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1052 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [December 17
and Procedure as contained in the press proof submitted to the Trustees in
advance of today's meeting. This is the second part of the University of Illinois
Statutes which your Committee has been charged with the responsibility of revising
and bring up to date. The first part, the University of Illinois Statutes, was
approved by the Board of Trustees on January 16, 1957, and became effective
September 1, 1957.
In approving the Statutes the University Senate accepted the recommendation
of the Senate Committee on Revision of the Statutes that only those sections
in which the University Senates have an interest should be included in the
University of Illinois Statutes, and that those sections which deal with administrative
organization and the powers and responsibilities of administrative
officers of the University should appear in a separate compilation, the General
Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure. (This compilation
has sometimes been called Part Two in discussions of the Statutes.)
Amendments to the University of Illinois Statutes are to be adopted by the
procedure set forth in Section 62 thereof. Amendments to the General Rules
Concerning University Organisation and Procedure are to be made by the Board
of Trustees on the recommendation of the President, and the Senates will not
participate in the amending process. The present compilation of the General
Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure was submitted to the
Senate because it contains some sections which the former University Senate
had approved over the years. By approving this compilation the Senate understood
that it was divesting itself of its role in amending those sections. It was
understood, however, that subject matter dealt with in the General Rules Concerning
University Organization and Procedure may be covered in amendments
to the University of Illinois Statutes which the Senate may later propose.
The University Senate, in a special session held on July 29, 1957, and called
by the President of the University for this purpose, considered the compilation
of the General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure. The
text of the sections was approved by the Senate and was submitted to the Board
of Trustees for consideration and adoption. The University Senate also authorized
representatives of its Committee on the Revision of the Statutes, working
with the Legal Counsel, to edit the draft and to make such changes, other than
in substance, as they deemed necessary. The draft as edited was then submitted
to the Board of Trustees Committee and to all of the other Trustees.
The Board Committee went over the draft, section by section, making
certain changes. Representatives of the University Senate Committee advised
the Board Committee that these changes would not be of concern to the Senate
since they are either clarifying language or deal with matters of administrative
policy. At the conclusion of its deliberations, the Committee approved the draft
and authorized the Secretary of the Board to have it printed for presentation to
the Board of Trustees.
The Committee recommends that the General Rules Concerning University
Organization and Procedure become effective as of January 1, 1958, with the
exception of Section 26, "Terms of Employment and Administrative Staff,"
which the Committee recommends become effective September 1, 1958, since it
is not feasible to change present contracts of appointment which are subject
to existing terms of employment.
At the conclusion of this presentation, Mr. Johnston suggested two
other changes:
Section 11, listing the duties of the Vice-President and Comptroller and of
subordinate officers in the Business Office, specifies that the Bursar shall
"collect all monies due the University." Other Sections authorize the President
of the University and the Vice-President and Comptroller to accept
funds for various purposes. A change in the language in Section 11 is
indicated in the interest of consistency and to avoid possible misunderstandings
of the several provisions.
In Section 21, a statement of the existing University policy on the use oi
University buildings and premises for political purposes should be included.