Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1958 [PAGE 222]

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19571

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Written notice of regular meetings shall be mailed to all members at least five days before the meeting. Written notice of a special meeting, with a list of the subjects to be considered, shall be mailed to all members at least five days before the meeting. Only subjects specifically listed in the notice of a special meeting may be considered at that meeting. A quorum for any regular or special meeting of any Senate shall consist of one-third of the total membership of that Senate or fifty members, whichever is the smaller number. (g) Except as otherwise provided in these Statutes, each Senate shall determine for its campus: requirements for admission to the several colleges, schools, and other teaching divisions; general requirements for degrees and certificates; questions of educational policy; relations between colleges, schools, and other teaching divisions; changes in the amount, character, or quality of work required for admission to the colleges, schools, and other teaching divisions; and changes in the total number of hours required for degrees or certificates. Neither the powers conferred on the several Senates by this paragraph (g) nor the powers conferred by paragraph (e) of this Section shall extend to matters over which the college is given jurisdiction by Section 8 ( c ) . (h) Each Senate shall elect a Committee on Student Discipline which shall appoint one or more subcommittees on which, unless the Senate determines otherwise, there shall be voting student representatives. These subcommittees shall have original jurisdiction to hear and render decisions in all disciplinary cases, unless the Senate Committee determines to exercise original jurisdiction. The decision of a subcommittee not appealed to the Committee shall be final. The Committee on Student Discipline shall hear and take action for the Senate in cases in which it exercises original jurisdiction and in cases appealed to it from its subcommittees. The Committee shall formulate and adopt, after consultation with the Legal Counsel, disciplinary and hearing procedures, which shall be followed in all undergraduate student disciplinary proceedings. In hearing and deciding any appeal, the Committee may conduct a hearing de novo, or may act solely upon the record in the case before the subcommittee, as the Committee, in its discretion, may determine. (i) The Senates at Urbana-Champaign and at the Chicago Professional Colleges shall recommend candidates for diplomas, degrees, and certificates to be conferred by the President under the authority of the Board of Trustees. (j) No new line of work involving questions of general educational policy shall be established on any campus except upon approval of the Senate concerned and except as elsewhere provided in these Statutes. (k) Each Senate may propose amendments to these Statutes through the Senate Coordinating Council to the President and the Board of Trustees as provided in Section 65. (1) Each Senate shall elect annually by ballot from its membership a Committee on Committees consisting of not fewer than three persons. Not more than one member of this Committee of the Urbana-Champaign Senate shall be from any one college or school. Upon nomination made by this Committee after consultation with the President, in the case of the UrbanaChampaign Senate, and with the Vice-President in Charge of the Chicago Professional Colleges or with the Executive Dean of the Chicago Undergraduate Division, respectively, each Senate shall elect committees on educational