7/1/50 Guide to the Association of Graduate School Archives Association of Graduate School Archives

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Guide to the Association of Graduate School Archives 1923/1969 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Association of Graduate School Archives 1923-1969 7/1/50 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduate College 4.70 English University of Illinois Archives
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Historical Note:

The first students to do graduate work enrolled in 1877, leading to the awarding of the first master's degree in 1878.1 However, a graduate program was not set up until 1891.2 The Graduate School was formally organized in 1907, after appropriation of funds by the Illinois General Assembly.3 Its name was changed to the Graduate College in 1947, in anticipation of its new significance in the University organization.4 In 1968, the Board of Trustees provided for separate Graduate Colleges on each of three University campuses.5 The Graduate College has the responsibility of developing and safeguarding standards of graduate work and promoting and assisting research by faculty members.6 It provides assistance and supervision to other degree-granting units on the campus.7

In 1974, the Board of Trustees added the title of Vice Chancellor for Research to Dean of the Graduate College to more accurately describe the responsibilities vested in the college.8

--7/1 Dean's Office

--7/2 Executive Committee

1. Dietz, Frederick C., History of the Graduate College, (carbon typescript, 1957), p. 3.

2. Ibid., p. 5.

3. Board of Trustees Transactions, 24th Report, June 10, 1907, p. 133.

4. Board of Trustees Transactions, 44th Report, October 30, 1947, p. 885.

5. Board of Trustees Transactions, 54th Report, January 17, 1968, p. 884-885.

6. University Statutes, 1972, p. 19-20.

7. Graduate College Catalog, 1976-78, p. 9.

8. Board of Trustees Transactions, 57th Report, June 19, 1974, p. 581.

Access Terms

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

Genre/Form of Material: Papers Topical Term: Accreditation Association of American Universities Association of Graduate Schools Graduate Studies Higher Education Universities
Administrative Information Accruals:

4/19/71; 7/1/71

Arrangement of Materials:

By type of material and chronological thereunder

Scope and Contents

Archives of the Association of Graduate Schools in the Association of American Universities including journals of proceedings and addresses (1900-69); financial reports (1923-63); secretary-treasurer's correspondence of Everett Walters and Lewis Hahn (1958-63); programs; committee reports and correspondence (1957-63) and correspondence, reports, newsletters and programs of Theodore C. Blegen (Minnesota, 1945-60) and Vern O. Knudsen (U.C.L.A., 1950-55).