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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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REGIONAL PROGRAM IN SAFETY EDUCATION (2) In the summer of 1938 a Center for Safety Education, supported by an annual grant from the National Conservation Bureau, was established in the Division of General Education of New York University. T h e National Conservation Bureau is an agency of the Association of Casualty and Surety Executives. Heretofore a part of this grant has been used to provide fellowships and scholarships in Safety Education at New York University. In developing its program the Center for Safety Education is planning to establish several regional programs in safety education to be conducted during the summer of 1940 in cooperation with universities in the south, west, and mid-west. The University of Illinois has been invited to cooperate in setting up the midwestern regional program. This will be an intensive short course covering two weeks from July I to 13, 1940. T h e Center for Safety Education will provide a staff of instructors and will pay all instructional costs. It will also grant at least twenty scholarships which will cover the full cost of tuition for the course. Enrollment therein will also be open to a limited number of others. Registrants will be required to devote full time to the course (48 hours to classroom lectures and demonstrations, and 36 hours to library, field, and laboratory w o r k ) . They cannot therefore be registered in the summer session of the University, but administratively the program can be integrated with that of the summer session. It is expected that this program will be of interest to teachers in the schools of this area who are conducting or supervising classes in safety education. I recommend: (1) the acceptance of this proposal and of such funds as may be received to cover the expenses of the p r o g r a m ; (2) the establishment of the necessary fees to cover the cost of instruction; (3) the program to be under the general administration of the Director of the Summer Session; (4) all income from fees and other sources to be placed in a special fund to be used for defraying the expenses of this program. O n m o t i o n of M r . M o s c h e l , t h i s p r o p o s a l w a s a c c e p t e d u n d e r t h e conditions recommended. LEAVES OF ABSENCE ON ACCOUNT OF DISABILITY (3) Recently I have had occasion to consider a number of questions relating to the practice of the University of Illinois in granting leaves of absence on account of disability to members of the staff on full pay or part pay. The number of these cases in the past few years indicates that a review of the University's practice and the formulation of a definite policy are in order. In general, it has been the practice that when a member of the staff is absent on account of illness and the department concerned carries on his work by distributing it among his colleagues without additional expense to the University, his salary has been paid in full. In other words, his colleagues are making the contribution, not the University. W h e n a colleague suffers misfortune, all of us naturally want to give him as much aid .as circumstances permit, and the Board of Trustees has heretofore taken a very liberal attitude in granting such leaves. On the other hand, the University's interests as well as those of various individuals must be considered, and we are in duty bound to see that members of the staff who are carrying the work of an absentee in addition to their own are not unduly burdened or for too long a period. After careful study of this problem and inquiry concerning the practices of other institutions made by the Comptroller, I recommend adoption of the following policy specifying the terms under which leaves of absence on account of disability, applying to all groups, may be granted: If a member of the faculty, administrative, clerical, stenographic, mechanical, or labor staffs shall become disabled while in the employment of and in the active service of the University, other than through an accident compensable in accordance with the provisions of the State Workmen's Compensation Act, a leave of absence with pay may be granted as follows: (1) A member of the instructional or scientific staff, or a person in an administrative position of major responsibility, may be allowed leave so long