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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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faculty. T h e acting vice president for academic affairs concurs in this recommendation. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . Wolff, this a p p o i n t m e n t w a s a p p r o v e d .

Head, Department of French, Urbana

(8) T h e interim chancellor at Urbana, after consultation with the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has recommended the appointment of Emile J. Talbot, presently professor of French and comparative literature, as head of the Department of French, beginning August 21, 1988, on an academic year service basis at an annual salary of $50,000. Dr. Talbot will continue to hold the rank of professor on indefinite tenure. H e will succeed Professor Paul A. Gaeng who asked to be relieved of this administrative assignment. The nomination is made on the recommendation of a search committee 1 and after consultation with faculty members of the department. T h e Executive Committee of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences endorses this recommendation. The acting vice president for academic affairs concurs. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Wolff, this appointment was approved. Change in Departmental Organization, Department of Mathematics, Urbana

(9) T h e dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has recommended that the Department of Mathematics at the Urbana campus be changed from the present headship to a chairperson form of departmental organization, effective March 10, 1988. As provided in Article I V , Section 4, of the University of Illinois Statutes, the dean received a petition from at least one-fourth of the faculty of the department requesting that the form of organization be changed. H e conducted a poll of the departmental faculty by secret written ballot. A majority favored the change to the chairperson form of organization. T h e vice chancellor for academic affairs and the interim chancellor at Urbana, as well as the acting vice president for academic affairs, concur in this recommendation. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Wolff, this recommendation was approved. Chairperson, Department of Mathematics, Urbana

(10) T h e interim chancellor at Urbana, after consultation with the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has recommended the appointment of C. Ward Henson, presently professor of mathematics 3 as chairperson of the department, beginning March 10, 1988, on an academic year service basis at an annual salary of $63,000. Dr. Henson will continue to hold the rank of professor on indefinite tenure. H e will succeed Professor Heini Halberstam who asked to be relieved of this administrative assignment.

1 Ivan A. Schulman, professor of Spanish and in the Program in Comparative Literature, head of the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, chair; Stanley E. Gray, associate professor of French in the Program in Comparative Literature and in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; Edwin Jahiel, professor of French and cinema studies, director of Cinema Studies Unit; Frederic M. Jenkins, associate professor of French and linguistics, executive secretary, American: Association of Teachers of French; Alice C. Omaggio, associate professor of French. > He has been acting head since February 1, 1988.