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| 1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The University of Illinois Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 8 as follows:
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| 6 | (110 ILCS 305/8) (from Ch. 144, par. 29)
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| 7 | Sec. 8. Admissions.
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| 8 | (a) (Blank).
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| 9 | (b) In addition, commencing in the fall of 1993, no new | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | student shall
then or thereafter be admitted to instruction in | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | any of the departments or
colleges of the University unless | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | such student also has satisfactorily
completed:
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| 13 | (1) at least 15 units of high school coursework from | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | the following
5 categories:
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| 15 | (A) 4 years of English (emphasizing written and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | oral communications
and literature), of which up to 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | years may be collegiate level instruction;
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| 18 | (B) 3 years of social studies (emphasizing history | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | and government);
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| 20 | (C) 3 years of mathematics (introductory through | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | advanced algebra,
geometry, trigonometry, or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | fundamentals of computer programming);
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| 23 | (D) 3 years of science (laboratory sciences); and
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| 1 | (E) 2 years of electives in foreign language (which | ||||||
| 2 | may be deemed to include American Sign Language), | ||||||
| 3 | music, vocational
education or art;
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| 4 | (2) except that institutions may admit individual | ||||||
| 5 | applicants if the
institution determines through | ||||||
| 6 | assessment or through evaluation based on
learning | ||||||
| 7 | outcomes of the coursework taken, including vocational | ||||||
| 8 | education
courses and courses taken in a charter school | ||||||
| 9 | established under Article 27A
of the School Code, that the | ||||||
| 10 | applicant demonstrates knowledge and skills
substantially
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| 11 | equivalent to the knowledge and skills expected to be | ||||||
| 12 | acquired in the high
school courses required for admission. | ||||||
| 13 | The Board of Trustees of the
University of Illinois shall | ||||||
| 14 | not discriminate in the University's admissions
process | ||||||
| 15 | against an applicant for admission because of the | ||||||
| 16 | applicant's
enrollment
in a charter school established | ||||||
| 17 | under Article 27A of the School Code.
Institutions
may also | ||||||
| 18 | admit 1)
applicants who did not have an opportunity to | ||||||
| 19 | complete the minimum college
preparatory curriculum in | ||||||
| 20 | high school, and 2) educationally disadvantaged
applicants | ||||||
| 21 | who are admitted to the formal organized special assistance
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| 22 | programs that are tailored to the needs of such students, | ||||||
| 23 | providing that in
either case, the institution | ||||||
| 24 | incorporates in the applicant's baccalaureate
curriculum | ||||||
| 25 | courses or other academic activities that compensate for | ||||||
| 26 | course
deficiencies; and
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| 1 | (3) except that up to 3 of the 15 units of coursework | ||||||
| 2 | required by
paragraph (1) of this subsection may be | ||||||
| 3 | distributed by deducting no more
than one unit each from | ||||||
| 4 | the categories of social studies, mathematics,
sciences | ||||||
| 5 | and electives and completing those 3 units in any of the 5
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| 6 | categories of coursework described in paragraph (1).
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| 7 | (c) When allocating funds, local boards of education shall | ||||||
| 8 | recognize
their obligation to their students to offer the | ||||||
| 9 | coursework required by
subsection (b).
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| 10 | (d) A student who has graduated from high school and has | ||||||
| 11 | scored within the
University's accepted range on the ACT or SAT | ||||||
| 12 | shall not be required to take a high school equivalency test as | ||||||
| 13 | a prerequisite to
admission.
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| 14 | (e) The Board of Trustees shall establish an admissions | ||||||
| 15 | process in which honorably discharged veterans are permitted to | ||||||
| 16 | submit an application for admission to the University as a | ||||||
| 17 | freshman student enrolling in the spring semester if the | ||||||
| 18 | veteran was on active duty during the fall semester. The | ||||||
| 19 | University may request that the Department of Veterans' Affairs | ||||||
| 20 | confirm the status of an applicant as an honorably discharged | ||||||
| 21 | veteran who was on active duty during the fall semester. | ||||||
| 22 | (f) Not less than 90 days prior to accepting applications | ||||||
| 23 | for any undergraduate program for an academic year, the | ||||||
| 24 | University of Illinois shall publish the standards for | ||||||
| 25 | admission to that undergraduate program. No student shall be | ||||||
| 26 | admitted to an undergraduate program who does not meet the | ||||||
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| 1 | published standards for admission to that undergraduate | ||||||
| 2 | program. Once published, the standards for admission to an | ||||||
| 3 | undergraduate program shall not be changed during that academic | ||||||
| 4 | year. | ||||||
| 5 | (Source: P.A. 98-718, eff. 1-1-15; 99-806, eff. 8-15-16.)
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