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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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presently Director of Planning Research and Services, Communications Satellite Corporation, Washington, D. C , as Professor of Systems Engineering on indefinite tenure, and Head of the Department of Systems Engineering, beginning April 1, 1971, on an academic year service basis, at an annual salary of $27,000. The nomination of Dr. Engel is supported by the Consultative Committee for the Headship of the Department 1 and by the faculty of the Department of Systems Engineering. T h e Chancellor, the Vice Chancellor and Dean of Faculties, and the Dean of the Graduate College have approved the recommendation. The Executive Vice President and Provost concurs. I recommend approval.

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

HEADSHIP OF THE DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY. MEDICAL CENTER (7) T h e Dean of T h e Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine and the Executive Dean of the College of Medicine have recommended to the Chancellor at the Medical Center campus the appointment of Dr. Oscar Sugar, presently Professor of Neurosurgery, as Professor of Neurosurgery on indefinite tenure, and Head of the Department beginning March 1, 1971, on a twelve-month service basis, at an annual salary of $36,000 for eighty per cent of full time. Dr. Sugar will succeed Dr. Eric Oldberg who would have retired from University service on August 31, 1970, but who remained as Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at the request of the University. Dr. Oldberg will continue as Professor of Neurosurgery until August 31, 1971, when he will retire. On November 13, 1969, the Board of Trustees approved a recommendation to reorganize the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery of the College of Medicine into a Department of Neurology and a Department of Neurosurgery, to be effective September 1, 1970. The Illinois Board of Higher Education approved the establishment of the separate departments on February 3, 1970. T h e appointment of Dr. Sugar is to fill the headship of one of the newly established departments. A recommendation to appoint a person to the headship of the Department of Neurology will be presented to the Board at a subsequent meeting. The nomination of Dr. Sugar is made with the advice of a search committee 1 and after consultation with all members of the faculty of the Department of Neurosurgery of the rank of assistant professor and above. The Executive Vice President and Provost and the Chancellor at the Medical Center campus concur. I recommend approval.

On motion of Dr. Walker, this appointment was approved.

APPOINTMENTS TO T H E FACULTY (8) 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. Positions in the University are classified in the following categories and are designated in the budget by the symbols indicated: A — indefinite t e n u r e ; P — indefinite term appointment for part-time service only; B — two years; D — one year; E — nine months from the beginning of the academic year; F — one-year appointment ending other than August 3 1 ; G — special tenure; Q — initial term appointment for a Professor or Associate Professor; T — terminal appointment, accompanied with or preceded by notice of non-reappointment; W — one-year appointment subject to special written agreement; Y — twelve months' service required instead of two semesters; X — percentages opposite X are for the aca1 George Bugliarello, Dean, College of Engineering, Chairman; G. C. Agarwal, Associate Professor, Systems Engineering; Brian Gluss, Professor of Quantitative Methods; Ronald W. Lodewyck, Instructor, Systems Engineering; Francis A. Mosillo, Assistant Professor, General Engineering in Systems Engineering and Acting Assistant Head of the Department; Nancy L. Nihan, Assistant Professor, Systems Engineering; William D. O'Neill, Associate Professor, Systems Engineering; S. E. Shapiro, Professor, General Engineering in Systems Engineering; H. A. Simon, Associate Professor of Heat Transfer in Energy Engineering. 3 Armand Liftman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Chairman; Richard E. Behrman, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics; John S. Garvin, M.D., Clinical Professor of Neurology; Michael Terva, M.D., Acting Director of Medical Education, Mercy Hospital; William Schumer, M.D., Professor of Surgery; John Sandeen, Junior Medical Student.