Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968 [PAGE 56]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

4

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[July 27

ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR T H E DIVISION OF UNIVERSITY EXTENSION (3) T h e Dean of the Division of University Extension recommends the following appointments to the Division's advisory committee for two years beginning September 1, 1966: University Representatives

Professor HARRY F . BREEN, Department of A r t

Professor ROBERT E. CORLEY, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Professor RAYMOND E. WILLIAMS, College of Education (These appointees will replace Professors ERNEST W . ANDERSON, Cooperative Extension Service; HALBERT E. GULLEY, Division of General Studies; and

CECIL A. MOYER, Department of Accountancy.)

(Other representatives of the University continuing on the Committee are P r o fessors BJORNAR BERGETHON, School of Music, and C. DALE GSEFFE, Me-

chanical and Industrial Engineering.) Non- University Representatives P . T. HEERWAGEN, Supervisor, Education and Training, Electro-Motive Division, General Motors Corporation, La Grange GEORGE M. IRWIN, Chairman, Illinois Arts Council, 300 Maine Street, Quincy (These appointees will replace D R . MARK W . BILLS, Superintendent, Peoria Public Schools, 3202 North Wisconsin Avenue, Peoria, and CLIFTON E. BLANKENSHIP, Training and Safety Director, A. O. Smith Corporation, P.O. Box S, Granite City.) (Other non-University representatives continuing on the Committee are HARRY A. GLYNN, President, Pap-R Products, Martinsville; DAVID S. RAYMOND, Manager of Personnel Development, National Distillers & Chemical Corporation, P.O. Box 479, Louisville, Kentucky; and VERNE A. NOTHDURFT, ManagerTraining, LeTourneau-Westinghouse Company, Peoria.) I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . H u g h e s , t h e s e a p p o i n t m e n t s w e r e a p p r o v e d . HEADSHIP O F DEPARTMENT O F E N G L I S H , URBANA (4) The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recommends the appointment of Dr. A. Lynn Altenbernd, now Professor of English and Executive Secretary of the Department of English, as Head of the Department of English at Urbana, beginning September 1, 1966, at an annual salary of $15,900, divided: $13,900 as Professor of English on indefinite tenure, and $2,000 as Head of the Department on an academic year service basis. This appointment is to replace Professor Leonard F . Dean who has asked to be relieved of his administrative duties as Head of the Department at the end of the current academic year, 1965-66, and who will be leaving the University in February, 1967, to accept a position at New York University. A formal search committee was not set up as the faculty of the Department preferred that the Head be selected by the Dean after due consultation with the members of the Department. This procedure was followed and Professor Altenbernd is the choice. T h e appointment is supported by the Dean of the Graduate College and the Executive Vice-President and Provost. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mrs. Watkins, this appointment was approved.

HEADSHIP O F DEPARTMENT O F INDUSTRIAL ADMINISTRATION, URBANA (5) T h e Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration recommends the appointment of Associate Professor Daniel M. Slate of the Department of Marketing, as Acting Head of the Department of Industrial Administration for one year from September 1, 1966, in addition to his assignment as Head of the Department of Marketing and his appointment as Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Graduate School of Business Administration. Provision has already been made in the budget for 1966-67 for his salary in