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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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After the disability benefits described above have been exhausted, a member may be granted a disability leave without pay from the University. If such a member is a participant in the University Retirement System of Illinois, he may apply for the benefits to which he is entitled under that system. (d) Death, Disability, and Survivor Benefits. For employees of the University, other than students paid on an hourly basis and personnel whose principal employment is outside the University, with at least six months' service, who are not participants in the University Retirement System or anyother publicly supported retirement system which pays a death benefit, a death benefit of $500 is payable by the University. For employees who are participants in the University Retirement System, death, disability, and survivor benefits are provided by that system.

REGISTRATION OF STAFF MEMBERS IN UNIVERSITY CLASSES

Sec. 30. (a) Persons on the academic, administrative, or permanent nonacademic staff of the University, or on the staffs of the allied surveys and laboratories located on the Urbana-Champaign campus, may register in University courses for which they are eligible for admission, without payment of the tuition fee and the laboratory, library, and supply fee, provided that their annual salary for nine months is less than the minimum salary for such period established for full-time assistants. (b) For persons on other than a nine months' appointment, the exemption limit shall be adjusted proportionately, and if for periods of less than nine months, the exemption shall apply if compensation is less than the rate paid to full-time assistants at the minimum salary. (c) Permanent nonacademic employees without regard to salary may also register without payment of any fees or deposits in: (1) Any regular University courses in which the employee is requested by his department, with the concurrence of the Director of Nonacademic Personnel, to enroll for the improvement of the employee's present work. (2) Any special course looking toward improving University service organized at the request of the Director of Nonacademic Personnel in cooperation with the teaching staff, the employee, and his department. (d) The exemption from fees, as provided above, shall apply to graduate scholars and fellows whose stipends are paid from general appropriations of the University, but not to fellows whose stipends are paid from grants or contract funds received by the University from outside sponsors of graduate study and research. (e) Persons on appointment for a first and second semester or a second semester who are exempt from payment of fees for courses in which they are registered during the period of their appointment are exempt also from a payment of fees for courses in which they enroll in the Summer Session immediately following termination of their appointments, regardless of whether or not they are teaching in that Summer Session. V. GENERAL PROVISIONS

ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES

Sec. 31. The President of the University is authorized to appoint such administrative and other committees or boards as are necessary to assist him