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BOARD OF T R U S T E E S

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Institute for the Study of Developmental Disabilities, beginning September 1, 1980 (1;NY), at an annual salary of $16,500. RENO J. RAMELLA, assistant professor of physical education, beginning September 1, 1980 ( 1 ) , at an annual salary of $18,000. ITALA T . RUTTER, assistant professor of Italian, beginning September 1, 1980 (1), at an annual salary of $17,500. TIMOTHY E. SHANAHAN, assistant professor of education, beginning September 1, 1980 ( 1 ) , at an annual salary of $16,000. UDAY P. SUKHATME, assistant professor of physics, beginning September 1, 1980 (2), at an annual salary of $22,000. HARRIET S. WADESON, associate professor of art and design and director of art therapy program in art and design, beginning September 1, 1980 (A;NY), at an annual salary of $30,000. Administrative Staff

45. BRUCE K. CROWTHER, director of professional services, University of Illinois Hospital, Medical Center, beginning September 1, 1980 ( N Y ) , at an annual salary of $32,000. 46. RICHARD L. DAVIDSON, director of the Center for Education and Research in Genetics, on 50 percent time, and associate professor of genetics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Medical Center, beginning November 1, 1980 (NY50;AY), at an annual salary of $27,500. 47. DAVID LEE SMITH, associate director of Business Affairs, Urbana, beginning September 21, 1980 ( N Y ) , at an annual salary of $34,500. O n m o t i o n of M r . N e a l , these a p p o i n t m e n t s w e r e c o n f i r m e d . Changes in Policy a n d Rules-Nonacademic, Chapter X I I , Disability Benefits (8) A resolution of the Merit Board of the State Universities Civil Service System (approved on June 24, 1970) recommends that all institutions have uniformity in benefits for nonacademic employees. Since that date, benefits have remained approximately the same within the four systems of public higher education in Illinois. However, two systems, Southern Illinois University and the Board of Governors, have improved their sick leave benefit programs so that accumulated sick leave can be used for absence from the job in the case of illness of the spouse, children, or other members of the immediate household. The Administrative Advisory Committee, the Employees' Advisory Committee, and the Personnel Directors' Advisory Committee to the Merit Board recommended that the improved benefits be approved, by resolution, by all systems. T h e Merit Board approved the recommendation by amending its original resolution on June 17, 1980. Adoption of the terms of the amended resolution within the University's Policy and Rules—Nonacademic will not delete any benefits currently enjoyed by Civil Service employees. T h e primary advantage of the expanded benefits will be to provide all such employees the same opportunity to use sick leave where family illness is concerned. T h e proposed change will have a significant positive effect on women employees who heretofore may have carried the burden of lost work time as a result of family illness. It will also equalize the use of sick leave benefits among Civil Service employees of the University of Illinois and employees at other public senior institutions of higher education in Illinois. A second benefit proposed would allow for the restoration of previously earned sick leave and should serve as an incentive to former Civil Service employees who left in good standing to return to the University of Illinois. This change will affect