Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1984 [PAGE 460]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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T h e University of Illinois Statutes require that senate bylaws and amendments thereto be reported to the Board of Trustees. T h e chancellor at Chicago and the vice president for academic affairs concur in the proposed document. The University Senates Conference has advised that no further senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend receipt of the proposed bylaws. This report was received for record. Organization of the Department of Biological Chemistry, College of Medicine, Chicago (8) Under Article IV, Section 4 of the University Statutes, members of a department of the rank of assistant professor and above may vote to change the form of organization of the department. T h e result of the vote must be transmitted to the chancellor by the dean along with his recommendation. The chancellor must then, if the vote favors a change, transmit this recommendation to the president for recommendation to the board. The faculty of the Department of Biological Chemistry in the College of Medicine at the Chicago campus has voted 13 to 9 in favor of a change in organization from the present headship organization to a chairpersonship organization. The dean of the College of Medicine has indicated that retaining the headship form of organization is necessary to ensure the continued enhancement of quality in the department. The dean, therefore, has transmitted the result of the vote to the chancellor, with his recommendation that the organization not be changed. The vice chancellor for health affairs, the chancellor, and the vice president for academic affairs endorse the dean's recommendation. I recommend that the organization of the Department of Biological Chemistry at Chicago not be changed. The board received comment on this matter from Dr. Henry Jeffay, professor of biochemistry in the College of Medicine at Chicago, an appearance (on behalf of the advisory committee of the department) approved by the president of the board. Dr. Jeffay expressed the opposition of certain members of the department to the action recommended, reviewing difficulties in the department in recent years under its present administration. Also before the board was a petition from the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Health Sciences Center in support of the majority of the faculty of the department. Comment was received from administrative officers involved — in particular, the dean of the College of Medicine, Dr. Phillip Forman. T h e trustees were advised that the problems within the department are being addressed with the hope of alleviating them, and apart from the question of the formal organization of the department. O n motion of M r . H o w a r d , the recommendation was approved as presented. By consensus, the board agreed that one vote would be taken and considered the vote on each agenda item nos. 9 through 17 inclusive. T h e recommendations were individually discussed but acted upon at one time. (The record of board action appears at the end of each item.) Change in Departmental Organization, Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine at Rockford (9) T h e faculty of the Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine at Rockford, has requested a change from the present chairperson organization to a headship form of departmental organization, effective February 1, 1984.