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4 CURRENT POLICY EXCERPTED FROM THE GENERAL RULES CONCERNING UNIVERSITY ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE

ARTICLE V. UNIVERSITY PROPERTY

SECTION 4.

NAMING OF BUILDINGS, STREETS, AND DRIVES

(a) Buildings given to the University may be named for the donors of funds for the same or for donors whose individual contributions have been crucial in the financing of such buildings. (b) Buildings should be named in such a way as to denote their general use as a matter of convenience to students as well as to visitors except as provided for in paragraphs (d) and (e) below. (c) Residence halls may be named for donors of funds for such halls; for distinguished former members of the Board of Trustees; and for distinguished members of the University faculty, especially those who were identified with some phases of student life outside the classroom. (d) Buildings and other campus facilities may be named for deceased or retired former members of the University faculty in accordance with guidelines issued by the president of the University. Living former members of the faculty must have been retired from the University of Illinois for at least ten years. (e) Buildings may be named for distinguished persons in the public life of the state or nation. (f) Except as provided for in paragraphs (a), (c), or (d) above, buildings and other campus facilities shall not be named for living persons. (g) Plaques or tablets may be installed in buildings in recognition of distinguished members of the university staff whose services were identified with the functions of said buildings with the approval of the appropriate chancellor or the chancellor's designee. (h) The designation of names of buildings, streets, and drives shall be exclusively within the authority of the Board of Trustees. A building name may include a designation such as auditorium, center, gymnasium, hall, institute, school, or laboratory.