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Students Get $72,000
In Fellowship Grants

According to the recently
released figures from the Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation, the University was
found to be among the top ten
schools in amounts of fellowship
grants received. The University
received a total of $72,000 in
supplementary grants.

The Wilson Foundation bases its
selection of fellows on their
potential for college teaching. The
Foundation's winners have received
tuition, fees, and living expenses;
and the graduate schools where
they enroll are given supplementary
grants.

Sharing this honor with the
University are such institutions as
Harvard, Yale, Columbia,
University of California at
Berkeley, and the University of
Chicago.

Rounding out the top ten are
the University of Michigan,
Stanford, Princeton, and the
University of Wisconsin.

These findings were published
on August 13, 1968, by the
National Association of State
Universities and Land-Grand
Colleges in Washington, D.C.

In the same bulletin a study was
made of student involvement in
university policy-making. The
report found that the University of
Kentucky recently made history in
this area by appointing a student to
its Board of Trustees.

At the University of Houston
the president of the student body
will advise President Philip G.
Hoffman in the selection of a new
vice president and dean of faculties.

Several schools have set up
student-faculty-administrator
committees. The University of Utah
is forming a "Council of 20" with
student leaders, administrators, and
faculty members to discuss crucial
campus issues. Similar groups have
been started at Cornell University,
Florida State University, and
Michigan State University.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute
invites 150 student leaders annually
for the purpose of airing problems
and questions connected with the
coming school term. At the
University of Iowa students are
working on a majority of the
campus's policy-making
committees.

An advisory board at the
University of Michigan meets
bi-weekly with the president and
each vice-president of that
university. The University of
Hawaii has assembled students from
fourteen school organizations to
meet with the president and
staff.

A student-faculty committee at
the University of Kansas has
recommended the reconstruction of
both the student and faculty
governing bodies to more clearly
represent the membership of each
body.

Finally, the University of Idaho
is sponsoring a weekend retreat
similar to the recent Mountain Lake
Conference held by this University.