k)         The two public medical schools should explore means of expanding the geographic distribution of their residency programs.  Such programs might include rotation of residents to remote hospitals or clinics or may include several free-standing programs under the auspices of the schools of medicine.  The Health Education Commission should work closely with the Comprehensive State Health Planning Agency (and its successor agency) in considering health manpower needs.

 

l)          Affirmative action efforts in health professions programs should be continued and expanded.  These programs should attempt to enroll and retain a student mix which racially and geographically reflects population base from which institutions draw their students.

 

Section 1070.702  Improving Programs

 

a)         The institutions offering programs in the health professions should be responsive to changing demands of students and employers and shifting emphases in the provision of health care.  In particular,

 

1)         Continuing education of health professionals should be expanded and made available throughout the State;

 

2)         The education of health professionals as members of a healthcare team should be emphasized, including common learning experiences;

 

3)         Career mobility for persons who wish to alter their professional standing should be facilitated, particularly in nursing and allied health;

 

4)         Flexible scheduling should be promoted to serve students who work or who have other responsibilities;

 

5)         Flexible scheduling should be undertaken in task analysis and competency-based education, particularly in nursing and allied health.

 

b)         Planning for the efficient use of existing clinical facilities should be encouraged among the educational institutions and the clinical institutions involved in the education of health professionals.  The development of consortia of such institutions is encouraged.  The consortia should be multi-disciplinary, regionally-based, representative of all involved parties, and have formal or informal agreements, as appropriate, regarding the responsibilities of each institution.

 

c)         The health-care institutions employing nurse assistants and the institutions educating nurse assistants should cooperate in the establishment of guidelines for the standardization of nurse assistant educational programs and for standards of performance for graduates of the programs.

 

d)         Existing educational programs for the allied health professions in public community colleges and universities should be reviewed and evaluated by the Board of Higher Education and by the appropriate governing and coordinating boards to determine if they are educationally and economically justified.  Allied health professions education programs should be characterized by the following:

 

1)         The responsibility for and accreditation of the educational program should be exercised by an educational institution or by a consortium including educational institutions, medical or dental schools, and clinical facilities.  With either arrangement, there should be active, ongoing, and effective joint planning and cooperation concerning admission of students, curriculum, evaluation, and other matters among members of the consortium;

 

2)         Student should be admitted to the educational program no later than the beginning of the professional component.  Admission should be the responsibility of the entity that has program responsibility;

 

3)         The staff of the affiliated hospitals who teach in the program should be appropriately recognized by the educational institution;

 

4)         The responsibilities of each institution involved in an allied health professions education program should be affirmed in a written agreement;

 

5)         Each program should engage in self-study and evaluation of its goals and success in meeting those goals.  External review and evaluation should be sought and, as appropriate, accreditation obtained;

 

6)         The program should be responsive to regional and, as appropriate, State manpower needs.

 

Section 1070.703  Financing

 

a)         An annual operating grant of $4,200 per Illinois resident student enrolled in a four-year curriculum should be made available to the private medical schools in Illinois.  The total number of Illinois students to be used in the computation should not exceed that number which will generate the annual number of Illinois resident graduates to which the medical schools have been previously committed:

 

Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine	47
Chicago Medical School/University of Health Sciences	75
Loyola University	82
Northwestern University	97
Rush University	100
University of Chicago	42

 

Appropriate revision of the formula amount should be made to reflect the increased cost for students enrolled in a three-year curriculum.

 

b)         The expansion of graduate medical education programs should receive the following support:

 

1)         A one-time capital grant of $10,000 for each new appropriately approved first-year residency position in the primary care specialties should be made to the medical school and its affiliate in compliance with the conditions of Recommendation 96;

 

2)         An annual operating grant of $5,000 for each new first-year primary care residency position and $2,500 for each new first-year non-primary care residency position should be made to the medical school and its affiliate.

 

c)         An annual operating grant of $3,000 per Illinois resident student should be made available to Illinois private dental schools.  The total number of Illinois students to be used in the computation should not exceed that number which will generate the number of Illinois resident graduates to which the dental schools have been previously committed:

 

Loyola University	81
Northwestern University	31

 

d)         An annual operating grant of $1,400 per Illinois resident student should be made available by the State of Illinois to the Illinois College of Optometry.

 

e)         An annual operating grant of $1,900 per Illinois resident student should be made available by the State of Illinois to the Illinois College of Podiatric Medicine.

 

f)         The State of Illinois should continue to provide funds to support nursing and allied health education programs in non-public institutions.

 

g)         Both educational institutions and hospitals should continue to share in the financing of clinical allied health professions education. The State of Illinois funds available for allied health professions education should be allocated to the educational institutions or appropriate consortia; and may be used to support partially the educational component offered in the hospitals;

 

h)         The formula amounts for State aid to support educational programs in private institutions should be reviewed annually and adjusted, as appropriate, for inflationary increases.

SUBPART H: GOVERNANCE AND COORDINATION

 

Section 1070.801  System of Systems

 

A "system of systems" as presently constituted should be continued.

 

Section 1070.802  Voting Structure

 

The present voting structure of the Board of Higher Education has served postsecondary education well and no changes are necessary at this time.  If the voting structure of the Board of Higher Education is to be changed, prime consideration should be given to having all voting members represent the general public.

 

Section 1070.803  Superintendent of Public Instruction

 

All statutes pertaining to public postsecondary education boards should be modified by removing the Superintendent of Education or his successor from such boards, with the exception of the Illinois Community College Board.

 

Section 1070.804  State Community College of East St. Louis

 

The governance of the State Community College of East St. Louis should be removed from the Illinois Community College Board.  A separate board should be appointed by the Governor to serve for a period not to exceed five years.  The Board of Higher Education should appoint an advisory committee to determine whether the East St. Louis area should eventually become a regular community college district or become a part of an existing district.

 

Section 1070.805  Statutes

 

The Board of Higher Education will undertake a study of the statutes affecting higher education with a view toward their codification and clarification.

SUBPART I: FUTURE PLANNING

 

Section 1070.901  Continuous Planning

 

Future planning for Illinois postsecondary education will be conducted on a continuous basis, with the Board of Higher Education determining and assigning topics for study.

 

Section 1070.902  Special Studies

 

The Board of Higher Education will assign for immediate study or development the following topics:  (1) graduate education and (2) research.  The reports and recommendations concerning these topics should be presented to the Board by October, 1976.