To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff &
           All Undergrad Students & All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "President Michael J. Hogan" <presmike@uillinois.edu>

Reply-To: presmike@uillinois.edu
 Subject: Amendments Proposed by Board of Trustees

Dear Members of the University Community,

At our September 23rd Board of Trustees meeting, the Trustees called on me 
to move forward with a plan to re-structure the administration of the 
University of Illinois in order to reduce costs, streamline operations, 
create opportunities to generate new revenues, and better coordinate our 
shared teaching and research missions. This re-structuring builds on 
recommendations in the Administrative Review & Restructuring (ARR) Report, 
which was shared with you in June 2010.

The re-structuring plan the Board discussed in September requires 
adjusting the titles of existing University Officers and creating one new 
officer.  These changes require amending the Board's University Statutes 
and The General Rules of the University.  Thus, the Board has asked the 
University Senates Conference (and through them, the campus senates) to 
review and consider the amendments.  I'm grateful to the University 
Senates Conference and the campus senates for encouraging your review.  I 
urge you to participate in their meetings and share your thoughts about 
the plan with them.

To aid in the discussion, we've prepared a "Frequently Asked Questions" 
(FAQ) document regarding the amendments.  You can find it at:

  http://www.uillinois.edu/arr/documents/Amendments.FAQ.pdf

Should there be additional questions or comments, please bring them to the 
attention of your senate representatives and feel free to send them 
directly to me at presmike@uillinois.edu.  The goal, with limited staff, 
is to update the FAQ a couple of times over the next month.

These are clearly very challenging times and candidly it's unlikely that 
we will see relief soon.  Our Chancellors and the University 
Administration have done an outstanding job of trimming costs on our 
campuses and I recognize the hard work everyone is doing -- often with 
fewer resources.  Yet we must do even more to confront what will certainly 
be additional cuts in our state support.  The Board believes, and I agree, 
that we can manage such cuts only by looking within and across our 
campuses for more efficiencies, greater cost savings, and new revenues.  
This perspective guides the plan the Board is now considering and the 
amendments the plan requires, not to mention our ongoing efforts to 
implement the reforms spelled out in the ARR Report.  By taking a 
University-wide view, we can eliminate unnecessary redundancies and 
relieve the counter-productive burdens those redundancies pose, while 
protecting our core mission, to the extent possible, from the harm that 
can result from further reductions in our state appropriation.  
Additionally, the research coordination and attention to clinical 
oversight that the plan involves present opportunities for substantial new 
revenues. 

In closing, I again thank you for your hard work and commitment to our 
great university.  In the three months that I've had the honor to be your 
president, I've been impressed and humbled by your resolve to meet the 
unprecedented challenges of these difficult times and emerge even stronger 
as a world-class university.  I'm grateful to be a part of this 
outstanding community.

Sincerely,

Mike


Michael J. Hogan
President, University of Illinois
presmike@uillinois.edu

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