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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Deanship of the College of Engineering, Chicago Grcle

(6) T h e Chancellor at Chicago Circle has recommended the appointment of Dr. Paul R. Paslay, presently Dean and Professor of Engineering at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, as Professor of Engineering, on indefinite tenure, and Dean of the College of Engineering, beginning September 1, 1976, on a twelve-month service basis, at an annual salary of $43,000. T h e appointment of Dr. Paslay will fill the vacancy which was created by the resignation of Dean George Bugliarello in 1973. Professor Herbert Stein has been acting dean of the college since Dr. Bugliarello's resignation. T h e recommendation is made with the advice of a search committee* and after consultation with the Executive Committee of the college. The Vice President for Academic Affairs concurs. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . H a h n , this a p p o i n t m e n t w a s a p p r o v e d .

Directorship of the School of Social Sciences, Urbana

(7) The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has recommended to the Chancellor at Urbana-Champaign the appointment of Dr. Robert B. Crawford, presently Coordinator of Social Sciences Program, Director of the Center for Asian Studies, and Professor of History, as Director of the School of Social Sciences beginning August 21, 1976, on an academic-year service basis, at an annual salary of $32,000. Dr. Crawford will continue to hold the rank of Professor of History on indefinite tenure and will relinquish the directorship of the Center for Asian Studies as soon as proper arrangements can be made. In February 1976 the Board of Trustees approved the establishment of a School of Social Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, effective August 21, 1976. The nomination was made on the recommendation of a consultative committee 3 and with the endorsement of the Executive Committee of the college. The Chancellor at Urbana-Champaign has approved the recommendation, and the Vice President for Academic Affairs concurs. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . H o w a r d , this a p p o i n t m e n t w a s a p p r o v e d .

Headship of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Urbana

(8) The Chancellor at Urbana-Champaign has recommended the appointment of Dr. James E. Heath, Professor of Physiology, as Head of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics beginning August 21, 1976, on an academic-year service basis, at an annual salary of $30,500. Dr. Heath will continue to hold the rank of Professor of Physiology on indefinite tenure. Dr. Heath will succeed Professor William W. Sleator who has asked to be relieved of this administrative assignment. T h e nomination is submitted with the concurrence of the Executive Committee of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the faculty of the Department

1 Paul M. Chung, Professor of Fluid Mechanics in Department of Energy Engineering and Head of the Department, Chairman; Ted B. Belytschko, Associate Professor of Structural Mechanics in Department of Materials Engineering; Earl E. Gose, Professor of Bioengineering; Daryl Logan, graduate student in materials engineering; C. K. Sanathanan, Professor of Information Engineering; Fred W. Schroeder, Associate Professor of General Engineering in Department of Systems Engineering; Mahesh Shah, graduate student in information engineering; Harold Simon, Professor of Heat Transfer in Department of Energy Engineering. ' J. Myron Atkin, Professor of Science Education and Dean of the College of Education, Chairman; David J. Bordua, Professor of Sociology; David W. Plath, Professor of Anthropology and in the Center for Asian Studies; Lester G. Sehgman, Professor of Political Science; and John Thompson, Professor of Geography.