Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1960 [PAGE 945]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

942

BOARD O F T R U S T E E S

[ S e p t e m b e r 16 (Chicago)

CLARENCE LESLIE TUPPER, J R .

STANLEY JOSEPH WCISLO

(Evanston)

EDWIN WESSEL UTAY (Skokie) G E N E P A U L U T L E Y (Chicago) F R A N K J A Y V A N OVERSTRAETEN

IRWIN WEINER (Calumet City)

ROBERT HAROLD W H I T E (Chicago) HAZARD CLARKE W H I T M O R E (Evanston)

(Blue Island)

DONALD J O H N W A L L N E R ( P a r k Ridge) RUSSELL J A M E S W A R D (Arlington

BERNARD WICZER (Chicago)

IRVIN E D W I N WILLIAMSON ROBERT CLARENCE W O J C I K (Evanston) (Berwyn)

Heights)

LINCOLN J. WOODYARD (Charleston)

I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . J o h n s t o n , t h e s e c e r t i f i c a t e s w e r e a w a r d e d . HEADSHIP O F DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY (2) T h e Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recommended the appointment of D r . Louis Schneider, presently Professor of Sociology at Purdue University, as Professor of Sociology on indefinite tenure and as Head of the Department beginning March 1, i960, at an annual salary rate of $15,000 on "A" basis. Dr. Schneider is presently on leave of absence from Purdue, having accepted an appointment as Visiting Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College for the academic year 1959-60, but Dartmouth is willing to release him from this assignment at the end of its second quarter in March. Professor Schneider was unanimously recommended for this appointment by a special search committee which conducted an exhaustive study of the qualifications of a long list of candidates over a period of several months. Members of the Department of professorial rank were subsequently consulted as required by the University Statutes. The Vice-President and Provost and the Dean of the Graduate College join in the recommendation of this appointment. The Department of Sociology has voted in favor of a change in departmental organization from the present organization under a chairman to a department organized with a head. T h e Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recommends this change effective as of March 1, i960, and that Professor J. E. Hulett be reappointed Chairman for the period September 1, 1959, to March 1, i960. Professor Hulett, who has served as Chairman since 1953, asked to be relieved of the chairmanship at the end of the academic year 1958-59, but he is willing to continue serving as Chairman for the interim period indicated. H e will be on sabbatical leave during the second semester. I have approved the appointment of Professor Schneider and request confirmation of my action. I also concur in the recommendation for the change in departmental organization.

On motion of Mr. Swain, this appointment was approved.

APPOINTMENTS TO THE FACULTY (3) T h e following new appointments to the faculty of the rank of Assistant Professor and above, and involving tenure, have been approved since the previous meeting of the Board of Trustees. 1. JACK LAWRENCE ALBRIGHT, Assistant Professor of Dairy Husbandry, beginning September 1, 1959, at an annual salary of $7,35o ( B Y ) . 2. JAMES E. AMBROSE, Assistant Professor of Architecture, beginning September 1, x 959, at an annual salary of $7,000 ( B ) . 3. KURT E . M. BAIER, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, for the second semester of 1959-60, at a salary of $4,800 ( D ) . 4. GERTRUDE L E A N N BORCHERS, Assistant Professor of Home Economics, beginning September 1, 1959, at an annual salary of $7,350 ( D Y ) . 5. HARRINGTON C. BREARLEY, JR., Research Assistant Professor in the Digital Computer Laboratory and in the Department of Electrical Engineering, beginning September 1, 1959, at an annual salary of $10,400 ( B Y ) . 6. K E I T H OLIVER CAMPBELL, Visiting Professor of Agricultural Economics, on one-half time, for the first semester of 1959-60, at a salary of $3,500 (G50). 7. ZANE B. CAROTHERS, Assistant Professor of Botany, beginning September 1, !959, at an annual salary of $6,000 ( B ) . 8. GERHARD JOHN CHRISTENSON, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Extension and Assistant State Leader of Farm Advisers in County Farm Extension, beginning September 1, 1959, at an annual salary of $9,000 ( D Y ) .