15/1/2 Guide to the College of Science Letterbooks College of Science Letterbooks

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Guide to the College of Science Letterbooks 1895/1913 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection College of Science Letterbooks 1895-1913 15/1/2 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 1.60 English University of Illinois Archives
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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.

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Genre/Form of Material: Papers Topical Term: Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Science, College of
Administrative Information Accruals:

12/13/1963; 1/64

Arrangement of Materials:

Chronological

Scope and Contents

Letterpress copybooks containing copies of correspondence and reports of Deans Stephen A. Forbes (1895-1905) and Edgar G. Townsend (1905-13) of the College of Science, sent to Presidents Andrew S. Draper and Edmund J. James, other deans, department heads, faculty, students, parents and deans and administrators at other universities relating to college reports to the president, college and departmental administration, consolidation of the Science and Literature and Arts colleges, faculty committees and meetings, departmental budgets and staff requests, recruitment of faculty, faculty salaries, letters of recommendation, buildings and grounds, equipment and remodeling, printing, courses and curricula, course enrollments, summer school, medical education, visiting lecturers, graduate work, State Teachers Association and secondary schools, scholastic standing of students placed on probation or maintaining a high grade average and related topics.

Correspondents include James E. Armstrong, Bausch & Lomb, E. A. Birge, John W. Cook, Thomas J. Burrill, Thomas A. Clark, Charles B. Davenport, Katherine L. Sharp, William L. Pillsbury, David Kinley, David S. Jordan, Henry B. Ward and Samuel Parr.