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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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RESIGNATION OF PROFESSOR D. R. MITCHELL (6) Associate Professor D. R. Mitchell, of the Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, has submitted his resignation effective September 1, 1938, to accept the headship of the Department of Mining Engineering at the Pennsylvania State College. T h i s report w a s received for record. RESIGNATION OF PROFESSOR W . E. BURGE AS ACTING HEAD OF T H E DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY (7) Associate Professor W . E. Burge, of the Department of Physiology, has submitted his resignation as Acting H e a d of the Department effective September 1, 1938, and requests that he be continued as a member of the faculty with the rank of Associate Professor on indefinite tenure. T h e Dean of the College of Liberal A r t s and Sciences recommends approval and I concur. O n m o t i o n of D r . M e y e r , t h i s c h a n g e of s t a t u s w a s a p p r o v e d a s recommended. EXCHANGE OF INSTRUCTORSHIP IN MATHEMATICS WITH T H E UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (8) A recommendation from the Department of Mathematics that Dr. Oliver K. Bower, Instructor in Mathematics, be permitted to exchange his position with Dr. A. W . Boldyreff, Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Arizona, during the academic year 1938-1939. This exchange is advantageous both to Doctor Bower and to the University of Illinois. It will give him a fresh outlook and a change of environment which would otherwise not be possible since he is not eligible for a sabbatical leave of absence. It will bring to the Department here a man of excellent training who has been giving more advanced courses at the University of Arizona than he will give here. T h e University of Illinois will pay Doctor Bower's salary and Doctor Boldyreff's salary will be paid by the University of Arizona. This arrangement is in keeping with the spirit of the provision in the University Statutes relating to exchange professors, although one of the individuals is not of professorial rank. I concur in this recommendation. O n m o t i o n of M r . K a r r a k e r , t h i s e x c h a n g e w a s a u t h o r i z e d a s recommended. APPOINTMENT OF DR. JOSEPH H. BOD1NE AS PROFESSOR AND HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF ZOOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY (9) A recommendation from the Executive Committee of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences that Dr. Joseph Hall Bodine, of the State University of Iowa, be appointed Professor and H e a d of the Department of Zoology on indefinite tenure, and also Acting H e a d of the Department of Physiology, at a salary of $8,000 per year beginning September 1, 1938. Negotiations with Professor Bodine have not yet been concluded, and therefore it is not known whether he can be secured, but I recommend that his appointment be authorized as recommended. O n m o t i o n of D r . M e y e r , t h i s a p p o i n t m e n t w a s a u t h o r i z e d a s recommended.

APPOINTMENT OF PROFESSOR J. T. B U C H H O L Z AS HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY

(10) T h e Executive Committee of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recommends the appointment of Professor J. T. Buchholz, of the Department of Botany, as H e a d of the Department on indefinite tenure beginning September 1, 1938, at an annual salary of $6,000, vice Professor C. F . Hottes, who will retire at the end of the current academic year. This recommendation has been made after consultation with the members of the Department of professorial rank, as provided in the University Statutes. I concur in the recommendation.

On motion of Mrs. Freeman, this appointment was made as recommended.