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After the disability benefits described above have been exhausted, a member
may be granted a disability leave without pay from the University. If such
a member is a participant in the University Retirement System of Illinois,
he may apply for the benefits to which he is entitled under that system.
(d) Death, Disability, and Survivor Benefits. For employees of the University,
other than students paid on an hourly basis and personnel whose
principal employment is outside the University, with at least six months' service,
who are not participants in the University Retirement System or anyother
publicly supported retirement system which pays a death benefit, a
death benefit of $500 is payable by the University. For employees who are
participants in the University Retirement System, death, disability, and
survivor benefits are provided by that system.
REGISTRATION OF STAFF MEMBERS IN UNIVERSITY CLASSES
Sec. 30. (a) Persons on the academic, administrative, or permanent nonacademic
staff of the University, or on the staffs of the allied surveys and
laboratories located on the Urbana-Champaign campus, may register in University
courses for which they are eligible for admission, without payment
of the tuition fee and the laboratory, library, and supply fee, provided that
their annual salary for nine months is less than the minimum salary for such
period established for full-time assistants.
(b) For persons on other than a nine months' appointment, the exemption
limit shall be adjusted proportionately, and if for periods of less than nine
months, the exemption shall apply if compensation is less than the rate paid
to full-time assistants at the minimum salary.
(c) Permanent nonacademic employees without regard to salary may also
register without payment of any fees or deposits in:
(1) Any regular University courses in which the employee is requested
by his department, with the concurrence of the Director of Nonacademic
Personnel, to enroll for the improvement of the employee's present work.
(2) Any special course looking toward improving University service organized
at the request of the Director of Nonacademic Personnel in cooperation
with the teaching staff, the employee, and his department.
(d) The exemption from fees, as provided above, shall apply to graduate
scholars and fellows whose stipends are paid from general appropriations of
the University, but not to fellows whose stipends are paid from grants or
contract funds received by the University from outside sponsors of graduate
study and research.
(e) Persons on appointment for a first and second semester or a second
semester who are exempt from payment of fees for courses in which they
are registered during the period of their appointment are exempt also from a
payment of fees for courses in which they enroll in the Summer Session immediately
following termination of their appointments, regardless of whether
or not they are teaching in that Summer Session.
V. GENERAL PROVISIONS
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES
Sec. 31. The President of the University is authorized to appoint such
administrative and other committees or boards as are necessary to assist him