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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April 19

Environmental Affairs, PLATO, Health Sciences; the Councils on Graduate Education and Research, Urban Programs, Health Sciences; University School and College Relations; Survey Research Laboratory. The changes proposed are not meant to finalize such assignments nor to preclude necessary review of the composition of various University councils and committees. I have consulted the Executive Committee of the University Senates Conference and report their concurrence in the appointment. It is understood that certain amendments to the University Statutes will be required, and I will take the necessary steps to initiate these changes. O n motion of M r . Forsyth, this position was authorized and the appointment was approved.

RETIREMENT O F VICE PRESIDENT PARKER AND APPOINTMENT OF VICE PRESIDENT FOR GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS AND PUBLIC SERVICE

(4) Dr. Norman A. Parker, Vice President for Public Service, has indicated his intention to retire effective August 31, 1972. He has served the University with distinction for 26 years, as professor and head of the mechanical engineering department at Urbana, as Chairman of the University Building Program Committee and of the interim committee on planning for the Chicago Undergraduate Division, as Vice President of that Division, and as the first chancellor of the Chicago Circle campus. In view of Dr. Parker's long identification with the development of Chicago Circle, and in the light of his own preference, I recommend that he be designated Chancellor Emeritus of the Chicago Circle campus effective September 1, 1972. With Vice President Parker's retirement, it is timely to consider the merging of the present positions of Vice President and Vice President for Public Service into a single office that will serve to combine important elements of both the present positions. Therefore, I recommend such a combination, to establish an Office of Vice President for Governmental Relations and Public Service, and that Vice President Eldon Johnson be appointed Vice President for Governmental Relations and Public Service, effective September 1, 1972. I have consulted the Executive Committee of the University Senates Conference and report their concurrence in the appointment.

On motion of Mr. Hahn, this position was authorized and the appointment was approved.

REDESIGNATION, OFFICE OF VICE PRESIDENT AND COMPTROLLER AND RELATED OFFICES

(5) I recommend that the Office of the Vice President and Comptroller be redesignated the Office of Financial Affairs, and that the executive of the office, Herbert O. Farber, be designated Vice President for Financial Affairs.1 The functions of this office, although cast in somewhat different form in the document, "Administrative Functions and Reorganization," would not differ substantially from the description provided in the University Statutes. Hence, no substantive statutory amendment, only minor changes, will be required. I would further recommend that the Office of Director of Physical Plant Planning and Construction be renamed the University Office of Capital Programs; that the director, Vernon L. Kretschmer, be given the title of Director for Capital Programs, and that the director and the staff of the office be made a component part of the Office of Financial Affairs, with the Director reporting to the Vice President for Financial Affairs. Finally, present administrative job descriptions would indicate that the University Director of Nonacademic Personnel reports to the President of the University. In practice, this officer has worked most directly with the Vice President for

1 For many years, the chief financial officer of the University has been elected by the Trustees as Comptroller of the Board. It is assumed that this would continue to be the practice.