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1980J

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Sabbatical Leaves of Absence, 1980-81

(9) The chancellors at the Chicago Circle and Urbana-Champaign campuses have recommended members of the faculty to be given sabbatical leaves of absence in accordance with the provisions of the University of Illinois Statutes. The programs of research, study, and travel for which leaves are requested have been examined by the research boards at the campuses, and the vice president for academic affairs has reviewed the applications for the leaves and recommends approval of 71 leaves for Chicago Circle and 161 leaves for Urbana-Champaign. (A list of those recommended has been filed with the secretary of the board for record.) (For the record and to provide an annual compilation, in 1979-80 71 leaves were taken at Chicago Circle and 164 leaves were taken at Urbana-Champaign.) I concur.

Honorary Degrees, Medical Center

(10) The senate at the Medical Center campus has recommended that honorary degrees be conferred on the following persons at the Commencement Exercises on June 6, 1980: TAKERU HIGUCHI, Regents Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and of Pharmacy, and chairman, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas — the degree of Doctor of Science. MARY KELLY MULLANE, professor emeritus, College of Nursing, University of Illinois at the Medical Center — the degree of Doctor of Science. EDMUND D. PELLECRINO, president, Catholic University of America — the degree of Doctor of Science. T h e chancellor concurs in the recommendations of the Medical Center Senate. I recommend approval.

Honorary Degrees, Urbana

(11) T h e senate at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended that honorary degrees be conferred on the following persons at the Commencement Exercises on May 18, 1980: WILLIBALD K. JENTSCHKE, physicist, former director of the University of Illinois Cyclotron Laboratory and retired director general of CERN, the European international high-energy physics laboratory — the degree of Doctor of Science. RENE KOENIG, sociologist, former director of the Sociological Research Center at the University of Cologne, and former president of the International Sociological Association — the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. FOLKE SKOOG, plant physiologist, former professor at the University of Wisconsin and president of the American Society of General Physiologists and of the Society for Developmental Biology — the degree of Doctor of Science. The chancellor concurs in the recommendations of the Urbana-Champaign Senate. I recommend approval.

Rate Increases for University-Operated Family Housing Facilities, Urbana

(12) The chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended monthly rental rate increases for family housing, effective August 1980. T h e rates proposed are required to meet the inflationary cost increases anticipated for utilities, salaries, and general commodities, in order to maintain the current level of services, to