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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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On motion of Mr. Lenz, these recommendations were approved, and prior actions of the Board of Trustees concerning appointments of noncitizens were rescinded.

Addition to Section 26, General Rules: Notice of Nonreappointment, Academic/Professional Employees

(7) Over the past several years the University has been considering the need to provide suitable protection for the group of University employees generally termed "academic/professional" in situations of termination other than for due cause. 1 In September 1972 the Board of Trustees approved provisionally an amendment to the University Statutes containing a proposal for notice of nonreappointment of such employees. 8 However, review of the proposal by the Senates and the University Senates Conference has not been completed, and final action on this proposal therefore is not being recommended to the Board. In the meantime, a Special Committee on Professional Personnel was appointed by the President in 1971 to consider a number of questions and, in its interim report of April 4, 1975, proposed an addition to Section 26 of the General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure. T h a t recommendation was referred to the Professional Advisory Committee on each campus which expressed general agreement with it. The following proposal, in most respects the same as the Committee proposal, is now recommended for approval. I recommend further that a report, including comments on the feasibility of providing additional protection for long-term employees covered under paragraph three, be sent to the Board after two full years of experience with this provision. These recommendations are submitted with the understanding that any employee should receive the maximum feasible notice of nonreappointment, e.g., the sixty days' notice provided in paragraph three should be regarded as a minimum only. The University Senates Conference has been consulted as required by the Statutes and has recommended approval. The Chancellors of each campus concur.

The student advisory vote was: Aye, none; no, Mr. Conlon, Mr. Summers; absent, Mr. Szegho. On motion of Mr. Howard, this revision was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mr. Velasquez; no, Mr. Forsyth, Mrs. Shepherd; absent, Governor Walker.

Amendment to General Rules

Section 26 ( n ) . T h e following rules shall apply to the nonreappointment of full-time University employees for whom Article X, Section 1, of the University Statutes contains no statement governing notice of nonreappointment, or for whom the rules of the University Civil Service System are inapplicable: (1) Written notice of nonreappointment shall be given by the Board of Trustees in accordance with the following schedule:

1 These employees hold a wide variety of positions such as Associate Dean, Bursar, Architectural Specialist, Electronics Research Engineer, etc. Because they receive academic contracts, the rules of the University Civil Service System do not apply to them; analogous provisions of Article X, Section 1, of the University Statutes, relating mainly to faculty members, provide no protection. 3 The 1972 provisional action would have provided six months' notice to academic-professionals in general, but provided no notice for those paid from grant or contract funds.