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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1978
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186 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [January 19 Step 11 in the process reads as follows: 11. Arrangements will be made with the President whereby those prospects are invited here for interviews with: a. The Search Committee, b. The President, c. The General Officers of the University, the Vice Chancellors for Academic Affairs, and the Graduate Deans. Details for these interviews will be developed at a later date. It was agreed this morning that Step 11 should be expanded to include: a. Representatives of students, b. Representatives of professional/academic staff, c. Interested members of the Board of Trustees, d. Others, if deemed by the President to be appropriate. Because of my own schedule, the details of how this expansion will take place will not be developed until mid-February, but the interview phase of the process will not take place until April at the earliest. I would, however, be pleased to have any suggestions which you might wish to give me about the ways in which the expansion could be done, particularly with regard to (a) students and (d) others. It was further agreed that reactions to any candidates from any of the interview groups would go directly to the President so that the Senates Conference would not serve as a "reaction filter." Obviously, I would share reactions with the Conference and would include them in my own decision-making process. I would add one crucial caution. T h e type of person we are seeking is one who is now happily and effectively employed in another position. In spite of some enthusiasm on the part of some people for "openness" in interviewing candidates, I know for a fact that many of the best potential candidates will not become actual candidates if our search process leads to public knowledge that they are "looking for another job." People are generally not willing to jeopardize their current position to gamble that they might get another position — particularly if that gamble is to be played out in public. Accordingly, it is not my intention to develop a scheme of mass interviews, and a general atmosphere of confidentiality is necessary if we are to be successful. In addition to this expansion of the process, I want to reassure you of the fact that the Conference is conducting a vigorous affirmative action search and that records are being kept to document that fact. T h e Conference and I have agreed to this expansion of the search process because we believe we have been asked to do so rather than because of any feeling that the expansion is necessary to insure the breadth, balance, and integrity of the process. I will be pleased to receive any suggestions you may have about the methodology of the expansion the Conference and I have proposed or about the responsiveness of the proposal to the concerns which have been expressed. REGULAR AGENDA T h e Board considered the following reports and recommendations from the President of the University. Award of Certified Public Accountant Certificates (1) The Committee on Accountancy recommends that the certificate of Certified Public Accountant be awarded, under Section 5 of the Illinois Accountancy Act of 1943, as amended, to eight candidates who have presented evidence that they are holders of valid and unrevoked Certified Public Accountant certificates obtained by passing a standard written examination in another state or territory of the
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