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STATE PROGRAM OF GRADUATE WORK IN EDUCATION

The Board approved a proposal of the Department of Education, which had previously been
approved by the University Senate, for developing a cooperative program of graduate work in education
with the other institutions of higher learning in the State. The proposal read as follows.

The sub-committee of the Senate of the University of Virginia charged with the study of
the request submitted by the Department of Education for approval for its participation in a
cooperative program of graduate work in education recommends:

1. That approval be granted for the Department of Education to enter into voluntary
cooperation with other institutions in Virginia which now offer work in education. The objectives
of such cooperation are seen to be:

• a. To improve the standards for graduate work in education in the several
  institutions which now grant graduate degrees in education.

• b. To eliminate, through voluntary action, undesirable duplication of courses,
  curricula and graduate degree programs in education that now exist and to
  avoid unnecessary duplication in the future.

• c. To utilize more economically and efficiently the resources for graduate
  study in education that now exist in institutions of higher learning
  in Virginia.

2. That in granting permission for the Department of Education to cooperate with other
institutions in the state in this program the University of Virginia in no way abrogates its prerogatives
for administering its own program of graduate work in education. Recommendations for
changes in the graduate program of the Department of Education which may conceivably grow out of
the cooperative study by representatives of the participating institutions are to be referred to
the faculty of the Department of Education and the University Senate in accordance with normal
procedures.

3. That, in instances in which the Department of Education desires to send a graduate
student to another institution which offers graduate work in education for the purpose of obtaining
certain courses available in that institution, authorization be granted for the transfer of a
maximum of twelve semester-hours of such work to a Master of Education degree program at the
University of Virginia provided that the action is approved in advance by the Dean of the Department
of Education. In Instances where students working toward the Master of Education degree
transfer from another institution after having completed graduate courses in that institution, a
maximum of six semester-hours of work will be transferable subject to the approval of the Dean of
the Department of Education as provided in the existing regulations of the Department. The Dean
will be assisted by a committee, one member of which will be chosen from the appropriate school
in the University when the transfer concerns work done in an academic field.

4. That resources for graduate work in education that may be found to exist in colleges
in Virginia which do not now offer graduate work in education be utilized whenever practicable
through the program of graduate extension work carried on by the Department of Education in
cooperation with the University Extension Division.