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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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the probationary period. The amount of any such [credit] service counted may be negotiated as may other terms of the appointment and shall be stated in the first appointment contract, as provided for all contracts for definite terms in sub-paragraph l b ( 5 ) below. An initial appointment for a period of less than a full academic year ordinarily does not count toward the probationary period of a faculty member on definite tenure nor does it ordinarily count as service in establishing eligibility for a sabbatical leave with pay, unless recommended and agreed upon in advance. (2) No appointment at the rank of assistant professor or instructor shall be for an indefinite term unless the appointment contract specifically states that it is for an indefinite term. (3) An appointee for a definite term shall be given, not later than August 31 at the Chicago [Circle and Medical Center campuses] campus and August 20 at the Urbana-Champaign campus in the sixth year of the probationary period, either [(a)] written notice [that at the expiration of the probationary period, he or she will be offered an] offering appointment for an indefinite term, or [(b)] written notice of non-reappointment. (4) At any time except during the last year of the probationary period, an instructor or assistant professor on a definite-term appointment may be given written notice of non-reappointment. Except in the case of an instructor or assistant professor who is in the first year of academic service at this University, (a) written notice of non-reappointment shall be given not less than twelve months before the expiration of [his] the appointment; or (b) written notice of nonreappointment, if given less than twelve months before the expiration of the appointment, shall be accompanied by an offer from the Board of Trustees of a terminal contract for one additional year of academic service. In the case of an instructor or assistant professor on a definite-term appointment who is in the first year of academic service at this University, written notice of non-reappointment shall be given not later than March 1, and need not be accompanied by an offer of a terminal contract; if written notice of non-reappointment is given after March 1, it shall be accompanied by an offer from the Board of Trustees of a terminal contract for one additional year of service. (5) The total amount of [credit] service counted toward completion of the probationary period, including both [credit for] service at other institutions and [credit for] prior service at this University, shall be stated in every contract for academic service for a definite term. In the event that an appointee for a definite term is not given notice of appointment for an indefinite term or notice of nonreappointment as required by sub-paragraph lb(3) above, but instead is given notice of reappointment for a definite term beginning after or extending beyond the expiration of the probationary period, such reappointment shall be for a term extending to the end of the academic year following the academic year in which either (a) the Board of Trustees gives the appointee written notice of nonreappointment as specified above in sub-paragraph l b ( 4 ) , or (b) the appointee gives written notice to the dean or department head that he or she is about to complete, or has completed the probationary period, and either is or will be entitled to have any reappointment be for an indefinite term. (6) An appointment for a definite term does not carry any guarantee or implication that the Board of Trustees will renew the appointment even though the duties of the appointee may have been discharged [his duties] satisfactorily. An appointment for a definite term, if accepted, must be accepted with this stipulation.

On motion of Mr. Forsyth, the amendments were approved as presented by the following vote: Aye, Mrs. Galder, Mr. Forsyth, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Mr. Howard, Mr. Logan, Mrs. Shepherd, Miss Smith, Mr. Wolff; no, none; absent, Mr. Hahn, Governor Thompson. (The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Filip, Mr. Starkeson; no, none.)