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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1976
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468 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [ D e c e m b e r 17 MINUTES APPROVED T h e Secretary presented for approval the press proofs of the minutes of the Board of Trustees meetings of April 16 and May 21, 1975, copies of which had previously been sent to the Board. O n motion of Mr. Livingston, these minutes were approved as printed on pages 249 to 300 inclusive. CIVIL SERVICE MERIT BOARD APPOINTMENTS President Neal announced that he was reappointing the incumbent members from the University of Illinois Board of Trustees effective January 1, 1976. These members are Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Lenz, and Mr. Velasquez. T h e University Trustees who serve on the Merit Board also constitute the Board's standing Committee on Nonacademic Personnel. (Officers of the Merit Board had indicated that it would be convenient if all members held terms based upon the calendar year.) AMENDMENT TO THE BY-LAWS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES At the November meeting, President Corbally presented, with his endorsement, a recommendation from the University Council on Equal Opportunity that the Board of Trustees consider the desirability of establishing a regular or standing Committee on Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity. The Board at that time gave general endorsement to the establishment of such a committee. To amend the By-Laws of the Board, wherein all regular or standing committees are listed, it is necessary under Article V I I I , Section 2, of those By-Laws that such amendments be submitted in writing and furnished each member at the beginning of a regular meeting. Therefore, the question is now presented: Whether Article IV, Committees of the Board, Section 6, of the By-Laws shall be amended by the addition to the listing of committees consisting of "Three or more Board members each" of a committee styled "Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity." T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Conlon, Mr. Summers; no, none; absent, Mr. Szegho. T h e amendment was approved as presented by the following roll call vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, M r . H a h n , Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Governor Walker. (President Neal announced that he had asked Mr. Velasquez to serve as Chairman of the Committee and that Mr. Velasquez had accepted. T h e Chairman will begin to arrange for a timetable and agenda for the work of the Committee as well as to present in due course recommendations for membership on the Committee.) BUSINESS PRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY President's Reports President Corbally presented a report on selected topics of current inter-
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