Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1980 [PAGE 149]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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to defend the claims and to protect the interests of the University and of those employees or former employees of the University who request the same and represent that any actions alleged to have been taken by them in the matter were taken in their capacities as University employees, all in accordance with the University Risk Management and Self Insurance Program. I concur. T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Sobotka, Mr. Watson; no, none; absent, Miss Kooper. On motion of Mr. Lenz, authority was given as requested by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. H a h n , Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Mr. Livingston, Mrs. Rader, Governor Thompson. RECESS AND OPEN SESSION Following a short recess, the board reconvened in open session for the purpose of a meeting with the Consultative Committee to Assist in the Selection of a President. MEETING OF THE BOARD WITH THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE TO ASSIST IN THE SELECTION OF A PRESIDENT T h e meeting with the Consultative Committee had been scheduled to review a recommended statement of criteria for candidates for the office of president of the University. T h e material was presented by the committee chairman, Martin Wagner, and by the subcommittee chairman assigned to the drafting, Dr. Alexander Schmidt. T h e trustees discussed the language of the document at some length, emphasizing the need for clear understanding of the need for an administrative officer of demonstrated ability and experience. O n motion of Mr. H a h n , the criteria as presented were approved unanimously. (The text of the criteria follows.) Recommended Criteria for Candidates for the Office of President of the University The University of Illinois is a large, diverse, multicampus institution of public higher education, dedicated to excellence in its pursuit of the land grant ideals of teaching, research, and public service. To be able to lead the University, the president must possess certain demonstrated qualities of intellect, ability, character, and person. Set forth below are the criteria recommended for use in judging the qualities of candidates for the office of president of the University. The first group of criteria describes those particular qualities necessary to the candidate's ability to lead the University of Illinois and insure its proper functioning in society. The president must have a thorough understanding of the role and function in society of higher education in general, and that of the large, publicly supported, comprehensive, land grant university in particular. The president should have a broadly based, adaptive philosophy about the role of public higher education and its relationship to the welfare of the state, the nation, and the citizenry.