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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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3. An appointee to the Laurence J. Norton Chair will normally be an individual on indefinite term appointment in the Department of Agricultural Economics and will continue to occupy the chair without specified term until further action of the Board of Trustees upon the recommendation of the Dean of the College of Agriculture and the Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, with the concurrence of the Chancellor and the President. 4. Subject to compliance with established University procedures, funds received for the Laurence J. Norton Chair shall be applied to provide the partial or full salary of the appointee to the Laurence J. Norton Professorship of Agricultural Marketing and for support of the teaching and research activities and programs directed by such appointee with the approval of the Department Head and Dean. Such support may include provision for visiting lecturers in connection with such activities or programs or in connection with conferences and climes related to the field of agricultural marketing, teaching or research associates and assistants, and supportive services, including secretarial assistance and travel. 5. These guidelines with respect to the administration of the chair may be supplemented within the terms of the bequest by the Chancellor, subject to the concurrence of the President, after consultation with the Dean of the College of Agriculture and the Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics. The Vice President for Academic Affairs concurs in this recommendation. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Forsyth, this recommendation was approvedPresident's Report

Revision of the Undergraduate Curriculum in Landscape Architecture, Urbana (16) The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a revision of the undergraduate curriculum in landscape architecture involving a number of changes in course content and changed credit hours. A 2-hour elective is deleted and a field trip made mandatory. The net result is to reduce the number of hours required for graduation from 132 to 128. The revisions are designed to improve substantially the quality of the curriculum by improving organization and content to reflect changing conditions in the profession. The revisions also will strengthen professional skills and will permit flexibility in progress through the curriculum for transfer students, by concentrating the primary professional courses within three years. Change in Name, Foreign Student-Staff Affairs, Urbana The Chancellor at Urbana-Champaign has approved a change in name of the Foreign Student-Staff Affairs Office to International Student-Staff Affairs Office. The change, requested by students from other countries, is more in accord with the terminology adopted for similar activities at other institutions.

This report was received for record.

Policy on Reemployment of Retirees (17) On February 16, 1977, the Board approved a policy, to be implemented prospectively, establishing limitations on post-retirement salaries as requested by the State Universities Retirement System. A question has been raised as to the effect of that policy on persons planning to retire at the end of the 1976-77 academic year whose plans were made in the light of practices permissible prior to the February 1977 action.