Two former NIU presidents will receive personal treatment through “an idiosyncratic personnel weighting scheme” according to a memo from Public Administration Director Jim Banovetz.

Sent to public administration faculty and delivered anonymously to The Northern Star, the memo states that William Monat and Clyde Wingfield have negotiated with Banovetz to develop personalized calender year 1989 evaluation policies that differ from the department’s standard procedure of 50 percent research, 40 percent teaching and 10 percent service. Service is time spent on committees, boards or other organizations.

Banovetz refused to comment on the individualized policies because personnel information is protected by privacy laws, saying only that such negotiations were “not commonly done, but it is not unusual.”

He said whomever sent the memo to the Star committed a “serious ethical violation” and publication of any material contained in the memo would be “an extension” of this violation.

Any departmental personnel policy change is subject to review by the particular college and the university and, if necessary, the Board of Regents.

Monat and Wingfield, both tenured professors, each teach six hours a semester at NIU. Monat will be evaluated for 40 percent teaching, 30 percent research and 30 percent service.

“This weighting scheme more accurately reflects the demands placed upon Bill (Monat) for leadership and scholarly presentations by the faculty and the campus community at large,” the memo stated.

Monat served as Regents’ chancellor for one year and is a Joint University Advisory Committee member. He has chaired the NIU Discrimination Task Force and NIU Faculty Senate Task Force, and will oversee NIU’s centennial in 1995 as well as write NIU’s history from 1965 through 1995, during which time Monat was provost and NIU president and Regents chancellor.

Wingfield’s evaluation will be based on 50 percent service, 30 percent research and 20 percent teaching because “of his status in the profession, and the continuing demands on his time from professional groups … “

Wingfield, forced to resign as NIU president in 1986 after his questionable spending of university funds, spent the first eight months of 1989 in Washington D.C. His paid leave of absence in Washington with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities paid him $85,000.