Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1986 [PAGE 434]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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with appropriate academic and administrative relations with other divisions of the University. In questions of doubt concerning the proper limits of this autonomy, the school may appeal directly to the dean and the Executive Committee of the college and shall be entitled to appeal subsequently to the Chancellor. (3) An Executive Committee selected according to the bylaws of the school shall be the primary advisory body to the director of the school. The director is ex officio a member and chair of the Committee. The Executive Committee shall advise the director on the formulation and execution of school policies and, unless otherwise provided by the faculty of the school, on appointments, reappointments, nonreappointments, or promotions. It shall advise the director on the preparation of the budget. The Committee shall provide for the orderly voicing of suggestions for the good of the school, recommend procedures and committees that will encourage faculty participation in formulating policy, and perform such other tasks as may be assigned to it by the faculty of the school. Any faculty member shall be entitled to a conference with the Executive Committee or with any member of it on any matter properly within the purview of the Committee. If the Committee is in session to prepare its advice on appointment of the director, or to review the director's performance, the director shall not be a member and the Committee shall be chaired by a Committee member elected by the Committee for that purpose. (4) Departments within a school shall be governed as specified in Article IV. Other subunits shall be governed by regulations set forth in the school bylaws. (5) Executive officers of departments or subunits of a school shall be evaluated in a manner to be determined by the faculty of the school and college. (6) An intermediate unit within a college, such as an institute, center, hospital, or laboratory, shall be governed as stated in the bylaws of the college. Sec. 5. The Dean or Director of a School or Similar Campus Unit a. [The chief executive officer of the] In a school or similar campus unit [organized as an independent unit] independent of a college, the chief executive officer shall be a dean or director, appointed annually by the Board of Trustees, on the recommendation of the Chancellor and the President. On the occasion of each recommendation, the Chancellor shall [obtain] seek the advice of the Executive Committee of the faculty concerned. Within the school or similar campus unit the duties of a director or a dean shall be the same as those of the dean of a college. The performance of the dean or director shall be evaluated at least cnce every five years[. As one component of this evaluation, views sha'l be solicited from the entire faculty of the school or similar campus unit.] in a manner to be determined by the faculty of the unit. b. [The chief executive officer of] In a school or similar campus unit included within a college, the chief executive officer shall be a [dean or] director appointed annually by the Board of Trustees on the recommendation of the dean of the college, the Chancellor and the President. On the occasion of each recommendation, the [Chancellor] dean shall [obtain] seek the advice of the faculty concerned. [This officer's duties shall be analogous to those for the dean of a college.] The director shall (1) call meetings of the school faculty to consider questions of school and subunit governance and educational policy at such times as the director or the Executive Committee may deem necessary, but not less frequently than once in each