Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944 [PAGE 1100]

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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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with a head, he shall consult with the other members of the departmental staff who are on indefinite tenure; that is to say the associate and full professors. During the first year of the administration of President Chase he wrote a letter to the University Senate asking that it devote its attention to the making of a "comprehensive study of the general educational organization and administration of the University." The Senate went to work on its task at its meeting on December 1, 1930, by appointing a Committee of Nine to make the study and present it for the Senate's consideration. The Committee of Nine set up fifteen subcommittees to work on various aspects of the problem and itself set to work on the revision and amplification of the University Statutes. The Committee worked throughout the remainder of the academic year 1930-31. The proposed Statutes were submitted to the Senate during the spring of 1931 as the Committee of Nine completed sections of its work. Subsequently, at meetings of the Board of Trustees in September and November of 1931 and May of 1932 these Statutes were approved. From time to time there have been efforts to permit a larger opportunity to members of the faculty of less than full professorial rank in the formulation of educational policies. For example, one of the original recommendations of the Senate Committee of Nine (charged among other things with the redrafting of the University Statutes) was that the University Senate membership be expanded to include assistant and associate professors. For this proposal, however, to get before the President and hence to the Board of Trustees, it was necessary for the Senate (composed of full professors) to approve the recommendation. This approval was not forthcoming. The Commission has interviewed a number of individuals of less than full professorial rank and has conferred with persons formerly on the faculty of the University of Illinois and with administrative officers at the University. It has heard opinions on both sides of the issue. Some administrators have expressed themselves as being in favor of representation on the University Senate for assistant and associate professors. Most of the persons of less than full professorial rank interviewed by the Commission have been of the same opinion.

[A.C.E. Report—79]