Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1964 [PAGE 624]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Faculty Advisory Committee of nine members of such academic staff, three of whom shall be elected each year for three-year terms. No more than two members, or in the case of the Medical Center no more than three, from any one college, school, institute, division, or other administrative unit of the University shall serve on the Committee at the same time. The Committee shall each year elect its own chairman at its first meeting held after the annual election of members. The Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure, copies whereof shall be sent to all members of the academic staff and to the President. The Committee shall make such annual reports to the President, the Senate, and the faculty as it deems appropriate. The functions of the Committee shall be to provide for the orderly voicing of suggestions for the good of the University, for affording added recourse for the consideration of grievances, and for furnishing a channel for direct and concerted communication with administrative officers of the University, its colleges, schoolst institutes, divisions, and other administrative units on matters of interest or concern to the academic staff or any member of it. In performing its functions, the Committee upon the request of the President, or any member of the academic staff, or upon its own initiative, shall make such investigations and hold such consultations as it may deem to be in the best interest of the University. A member of the academic staff shall be entitled to a conference with the Committee or with any member of it on any matter properly within the purview of the Committee. * While the faculty advisory committee is provided for here in Sec. 6 for convenience, it should be noted that it is not a Senate committee but a general University committee on each campus. Those who at the date this section of the University Statutes becomes effective are already members of an established Faculty Advisory Committee shall be the first members of the Committee as established under this section of the University Statutes, with terms coterminous with those for which they were elected. Any person of the rank of instructor or higher rank may be nominated as a