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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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HEARING COMMITTEE ON DISCHARGE OF ROBERT TAYLOR

(4) The Director of Nonacademic Personnel has submitted written charges for the discharge, effective November 1, 1951, of Robert Taylor, kitchen laborer in the Housing Division in Urbana-Champaign. Mr. Taylor was served with notice mailed on October 26, 1951. He has requested a formal hearing of these charges and is entitled to the same under the Civil Service Law and regulations. It is recommended that the Board of Trustees appoint a committee of the faculty to hear the charges and to make a recommendation to the Board.

On motion of Mrs. Holt, Messrs. John E. Cribbet, Associate Professor of Law, Horace M. Gray, Professor of Economics, and George W. Harper, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Safety Education, were appointed as a hearing committee with Professor Cribbet as Chairman. This action was taken by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Grange, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Hickman, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Megran, Mr. Nickell, Mrs. Watkins; no, none; absent, Mr. Fornof, Mr. Stevenson.

REGULATIONS FOR T H E ADMINISTRATION OF AN ACT TO REGULATE THE PRACTICE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTING

(5) Since 1903, the University has been entrusted by state law with the responsibility of examining qualified applicants for certification as Certified Public Accountant and of issuing certificates to the successful candidates. In 1043, the General Assembly of Illinois enacted a law superseding the original Accountancy Act of 1903 and the Public Accounting Act of 1927 and providing for the issuance of certificates to three categories of candidates: 1. Applicants who meet certain educational requirements specified by law, and who have passed the standard examination in accounting theory and practice, auditing, commercial law, and in such other related subjects, if any, as the University may deem advisable. The examination shall take place as often as the University-deems necessary but at least once a year. The law specifies that for this examination the University shall appoint a Board of three examiners, two of them certified public accountants _ and the third an attorney skilled in commercial law. These examiners are appointed for three years, the terms being so staggered that one examiner is appointed annually. 2. Applicants who have held for at least five years certificates of registration as public accountants in Illinois issued by the Department of Registration and Education under the Public Accounting Act of 1927, who have been engaged in public accounting for at least five years, and who successfully pass a written or oral examination given by a special board of five examiners appointed by the University with the approval of the Department of Registration and Education. As specified in the law, this Board was appointed by the University with the approval of the Department of Registration and Education and includes two who were registered public accountants in Illinois when the Act of 1943 was passed, two who were registered public accountants and also certified public accountants at the date of passage of the Act, and one who received, or was entitled to receive, a certificate as certified public accountant without a second examination under a provision of the law permitting such certification of applicants who hold certificates of registration as public accountants earned by previously passing a written examination given by the Department of Registration and Education provided they exercised this option by qualifying within one year following the approval of the Act of 1943- This is Section 4 (b). 3. Applicants who hold certificates as certified public accountant issued under the laws of any other state or territory of the United States or District of Columbia provided that: (a) such certificate was issued on the basis of written examination; (b) the educational qualifications of the applicant are equivalent to the educational requirements of applicants for the Illinois certified public accountant examination; and (c) the applicant is a citizen of the United States or has declared his intention of becoming one and is of good moral character. Certificates may be issued to such applicants without examination.