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19571 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 221
III. EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION
A. COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS
THE COLLEGE
Sec. 8. (a) The college is the largest educational and administrative
group. It comprises those departments or interests which are best served by
their inclusion within it.
(b) The college shall be governed in its internal administration by its
faculty. The faculty consists of the President, the Vice-President and Provost,
the dean, the associate deans and assistant deans of the college, and all professors,
associate professors, assistant professors, and instructors within the
groups it comprises, together with a representative of any other department or
group as may be entitled to representation by virtue of participation in the
program of instruction in the college, and such other officers of the University
as the President may assign thereto. The dean of the college, on the advice of
the College Executive Committee and in consultation with the President, shall
determine faculty membership as implied by the phrase "participation in the
program of instruction in the college." The Executive Committee of the
college, in consultation with the dean, shall determine the voting rights of
members of the faculty not on full-time appointment.
(c) Subject to the jurisdiction of the Senates as provided in Section 6,
the college shall have jurisdiction in all educational matters falling within the
scope of its programs, including the determination of its curricula, except
that proposals which involve budgetary changes shall become effective only
, when the President, having received the advice of the University Council, has
approved them. The college has the fullest measure of autonomy consistent
with the maintenance of general University educational policy and correct
academic and administrative relations with other divisions of the University.
In questions of doubt concerning the proper limits of this autonomy between
the college and the Senate, the college shall be entitled to appeal for a ruling
to the President, who shall make his decision after consultation with the
Senate Coordinating Council.
(d) The transfer of any line of work, or any part thereof, to or from a
college, from or to some other administrative group, shall be made on the
recommendation of a Senate, the Senate Coordinating Council, and the President,
and on approval of the Board of Trustees.
(e) The faculty shall elect its secretary and committees.
(f) An Executive Committee of two or more members, composed of or
selected from the professors, associate professors, and assistant professors in
the college and elected annually by the faculty, shall advise the dean of the
college and transact such business as may be delegated to it by the faculty.
The dean is ex officio a member and chairman of the committee. When meeting
to give advice on appointment of the dean, the senior faculty member on
ihe Executive Committee shall be chairman, and the dean shall not be a
inember.
HE DEAN
Sec. 9. (a) The dean is the chief executive officer of the college, responsible
to the President for its administration. He is the agent of the college
acuity for the execution of college educational policy.