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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1978
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1977] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 189 Revision of Policy Relating to Employment and Treatment of Handicapped Persons, Disabled Veterans, and Veterans of the Vietnam Era (5) Section 402 of the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 direct that policy with regard to employment and treatment on the job of handicapped persons, disabled veterans, and veterans of the Vietnam era appear in "policy manuals" of the University. In order to comply with this requirement, I recommend that Article I X , Academic and Administrative Staffs, Section 1, Criteria for Employment and Promotion, of the University of Illinois Statutes be approved provisionally as indicated and that the Senates and the University Senates Conference be requested to provide advice on the provisional amendment by March 1, 1977, to facilitate final action by the Trustees. University of Illinois Statutes Article I X . Academic and Administrative Staffs Sec. 1. Criteria for Employment and Promotion The basic criteria for employment and promotion of all University staff, whether or not subject to the act creating the University Civil Service System of Illinois, shall be appropriate qualifications for and performance of the specified duties. T h e principles of equal employment opportunity are a part of the general policy of the University. Unless otherwise provided by law, employees are to be selected and treated during employment without regard to political affiliation, relationship by blood or marriage, age, sex, race, creed, [or] national origin, handicap, or status as a disabled veteran, or veteran of the Vietnam era.1 T h e s t u d e n t a d v i s o r y v o t e w a s : Aye, M r . C o n l o n , M r . M a t t h e w s , Mr. V o l g m a n ; no, none. O n m o t i o n of M r . H a h n , t h e s e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e a p p r o v e d , a n d t h e p r o p o s e d revision of A r t i c l e I X , S e c t i o n 1, of t h e U n i v e r s i t y Statutes w a s a p p r o v e d provisionally b y t h e following v o t e : A y e , M r . F o r s y t h , M r . H a h n , M r . H o w a r d , M r . Livingston, M r . Neal, Mrs. R a d e r , M r s . Sheph e r d ; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . Lenz, Governor T h o m p s o n , M r . Velasquez. Resolution to Participate under the Provisions of the Illinois Fire Protection Training Act (6) The Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended adoption of the following resolution pertaining to the University's participation in the Illinois Fire Protection Training Act: Whereas, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, is desirous of electing to participate in the benefits provided for in the Illinois Fire Protection Training Act as enacted by the Seventy-seventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois; and Whereas, in order that a state-controlled university, college, or junior college be eligible for initial or continued participation in the program, the law requires that before an individual may commence regular employment as a firefighter, he must have been certified by the Illinois Fire Protection Personnel Standards and Education Commission as having successfully completed an approved training course; and Whereas, T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois prior to granting 1 New language is italicized; deletions are in brackets.
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