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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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(b) Appointments shall be made solely on the basis of the special fitness of the individual for the work demanded in the position. (c) The following academic ranks are recognized: professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor or research associate, and assistant. Appropriate academic rank, with the rights and privileges pertaining thereto, may be accorded members of the administrative staff. (d) Recommendation to positions on the academic staff shall ordinarily originate with the department, or, in groups not organized as departments, with the officers in charge of the work concerned, and shall be presented to the dean of the college for transmission with his recommendation to the President. Whenever the appointment or promotion of members of the academic staff is involved, the dean shall consult the chairman or the head of the department and the departmental executive committee, or, if the college has no departments, the executive committee of the college, before making his recommendation. If the appointment involves a person who may be expected to offer courses carrying graduate credit, the dean of the college shall consult the Dean of the Graduate College, who shall have the right to make an independent recommendation to the President. (e) In determining appointments to, and salaries and promotion of the academic staff, special consideration shall be given to those of the following factors which are applicable: (1) teaching ability and performance, (2) research ability and achievement, and (3) general usefulness or promise • thereof to the University.

PRINCIPLES GOVERNING EMPLOYMENT OF ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFFS

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Sec. 36. The following principles shall govern the employment of the academic and administrative staffs of the University. (a) The academic staff which conducts the educational program shall consist of the teaching, research, scientific, counseling, and extension staffs; deans and directors of colleges, schools, institutes, or divisions; editors, librarians, and such other members of the staff as are designated by the President. (b) The members of the academic and administrative staffs shall be employed, and their salaries fixed, by the Board, except that members of the academic staff below the rank of assistant professor may be employed by the President of the University, who shall report such appointments to the Board. (c) Minimum salaries for the various ranks shall be determined by the Board of Trustees. The minimum for eleven months' service shall be approximately two-ninths greater than the minimum for the academic year. (d) The terms of the employment for all members of the academic and administrative staffs shall be stated explicitly in the contract of employment. (e) The academic year shall consist of two semesters (at the Chicago Professional Colleges the academic year shall consist of three terms) beginning in September or October and ending in June, the exact dates to be determined in the University calendars.

SERVICES RENDERED THE UNIVERSITY

Sec. 37. ( a ) No person employed on a full-time basis on the instructional or administrative staffs of the University shall be assigned any other University work which does not naturally come within the scope of his duties, and for which additional compensation is to be paid, without the prior approval of the President