Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1974 Version B
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1973] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 403 The appointment has the endorsement of the Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus, the Vice President for Academic Development and Coordination and the Vice President for Governmental Relations and Public Service. I concur. On motion of Mr. Forsyth, this appointment was approved. DISABILITY OF ACADEMIC OR ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF BY REASON O F PREGNANCY; REVISION OF SECTION 2 9 ( C ) ( 2 ) O F T H E GENERAL RULES CONCERNING UNIVERSITY ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE (8) By administrative practice, pregnancy and the need to have maternity leave have generally been construed to be a condition of "disability" under Section 29 (c) (2) of The General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure. Applications for maternity leave were thus governed by the same approval procedures and rules as other forms of disability. In order to make explicit this construction of these provisions and to assure consistent, University-wide policy in this regard, I recommend that the following sentence be added to Section 29 (c) (2):' For purposes of this subsection (2), disability includes cases in which the staff member is disabled from performance of duty by reason of pregnancy. In accordance with procedures specified in the University Statutes, I have consulted the University Senates Conference in connection with this matter. O n motion of Mrs, Rader, this revision was approved. ESTABLISHMENT OF A MAJOR A N D MINOR IN POLISH IN THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, CHICAGO CIRCLE (9) The Chicago Circle Senate has recommended the establishment of a new program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences involving: a curriculum in the teaching of Polish; a major in Polish in the general curriculum; a minor in the teaching of Polish; and a minor in Polish. This program would be administered by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. This program will allow the College and the University to provide courses leading to a degree in the language and culture of a country that has significantly contributed to the development of Western Civilization, and which is represented in the United States by a very large ethnic and cultural group that is particularly numerous, exceeding 900,000 people, and active in the Chicago metropolitan area. University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, as the largest public institution located in the center of this huge cluster of people of Polish origin, has a large and pressing responsibility to develop a program relevant to the cultural needs and aspirations of this constituency, particularly since none of the other institutions of higher education, public or private, located in this area offers such a program. University of Illinois at Chicago Circle offers undergraduate programs in all the major European cultures except Polish, although over one-fifth of all students currently on the campus are of Polish descent. This recommended program does not involve any request for additional resources. A variety of introductory and advanced courses in Polish language and literature are already being offered by the Slavics department. The present staff is ample for handling the anticipated numbers of majors. The supportive areas most related to Polish studies, such as other foreign language programs, history and English are well represented on the campus. Thus, the budgetary aspects would be handled within existing resources of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The Chancellor at the Chicago Circle campus and the Vice President for Academic Development and Coordination concur in this recommendation. The University Senates Conference has indicated that no further Senate jurisdiction is involved. 1 Analogous provisions specifically relating to nonacademic employees already exist in University of Illinois Policy and Rules-Nonacademic.
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