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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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for election to the Board of Directors of the Athletic Association of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.1 All become effective at the 1986 annual meeting of the Athletic Association Board of Directors (presently scheduled for April 18, 1986) and are to continue for the terms designated or until the successors of these members/directors have been appointed/elected. I concur in the recommendations. From the Faculty JAMES D. ANDERSON, associate professor of educational policy studies DIANE F. CAROTHERS, associate professor of library administration and acting communications librarian From the Alumni Association SUSAN ROESCH, Class of 1972, liberal arts and sciences, Belleville, Illinois From the Student Body JERRY C. GAFFNER, sophomore majoring in agricultural economics O n motion of Mr. Madden, these recommendations were approved. SECRETARY'S REPORT T h e secretary presented for record appointments to the faculty and changes of status made by the president, resignations, leaves of absence, and retirements. A copy of the report is filed with the secretary. ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD President Shepherd called attention to the schedule of meetings for the next three months: April 10, Urbana-Champaign; May 8, Chicago; J u n e 12, Urbana-Champaign. T h e trustees had before them a tentative calendar for 1986-1987 prepared by the secretary. T h e calendar will be presented for final action at the April meeting. There being no further business, the board adjourned.

EARL W.

PORTER

NINA T.

SHEPHERD

Secretary

1

President

The governance of intercollegiate athletics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is vested in the Athletic Board of Control which also serves as the Board of Directors of the Athletic Association of the University of Illinois _ at Urbana-Champaign. The Athletic Board of Control and the Board of Directors of the Athletic Association, as provided in the Bylaws of the Urbana-Champaign Senate and the Bylaws of the Athletic Association consist of nineteen members comprised of the University's faculty representative and alternate faculty representative to the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives (ex-oflbcio, with vote), eight faculty members, five alumni (including the chairman of the University's Alumni Association),_two students, the vice chancellor for administrative affairs (ex officio, without vote), and the university comptroller or designee (tx officio, without vote). Terms are staggered so that each year two faculty members, one alumnus, and one student are proposed for membership. The faculty members and the alumnus are proposed for four-year terms; the student member, for a two-year term. A slate of faculty and student nominations is provided by the Urbana-Champaign Senate, and a slate of alumni is nominated by the Urbana-Champaign Council of the Alumni Association. The chancellor at Urbana-Champaign, in turn, reviews the nominees and presents a list of candidates for consideration by the president of the University and the Board of Trustees.