Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1994
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1995] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 423 hoping that both the advertisement in The Chronicle of Higher Education and the efforts of the search firm would produce a good pool for the committee's consideration. Report from Chancellor, Urbana Chancellor Aiken reported that the search for a dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts has not produced a clear choice of candidates and that he and Provost Faulkner would be reviewing the possibility of separating the college into two units since these are two discernable groups of faculty, determined by disciplines. Next, Dr. Aiken spoke to the board of two tragedies; one involving a student at Urbana, and the other involving an academic professional staff member at that campus. The staff member, a woman, was assaulted and murdered on campus and the student, a male, was killed by a train in Champaign. He was standing on the tracks and the train collided with him. The chancellor told the trustees that investigations of both incidents were proceeding and that he would communicate with them as soon as anything conclusive was known. Dr. Aiken also addressed safety measures that the campus was taking in the wake of the murder of the staff member. These include a safety education program, increased bus transportation at night, and more security measures, such as increased lighting, and more police officers on duty at night. Report on Labor Negotiations Vice President Bazzani announced that contracts had been signed between the University and the Service Employees International Union at Chicago and at Urbana; with the University Professionals of Illinois, representing the clerical employees at the Springfield; and with the Illinois Nurses Association in Chicago. He noted that the negotiations with the AFSCME group in Urbana were still in process. Disclosure of Executive Session Actions Under Open Meetings Act (1) Under an amendment to the Open Meetings Act passed by the General Assembly, effective July 1, 1989, public bodies subject to the Act which conduct business under exemptions specified in the Act must, at least every six months, determine whether the need for confidentiality still exists with respect to each item considered under such exemption. Attached are copies of the executive sessions of October 1994 through February 1995. They are all recommended for release to the public. (Attached materials are filed with the secretary of the board for record.) The university counsel and the secretary of the board, having consulted with appropriate University officers, recommend that all executive session items from October 1994 through February 1995 be made available to the public at this time. I concur.
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