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BOARD O F TRUSTEES

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Honorary Degree, Urbana-Champaign

(3) The senate at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended that an honorary degree be conferred on the following person at the Commencement Exercises on May 12, 1996:

GEORGE MYLES CORDELL FISHER, scientist and corporate visionary — the honorary

degree of Doctor of Science. The chancellor concurs in the recommendation. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mrs. Gravenhorst, this degree was authorized as recommended.

Head, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Urbana

(4) The chancellor at Urbana, after consultation with the dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, has recommended the appointment of David R. Gross, presently director of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Research Labs and professor of surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, as head of the Department of Veterinary Biosciences, beginning May 8, 1995, on a twelve-month service basis, with an administrative increment of $5,000. Dr. Gross will also be appointed as professor of veterinary physiology on indefinite tenure on a twelve-month service basis at an annual salary of $105,000, for a total salary of $110,000. Professor Gross will succeed Professor Richard F. Bevill, Jr., who retired from the University. The nomination is made with the advice of a search committee, 1 the support of the faculty, and the dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine. The vice president for academic affairs concurs. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mrs. Gravenhorst, this appointment was approved. Appointments to the Faculty

(5) The following new appointments to the faculty at the rank of assistant professor and above, and certain administrative positions, have been approved since the previous meeting of the Board of Trustees. Positions in the University are classified in the following categories and are designated in the budget by the symbols indicated. A — Indefinite tenure N — Term appointment not eligible to be appointed for an indefinite term and not credited toward probationary period Q — Initial term appointment for a professor or associate professor Y — Twelve-month service basis 1-7 — Indicates the number of years of service which will be credited at the end of the contract period toward completion of the probationary period relating to tenure. Figures following a symbol indicate percentage of time if the appointment is on a part-time basis (e.g., N75 means one year on three-fourths time).

1 Tames E. Hixon, professor of veterinary biosciences and of veterinary programs in agriculture, chair; Val Ricnard Beaslev, associate professor of veterinary biosciences; Kenneth R. Holmes, assistant head, Department o t Veterinary Biosciences, and associate professor of veterinary biosciences; Ann L. Johnson, professor of veterinary clinical medicine; Orrin David Sherwooa, professor of physiology in physiology and biophysics, and professor of physiology in basic sciences, College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign.