Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968 [PAGE 939]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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-(fe)- (i) Student discipline for graduate students shall be administered by the Senate Committee on Student Discipline of the Urbana Champaign Senate or of -the Chicago Professional Colleges Senate, in accordance with the provisions of Section 6, paragraph (h). Each Senate Committee on Discipline shall, after consulting with the Dean of the Graduate College, appoint a subcommittee on discipline for graduate students. T h e appropriate Senate Committee on Discipline shall hear and decide cases appealed to it from its subcommittees. T h e provisions of Section 6, paragraph (h), relative to the formulation of procedures and original and appellate jurisdiction of the Senate Committee, shall apply to disciplinary cases hereunder. University Research Board Sec. 17. (a) T h e University Research Board consists of eight members appointed by the President Chancellor after consultation with the Dean and with the Executive Committee of the Graduate College; Faculty; the Associate Dean of the Chicago Professional Colleges Division of the Graduate College, and the Dean of the Graduate College, who shall serve as chairman unless the -Prcaidcnt Chancellor, in consultation with the Dean, shall name another member of the Research Board to serve as chairman. The Research Board may establish appropriate committees, the members of which need not be members of the Research Board. (b) T h e functions of the University Research Board include: (1) Making assignments of research funds of the Graduate College to individual and group research projects. (2) Reviewing applications from faculty members to outside agencies for financial aid in support of research projects. (3) Advising the President Chancellor on potentially patentable inventions by faculty members. (4) Advising the President Chancellor and the Dean of the Graduate College on any matters they desire to submit to the Research Board. Special U n i t s of the Graduate College Sec. 18. (a) On the recommendation of the University Research Board, and of the Executive Committee and the Dean of the Graduate College, with approval by the President and the Chancellor, the Board of Trustees may create special units of the Graduate College for the purpose of carrying on or promoting research in areas which are broader than the responsibility of any one department. Any such unit may be abolished by similar action. (b) Staff members of such units shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees on the recommendation of the Executive Committee, and the Dean of the Graduate College, and the Chancellor, and on the nomination of the President. Appointments which carry academic rank and title indicative of departmental association shall be made only after consultation with the department concerned. (c) Subjects to the foregoing stipulations, the special units of the Graduate College include :—(+)—Digital Computer Laboratory,—(3)—Electron Microscope Laboratory, (3) Radiocarbon Laboratory, (4) Physical Environment Unit, (5) Institute of Communications Research, (6) Illinois Historical Survey. LEASE OF QUARTERS AT 7 0 7 SOUTH SIXTH STREET, CHAMPAIGN (27) Additional space at 707 South Sixth Street, Champaign (approximately 3,400 square feet), is available for lease for a five-year period at a rental rate of $10,200 per year, subject to a rental increase beginning the third year to cover any increase in real estate taxes allocable to the leased premises over and above the amount of the 1967 taxes payable in 1968. This area can be used by the Dean of Students, and will provide relief for other administrative offices. T h e owner of the building is willing to remodel the space in accordance with the requirements of the University, with the cost of remodeling included in the rental rate. T h e President of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate adminstrative officers, recommends that the University of Illinois Foundation be requested to lease Room 109 in the building at 707 South Sixth Street at the above rental rate for a five-year period and sublease it to the University on a