To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff
           <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Chancellor Nancy Cantor" <chancellor@uiuc.edu>

Reply-To: chancellor@uiuc.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Administrative Reorganization

January 29, 2003


Dear Colleagues:

As many of you know, Charles Colbert, Vice Chancellor for Administration 
and Human Services, plans to retire at the end of this calendar year.  I 
have not worked with Charles as long as many of you, but like you, I have 
come to appreciate his dedication to this institution and to the people 
who work here.  We all are grateful for his many contributions, and I will 
miss his good counsel.  We thought it would be important to inform the 
campus of our plans for the Vice Chancellor's portfolio as early as 
possible, and I am writing now to provide you with that information.  

Last year, Vice Chancellor Colbert consolidated and reorganized facilities 
services.  Consistent with campus goals to accommodate to current budget 
realities and implement better business and administrative practices, he 
and I have continued working together to expand what he started.  After 
discussions with the Vice Chancellor, his staff members and others, I have 
determined that we will not replace the vice chancellor position effective 
July 1, 2003; instead we will realign the remaining units in his 
portfolio.  The realignment will permit us to reduce administrative costs, 
offer current staff members different administrative opportunities, and 
will provide the campus with assistance in critical areas.

O.J. Clark, currently Director of Public Safety, will be appointed 
Executive Director of Public Safety and will join the Chancellor's 
Cabinet, as will Jack Dempsey, who will be appointed Executive Director of 
Facilities and Services.  The other units and functions in the portfolio 
will be absorbed by these two administrators and our current Vice 
Chancellors.  Details of the reorganization can be found at 
http://www.vcadmin.uiuc.edu/.

Please join me in thanking Vice Chancellor Colbert for his service.  We 
will be celebrating his tenure with us in a more formal way later this 
year.

Cordially,

Nancy Cantor
Chancellor
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The Office of the Chancellor

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