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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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University before entering the occupational therapy program in 1954. She was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Occupational Therapy in 1957. In 1984, Miss Torrance bequeathed $286,860 to the College of Associated Health Professions, the largest private award ever received by the college. A college committee was established to implement the criteria, protocol, and eligibility requirements for distribution of the income under the terms of the bequest. Establishing the gift as a quasi-endowment will enhance the long-term value of the fund. The vice president for business and finance has recommended approval. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Wolff, this recommendation was approved. By consensus, the board agreed that one roll call vote would be taken and considered the vote on each agenda item nos. 8 through 20 inclusive. The recommendations were individually discussed but acted upon at one time. (The record of board action appears at the end of each item.)

Amendments to University of Illinois Statutes

(8) The campus senates and the University Senates Conference have proposed amendments to the University Statutes Article II (Legislative Organization), Section 3 (Faculty Role in Governance); Article I I I (Colleges, Campuses, and Similar Campus Units), Section 2 (The College); Article IV (Departments); Article V (Graduate Colleges), Section 1 (The Campus Graduate College). The texts of the proposed amendments follow. T h e purpose of the amendments is to make consistent the general definition of the "faculty," found in Article II of the Statutes, with the definitions of "faculty" found in the articles dealing with faculty in the departments and the Graduate College. Further, the proposed amendments would allow the bylaws of an academic unit, which are established and amended by the faculty of the unit, to mandate a minimum percent faculty appointment in the unit for specified faculty privileges, such as voting privileges. The bylaws, by action of the tenured and tenure-track faculty in the unit, may also grant specified faculty privileges, including voting, to members of the academic staff of the unit who are neither tenured nor tenure-track but who have the rank or title of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, or instructor, including clinical, research, adjunct, or visiting titles, and to selected faculty of other units. Under the proposed amendments, the faculty of the Graduate College would be the president, the chancellor, the vice chancellor for academic affairs or equivalent officer, the dean, and all those who on the recommendation of the departments have been approved by the Executive Committee and the dean of the Graduate College to assume appropriate academic responsibilities in programs leading to graduate degrees. The acting vice president for academic affairs has recommended adoption of the following amendments. I concur.

Proposed Amendments to the University of Illinois Statutes

In the text below, words to be deleted are in brackets, and words to be added are in italics. ARTICLE II. Section 3. a. (1) LEGISLATIVE ORGANIZATION for the

FACULTY ROLE IN GOVERNANCE

T h e faculty of the University and any of its units, except