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1986]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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REGULAR AGENDA

The board considered die following reports and recommendations from the president of the University. By consensus, die board agreed diat one vote would be taken and considered the vote on each agenda item nos. 5 through 13 inclusive. The recommendations were individually discussed but acted upon at one time. (The record of board action appears at the end of each item.)

Award of Certified Public Accountant Certificates

(5) The Committee on Accountancy recommends that the certificate of certified public accountant be awarded to 1,031 candidates who passed the uniform written examination on November 6-8, 1985, in Illinois and who have fulfilled all other legal requirements under Sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Illinois Public Accounting Act of 1983. The names of the candidates are filed with the secretary. The Committee on Accountancy recommends that the certificate of certified public accountant be awarded under Section 5 of the Illinois Public Accountancy Act of 1983 to eight candidates who have presented evidence that they are holders of valid and unrevoked certified public accountant certificates obtained by passing the uniform written examination in another state or territory of the United States and who qualify in all other respects under this provision. The names of the candidates are filed with the secretary. I concur in these recommendations.

On motion of Mr. Howard, these certificates were awarded.

Head, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Chicago

(6) The chancellor at the Chicago campus has recommended the appointment of Dr. Simon Silver of Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, as professor of microbiology and immunology on indefinite tenure and head of the department in the College of Medicine at Chicago, beginning July 1, 1986, on a twelve-month service basis at an annual salary of $85,000. Dr. Silver will succeed Dr. Sheldon Dray who resigned from the headship in 1980. Dr. Harvard Reiter has served as interim head since 1983. This recommendation is made with the advice of a search committee1 and after consultation with the members of the department. The vice president for academic affairs concurs. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . H o w a r d , this a p p o i n t m e n t was approved.

Head, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, College of Medicine, Chicago

(7) The chancellor at the Chicago campus has recommended the appointment of Dr. Ernest R. Griffith of Phoenix, Arizona, as professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation on indefinite tenure and head of the department in the College of Medicine at Chicago, beginning May 1, 1986, on a twelve-month service basis at an annual salary of $120,000.

1 Robert L. Perlman, professor of physiology and biophysics and head of the department, chair; Barry Byrne, student (through June 1984;; Tapas Das Gupta, professor of surgery; Richard Davidson, Benjamin J. Goldberg Professor in the Center for Genetics and director of the center; Thomas Henderson, professor of Biological chemistry; George G. Jackson, Keeton Professor of Medicine: Katherine Knight, professor of microbiology and immunology; Abel L. Robertson, Jr., professor of pathology and head of the department; John L. Skosey, professor of medicine.