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The Agronomy Department was established in 1899 as a division of the College of Agriculture.
On May 11, 1995, the Board of Trustees approved the renaming and reorganization of the College. It was renamed the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences and several changes were made in the organization of departments and divisions.
1. Richard G. Moores, Fields of Rich Toil, (Urbana: 1970), p. 235. n. 33 and p. 222. Board of Trustees Transactions, 20th Report, August 16, 1899, p. 140. See also Through the Years with the Department of Agronomy, Special Publication No. 1, University of Illinois College of Agriculture, May, 1960, p. 6.
2. Through the Years with the Department with the Department of Agronomy, p. 7.
3. Board of Trustees Transactions, 68th Report, May 11, 1995, p. 277-8.
4. University of Illinois, Faculty and Student Senate, Urbana-Champaign Senate, meeting minutes, March 27, 1995, EP 94.33, p. 35.
5. Programs of Study 2001-2003, p. 46.
6. Ibid., p. 221.
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11/22/1989
Chronological
Departmental histories includes a typescript history the Agronomy Department from 1867 to 1967 by Alvin L. Lang, including a 31-page reading TEXT, draft and 4-page historical review of Lang's October 31, 1975 historical review of Illinois Soil Experiment Fields, as well as a book