CC.04.07
February 16, 2004

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
URBANA-CHAMPAIGN SENATE

Committee on Committees
(Final - Action)

CC.04.07 Senate Approval of Nominations for the Athletic Board

BACKGROUND

The Athletic Board includes seven faculty members (plus two Big Ten faculty representatives) and one student member who are appointed by the Chancellor from nominations submitted by the Urbana-Champaign Senate. (The Chancellor also appoints one student each from nominations from the Student Athlete Advisory Board and the Illinois Student Government.) Terms of faculty ordinarily shall be four years; terms of students ordinarily shall be one year, with the possibility of reappointment for an additional year. The term of one faculty member, Jerome Packard, and one student member, Jamie Lynne Graves, expire at the end of the annual meeting of the Athletic Board in the summer of 2004. Continuing members of the Athletic Board and the expiration of their terms are as follows:

Faculty:		Kal Alston	EDUC	2006
		Susan Cohen	BUS	2005
		Kathleen Conlin	FAA	2006
		Ann Nardulli	LAS	2005
		Laurence Parker	EDUC	2007
		Emily Watts	LAS	2007

			

The Committee on Committees recommends approval of the following slate of nominees. (Interest statements from each nominee are attached.)

NOMINATIONS

To fill one faculty position for term expiring in 2008:
		Gail Scherba		VMED
		Thomas Weissinger		LIBR

To fill one student position for term expiring in 2005:
		Derek Chan		LAS
		Jay Scholl		ACES

COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES
John Prussing, Chair
Nancy Blake
Robert Darmody
Felipe Hillard
Frank Lacson
Gay Miller
Nina Tarr
Corey Zeller

Nominations from the floor must be accompanied by the nominee's signed statement of willingness to serve if elected. The statement shall be dated and include the name of the position to be filled. If present, the nominee's oral statement will suffice.