Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1960 [PAGE 302]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Membership in the Center shall be open to the most distinguished, most productive, and most widely recognized scholars at the University of Illinois. The members shall receive annual salaries comparable to the best professorial salaries in American universities. Nominations for membership may be made to the Dean of the Graduate College by any faculty member. Selection of candidates shall be made by the Dean in consultation with an advisory selection committee. It is recommended that the first three members be chosen from the current staff of the University; thereafter other scholars, whether then associated with the University or not may be nominated for membership and, if necessary, appointment to the University. Members chosen from the University faculty shall continue to be listed in the budgets of their departments. Additional funds required to bring their salaries to the level chosen shall be carried in the budget of the Center as a unit of the Graduate College. A member shall retain his status in his own department. By negotiation with the head or chairman of his department and the Dean of the Graduate College, and with the concurrence of the appropriate undergraduate dean, he may reduce the amount of his classroom teaching, committee work, advising, and the like, in order to devote a larger portion of his time to research. If the relinquishing of such duties by a member requires that the department obtain additional funds for the continuance of its teaching activities, such funds may be provided by the budget of the Center. Associate Members. Associate members shall be appointed for one-year or two-year terms by the Board of Trustees on recommendation of the President. Application for associate membership may be made by any member of the faculty to the Dean of the Graduate College, who, after consultation with the Executive Committee, shall make his recommendations to the President. By negotiation with the head or chairman of his department and the Dean of the Graduate College, and with the concurrence of the appropriate undergraduate dean, an associate member may be freed of all teaching duties except, if he remains on the campus, the direction of graduate theses, in order that he may devote himself more fully to research. An applicant for associate membership may request extension of his appointment through the summer following an academic year in the Center at the standard rate of two-ninths of the annual salary. Funds necessary for the employment of a replacement for an associate member, as well as any summer compensation for the associate member, shall be provided in the budget of the Center. T h e amount of annual compensation received by a faculty member shall not necessarily be changed by his becoming an associate member. Scholars from other locations may be appointed as associate members. Such appointments may be used to bring visitors to assist in established research programs, to bring creative artists to the campus, to bring distinguished scholars to departments in advance of vacancies arising from faculty retirements, and for such other purposes as the Executive Committee may approve. Nominations of off-campus candidates shall be routed by department heads and chairmen to the Dean of the Graduate College. Salaries paid to such appointees shall be carried in the budget of the Center. Associate members may request reappointment, but no individual may be granted associate membership for more than three consecutive years. The members and associate members will meet together at regular intervals to be determined by the Executive Committee. Special meetings may be called at the discretion of the Executive Committee. The budget of the Center will be part of the Graduate College budget. It is hoped that the Center will attract financial support from agencies outside the University to provide endowed chairs and other support for members and associate members. GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (7) The faculty of the College of Commerce and Business Administration, the Executive Committee of the Graduate College, and the Urbana Senate recommend establishment of a Graduate School of Business Administration within the Graduate College to provide professional training designed for students with baccalaureate degrees in fields other than commerce as well as for students with