Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944 [PAGE 997]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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(c) T h e academic staff which conducts the educational program shall consist of the teaching staff, the research staff, the extension staff, deans, directors of educational departments, high school visitors, librarians, and such other members of the staff as a r e designated by the President. T h e following ranks in the teaching, research, and extension staffs shall be recognized: professor, associate professor, assistant professor, associate, instructor, lecturer, and assistant. Other members of the academic staff and the principal officers of the administrative staff may be accorded appropriate ranks, with the rights and privileges pertaining thereto. ( d ) 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 the chairman and the executive committee, or the head of the department concerned, or, if the college has no departments, 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. (e) In determining appointments to, and salaries and promotions in the academic staff, special consideration shall be given to those of the following criteria which are applicable: (a) teaching ability, (b) research ability and achievement, and (c) general usefulness or promise thereof to the University. O n m o t i o n of M r . M c K e l v e y , these c h a n g e s w e r e a u t h o r i z e d as recommended. LEAVES OF ABSENCE FOR MEMBERS OF ACADEMIC OR ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF O N ACCOUNT OF DISABILITY (13) At its meeting on February 24, 1944 (Minutes, page 877), the Board of Trustees, on recommendation of the University Civil Service Committee, changed the statutory provisions relating to leaves of absence on account of disability with pay for members of the non-academic staff. T h e President of the University was directed to have a study made of existing provisions relating to leaves of absence on account of disability with pay for members of the teaching staff and to submit recommendations for adjustments therein. Such a study has been made by the Advisory Committee to the Bureau of Institutional Research, in consultation with the Chairman of the University's Committee on the Retirement System and the Chairman of the University Civil Service Committee. On the basis of this report I recommend that the present statutory provisions for leaves of absence on account of disability for members of the teaching faculty be amended to read as follows: A member of the academic or administrative staff of the University, who is not under Civil Service, is entitled to a non-cumulative leave with full pay for disability or illness in each year of his service, including his first, of 15 calendar days, and is entitled to further disability benefits as follows: (1) In addition to the annual leave specified above, a member is entitled to an extended disability leave of 10 calendar days with full pay during each year of service, the unused portion of which in any year is cumulative to a maximum of 60 days. (2) Subject to the approval of the President, a member who has completed at least three full years of service, and whose work can be suspended or assimilated by his colleagues may be granted a disability leave with full pay for a period (including the annual and extended leaves described above) not to exceed one-half of his appointment year. (3) N o deduction of time from the annual leave or the extended leave is made if the member is ill or disabled at a time when he is not expected to furnish regular service to the University. (4) After the disability benefits described above have been exhausted, a member may be granted a disability leave without pay from the University.