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BOARD OF T R U S T E E S

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Dr. Vaio will replace Associate Professor Theodore J. Tracy who has served as Acting Head of the Department since September 1, 1973. The nomination of Professor Vaio is supported by the consultative committee 1 and the faculty of the Department and by the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The Vice President for Academic Development and Coordination concurs in this recommendation. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . H o w a r d , this a p p o i n t m e n t w a s a p p r o v e d .

Chairmanship of the Department of Educational Policy Studies, Urbana

(6) The Chancellor at Urbana-Champaign has recommended the appointment of Professor Alan J. Peshkin, presently Professor of Comparative Education, as Professor of Comparative Education in the Department of Educational Policy Studies on indefinite tenure and Chairman of the Department, beginning August 21, 1975. The salary will be determined by later action of the Board. Dr. Peshkin will succeed Professor Clarence J. Karier who has asked to be relieved of this administrative assignment beginning August 21, 1975. The nomination is submitted after consultation with the Dean of the College of Education and the Executive Committee of the Department. The Vice President for Academic Development and Coordination concurs in this recommendation. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . S u m m e r s , this a p p o i n t m e n t w a s a p p r o v e d .

Harold Boeschenstein Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy, Urbana

(7) The Chancellor at Urbana-Champaign has recommended the appointment of Mr. David F. Linowes, presently a partner in the firm of Laventhol and Horwath, as the Harold Boeschenstein Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Business Administration in the College of Commerce and Business Administration, effective no later than the beginning of the 1976-77 academic year, on an academic-year service basis, at a salary of $35,000. This Chair was established through a gift from the Corning Glass Works Foundation and Owens-Illinois in memory of Harold Boeschenstein, former Chairman of the Executive Committee of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, who died on October 23, 1972. The nomination of Mr. Linowes was made with the advice of a search committee 3 and after consultation with the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration, and

1 John Curtis Johnson, Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Professor of English, Chairman; Matthew Dickie, Assistant Professor of Classics; Elizabeth Gebhard, Associate Professor of Classics; George Hoffman, Instructor in Classics; Ronald Legon, Chairman of the Department of History and Associate Professor of History; Miroslav Marcovich, Head of the Department of Classics and Professor of Classics, Urbana-Champaign campus; Theodore Tracy, Acting Head of the Department of Classics and Associate Professor of Classics. 3 Melvin Rothbaum, Professor and Director of the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Chairman; Norton M. Bedford, Arthur Young Distinguished Professor of Accountancy, Professor of Business Administration and Head of the Department of Accountancy; Samuel K. Gove, Professor of Political Science, Professor and Director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs; Paul T. Hartman, Professor of Economics and in the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and Head of the Department of Economics; Joan Huber, Associate Professor of Sociology; Robert E. Scott, Professor of Political Science and Associate Director at the Center for International Com>arative Studies; Harry C. Triandis, Professor of Psychology and in the Institute of Labor and ndustrial Relations and Associate Director of International Programs and Studies.

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