Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1974 Version B
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1973] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 329 The numbers recommended for promotion to the various ranks are as follows: Chicago Medical Urbana- University Center Champaign Extension Total To the Rank of Circle Professor -089 22 49 18 Clinical Professor -01 -01 -0Associate Professor 68 2. 140 32 38 -0-0Clinical Associate Professor 3 -03 28 Assistant Professor 53 2 5 18 -02 Clinical Assistant Professor -0-02 1 2 Instructor 1 -0-05 290 Total 146 61 78 Each campus has established formal procedures for the initiation, review, and approval of recommendations for academic promotion. Consideration is given to the criteria that seem to be most appropriate to the evaluation of the varied combinations of contributions of individual faculty members — including teaching; research or other scholarly activities; artistic creation; professional and public service; student and administrative services. The Chicago Circle and the Urbana-Champaign campuses haye campuswide committees that review departmental and college recommendations, while at the Medical Center campus each college has a special committee that reviews the recommendations of its departments. I concur. O n motion of Mr. Swain, these recommendations were approved. SABBATICAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE, 1 9 7 3 - 7 4 (19) The Chancellor at Urbana-Champaign has recommended that the following faculty member be given a sabbatical leave of absence in accordance with the provisions of the University of Illinois Statutes and on the terms and for the period indicated. The program of research, study, and travel for which this leave is requested has been examined by the Research Board, and the Vice President for Academic Development and Coordination has reviewed the application for the leave and recommends approval. I concur. (This recommendation is supplementary to the applications recommended to the Board on March 21, 1973.) College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Geology RALPH L. LANGENHEIM, JR., Professor of Geology, first semester, 1973-74, twothirds pay. On motion of Mr. Forsyth, this leave was granted as recommended. FIELD OF CONCENTRATION IN ASIAN STUDIES. URBANA (20) The Urbana-Champaign Senate recommends the establishment of a Field of Concentration in Asian Studies in the Sciences and Letters Curriculum, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The proposed Field of Concentration in Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary program to be administered by the Center for Asian Studies. The program is designed to permit one of the following: a single geographical regional focus (East Asia — China and/or Japan; the Middle East) in an integrated language or general area program; a language-literature and linguistics specialization; or a program of cross-cultural studies. Courses will be selected from three of four discipline-distribution categories. The concentration has no prescribed schedule of courses. It is intended to offer several options which will meet the academic and career goals of a variety of students. An aim of each option, however, will be to train students to regard societies as cultural wholes and to sensitize them to interdependencies of society's several sectors. The total program must be worked
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