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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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BUSINESS PRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT O F THE UNIVERSITY

The Board considered the following reports and recommendations from the President of the University.

DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK IN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

(1) The Dean of the College of Medicine recommends the establishment of a Department of Medical Social Work for the training of students in the special field of medical social work to be organized and administered according to the following plan: 1. All medical social work in the College of Medicine and in the Research and Educational Hospitals shall be under the direction of this Department so that its activities may be coordinated with the over-all educational program of the College. 2. The personnel of the Department shall consist of a. The Head of the Department who shall have professorial rank and whose duties shall be those specified for department heads in the University of Illinois Statutes. b. An academic staff whose members shall have appropriate rank and academic status in the College of Medicine. c. A nonacademic staff of medical social workers. Present members of the University staff now engaged in teaching and medical social service will be given appropriate academic and nonacademic positions in the new Department. 3. In order to maintain close working relationships with the School of Social Work at Urbana, and to assure that the Department will function effectively in the training of students from the School of Social Work in the specialty of medical social work, a. The Head of the Department of Medical Social Work in the College of Medicine shall also hold an academic appointment in the School of Social Work. b. All appointments to the academic staff of the Department of Medical Social Work shall be subject to the approval of the Director of the School of Social Work. c. The Department of Medical Social Work shall carry such responsibilities for teaching as may be assigned by the School of Social Work. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Johnston, this recommendation was approved.

APPOINTMENT OF MARY LOUISE H E M M Y AS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR A N D HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL SOCIAL W O R K (2) The Dean of the College of Medicine and the Director of the School of Social Work recommend the appointment of Miss Mary Louise Hemmy, now Director of the Social Service Department of Washington University Clinics and Allied Hospitals in St. Louis, as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Social Work in the College of Medicine and Associate Professor in the School of Social Work, on indefinite tenure beginning July 1, 1952, at an annual salary of $7,500 (AY basis). This appointment has been recommended by a committee of the-faculty of medicine consisting of Dr. Ford K. Hick, Professor of Medicine, Chairman; Dr. Francis J. Gerty, Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry; Dr. Harry F. Dowlirig, Professor and Head of the Department of Medicine; Dr. Julius B. Richmond, Professor of Pediatrics; and Professor Marietta Stevenson, Director of the School of Social Work. I concur. O n motion of M r . Johnston, this appointment was approved.

APPOINTMENTS TO T H E FACULTY

(3) The following new appointments to the faculty of the rank of Assistant Professor and above, and involving tenure, have been approved since the previous meeting of the Board of Trustees.