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BOARD OF T R U S T E E S

[December 17

Length of Full-Time Minimum Service to the University Notice of (in appointment years completed) Nonreappointment Less than 4 years 6 months 4 years or over 12 months The appropriate notice date will be uniform for each campus and will be related to the standard appointment year on that campus. 1 If such notice is given later than specified in an appointment year, it shall be accompanied by an offer from the Board of Trustees of a terminal contract for an additional appointment for a term equivalent to the period of minimum notice, viz., 6 months or 12 months. (2) Computation of length of service will be on the basis of continuous employment in campus academic administrative and professional positions (or similar service at the University level for employees of the central administration). On a case-by-case basis, credit may be given for all or part of the relevant experience in other University of Illinois positions. (3) The foregoing provisions do not apply to an individual who is paid from a source of funds which may be subject to change, with little advance notice (e.g., outside grants and contracts, contract research reserve), on an appointment which notes that it is subject to receipt of nonappropriated funds. Every effort will be made to give such individual as much notice of nonreappointment as is feasible, except that in no instance shall any notice be less than 60 days.' (4) Excepted from the above provisions are the following administrative officers: The President of the University; the chancellors and vice chancellors; the officers of the Board of Trustees who are University employees; those others who are designated by the President as "general officers" of the University; and the deans, directors, heads, and chairmen of academic units.

Office of Transportation Research, Urbana (Report for Information)

(8) Transportation education and research have existed for many years and in many quarters on the Urbana campus. The efforts have tended to be somewhat fragmented and often not totally responsive to the complexity of the problems or to the broad approaches representative of the interests of the students and the State and Federal agencies having responsibilities for the solution of transportation problems. It is apparent that on the Urbana campus there are many faculty members who are interested in different aspects of transportation research and that these faculty members would like to work together on problems of mutual interest. For several months an ad hoc committee of faculty members has been studying transportation activities on the Urbana campus and assessing the level of interest among the faculty in this area of research and teaching. As a result of its study, the committee recommended that: in order to achieve the goals which the faculty perceive to be both desirable and realistically obtainable in the area of transportation research and education, an Office of Transportation Research be created on the Urbana campus. In response to the work of the faculty members, with the support of the deans of the individual colleges, the Urbana campus is establishing an Office of Trans1 2 The rules will be effective upon approval by the Board of Trustees. The present status of source of funds will govern the employee's situation at the time of implementation. Previous years of service will be counted on the basu of the present contract.