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236 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [January 16
G. CREATION OF NEW UNITS
CREATION OF COLLEGES, SCHOOLS, DIVISIONS, AND INSTITUTES
Sec. 32. (a) Colleges. When deemed necessary for the administration
of new programs requiring a new grouping of departments and fields, new
colleges may be created. A new college may be proposed by any one of the
three Senates or by the President. After approval by a Senate and on the
recommendation of the Senate Coordinating Council, the President shall
submit the proposal for the creation of a new college, together with his
recommendation, to the Board of Trustees for its action.
(b) Schools. Independently organized schools may be created in the
same manner as colleges.
(c) Institutes and General University Organizations. For the development
and operation of teaching, of research, of extension, and of service
programs which are horizontal or intercoUege in their scope and which cannot
be developed under existing administrative agencies, there may be created
such institutes, councils, divisions, or other agencies as are warranted. The
creation of such horizontal agencies shall be by the same procedure as for
colleges.
IV. ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFFS
ALL UNIVERSITY POSITIONS ON MERIT BASIS
Sec. 33. The Board of Trustees stamps with its strongest disapproval any
disposition to make patronage out of University appointments. Political,
social, fraternal, and church influences are to be altogether ignored, and every
appointment shall be made on a merit basis. The President and other officers
of the University are to feel fully assured that the Board of Trustees will
heartily support them in acting on this principle.
EMPLOYMENT OF RELATIVES
Sec. 34. (a) It is the general policy of the University not to employ on
its academic or administrative staff a person who is related within the third
degree by blood or marriage to any other person employed on either of these
staffs.
(b) The President is authorized to make exceptions when in his judgment
the interests of the University may be prejudicially affected by the
application of such a policy. Exception shall not be made in any case, however,
where one of the persons involved has authority and responsibility in
the appointment or promotion of a relative within the third degree.
(c) Employment in many positions in the University is subject to the
provisions of the act creating the University Civil Service System of Illinois.
In these positions relation to another person in the employment of the University
will not be a cause for refusal to employ, for discharge, or for demotion.
However, no person having authority to select a Civil Service employee shall
employ any person who is related to him in the degree set out in (a) above.
(d) The President shall have power to promulgate rules to make effective
the policies set forth in this section.
APPOINTMENTS, RANKS, AND PROMOTION OF THE ACADEMIC STAFF
Sec. 35. (a) All appointments, reappointments, and promotions of the
academic staff, as defined in Section 36 (a), and administrative staff shall be
made by the Board of Trustees, on the recommendation of the President.