15/1/6 Guide to the College of Science and College of Literature and Arts Minutebooks College of Science and College of Literature and A

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Guide to the College of Science and College of Literature and Arts Minutebooks 1878/1913 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection College of Science and College of Literature and Arts Minutebooks 1878-1913 15/1/6 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 0.40 English University of Illinois Archives
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2 Pages

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Historical Note:

The dean's office of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences was formed in 1913, when the College of Literature and the Arts and the College of Science were combined.1

The primary duties of the dean are that of chief executive officer of the college and agent of the college faculty for the execution of the college educational policy. Among his other duties, the dean calls and presides over faculty meetings, makes faculty appointments and promotions, prepares the budget, and oversees the registration of the students.2

Under the dean are the four schools (Life Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Chemical Sciences) and 75 fields of study which comprise the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.3 This includes the administration of the General Curriculum, which was formerly the Division of General Studies, and is for freshmen and sophomores who have not chosen a field of study yet.4

1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 27th Report, March 11, 1913, p. 200.

2. Faculty Handbook of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1968-69, p. 10.

3. Undergraduate Programs, 1977-79, p. 313-14.

4. Board of Trustees Transactions, 54th Report, April 17, 1968, p. 996.

Access Terms

This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Genre/Form of Material: Papers Topical Term: Chemistry Columbian Exposition Curriculum Graduate Study Medical Education Natural History Building
Administrative Information Accruals:

3/31/1966; 1/18/80

Arrangement of Materials:

Chronological

Scope and Contents

Minutes of meetings of the faculty of the College of Natural Science (1878-92) and Science (1892-1913), and the College of Literature and Science (1878-92), Literature (1892-95) and Literature and Arts (1895-1913), showing dates of meetings, faculty attending and actions taken on college policies, student problems and requests, and committee reports relating to admission and graduation requirements, credit for work done at other institutions or in other colleges and schools, catalog revision, course substitutions, examinations, thesis subjects, honors and related subjects. For the College of Science after 1902, the books include minutes of the general committee and committee reports. For the College of Literature and Arts minute books show requests for degrees based on non-university work and seniors recommended for degrees (showing majors, and after 1893, degree theses).