Holdings Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Office College of Science and Coll... Finding Aid Holdings Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Office College of Science and Coll... Finding Aid Title: College of Science and College of Literature and Arts Minutebooks, 1878-1913
ID: 15/1/6
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Extent: 0.4 cubic feet
Arrangement: Chronological
Subjects: Chemistry, Columbian Exposition, Curriculum, Graduate Study, Medical Education, Natural History Building
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Minutes of meetings of the faculty of the College of Natural Science (1878-92) and Science (1892-1913), and the College of Literature and Science (1878-92), Literature (1892-95) and Literature and Arts (1895-1913), showing dates of meetings, faculty attending and actions taken on college policies, student problems and requests, and committee reports relating to admission and graduation requirements, credit for work done at other institutions or in other colleges and schools, catalog revision, course substitutions, examinations, thesis subjects, honors and related subjects. For the College of Science after 1902, the books include minutes of the general committee and committee reports. For the College of Literature and Arts minute books show requests for degrees based on non-university work and seniors recommended for degrees (showing majors, and after 1893, degree theses).
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.
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1501006.pdf
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