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UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS

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Winner, National Medal of Science T h e president called attention to the fact that Professor Emeritus Joseph L. Doob was one of twenty scientists who had been awarded this extraordinary recognition recently. T h e presentation was m a d e at a ceremony at the White House on January 14 to which Professor Doob and Mr. Ikenberry h a d been invited. Report, Senate Council, Urbana President Ikenberry presented Professor H . George Friedman, Jr., chairm a n of the Senate Council at Urbana-Champaign whom he had asked to make a report on the operations and activities of the Urbana-Champaign Senate. Professor Friedman briefly reviewed the policy interests of the senate and its organizational structure. He noted that two ad hoc committees were presently at work, one dealing with collective bargaining, and the other with the roles of students and faculty in governance, in particular as related to the most desirable composition of the senate. H e also reviewed the work of other important committees and replied to questions of the trustees. Senate Resolution Chancellor Cribbet presented a resolution of the Urbana-Champaign Senate in support of the Library sixth stack addition, a resolution in which the senate requested the trustees to "urgently pursue every possible means to obtain funding for die sixth stack addition to the main library building at Urbana-Champaign." (A copy of the resolution is filed with the secretary of the board.) REGULAR AGENDA T h e board considered the following reports and recommendations from the president of the University. Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Urbana

( 5 ) - T h e chancellor at Urbana-Champaign has recommended the appointment of Dr. Edwin L. Goldwasser, presently professor of physics, vice chancellor for research, dean of the Graduate College, and acting vice chancellor for academic affairs, as vice chancellor for academic affairs, beginning January 17, 1980, on a twelveriaonth service basis a t a n annual salary of $64,000. Dr. Goldwasser will continue to hold the rank of professor of physics on indefinite tenure, and will serve as acting vice chancellor for research and acting dean of the Graduate College during the search for his successor. He will succeed Dr. Morton W. Weir who resigned as vice chancellor for academic affairs effective August 20, 1979. T h e nomination is made with the advice of a search committee. 1 The vice president for academic affairs concurs in the recommendation.

1 Eugene C. Wicks, professor of art and head of the Department of Art and Design, chairman; Kenneth I. Appel, professor of mathematics; Richard K. Barksdale, Professor of English and associate dean of the Graduate College; Norman T. Finkel, law student; Margaret R. Harris, staff associate in the Center for Advanced Study; Paul T. Hartman, professor of economics and in the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations; Kristin J. Holmberg, graduate student; Wayne R. LaFave, David C. Bauxn Professor of Law; Robert L. Metcalf, professor of biology, agricultural entomology, entomolgy, and veterinary biosciences, and research professor in the Institute for Environmental Studies; Darrell A. Miller, professor of plant breeding and genetics; Ralph O. Simmons, professor of physics and head of the department.