Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1976 [PAGE 293]

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BOARD OF

TRUSTEES

[May 21

of Trustees, 1 the Chancellors at the Chicago Circle and Urbana-Champaign campuses have recommended such leaves for the following persons:

Urbana-Champaign

HAROLD F. CAHALAN, Assistant Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was appointed to the administrative staff in September 1969. In the period February 20 to May 20, 1976, he plans to visit several educational institutions to continue his study of the history of certain aspects of college and university administration in the period 1895 to 1920 with special reference to the service feature of the land grant college mission. JOHN B. CLAAR, Associate Vice President for Public Service, Associate Dean of Agriculture, and Director of the Cooperative Extension Service. Appointed to the administrative staff in September 1960, he plans to spend the period April 1 to June 30, 1976, studying developments in nontraditional forms of higher education in selected universities in the United States and Europe. W. PETER HOOD, Assistant Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, who has served on the administrative staff since June 22, 1970, has requested leave for the period September 10, 1975, to January 10, 1976. During this period, he will study external degree and nontraditional degree programs, adult educational markets, and current attempts at evaluation of nontraditional learning with related effects upon academic advising. ROGER E. MARTIN was appointed to the administrative staff in September 1970, and serves as Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. He has requested leave from August 25, 1975, to December 19, 1975, during which period he intends to enroll in job-related graduate courses and to interview selected academic department heads and other administrators to determine what their major problems are and what they believe the campus administration might do to help in solving those problems. JACK H. MCKENZIE, Dean of Fine and Applied Arts, was first appointed to the administrative staff as Associate Dean in 1969. He intends to read and study in the various disciplines his office represents and to further explore photography/ cinematography during the period June 23 to September 22, 1975.

Chicago Circle

EMANUEL HURWITZ, J R . , Assistant Dean of the College of Education, has requested leave from September 16 to December 15, 1975, to examine in-service training (teacher-renewal) projects offered by urban universities in conjunction with public and private school systems and related agencies. He was appointed to the administrative staff in September, 1968. HENRY A. SETTON was appointed to the administrative staff in September 1966, and serves as Assistant Dean of the College of Engineering. He proposes to use the period January 1 to April 15, 1976, to strengthen the College's Cooperative Engineering Education program by visiting companies and colleges outside Illinois and to improve his counseling skills by taking graduate courses in professional training in counseling. The proposed leaves have been reviewed by the committee on administrative leaves which recommends approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . H o w a r d , t h e s e leaves w e r e g r a n t e d as r e c o m mended.

1 The plan, approved on June 20, 1973, provides for paid leaves of two to four months for certain administrative officers for the purpose of "keeping abreast of developments in their profession and to find time to design new approaches to their tasks."