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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Management Representative FRANK DICKEY, Vice-President, John Deere and Company, Moline, Illinois This appointment is to replace Mr. L. J. Schmidt, Director of Industrial Relations, Greenlee Brothers and Company, Rockford, whose term has expired. Public Representative FRED K. HOEHLER, Commissioner, City of Chicago Department of Welfare, 25 South Damen Avenue, Chicago 12, Illinois This appointment is to replace Mr. John Day Larkin, Dean of Liberal Studies, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, whose term has expired. Mr. Hoehler is a well-known civic association executive and has served with distinction as the administrator of numerous public enterprises. H e was Director of the State Department of Public Welfare from 1949-53 and has also served as Executive Director of Citizens of Greater Chicago, Inc. I concur in these recommendations.

On motion of Mr. Swain, these appointments were approved.

CHANGE IN ORGANIZATION OF DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY (4) The members of the Department of Zoology of professorial rank have voted to request a change in departmental organization from a department organized with a head to a department organized with a chairman. This is permissible under the University of Illinois Statutes. The Dean and the Executive Committee of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recommend approval of the change, and this is concurred in by the Vice-President and Provost and the Dean of the Graduate College. I recommend approval and that this change become effective December 1, 1957T h e Dean and the Executive Committee of the College also recommend that Associate Professor James B. Kitzmiller be appointed Chairman of the Department effective December 1, 1957, and continuing until September 1, 1959, at a salary of $7,700 an academic year. The faculty of the Department has been consulted concerning this appointment and it is concurred in by the Vice-President and Provost and the Dean of the Graduate College. The present Head of the Department, Professor F . B. Adamstone, is on sabbatical leave of absence during the current semester and therefore is not now directly and actively participating in the administration of the Department. Relief from these administrative duties will enable him to devote more time and energy to his program of teaching and research upon his return. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Williamson, these recommendations were approved.

ORGANIZATION OF DIVISION OF MATHEMATICS AT CHICAGO UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION (5) Section 15 of the University of Illinois Statutes states the procedure by which a department organized with a head may be changed to a department organized with a chairman: "On the written request of at least one-fourth of the members of the department with the rank of assistant professor and above . . . that the form of organization be changed, the dean shall call a meeting to poll by ballot the members of the department of the ranks of assistant professor and above . . . " Four members of the Division of Mathematics at the Chicago Undergraduate Division, who hold the rank of assistant professor, have petitioned for a change in departmental organization from a headship to a chairmanship administration. Upon receipt of this petition, the Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences called an election which was held with the result that by ballot the members of the Division of Mathematics of professorial rank voted four to three for a change. This request has been referred to the Committee on General Policy of the Board of Trustees for study and recommendation. In considering the proposal it should be noted that the Division of Mathematics in Chicago has three full professors (this includes the Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences who did not vote in the election since he had an administrative recommendation to make on the question), no associate professors, five assistant professors, and sixteen instructors; and the Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Executive