Holdings Trustees Committees Committee on the Selection ... Finding Aid Title: Committee on the Selection of a President of the University of Illinois, 1944-45, 1953-54, 1970-80
ID: 1/10/4
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Committees
Extent: 2.6 cubic feet
Arrangement: Chronologically by selection committee and by type of material thereunder
Date Acquired: 01/10/1968. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Educators, Higher Education, Presidents, University, University Administration
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Includes Files of the Committee on the Selection of a President of the University of Illinois (1944-45) and Consulative Committees to Assist in the Selection of a President (1970, 1980) containing biographical sketches of candidates; committee records kept by Anthony J. Janata, Earl Porter, and Martin Wagner including meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, lists of committee members and candidates, correspondence and minutes of meetings; newspaper accounts; and correspondence of Janata Porter, Wagner, Park Livingston, Herbert B. Megren and Amos H. Watts. The files concern suggestions of possible candidates for the presidency, acknowledgments, committee procedures, meeting agendas, and recommendations. The materials cover the selection of presidents David D. Henry, John Corbally, and Stanley O. Ikenberry.
Also included in the series is one folder of correspondence, reports and lists relating to the selection of George D. Stoddard as President in 1945.
The 1867 act which established the Board of Trustees provided that the Board could appoint an Executive Committee to exercise powers conferred on the Board when that body was not in session.1 On May 9, 1867, the Board created an Executive Committee of nine, composed of eight members and the regent, with full powers of the Board, save the power to revise or change acts of the Board or any Board committee entrusted with special business. The Regent was chairman of the Executive Committee.2
The standing committees of the Board of Trustees are appointed by the President of the Board at the annual meeting. The President serves as an ex-officio member of all standing committees. Committees are required to submit all reports in writing to the Board.3
Repository: University of Illinois Archives
Accruals: Additional materials (boxes 3-4) added on June 16, 2006.
Other Note: 4 Pages
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/0110004.pdf
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