15/1/9 Guide to the President's Office Correspondence President's Office Correspondence

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Guide to the President's Office Correspondence 1921/1967 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection President's Office Correspondence 1921-31, 1946-64, 1966-67 15/1/9 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2.30 English University of Illinois Archives
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7 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: Athletics English Department Faculty Fine Arts Medical Education Military Training
Administrative Information Accruals:

9/1963; 2/9/73

Arrangement of Materials:

Chronological

Scope and Contents

Correspondence of deans with presidents and presidential assistants concerning administrative policies, appointments budget, special appropriations, leaves of absence, permission to leave campus early, research appropriations, special committees, promotions, new department heads, salaries, recommendations, commencement speakers, College of Medicine, McKinley Hospital, plans to establish a College of Fine Arts (1927), academic conferences, records of support for federal educational programs, educational association meetings and related matters.

Before 1921, correspondence with the President's Office is in R.S. 15/1/5.