 The solution identified was that Benedictine should establish a branch campus in Springfield, physically located on the SCI campus, and obtain the necessary approvals to offer full, four-year bachelor's degree programs.The first two years of these four-year programs would supplant the associate degree programs which SCI offered.In keeping with the affiliation of the two institutions, SCI amended its corporate by-laws such that the authority to make the most significant decisions was reserved to the Benedictine Board of Trustees.