Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968 [PAGE 938]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

886

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[ J a n u a r y 17

Musical Arts and other graduate degrees as determined by Senate action and approved by the Board of Trustees. It is the responsibility of the Graduate College to develop and safeguard and promote standards of graduate work -GR. the Urbano Champaign and Chicago Professional College campuses and to promote and assist in the development advancement of research in all fields. (b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the Graduate College shall be governed by the same regulations as govern other colleges. (c) T h e faculty of the Graduate College consists of the President, the Executive Vice-President and Provost, the Vice President in Charge of the Chicago Professional Colleges the Chancellor, the Dean, the Associate and Assistant Deans of the Graduate College, and all those who on the recommendation of the departments or of other teaching or research divisions have been approved by the Executive Committee and the Dean of the Graduate College to be in independent charge of courses designed for graduate students or of theses to be submitted for higher degrees, to assume appropriate academic reponsibilities in programs leading to graduate degrees. ( d ) The Executive Committee consists of sixteen fifteen members: (1) eight elected members, four of whom shall be elected annually for two-year terms by the faculty of the Graduate College; (2) six members, three of whom shall be appointed each year for two-year terms by the President Chancellor on the nomination of the Dean of the Graduate College in consultation with the members elected that year; and (3) tho Associate Dean of tho Chicago Professional Colleges Division of the Graduate College, and -(4)- (3) the Dean of the Graduate College, who is ex officio a member and chairman of the Committee. Members elected or appointed shall hold office for two-year terms except that, for initial appointments or elections hereunder, one-half of the members of each group shall be designated to serve for one year and one-half for two years. When meeting to give advice on the appointment of the Dean, the senior faculty member (in terms of service at the University) on the Executive Committee shall be chairman and the Dean shall not be a member of the Committee. (e) Graduate work at the Chicago Professional Colleges shall be conducted by tho Chicago Professional Colleges Division of the Graduate College.—¥he Division consists of the members of the graduate faculty in residence on that campus.—There shall be an Executive Committee of the Professional Colleges Division of the Graduate College composed of nine members, four of whom shall bo elected each year for two year terms by the Division Graduate Faculty; the Associate Dean of the Graduate College is ex officio a member and the chair man of the Committee. -ff-)- (e) The principal administrative head of the Graduate College is the Dean, who shall be appointed in the same manner as are the deans of other colleges. (g) On the recommendation of the Dean of the Graduate College and on the nomination of the President, the Board of Trustees shall appoint biennially an Associate Dean of the Graduate College, who shall represent the Dean and serve as his deputy directly responsible to, and under the supervision and control of, the Dean for the administration of the Chicago Professional Colleges Division of the Graduate College. 4&± (f) On the recommendation of the Dean of the Graduate College and the Chancellor and the nomination of the President, the Board of Trustees shall appoint biennially associate or assistant deans of the Graduate College as required. -(*)- (g) The recommendation of the Dean of the Graduate College shall be secured for the appointment to the staff of any college, school, division, or institute, or for the promotion of a person who may be expected to offer courses open to graduate students or to supervise these6 submitted for higher graduate degrees, assume academic responsibilities in programs leading to graduate degrees. -fj4- (h) The supervision of graduate student affairs, excluding discipline, is the responsibility of the Graduate College. T h e Dean of the Graduate College, after consulting with the Executive Committee of the College, shall appoint a Committees- on Graduate College Student Affairs, for the Urbana Champaign and Chicago Professional Colleges campuses.