Title: William R. Schowalter Papers, 1985-2002
ID: 11/1/22
Primary Creator: Schowalter, William R.
Extent: 0.6 cubic feet. More info below.
Arrangement: By subject, chronological thereunder.
Date Acquired: 05/09/2013. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Administrative Employees, Deans, Engineering, Engineering, College of
Languages: English
Papers of William R. Schowalter (1985-2002), Dean of the College of Engineering (1988-2001), include analog and electronic correspondence, memos, meeting minutes and agendas, reports, spreadsheets, and presentations documenting his activities and correspondence with faculty and other adminsitrators in the College; his involvement in various committees; the College's partnerships with companies (e.g. Raytheon); the campus fund charity drive; memorials for faculty; minutes and agendas of the Executive Committee; faculty grant proposals and research projects (such as Chester S. Gardner's work on the GEMINI campaign using remote sensing technology, LiDAR, 1990); the annual meeting of the College of Engineering Advisory Board (1998-1999); the formation of a Nuclear Reactor Study Committee related to the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (1991); and discussions regarding a proposal to create a Bardeen Museum of Science and Technology (1994).
Repository: University of Illinois Archives
Alternate Extent Statement: 16.90 megabytes
Access Restrictions: Materials in box 1 relating to promotion and tenure are restricted. Please contact the University Archives for more information.
Contains electronic content included in the William R. Schowalter Papers, including correspondence, reports, meeting minutes and agendas, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations documenting his tenure as Dean of the College of Engineering (1988-2001). Please contact us for access to this content.
Processing Note: In June 2013, archives staff took the following actions to prepare a nearline access version of William R. Schowalter's electronic records: (1) Ran virus-scan program on the files; (2) Used Firefly social security number detector, DROID, and NARA File Analyzer to extract metadata in order to facilitate appraisal and processing decisions; (3) Used TrID file extension identifier to analyze and append missing file extensions on a number of files during processing; (4) Deleted files containing proprietary, condfidential, and sensitive information.