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UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS

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The following ranks in the academic staff shall be recognized: professor, associate professor, assistant professor, associate, instructor, lecturer, assistant. The principal officers of the administrative staff may be accorded an appropriate academic rank, with the rights and privileges pertaining thereto. Recommendation to positions in the academic staff shall ordinarily originate with the department, or, in cases of groups not organized as departments, with the officers in charge of the work concerned, and shall be presented to the dean of the college for transmission with his recommendation to the President. In case the appointment or promotion of members of the rank of professor or associate professor is involved, the dean shall consult, so far as it is practicable, the chairman and the executive committee, or the head of the department concerned, or, i the college has no departments, f the executive committee of the college, before making his recommendation. If the appointment involves a person who may be expected to offer courses open to graduate students, the dean of the college concerned shall consult also the dean of the Graduate School. In determining appointments to, and salaries and promotion in, the academic staff, special consideration shall be given: (a) to the teaching ability of the appointee or prospective appointee; (b) his research ability and achievement; and (c) his general usefulness or promise thereof to the University. Academic Freedom Academic freedom in teaching and in the pursuit of knowledge shall be maintained. Tenure An appointment as professor or as associate professor shall be for an indefinite term; provided, however, that when a person's first appointment in this University is to a professorship or an associate professorship, such appointment may be for any limited term, but a reappointment following shall be for an indefinite term. Appointments below the rank of associate professor shall be made for a definite term. Tenure may be terminated by: (i) honorable retirement; (2) acceptance of resignation; or (3) discharge for cause. Cause for discharge shall consist of conduct seriously prejudicial to the University through deliberate infraction of law or commonly accepted standards of morality, neglect of duty, or inefficiency or incompetency. N o appointee shall be removed before the expiration of his term of service without first having been presented with a written statement detailing the charges against him, together with a summary of the evidence in support of the same. After the presentation of charges he shall have the opportunity of a hearing before the Board of Trustees. Graduate School The Graduate School shall be organized with a teaching faculty, an executive faculty, and a dean. Except as otherwise provided under this heading the Graduate School shall be governed by the same regulations as a college. The teaching faculty of the Graduate School shall consist of the President, the dean, and all those who on recommendation of the department have been approved by the Executive Faculty to be in independent charge of courses designed for graduate students, or of theses to be submitted for higher degrees. The executive faculty shall consist of ten or more members chosen annually from the teaching faculty, and the dean, who shall be ex officio a member and chairman of the Executive Faculty. Of this number the teaching faculty shall elect three, and the remainder shall be appointed by the President in consultation with the dean and the three members elected by the teaching faculty. The executive faculty shall advise the dean in the administration of the school. The method of appointment and the duties of the dean of the Graduate School shall be the same as those of the dean of a college. In the appointment to the staff of any college or school of a person who may be expected to offer courses open to graduate which the appointment is by themade.of the college, or the director of the school in students, or to supervise theses submitted for higher degrees, the dean of the Graduate School shall be consulted to be dean