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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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adequately suggest the full range of University-wide responsibilities which this office must increasingly exercise — under the general jurisdiction of the Executive Vice-President and Provost. Accordingly, with the concurrence of the three chancellors and other administrative officers concerned, the Executive Vice-President and Provost recommends that the title "Director of the University Office of School and College Relations" be used after August 31, 1968, instead of "University Dean of Admissions and and Records." No essential change in the duties or administrative relationships specified in Section 47(a) of the Statutes is contemplated. The Executive Vice-President and Provost recommends further that Dr. E. Eugene Oliver be appointed to the position of Director of the University Office of School and College Relations, effective September 1, 1968, at an annual salary of $23,700. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . J o n e s , t h e c h a n g e in t h e title of t h i s p o s i t i o n w a s authorized and the appointment was approved.

DEANSHiP OF COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, URBANA

(5) I recommend the appointment of Dr. Daniel C. Drucker, presently Professor of Engineering and L. Herbert Ballou University Professor at Brown University, as Dean of the College of Engineering at Urbana, beginning November 15, 1968, at an annual salary of $32,000 on a twelve-month service basis. I also recommend that Dr. Drucker be appointed Professor of Civil Engineering on indefinite tenure. The recommendation is based upon a report from a Consultative Committee and follows consultation with the Executive Committee of the College. The appointment of Dr. Drucker will fill the vacancy which will be created by the retirement of Dean William L. Everitt at the end of the current academic year. The Executive Vice-President and Provost, the Chancellor at Urbana, and the Dean of the Graduate College endorse this recommendation. O n m o t i o n of M r . H a h n , t h i s a p p o i n t m e n t w a s a p p r o v e d . HEADSHIP OF DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY, MEDICAL CENTER (6) The Dean of the College of Medicine recommends the appointment of Dr. Ralph M. Wynn, presently Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Downstate Medical Center of the State University of New York, Brooklyn, as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology on indefinite tenure and Head of the Department beginning October 1, 1968, at an annual salary of $34,000 on a twelvemonth service basis. Dr. Wynn will succeed Professor William F. Mengert who will retire September 1, 1968. The nomination was initiated by a search committee 2 and is made after consultation with all members of the faculty of the department of the rank of assistant professor and above. The Executive Vice-President and Provost, the Chancellor at the Medical Center, and the Dean of the Graduate College endorse the recommendation. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . H u g h e s , t h i s a p p o i n t m e n t w a s a p p r o v e d . HEADSHIP OF DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, URBANA (7) The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Urbana, recommends the appointment of Dr. Phillip Monypenny, presently Professor of Political Science and in the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, as Head of the De1 This appointment will be from November 15, 1968, through August 31, 1969, which is consistent with the statutory provision of biennial tenure of deans, such appointments coinciding with the fiscal biennium. 8 Lloyd _ M. Nyhus, Professor and Head of the Department of Surgery, Chairman; Harry Boysen, Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Robert J. Leider, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Acting Head of the Department; Edwin J. Liebner, Professor of Radiology; Edith K. Macrae, Professor of Anatomy; Irving Shulman, Professor of Pediatrics and Head of the Department.