110 ILCS 510/12

The Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University shall appoint instructors, and such officers as may be required, fix their respective salaries and prescribe their duties. The board may remove any instructor or officer for proper cause giving ten days' notice of any charge presented, and reasonable opportunity of defense. The board shall prescribe and provide the textbooks, apparatus and furniture to be used in the university and make all regulations necessary for its management. The board may, on recommendation of the faculty of the university, issue diplomas to persons who have satisfactorily completed the required studies and confer such degrees as are suitable for the courses of study authorized by Section 2.