Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1976 [PAGE 578]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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2. Nothing in the contract, letter of agreement, or other document, or in understandings not committed to print, may be (a) in violation of the pertinent State or Federal laws regarding discrimination, use of human subjects, or other relevant issues, or (b) contrary to the generally prevailing ethics of the disciplines or professions involved, or those principles of conduct generally shared by members of academic institutions. 1 I I I . Remedy When Integrity of Activities Is Challenged If a formal allegation is made by an aggrieved party that the University of Illinois has engaged in illegal or unprofessional conduct or has contravened the above principles either by (a) entering into a particular collaborative relationship with a foreign country, a foreign institution, an international agency, or their representatives, or (b) the conduct of any collaborative activity, project, or program, then such allegation will be reviewed by an ad hoc committee appointed by the Chancellor. If the review sustains the allegation, the committee shall advise the Chancellor to recommend to the President appropriate remedial steps, including suspension of work, refusal to renew or extend the contract, or outright termination, unless the University obtains assurances from the other contracting party that such practices will not occur in the future.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, this recommendation was approved.

Honorary Degrees, Medical Center

(10) T h e Senate at the Medical Center campus has recommended that honorary degrees be conferred on the following persons at the Commencement Exercises on June 4, 1976. FRANCIS J. GERTY, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, University of Illinois at the Medical Center, the degree of Doctor of Science. HERBERT E. LONGENECKER, President Emeritus, Tulane University, the degree of Doctor of Science. The Chancellor concurs in the recommendations of the Medical Center Senate. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mrs. Rader, these degrees were authorized as recommended.

Revision of University Statutes: Graduate Work of Academic Staff Members

(11) O n July 17, 1974, the Board approved provisionally an amendment to the University Statutes to permit a professorial staff member to pursue an advanced degree in a department on another campus of the University. T h e revision of Article IX, Section 7, of the Statutes is as follows (new language is italicized; deletions are in brackets): No person shall be admitted t o candidacy for an advanced degree [who] on a campus of the University if he holds an appointment as professor, associate professor, or assistant professor in any department or division of that campus of the University. Any person engaged in graduate study who accepts an appointment with the rank of assistant professor or higher at a campus of the University will be dropped as a degree candidate at . [this] that campus of the University. T h e proposed revision has now been approved by the Senates of the three

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Under current practices, this is accomplished by the proposal approval process.