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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 20

Supervision, Urbana, for two years from September 1, 1967, at an annual salary of $15,000 (B). 21. JON A. WRIGHT, Assistant Professor of Physics, Urbana, beginning September 1, 1967, at an annual salary of $11,000 (1).

On motion of Mr. Swain, these appointments were confirmed.

DEANSHIP OF FACULTIES AT CHICAGO CIRCLE (5) The Chancellor at Chicago Circle has recommended the appointment of Daniel C. McCluney, Jr., presently Professor of German on indefinite tenure and Acting Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, as Dean of Faculties for the period beginning July 1, 1967, and ending August 31, 1969. The annual salary would be $29,500 on a twelve-month basis. Professor McCluney will succeed Dean Glenn Terrell who has resigned as of July 28, 1967, to accept the presidency of Washington State University. The Chancellor's recommendation was made after consultation with the Chancellor's Advisory Council,1 a special consultative committee appointed by the Chancellor, 2 and an ad hoc committee chosen by the Chicago Circle Senate to advise the Chancellor on the nomination of a Dean of Faculties. 8 The Dean of the Graduate College and the Executive Vice-President and Provost endorse this recommendation. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . P o g u e , 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 . DEANSHIP OF T H E COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, CHICAGO CIRCLE (6) On nomination of a special committee 4 and after consultation with the Executive Committee of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at Chicago Circle, I recommend the appointment of Dr. Dean B. Doner, Professor of English and Associate Dean of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education at Purdue University, as Professor of English on indefinite tenure and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences beginning August 15, 1967, at an annual salary of $28,000 on a twelve months' service basis. The appointment as Dean will be from August 15, 1967, through August 31, 1969, which is consistent with the statutory provision of biennial tenure of deans, such appointments usually coinciding with the fiscal biennium.

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

HEADSHIP OF DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, URBANA (7) The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recommends the appointment of Professor Herbert S. Gutowsky as Head of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, beginning September 1, 1967, on an academic year service basis. Provision has already been made in the budget for 1967-68 for a salary for him of $26,000 as Professor of Chemistry, and it is proposed that the sum of $2,000

1 The Chancellor's Advisory Council includes deans, directors, and certain other administrative officers at Chicago Circle, as well as three faculty members elected by the Senate. ' The members of the Chancellor's consultative committee are Leonard J. Currie, Dean of the College of Architecture and Art; David W. Levinson, Professor of Metallurgy and Associate Head of the Department of Materials Engineering (Chairman of the Senate Committee on Educational Policy); Robert V. Remini, Professor of History (Secretary of the Senate); R. Curtis Retherford, Professor of Physics and Associate Dean of the Graduate College; Victor E. Ricks, Professor of Education and Director of the Division of Education; William W. Tongue, Professor of Economics and Finance (Chairman of the Senate Committee on Committees). • The members of this group are Philip Dwinger, Professor of Mathematics; James P. Hartnett, Professor of Heat Transfer and Head of the Department of Energy Engineering; George A. Hinds, Professor of Architecture; Stanley L. Jones, Professor of History and Chairman of the Department; Robert B. Ogle, Professor of English and Head of the Department; Lawrence Stark, Professor of Bioengineering and Physiology, Department of Information Engineering. 4 Professors Glenn Terrell, Dean of Faculties; Hollis W. Barber, Professor of Political Science and Head of the Department; Robert h. Hall, Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department; Robert B. Ogle, Professor of English and Head of the Department; Jan Rocek. Professor of Chemistry; John B. Wolf, Professor of History; A. V. Wolf, Professor of Physiology and Head of the Department, Medical Center.