Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1982 [PAGE 24]

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To the Rank of Assistant Professor Research Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Instructor Total

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

13 General University Total 2 (0) 36 (34) 1 (0) 2 ( 1 ) (2) 7 (0) 241 (203)

Chicago Circle (1)

Medical UrbanaCenter Champaign 31 (30) 3 (3) 1 (0) 2(1) (2) 82 (68) 125 (108)

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The recommendations have been prepared in accord with provisions of the University of Illinois Statutes. Each campus has established formal procedures for the initiation, review, and approval of recommendations for academic promotion. T h e vice president for academic affairs recommends approval of the recommendations as submitted. I concur.

Amendment of Article III, Section 1, Genera/ Rules: Terms of Employment of Academic and Administrative Staff

(14) In December 1975, the Board of Trustees approved the addition to the General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure of a provision for notice of termination of academic professional employees. With certain exceptions noted below, under that provision, such employees are entitled to six months notice of nonreappointment until they have completed four years employment and one year's notice thereafter. Academic professional employees whose appointments noted that they were subject to receipt of funds were, under the 1975 provision, to be given at least sixty days notice of nonreappointment. It was further provided, however, that a report be sent to the board, after two years of experience with this provision, on the feasibility of providing additional protection for long-term "soft money" employees. The question has been studied for approximately three years, focused for the most part on the potential financial liability of the University which might be incurred by such a change. The executive vice president has reported that the cost to the University, even under simultaneous loss of all grant and contract money, would not be a great financial burden. The University Senates Conference has been consulted on this matter and, while concurring in the recommendation, has further recommended the inclusion, under this provision, of other staff members who are now dealt with in the University Statutes. The Conference's recommendation will require analysis, and I am asking the University Planning Council to make such an analysis. I will then report to the University Senates Conference and to the Board of Trustees. For the present, therefore, I recommend that Article I I I , Section 1, of the General Rules, be amended as indicated in the following, effective with the beginning of the 1980-81 academic year at each campus.

Amendment, Article III, Section l(n) General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure1

(n) The following rules shall apply to the nonreappointment of full-time University employees for whom Article X, Section 1, of the University Statutes contains no statement governing notice of nonreappointment, [or] and for whom the rules of the University Civil Service System are inapplicable (academic professional employees): (1) Except as provided in (2) below, written notice of nonreappointment

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New language is in italics; deleted material is in brackets.