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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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study and will also facilitate successful acquisition of research support. I t is felt that a department in which several disciplines are represented will have improved ability to recruit high quality faculty and that a department head with acceptable professional stature can be more readily obtained than would be possible otherwise. T h e combining of the two departments will result in improved utilization of equipment and facilities and in more efficient use of funds (shared equipment, unified administration, etc.). T h e Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, the Chancellor at UrbanaChampaign, and the Vice President for Academic Affairs concur in this recommendation. T h e University Senates Conference has indicated that no further Senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . L i v i n g s t o n , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d .

Reorganization of the Department of Zoology into a Department of Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution and a Department of Genetics and Development, Urbana

(19) T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate has recommended that the Department of Zoology be reorganized into a Department of Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution and a Department of Genetics and Development within the School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, to be effective immediately. The Department of Zoology was divided into two provisional teaching and research units within the School of Life Sciences at the end of the 1972-73 academic year on an experimental basis. As part of the restructuring, the faculty of the School of Life Sciences were invited to affiliate with either a provisional Department of Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution or a provisional Department of Genetics and Development. T h e budget of the Department of Zoology was equitably subdivided by the Acting Director of the School of Life Sciences, and bylaws were developed by each of the provisional units. At the end of the 1973-74 academic year, all faculty affiliated with the two provisional departments were requested t o evaluate the units with respect to the goals of the reorganization plan. Both groups of faculty consider that the experiment has been successful and that each forms a strong, cohesive unit. As a discipline within the life sciences, zoology has evolved into a number of problem-oriented subdisciplines which have unique goals and methodologies and are no longer based on traditional concepts. These traditional concepts are now considered obsolete for the purpose of teaching and research in modern biology. Hence, a primary goal of the reorganization of zoology has been a realignment of faculty that will provide teaching and research programs which best reflect current trends of inquiry in the life sciences and faculty strengths and affinities in the School of Life Sciences. T h e Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Chancellor at Urbana-Champaign, and the Vice President for Academic Affairs concur in this recommendation. T h e University Senates Conference has indicated that no further Senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mrs. Rader, this recommendation was approved. Change in Organization, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Urbana

(20) T h e members of the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese of the rank of Assistant Professor and above have voted to request a change in depart-