Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1942 [PAGE 450]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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and decision of such Board shall be certified to the appointing officer and shall be forthwith enforced by such officer. In the course of an investigation of charges, each member of the Board and the Secretary shall have the power to administer oaths and shall have power to secure by subpoena both the attendance arid testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers relevant to such investigation. T h e Board shall prescribe the duties of each employment or office and place it in the classified service under the provisions of this section, and designate by rule the grade of each position. T h e Board shall prescribe standards of efficiency for each grade and for examination of candidates for appointment thereto. For the purpose of establishing uniformity in the same grades, the Board shall prescribe the maximum and minimum pay for each grade and the title thereof. T h e Board shall standardize employment in each grade and make and keep a record of the relative efficiency of employees in the classified civil service. T h e Board shall make and publish rules, which it may change from time to time, to carry out the purpose of this section, and for examination, appointments, transfers, and removals, and for maintaining adequate records as herein required. Such rules shall be distributed by the Board, and it shall give notice of the places where such rules may be obtained by publication in one or more daily newspapers published in each of the seven largest cities in the State according to the- last general census published by the United States. Copies of all said rules and of all changes therein certified by the Board shall be sent to the county clerk of each county in the State, where they shall be open to inspection by the public at all reasonable hours. All applicants for the classified service under the provisions of this section shall be subjected to examination which shall be fair and competitive, open to all citizens resident in the State of Illinois who can qualify for this classified service, under the rules of the Board concerning residence, age, sex, health, personal habits and appearance, moral character, training, education, and qualifications to perform the duties of the positions to be filled. In examinations for technical positions residence may be waived. Such examinations shall be practical, relate to the classification for which the examination is given, and shall fairly test the relative capacities of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the positions to which they seek appointment. No question in any examination shall relate to political or religious affiliations or racial origins of the examinee. T h e Board shall conduct such examinations and control the same, and may delegate the duty of preparing questions and grading answers to duly qualified and disinterested members of its faculty or staff, for which work no additional compensation shall be paid. Notice of the time and place of such examinations, with a statement of the scope thereof, shall be published at least two weeks before such examination in one or more daily newspapers of general circulation published in each one of the seven largest cities of the State according to the the last general census published by the United States. Written or printed notice of every examination shall also be sent to the county clerk of every county in the State, who shall post the same promptly in a conspicuous place in the courthouse of each county. From the results of such examinations, the Board shall prepare and keep a register for each class or grade of positions in the classified civil service under the provisions of this section, of those persons who have become eligible through such examinations for such positions, and such persons shall take rank upon said register in the order of their relative excellence as determined by said examinations. T h e Board shall, by its rules, provide for promotions, whether to fill vacancies or otherwise, solely on the basis of ascertained merit. To that end it shall fix lines of promotion wherever practicable. Whenever a position in the classified civil service under the provisions of this section is to be filled the Board shall certify to the appointing officer the names and addresses of the three persons standing highest upon the register for the class or grade to which said position belongs. Sex shall be disregarded except when the nature of the position requires otherwise. Appointments shall be on probation for a period