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UNIVERSITY

OF ILLINOIS

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Administrative Staff

SUZY BELLER, director, Management Information Systems, hospital, Chicago, beginning December 1, 1990 (NY), at an annual salary of $75,000. ROBERT F. D ' O N O F R I O , director in the Office of Telecommunications, Urbana, beginning January 14, 1991 (N), at an annual salary of $77,000. EDWARD F. T A T E III, director of News Bureau, deputy associate chancellor in the Office of Public Affairs, Chicago, beginning December 24, 1990 (NY), at an annual salary of $45,000.

On motion of Ms. Reese, these appointments were confirmed. Honorary Degrees, Urbana-Champaign

(5) T h e senate at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended that honorary degrees be conferred on the following persons on the dates indicated below:1 At the Commencement Exercises on May 12, 1991: OSCAR ARIAS SANCHEZ, head of the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, former president of the Republic of Costa Rica, recipient of the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize — the degree of Doctor of Laws.2 At the Commencement Exercises on May 17, 1992:

DAVID HERBERT DONALD, professor of history, Harvard University — the degree of

Doctor of Humane Letters. DANIEL C. DRUCKER, graduate research professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Mechanics, and Engineering Science, University of Florida—the degree of Doctor of Science. LEV P. COR'KOV, deputy-director, L. C. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.—the degree of Doctor of Science. T h e chancellor concurs in the recommendations. I recommend approval.

On motion of Ms. Reese, these degrees were authorized as recommended.

President's Report on Actions of the Senates Revision of the Major in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Urbana

(6) T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a recommendation from the Department of Anthropology for revisions in the major in anthropology. Four courses will be added to the major requirements, increasing the number of required hours from 28 to 36. Twelve advanced hours in anthropology in no less than four courses must be taken, only one of which may be designated Anthropology 398. T h e number of hours required in supporting coursework is increased from 12 to 18 and the number of those hours which are at the advanced level has been increased from 6 to 9. T h e revisions are intended to keep up with an evolving profession and thereby meet the needs of students planning to do graduate work in anthropology.

1 In keeping with a schedule adopted several years ago, on January 11, 1990, the board approved the award of honorary doctorates at the May 12, 1991, Commencement to the following persons: Paul A. Beck (professor emeritus of metallurgy, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign), Gene H. Golub (professor of computer science, Stanford University), and Mostafa Khalil (chairman of the board, Arab International Bank, Cairo, Egypt). 2 Dr. Arias will serve as the 1991 Commencement speaker.