Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1978 [PAGE 288]

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1977]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Article IX, Section 3e I n determining appointments to, and salaries and promotion of the academic staff, special consideration shall be given to [those of] the following [factors which are applicable]: (1) teaching ability and performance [,]; (2) research ability and achievement [ J ; and (3) [general usefulness or promise thereof to the University.] ability and performance in continuing education, public service, committee work, and special assignments designed to promote the quality and effectiveness of academic programs and services. Article IX, Section 5d T h e responsibilities to the University of full-time members of the academic staff are [held to be] fulfilled [when a teaching load appropriate to the rank and program is carried] by the performance, appropriate to rank and terms of appointment, of teaching, scholarly research, continuing education and public service, and committee work and special assignments^, an appropriate amount of productive scholarly research, aid in a program of public service, and a reasonable share of committee assignments is performed]. Such staff members may carry on some professional or business activities of an income-producing character, so long as such activities are compatible and not in conflict with University interests. The head of the department of which the employee is a member should know and approve of these activities outside the University. Article X, Section 1 a. Except under unusual circumstances evidenced by a special written agreement approved by the President of the University and the appointee, the tenure for the academic ranks of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, and instructor shall be as provided in this section. The parts of Article X, Sections l a and l b , hereof relating to the probationary period and indefinite tenure do not apply to academic ranks other than those mentioned in the preceding sentence; nor to appointments at any rank which involve no salary or obligation to render services; nor to appointments for fifty percent ( 5 0 % ) or less of full-time service at ranks other than professor or associate professor; nor to appointments for less than seventy-five percent ( 7 5 % ) of full-time service during any period when the appointee is a candidate for a degree at this University. In the case of academic-staff positions authorized in Article IX, Sections 3c and 4a, other than the ranks of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, and instructor, appointments shall be for not longer that one year and shall be renewable. [If such appointments are to administrative positions, however, they may be for not longer than two years. Appointments subject to the limits stated in the preceding two sentences shall be renewable.] (1) An appointment as professor or associate professor shall be for an indefinite term, except that first appointments or temporary appointments may be made for shorter periods. An appointment at either of these ranks for fifty percent ( 5 0 % ) or less of full-time service shall be for an indefinite term at the specified percentage, except that such first appointments or temporary appointments may be for definite terms. (2) During the probationary period defined in Article X, Section l b ( l ) , [below,] an appointment as assistant professor shall be for not more than two years, and an appointment as instructor shall be for not more than one year. [Any] Such an appointment [of an assistant professor or an instructor] which begins after or extends beyond the expiration of the probationary period shall, subject to the exceptions stated in [below,] Article X, Sections l a ( 3 ) and l b ( 5 ) , be for an indefinite term and the contract shall so state[,]. It, because of inadvertence or otherwise, a