Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1988
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1988] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 467 T h e purpose of the merger is to enable the departments to coordinate their efforts in responding to the new high technology approach to materials development, design, and application. The merger is intended to eliminate duplication of effort and to promote interaction between faculties and students involved in research in different materials. The change will reflect more accurately the broad interests of the merged departments in all areas of materials science and engineering, thereby making it more attractive to prospective faculty, students, and research sponsors. There are no budgetary or staff implications directly associated with the merger. However, it is anticipated that, as new degree programs are added, additional funds may be required in the future. T h e interim chancellor at Urbana has recommended approval and the acting vice president for academic affairs concurs. I recommend approval. On motion of Mrs. Gravenhorst, this recommendation was approved. Termination of the School of Humanities, Urbana (6) T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate has recommended the termination of the School of Humanities within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, effective immediately. T h e departments and programs within the School of Humanities will be administratively responsible to the dean of the college. By eliminating the School of Humanities as an administrative unit, the college will adopt the more common form of administration in which departmental and program executive officers report directly to the dean rather than to an intermediate officer. T h e change is being recommended now because the current director has returned to full-time teaching and research. There will be no effect on programs, enrollment, degree patterns, appointments, or departmental structure. T h e interim chancellor has recommended approval and the acting vice president for academic affairs concurs. I recommend approval. On motion of Mrs. Gravenhorst, this recommendation was approved. Change in Name: Division of English as a Second Language, Urbana (7) Some months ago, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Urbana proposed a change in the title of the Division of English as a Second Language to substitute "international" for the term "second." T h e intent was to better describe the unit's function and provide a designation which makes clear that the unit is not merely a support agency. Although normally such a change would be submitted to the senate and ultimately to the Board of Trustees for approval, the proposal was inadvertently approved administratively and implemented. T o regularize the matter and with the concurrence of the interim chancellor at the Urbana campus and the acting vice president for academic affairs, I recommend that the action be confirmed and the unit renamed the Division of English as an International Language. On motion of Mrs. Gravenhorst, the action was confirmed. Revision and Update of Genera/ Rules (8) For more than a year, the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and I have been consulting with the University Senates Conference in an effort to update The General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure to
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