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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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with a list of the subjects to be considered, shall be mailed to nil members at least five days before the meeting. Only subjects 3poeifically listed in the notice of a special meeting may be considered at that meeting. A quorum for any regular or special meeting of any Senate shall consist of one third of the total member ship of that Senate or fifty members, whichever is the smaller number. (.c) {g} Except as otherwise provided in these Statutes, each Senate shall determine for its campus requirements for admission to the ocvcral colleges, schools, and other teaching divisions, general requirements for degrees and ecr tificatco, questions of educational policy, relations between colleges, schools, and other teaching divisions, changes in the amount, character, or quality of work required for admission to the colleges, schools and other teaching divisions, and changes in the total number of hours required for degrees or certificates, matters of educational policy including but not limited to: requirements for admission to the several colleges, schools and other teaching divisions; general requirements for degrees and certificates; relations between colleges, schools and other teaching divisions; the academic calendar; and educational policy on student affairs. Neither the powers conferred on the several Senates by this paragraph-(g)- (c) nor the powers conferred by paragraph-(e)- (b) of this Section shall extend to matters over which the college is given jurisdiction by Section 5 (c). (d) -(*)• T h e Senates at Urbana Champaign and at the Chicago Professional Colleges shall recommend candidates for degrees, diplomas, and certificates to be conferred by the President under the authority of the Board of Trustees. (e) H-r No new line of work involving questions of general educational policy shall be established on any campus except upon approval of the Senate concerned and except as elsewhere provided in these Statutes. (f) -rh)- Each Senate may propose amendments to these Statutes through the University Senates Conference Senate Coordinating Council to the President and the Board of Trustees as provided in Section 65. (1) Each Senate shall establish rulc3 of procedure in accordance with which it shall elect annually by ballot from its membership a Committee on Committees. Upon nomination made by this Committee after consultation with the President, in the case of the Urbana Champaign Senate, or with the Vice President in Charge, in the case of each Chicago campus Senate, each Senate shall elect committees on educational policy, academic freedom and tenure, University calcn dar, the library, student discipline, student affairs, and 3uch other standing com mittees as it may from time to time authorize. T h e Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure at each campus shall be elected by the respective Senate upon nomination made in the manner hereinbefore described in this paragraph and shall consist of at least five members of the faculty other than dcan3 or di rectors, with no more than two members from any one college, school, institute, division, or other administrative unit. The chairman of the Senate committees on educational policy, academic freedom and tenure, library, and of such other committees as the three Senates may designate, shall be members of the cor responding committees of the other Senates. (n) Any action of any Senate involving matters of University wide policy, or proposals to amend the University Statutes, shall be submitted by the Senate Coordinating Council to the other Senates for consideration and recommenda^ tion. (g) Each Senate shall adopt by-laws which shall govern, except as otherwise provided in these Statutes, its procedures and practices, including such matters as committee structure and duties, calling of meetings and establishment of agenda and selection of officers. The by-laws of each Senate shall provide for committees or other bodies to exercise those statutory duties specified in other sections of these Statutes, e.g., academic freedom and tenure; student discipline; and student affairs. The by-laws, and any changes thereto, shall be reported to the Board of Trustees through the Chancellor and the President. (h) After it has been approved by the Board of Trustees, this statutory change (providing for Senate constitution and by-laws, and deleting the sections on the organization and procedure of the Senate) shall take effect on each campus at such time as the Board of Trustees approves a Senate constitution for that campus. ( N O T E : Old Subsection ( h ) , dealing with the Committee on Student Discipline,