Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944 [PAGE 1096]

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U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S

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duties of the dean. It must be understood that the college organization is only for convenience within University circles, and that no college shall take action not well supported by rule or usage for which the general officers of the University may be called upon to answer. All matters of general policy, or matters involving the interests of outside parties, must be determined by general University authority." No change was made in the revised statutes issued in December 1926, with reference to the college faculty other than the insertion of the statement "nor shall it take action rendering nugatory any action of the University Senate." 25 About ten years later, in the Statutes approved March 10, 1936, it is provided: The [college] faculty shall consist of the President, the dean and the assistant dean of the college, and all professors, associate professors, assistant professors, associates and instructors within the group it comprises, together with a representative of each such other department or group as may be entitled to representation by virtue of participation in the program of instruction in the college, and finally such other officers of the University as the President may assign thereto.88 No change has been made in the jurisdiction of the college over its own educational affairs. The current Statutes also state that "the college shall have the fullest measure of autonomy consistent with the maintenance of general University educational policy and correct academic and administrative relations with other divisions of the University." The Statutes of 1936 further provide: There shall be an executive committee of two or more members, composed of or selected from the professors and associate professors in the college, elected annually by the faculty, to advise the dean in the administration of the college and to transact such business as may be delegated to it by the faculty. The dean shall be ex officio member and chairman of this committee." The executive committee is the only committee prescribed by the University Statutes for the college. In actual practice, however, most of the colleges of the University have, in addition to their executive committees, certain other standing committees, chief among which is the college policy committee. There are other standing committees found in the ""Revision of University Statutes," December 28, 1908. Transactions of the Board of Trustees, University of Illinois. Vol. 8, p. 62. "See University of Illinois Statutes, December 1926, p. 5. "See University of Illinois Statutes, March 10, 1936, p. 3. "Ibid.

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