Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968 [PAGE 937]

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1968]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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1. Separate Graduate Colleges be established at the Medical Center, the Chicago Circle, and the Urbana-Champaign campuses, and an executive officer at each Graduate College be appointed to assume responsibility for the administration and supervision of graduate education and research at the three campuses. 2. The organization of these Graduate Colleges with respect to the Executive Officers, the Executive Committees, and the Graduate Faculties be patterned after that now existing at Urbana-Champaign. 3. T h e present University Research Board become the Research Board for Urbana-Champaign and separate Research Boards with similar functions and responsibilities be established at the Medical Center and at Chicago Circle. 4. The activities of all special units now established in the Graduate College be confined to the campus at Urbana-Champaign or reorganized into separate campus units. Intercampus units should be arranged by special action. 5. Provisions be made for the establishment of special units in the Graduate Colleges at the Medical Center and at Chicago Circle as the circumstances and special needs make it appropriate to do so. If a single unit now exists (for example, Survey Research Laboratory) which includes staff and facilities at more than one campus, separate units be established which may be complementary in functions and facilities and cooperative in services. III. Coordination of University-Wide Graduate Education and Research To maintain liaison and cooperation among the various graduate activities on the individual campuses, the President shall appoint an all-University Council on Graduate Education and Research with representation to include the graduate dean from each campus, members selected from the executive committees and research boards, with the Executive Vice-President and Provost to serve as chairman, unless otherwise provided by the President. The functions of the Council shall b e : 1. To advise the President on all University-wide matters pertaining to graduate education and research, including related extramural grants and contracts. 2. T o receive, initiate, and evaluate proposals for policy changes in the area of graduate education and research and make recommendations on policy to the President. 3. T o serve as a channel for University-wide communication and coordination on relevant policies, programs, plans, and procedures. 4. To assist in the evaluation of graduate education and research programs in relation to the basic objectives and policies of the University, with reference to each individual campus and to the University as a whole. 5. To institute studies and make periodic reports as deemed desirable in the furtherance of University objectives in this functional area. IV. Time Schedule for Proposed Reorganization It is proposed that symmetrical administrative units of the Graduate College, embodying the suggestions made in I I above, be formally established at the Medical Center and at Chicago Circle no later than September, 1968 — with the present organization at the Urbana-Champaign campus becoming a campus unit under the jurisdiction of the Chancellor as of that date. Statutory Revisions If the proposed reorganization of the administration of graduate education and research is approved, certain revisions in the following sections of the Statutes would have to be m a d e : Sec. 16, 17, 18; Sec. 25(e), ( f ) , and (g) ; and Sec. 20(c). In the General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure, a statement of the function and makeup of the University Council on Graduate Education would have to be specified together with such changes in the wording as are necessary when reference is made to the University Research Board or to the Associate Dean of the Graduate College at the Chicago Professional Colleges. The Campus Graduate College Sec. 16. (a) T h e Graduate College shall have jurisdiction over all programs leading to the master's degree and all programs leading to the degrees of Doctor •of Philosophy, Doctor of Education, Doctor of the Science of Law, Doctor of