Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1956 [PAGE 1066]

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outcome of the suit as being doubtful. They and the other University and University Civil Service System officers concerned are of the opinion, therefore, that it is in the best interests of the University to accept this offer of settlement and finally dispose of this matter accordingly. Accordingly, the Director of Nonacademic Personnel, the Legal Counsel, and the Comptroller recommend that the proposed settlement be approved and authorized by the Board of Trustees and that the Comptroller and Legal Counsel be authorized to execute, on behalf of the University, any and all papers necessary to effect the settlement and to secure the dismissal of the suit in accordance with it. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . S w a i n , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . APPOINTMENT OF ASSISTANT TO THE PROVOST (18) On recommendation of the Provost, I have approved the appointment of Dr. Gibbon Butler, presently Assistant Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Instructor in English, to the position of Assistant to the Provost and Assistant Professor of English beginning June 1, 1956, and continuing through August 31, 1957. This appointment is to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Dr. Robert G. Bone who will be leaving the University to become President of Illinois State Normal University. T h i s r e p o r t w a s received for record. GRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY (19) The Vice-President in Charge of the Chicago Professional Colleges recommends the following schedule of tuition fees for graduate students and postgraduate students in the College of Dentistry, effective September, 1956: Full-time graduate and postgraduate students: $50 a month, or $150 per quarter; Part-time graduate students in short courses: $25 per day for non-laboratory courses and $35 per day for laboratory courses; Fees for courses offered for one-half day or evening sessions to be charged on a prorated basis with two such sessions charged for at the rate of one full day. The Provost, the Dean of the Graduate College, and the Comptroller join in this recommendation. I concur.

On motion of Mrs. Watkins, these fees were authorized.

J U N E AND JULY MEETINGS

By unanimous consent, the following dates were set for the next two meetings: J u n e 27, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois, and July 25, 1956, in Harvard, Illinois. The President and Secretary of the Board were authorized to set the hours and to select the places for these meetings.

SECRETARY'S REPORTS

The Secretary presented for record the following lists: (1) appointments made by the President; (2) fellows; (3) graduate fellows; (4) resignations; (5) leaves of absence; (6) changes in sabbatical leaves of absence.

APPOINTMENTS MADE BY THE PRESIDENT

(The date in parentheses is the date on which the appointment was made by the President of the University. C = College; S = Station; E = Extension.)

ANDERSON, JOHN D., Assistant Professor of Physiology, two months from June 16, 1956, $633.50 a month; this is in addition to his present appointment (5-2-56). D BROWN, PAUL C , Assistant Dean of. Men, ^2 time, one year from September 1, 1956, $2000 (4-24-56). BUCK, ALAN C , Assistant in Chemistry ( P h a r m a c y ) , April'l-Jtme 15;. 1956, $300 a month (5-7-S6).