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 1        AN ACT relating to higher education.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.   The  Western  Illinois  University  Law  is
 5    amended by changing Section 35-45 as follows:

 6        (110 ILCS 690/35-45)
 7        Sec.  35-45.  Powers  and  duties.   The Board also shall
 8    have the power and it shall be its duty:
 9        (1)  To  make  rules,   regulations   and   bylaws,   not
10    inconsistent  with  law, for the government and management of
11    Western Illinois University and its branches;
12        (2)  To  employ,  and,  for  good  cause,  to  remove   a
13    President  of  Western Illinois University, and all necessary
14    deans,   professors,    associate    professors,    assistant
15    professors, instructors, other educational and administrative
16    assistants,   and  all  other  necessary  employees,  and  to
17    prescribe their duties and contract with  them  upon  matters
18    relating  to  tenure,  salaries  and  retirement  benefits in
19    accordance with the State  Universities  Civil  Service  Act.
20    Whenever the Board establishes a search committee to fill the
21    position  of  President of Western Illinois University, there
22    shall be minority representation, including  women,  on  that
23    search  committee.  The Board shall, upon the written request
24    of an employee of Western Illinois University, withhold  from
25    the  compensation  of  that  employee  any  dues, payments or
26    contributions  payable  by  such  employee   to   any   labor
27    organization  as  defined  in  the Illinois Educational Labor
28    Relations Act.  Under such arrangement, an  amount  shall  be
29    withheld  from  each regular payroll period which is equal to
30    the pro rata share of the annual dues plus  any  payments  or
31    contributions, and the Board shall transmit such withholdings
 
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 1    to  the  specified  labor organization within 10 working days
 2    from the time of the withholding;
 3        (3)  To prescribe the courses of study  to  be  followed,
 4    and  textbooks  and  apparatus to be used at Western Illinois
 5    University;
 6        (4)  To issue upon the  recommendation  of  the  faculty,
 7    diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed the
 8    required  studies  of Western Illinois University, and confer
 9    such  professional  and  literary  degrees  as  are   usually
10    conferred by other institutions of like character for similar
11    or equivalent courses of study, or such as the Board may deem
12    appropriate;
13        (5)  To  examine  into  the  conditions,  management, and
14    administration of Western Illinois University, to provide the
15    requisite  buildings,  apparatus,  equipment  and   auxiliary
16    enterprises,  and  to  fix  and  collect  matriculation fees;
17    tuition fees; fees for student activities; fees  for  student
18    facilities such as student union buildings or field houses or
19    stadia  or  other  recreational  facilities;  student welfare
20    fees; laboratory fees; and  similar  fees  for  supplies  and
21    materials.  The expense of the building, improving, repairing
22    and supplying fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances
23    and apparatus for conducting Western Illinois University, the
24    reimbursed expenses of members of the Board, and the salaries
25    or compensation of  the  President,  assistants,  agents  and
26    other  employees  of  Western Illinois University, shall be a
27    charge upon the State Treasury.  All other expenses shall  be
28    chargeable against students, and the Board shall regulate the
29    charges accordingly;
30        (6)  To  succeed  to  and to administer all trusts, trust
31    property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or  pertaining
32    to Western Illinois University;
33        (7)  To    accept   endowments   of   professorships   or
34    departments in Western Illinois University  from  any  person
 
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 1    who  may  proffer them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe
 2    rules and regulations in relation to endowments  and  declare
 3    on what general principles they may be accepted;
 4        (8)  To  enter into contracts with the Federal government
 5    for providing courses of instruction and  other  services  at
 6    Western  Illinois  University  for persons serving in or with
 7    the military or naval forces of the  United  States,  and  to
 8    provide such courses of instruction and other services;
 9        (9)  To contract with respect to the Cooperative Computer
10    Center   to   obtain  services  related  to  electronic  data
11    processing;
12        (10)  To provide for  the  receipt  and  expenditures  of
13    Federal  funds  paid  to  Western  Illinois University by the
14    Federal government for instruction  and  other  services  for
15    persons  serving  in  or with the military or naval forces of
16    the United States, and to provide for audits of such funds;
17        (11)  To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service
18    law, persons to be members of the Western Illinois University
19    Police Department. Members of the Police Department shall  be
20    conservators  of  the  peace  and  as  such  have  all powers
21    possessed by policemen in cities, and sheriffs, including the
22    power to make arrests on view or warrants  of  violations  of
23    State  statutes, University rules and regulations and city or
24    county ordinances, except that they may exercise such  powers
25    only  within counties wherein Western Illinois University and
26    any of its branches or properties are located  when  such  is
27    required  for  the  protection  of  University properties and
28    interests, and its students  and  personnel,  and  otherwise,
29    within  such counties, when requested by appropriate State or
30    local law enforcement officials. However, such officers shall
31    have no power to serve and execute civil processes.
32        The Board must authorize to each member  of  the  Western
33    Illinois  University  Police  Department  and  to  any  other
34    employee of Western Illinois University exercising the powers
 
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 1    of  a  peace  officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i)
 2    clearly states  that  the  badge  is  authorized  by  Western
 3    Illinois  University  and  (ii) contains a unique identifying
 4    number.  No  other  badge  shall  be  authorized  by  Western
 5    Illinois University;
 6        (12)  The Board may,  directly  or  in  cooperation  with
 7    other  institutions  of higher education, acquire by purchase
 8    or lease  or  otherwise,  and  construct,  enlarge,  improve,
 9    equip,  complete,  operate,  control  and manage research and
10    high technology parks, together  with  the  necessary  lands,
11    buildings,   facilities,  equipment,  and  personal  property
12    therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i)  the  location  and
13    development   of  business  and  industry  in  the  State  of
14    Illinois, and (ii) the increased application and  development
15    of  technology,  and (iii) the improvement and development of
16    the State's  economy.   The  Board  may  lease  to  nonprofit
17    corporations   all  or  any  part  of  the  land,  buildings,
18    facilities,  equipment  or  other  property  included  in   a
19    research  and  high  technology  park  upon  such  terms  and
20    conditions as the Board may deem advisable and enter into any
21    contract or agreement with such nonprofit corporations as may
22    be  necessary  or  suitable  for the construction, financing,
23    operation and maintenance and management of  any  such  park;
24    and   may   lease   to   any  person,  firm,  partnership  or
25    corporation, either public or private, any part or all of the
26    land, building, facilities, equipment or  other  property  of
27    such  park for such purposes and upon such rentals, terms and
28    conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and  may  finance
29    all  or  part  of  the  cost  of any such park, including the
30    purchase, lease, construction,  reconstruction,  improvement,
31    remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all
32    or  part  of such high technology park, and all equipment and
33    furnishings,  by   legislative   appropriations,   government
34    grants,  contracts,  private  gifts, loans, receipts from the
 
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 1    operation of such high technology park, rentals  and  similar
 2    receipts;  and  may  make  its  other facilities and services
 3    available to tenants or other occupants of any such  park  at
 4    rates which are reasonable and appropriate.
 5    (Source: P.A. 91-883, eff. 1-1-01.)