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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[March 17

T h e primary advantage of the expanded benefit will be to provide new employees with an opportunity to use accrued vacation time prior to the completion of one year of service without penalty of payback. Current rules permit employees to use accrued vacation during the probationary period, but they will not be paid for the hours used if the probationary period is not satisfactorily completed. (Employees are not authorized to use vacation at any time without approval of the unit head or supervisor.) This change in policy will rqualize the use of vacation benefits among civil service employees of the University of Illinois and employees at other public institutions of higher education in Illinois. To implement the changes described, the university director of personnel services and the associate vice president for personnel services have recommended approval of the following revision of Policy and Rules — Nonacademic, Chapter I X , Vacation and Personal Leave, effective immediately. Chapter IX, University Policy D:' B. Vacation and Personal Leave is earned for each hour in pay status [service], exclusive of overtime, by each employee in a Trainee, Apprentice, Provisional, Learner or Status appointment. [, subject to completion of an initial six months of such service.] I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Howard, the revision of the Policy and Rules — Nonacademic was approved as recommended.

Report of Referendum on Selection of Student Member of the Board of Trustees, Chicago

(13) On September 1, 1982, the Chicago Circle and Medical Center campuses were consolidated to form a single campus. By State statute, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois is to have nonvoting student members, one from each campus. T h e statute also provides that "the method of selecting these student members shall be determined by campus-wide student referendum." During the fall of 1982, student leaders at the Chicago campus were formally consulted on methods of selecting the student trustee and were asked to state their preferences regarding alternatives to be included on the referendum ballot. Based upon that procedure, four propositions have been developed by the two deans of student affairs, with the concurrence of the chancellor of the Chicago campus: Proposition One: T h e student trustee shall be elected alternatively by year from each of the two centers, utilizing the procedures currently in place (University Center — general election, Health Sciences Center — election by the Executive Student Council). Proposition Two: T h e student trustee shall be elected by the student body from a slate of nominees chosen by a nominating committee comprised of one student from each college. Proposition Three: The student trustee shall be elected by a nominating committee comprised of one student from each college. Proposition Four: The student trustee shall be elected by the student body from among self-declared candidates. These propositions are similar in substance to those approved by the trustees in 1973 when the first such referenda were held at Chicago Circle and the Medical Center. A campus-wide student referendum on the method of selecting Chicago's student trustee was held March 1 and 2 under election procedures which were agreed upon by appropriate groups from both parts of the campus. Proposition Four received the most votes (414). T h e vote for the remaining

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