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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.
This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
October 16, 1963
By type of meeting and chronologically thereunder
Department of Agronomy Minutes, correspondence and reports of Agronomy Conferences (1918, 1920-27), Division Heads Conferences (1921-27), Soil Investigation Committee meetings (1922-23), Crop Conferences (1925-27) and Marketing Group meetings (1925-27) concerning departmental administrative procedures and operations, professional meetings and conferences, shows, courses, projects, experiment field techniques, soil plots, extension work, publications, soil studies, soil physics, soil biology, soil fertility, land use, soil survey work and county reports, fertilizers, phosphates, cropping systems, plant breeding, crop physiology, crop production, naming of corn, wheat and soybean strains, marketing and shipping associations and related subjects.