15/1/39 Guide to the LAS Student Academic Affairs Subject File LAS Student Academic Affairs Subject File Finding Aid Authors: Holly Pletka.

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Guide to the LAS Student Academic Affairs Subject File 1969/2001 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection LAS Student Academic Affairs Subject File 1969-2001 15/1/39 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 20.00 University of Illinois Archives
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Other Information:

Additional information may be found at https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1501039c.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.

Administrative Information Conditions Governing Access:

Some folders are restricted from access and have been removed to Boxes 19-22 at the end of the record series.

Arrangement of Materials:

Left mostly in original order by the archivist. Folders containing sensitive info have been moved to the end of the record series in a box of their own.

Scope and Contents

Subject File of Assistant Deans Peter Hood and T.C. Bloomer for Student Academic Affairs contains correspondence, minutes, handbooks, flyers, and summary studies concerning the acceptance of students into their respective programs, visitation day for transfer students, undergraduate dropout rates, summer advance enrollment, scholarships, academic policies, and surveys of student experience as well as committees on Admissions (1966-1974), Advance Enrollment (1974-1990), Advising and Registration (1969-1976), Assistant and Associate Deans (1969-1983), Health-Related Education (1975-1978), Council on Teacher Education (1986, 1999-2006), LAS Admissions (1972-1989), Religious Education (1978-1987), and the Senate Committees on Admissions (1977, 1983-1990), Educational Policy (1985-1987), and University Statutes and Senate Procedures (1979-1989). Correspondents include Assistant Dean Bruce Hinely and Dean Robert W. Rogers. This series also contains academic record information on individual students which is available only under terms of the restriction policy.