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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1984
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1983] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 301 or other educational unit; separate elections will be conducted by the clerk or secretary of the Chicago campus Senate as currently provided. Pending further action by the Board of Trustees, the two existing graduate colleges and research boards will retain respective current jurisdictions, functions, and responsibilities as provided in Article V of the University of Illinois Statutes. Also pending further action, each campus library will remain as a separate unit and its respective director and archivist will continue to have the duties and responsibilities identified in Article VI of the University of Illinois Statutes and in Section 4 of Article V of the General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure. It is understood that in each of the above areas, progress toward full consolidation will continue. T h e chancellor will report periodically to the president and the Board of Trustees on the status of progress in each of these areas. On motion of Mr. Stone, this recommendation was approved. Amendments to Senate Constitution and Bylaws (18) The University of Illinois Statutes provide that amendments to the constitutions of the senates take effect upon adoption by the senate concerned and approval thereof by the Board of Trustees. Changes in senate bylaws are reported to the board. Proposed amendments to the constitution of the Urbana-Champaign Senate are presented below for the action of the Board of Trustees. 1 Article I I — Faculty Representation (approved January 17, 1983) Section 1 . . . Provided, that [heads or chairpersons of departments, or] executive officers of departments or comparable units, and assistant or associate executive officers of such units, who are otherwise eligible, shall not be excluded from the faculty electorate because they hold administrative appointments in excess of one-half time. Article II — Faculty Representation (approved April 11, 1983) Section 4 A voting unit having seven members of the faculty electorate is entitled to elect one senator from its membership. For each 12 members of the faculty electorate over the initial seven, it shall elect an additional senator. Prior to each election [following the first election under this Constitution], the Senate shall adjust the numbers 7 and 12, or either of them, up or down one or more whole numbers, or retain the numbers 7 and 12, or either of them, as the case may be, in order to ensure that after such election the total number of senators from the faculty electorate shall be as close to 200 as possible. Section 8 Senators shall be elected for two-year terms commencing at the beginning of the next academic year. Provision shall be made for staggered terms so that approximately half the Senate will be elected each year. [In the first election under this Constitution, the terms of senators may be longer or shorter then provided above as necessary to place the Senate on a cycle beginning with the start of the academic year.] Article V — General Provisions (approved April 11, 1983) Section 9 Periodically the Senate shall provide for a comprehensive review of its 1 New language is in italics; deletions are in brackets.
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