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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 19

T h e Medical Center and Chicago Undergraduate Division Senates have offered no ohjections to the recommendations of the Senate Coordinating Council. I now present the Senates' recommendations to the Board of Trustees for study. At a subsequent time, I shall submit my recommendations with regard to the proposals. For purposes of comparison they are submitted in parallel form showing the current statutory provisions and the recommendations for proposed amendments.

The President's report and the recommendations of the Senate Coordinating Council were received for record, and were referred to the Committee on General Policy for further consideration and advice to the Board.

A m e n d m e n t s of U n i v e r s i t y of Illinois S t a t u t e s Proposed by the University Senates and the Senate Coordinating Council T h e present University of Illinois Statutes were adopted by the Board of Trustees January 16, 1957, and became effective September 1, 1957. T h e following amendments have been proposed by the Urbana-Champaign, Medical Center, and Chicago Undergraduate Division Senates, and the Senate Coordinating Council. The amendments were initiated by the Urbana-Champaign Senate and were modified by the two Chicago Senates, after which the Senate Coordinating Council submitted its recommendations.

PRESENT STATUTORY PROVISIONS

Recommended deletions are indicated by brackets [ ] . Sec. 6. (1) Each Senate shall elect annually by ballot from its membership a Committee on Committees [consisting of not fewer than three persons. Not more than one member of this Committee of the Urbana-Champaign Senate shall be from any one college or school]. Upon nomination made by this Committee after consultation with the President, in the case of the Urbana-Champaign Senate, [and] with the Vice-President in Charge [of the Chicago Professional Colleges or with the Executive Dean of the Chicago Undergraduate Division, respectively,] each Senate shall elect committees on educational policy, academic freedom, University calendar, the library, student discipline, student affairs, and such other standing committees as it may from time to time authorize.

RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE SENATE COORDINATING COUNCIL

The chairmen of the Senate committees on educational policy, academic freedom, library, and of such other committees as the three Senates may designate, shall be members of the corresponding committees of the other Senates.

Additions are indicated by italics. Sec. 6. (1) Each Senate shall establish rules of procedure in accordance with which it shall elect annually by ballot from its membership a Committee on Committees. Upon nomination made by this Committee after consultation with the President, in the case of the Urbana-Champaign Senate, or with the Vice-President in Charge, in the case of each Chicago campus Senate, each Senate shall elect committees on educational policy, academic freedom and tenure, University calendar, the library, student discipline, student affairs, and such other standing committees as it may from time to time authorize. The Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure at each campus shall be elected by the respective Senate upon nomination made in the manner hereinbefore described in this paragraph and shall consist of at least five members of the faculty other than deans or directors, with no more than two members from any one college, school, institute, division, or other administrative unit. T h e chairmen of the Senate committees on educational policy, academic freedom and tenure, library, and of such other committees as the three Senates may designate, shall be members of the corresponding committees of the other Senates. * (m) The academic staff (i.e., those having the rank of instructor or higher rank) at each campus shall also elect a