Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1984 [PAGE 28]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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The chancellors at the Urbana-Champaign and Chicago Circle campuses have recommended approval. The executive vice president concurs. I recommend approval.

On motion of Dr. Donoghue, this recommendation was approved.

Change in Practice in Assessment and Waiver of Service Fee for Academic Staff (Report for Information)

(21) A recommendation granting tuition waivers to all academic staff who hold 25 percent appointments or greater was approved by the Board of Trustees in October 1981. Under present practice, service fees are assessed, then waived, for academic staff who take advantage of such tuition waivers — allowing such staff members access to the services supported by the service fee. Because the change in tuition waiver policy has resulted in increased use of such waivers, additional pressures on service fee-supported operations may result. Although the waiver of the service fee seems appropriate for graduate assistants, it does not appear desirable for other categories of academic staff members. T h e executive vice president has recommended that academic staff members (except graduate assistants) who qualify for tuition waivers be exempt from the service fee. Under this practice, such staff members will not have access to the benefits provided by the fee unless they wish to pay for them as do other faculty and staff who wish to gain access to these services. I concur in this recommendation.

On motion of Dr. Donoghue, this recommendation was approved. Revision of the Genera/ Rules Concerning University

Organization and Procedure (Article III, Section 4, Retirement, Death, Survivor, and Disability Benefits)

(22) In October 1980, the Board of Trustees approved a change in the University's Policy and Rules-Nonacademic to allow use of accumulated sick leave by employees in the case of illness of their spouses, children, or other members of their immediate household. It was indicated that the change would have a significant positive effect, especially on women employees who heretofore may have carried the burden of lost work time as a result of family illness. T h e three senates have proposed that a change be made in the General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure to provide an analogous benefit for members of the academic staff. T o implement such a change, the University Senates Conference has developed the following addition to Article I I I , Section 4 ( c ) of the General Rules (new language is in italics): (c) Disability Benefits: T h e University of Illinois provides disability benefits as follows: (1) Nonacademic Employees. Leave is granted with full pay for disability in amount and in accordance with eligibility criteria set forth in the Policy and Rules Relating to Compensation and Working Conditions. (2) Academic or Administrative Staff. Noncumulative leave is granted with full pay for disability in each year of service, including the first, of fifteen work days. In addition, a staff member is eligible for extended disability leave of ten work days with full pay for each year of service, the unused portion of