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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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teaching in the undergraduate programs by senior staff at the University." Following completion of the projects last summer, the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Urbana appointed a campus review committee to select the projects most deserving of recognition and reward. T h e committee's selections are: Louis R. PONDY, Professor of Business Administration, "Management and Organizational Behavior," and MICHAEL C. ROMANOS, Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, " T h e Use of Simulation in the Instruction of Undergraduate Planning Courses." T h e Chancellor of the Urbana-Champaign campus and the Vice President for Academic Affairs have recommended that awards of $1,000 be made for each of the foregoing projects. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . F o r s y t h , 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 .

Discontinuance of the Center for Human Ecology, Urbana

(12) The Chancellor at Urbana-Champaign has recommended the discontinuance of the Center for Human Ecology, which was initially established as a special unit in the Graduate College. When the Institute for Environmental Studies was established, the center was transferred to the institute as a part of the initial proposal. T h e center programs were virtually absorbed by the institute at that time. For the past two and one-half years the center has been inactive but was maintained, upon the recommendation of the director of the institute, in the event that new programs might evolve which would appropriately be housed in the center. Since no new programs have been activated, the director of the institute concurs in the recommendation that the center be discontinued and its existing budget (which supports a 75 percent nonacademic position) be formally transferred to the Institute for Environmental Studies. It should be noted that the nonacademic position supports the institute teaching function. It is recommended that the discontinuance of the Center for Human Ecology be effective immediately. The Vice President for Academic Affairs concurs in this recommendation. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . V o l g m a 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 .

Amendment of University of Illinois Statutes Relating to Criteria for Employment and Promotion

(13) I n January the Board approved provisionally the amendment of Article I X , Section 1, of the University of Illinois Statutes, as indicated below, in order to comply with Section 402 of the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The Senates and the University Senates Conference have now concurred in the proposed amendment. Therefore, I recommend that the Board of Trustees finally approve the proposed amendment of the Statutes.

The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Cordon, Mr. Matthews, Mr. Volgman; no, none. On motion of Mr. Lenz, this recommendation and the proposed revision of Article IX, Section 1, of the University Statutes were approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Livingston, Mrs. Rader, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Shepherd, Governor Thompson.