15/1/1 Guide to the Departmental and Subject File Departmental and Subject File

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Guide to the Departmental and Subject File 1913/2009 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Departmental and Subject File 1913-2009 15/1/1 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 138.30 English University of Illinois Archives
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64 Pages

Additional information may be found at https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1501001.pdf

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: Astronomy Department Botany Department Chemistry Department Curriculum English Department Geology Department Graduate Study History Department Mathematics Department Music Political Science Department Psychology Department Summer Session
Administrative Information Accruals:

9/1963; 8/1/1978; 7/1/1985; 7/31/1986; 8/15/2009; 11/26/12

Arrangement of Materials:

Chronological and alphabetical by dept. or subject thereunder

Scope and Contents

Departmental and subject file of the deans, including correspondence with administrators, department heads, assistant deans, faculty and visiting and foreign faculty and guest lecturers; and reports relating to departmental organization and administration; committees; appointments; resignations; educational policy; deans of men and women; student discipline; military training; scholarships; athletics; university associations; admissions policies; registration; curriculum and course changes; honors; divisions of biological sciences, languages and literature, humanities and social sciences; pre-medical training; language requirements; health service; summer session; graduate training; long range planning; building projects; space needs; enrollment; affirmative action programs; summer session; international programs; long-range planning for World Heritage, Natural History, and Spurlock Museums; federal research grants; accounting; travel; staff injuries and illnesses; administrative staff; Center for African Studies; funding staffing; research; sabbaticals; conference and lectures; interdisciplinary courses; graduate assistants, Association of American Colleges; Asian Area program; Behavioral Science Center proposal (1962-63); Danforth Foundation; George H. Miller professorships; Illinois Committee on Human Rights; Mississippi Valley deans; National Science Foundation; President's Faculty Conferences; Board of Trustees; new instructional units; Chicago Circle; and related topics. Principal correspondents are Deans Kendric C. Babcock (1913-32), Matthew T. McClure (1933-47), Henning Larsen (1948-54), Jack W. Peltason and Robert W. Rogers (1964- ).