110 ILCS 805/3B-4
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 110 - HIGHER EDUCATION|110 ILCS 805/ - Public Community College Act.|Article IIIb - Tenure

 (from Ch. 122, par. 103B-4)Sec. 3B-4.     Dismissal of Tenured Faculty Member for Cause.     If a dismissal  of a tenured faculty member is sought for cause, the board must first approve  a motion by a majority vote of all its members. The specific charges for  dismissal shall be confidential but shall be issued to the tenured faculty  member upon request.  The Board decision shall be final unless the tenured  faculty member within 10 days requests in writing of the Board that a hearing  be scheduled.  If the faculty member within 10 days requests in writing  that a hearing be scheduled, the Board shall schedule such hearing on those  charges before a disinterested hearing officer on a date no less than 45  days, nor more than 70 days after the adoption of the motion.  The hearing  officer shall be selected from a list of 5 qualified arbitrators provided  by a nationally recognized arbitration organization.  Within 10 days after  the teacher receives the notice of hearing, either the Board and the teacher  mutually or the teacher alone shall request the list of qualified hearing  officers from the arbitration organization.  Within 5 days from receipt  of the list, the Board and the teacher, or their legal representatives,  shall alternately strike one name from the list until one name remains.  The teacher shall make the first strike.  Notice of such charges shall be served  upon the tenured faculty member at least 21 days before the hearing date.  Such notice shall contain a bill of particulars. The hearing shall be public  at the request of either the tenured faculty member or the Board. The tenured  faculty member has the privilege of being present at the hearing with counsel  and of cross-examining witnesses and may offer evidence and witnesses and  present defenses to the charges. The hearing officer upon request by either  party may issue subpoenas requiring the attendance of witnesses and production  of documents. All testimony at the hearing shall be taken under oath administered  by the hearing officer. The hearing officer shall cause a record of the  proceedings to be kept and the Board shall employ a competent reporter to  take stenographic or stenotype notes of all testimony. The costs of the  reporter's attendance and services at the hearing and all other costs of  the hearing shall be borne equally by the Board and the tenured faculty  member. Either party desiring a transcript of the hearing shall pay for  the cost thereof. If in the opinion of the Board the interests of the district  require it the Board, after 20 days notice, may suspend the tenured faculty  member pending the hearing, but if acquitted, the tenured faculty member  shall not suffer the loss of any salary by reason of the suspension. The  hearing officer shall, with reasonable dispatch, make a decision as to whether  or not the tenured faculty member shall be dismissed and shall give a copy  of the decision to both the tenured faculty member and the Board. The decision  of the hearing officer shall be final and binding.    (Source: P.A. 81-1100.)