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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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chairman ex officio. The elected members of the College executive committee should advise the President in the selection and re-appointment of a dean and should advise the dean in the administration of the College. The committee should transact such business as may be delegated to it by the faculty, except as regards budget, appointment, and promotion. Faculty participation in these matters is provided for under point three below. The present powers of the faculty of the College as a whole relative to courses, curricula, and the granting of degrees should remain unchanged. The dean should prepare the budget of the College as a whole in consultation with the four directors. The dean should not also be a director. 3. Organization of the Schools. The administration of each school should be under a director, appointed biennially by the Board of Trustees upon the recommendation of the President. In the selection and re-appointment of a director, the President should have the advice of the elected members of the executive committee of the school concerned and of the dean. The executive committee of each school should consist of members elected by the faculty of the school, in the manner prescribed by the faculty, with the director as chairman ex officio. The executive committee should advise the director with respect to appointments, promotions, and budgets, and should transact such other business as may be assigned to it by the faculty of the school. The School of Business Administration should be departmentalized. The committee feels that study by the faculty of the School would evolve a satisfactory departmental breakdown. The committee makes no recommendation as to departmentalization of the School of Economics. The director of a school should not serve as head or chairman of a department, if more than one department is established in the school. 4. Protection of Minority Groups. The committee is of the opinion that unusually careful administrative consideration of salaries and promotions may be required in order to assure fair treatment of the minority groups which seem likely to exist for some time to come under any form of organization. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance that the persons named as dean of the College and as directors of the schools enjoy the fullest measure of confidence of their respective faculties. 5. Participation by the School of Economics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The committee recommends that the members of the faculty of the School of Economics, while retaining their status as members of the faculty of the College of Commerce (i.e., "Economics and Business Administration"), should participate in the affairs of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences as members of its faculty. Matters relating to budget, appointments, and promotions in the School of Economics would not be shifted to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. 6. Revision of Statutes. Under the present University of Illinois Statutes the status of a school which is included within a college is treated very vaguely. In the event of the approval of these recommendations by the appropriate authorities, the provisions for organizational changes outlined herein should lead to corresponding revisions in the existing Statutes. Cognizance should be taken of these changes in the form of a comprehensive redefinition of the status of a school within a college when the Statutes undergo their next general revision.

RoYDEN DANGERFIELD CHARLES J. GAA D. PHILIP LOCKLIN GORDON N. RAY EDWARD W . CLEARY, Chairman

April 26, 1951

Mr. Nickell moved that no formal action be taken by the Board of Trustees until the next meeting of the Board. This motion was adopted. At the request of President Stoddard, Professor Cleary discussed the report of his Committee and answered questions asked by members of the Board.