Title: NASULGC: Office for the Adv. of Public Black Colleges Subject File, 1983-96
ID: 10/3/62
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at U-C. Higher and Continuing Education Department of Administration
Extent: 5.0 cubic feet
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Subjects: Black Students, Educational Policy, Minorities, Minority Recruitment, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Subject file of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Office for the Advancement of Public Black Colleges, 1983-96. Contains correspondence, lists of participating schools, meeting transcripts, budgets, grant proposals, and conference reports of the National Minority Graduate Feeder Program, a print project of NASULGC and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, concerning a national database to facilitate recruitment from historically-black public colleges and universities to graduate science and engineering programs. Correspondents include the National Task Force on Graduate Education, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, other foundations, and NASULGC member colleges and universities.
Also includes correspondence, financial records, reports, student applications and profiles, photographs, and clippings relating to the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Program, 1987-95, which provides scholarships for minority undergraduate students at historically black public colleges and universities. Files concern students, fundraising activities, and fund sponsorship, including support by the Miller Brewing Company and other corporations.
The Department of Administration and Supervision was created in 1962 in a reorganization plan in the College of Education.1 In 1973 the name was changed when the Department merged with former programs in Higher Education and Continuing Education. The Department now consists of three Divisions: the Division of Educational Administration and Supervision, the Division of Higher Education and the Division of Continuing Education of Adults.2 The Department prepares students for professional positions in educational organizations, and conducts national and regional research programs.3
The Office for the Study of Continuing Professional Education was established in 1973,4 and serves as a center for the study of issues in continuing professional education in diverse career fields.5
1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 52nd Report, October 17, 1962, p. 181-82.
2. College of Education: Leaflets. Division of Continuing Education of Adults and Division of Educational Administration and Supervision, 1976, p. 1.
3. Ibid., p. 4.
4. College of Education: Leaflet. The Office for the Study of Continuing Professional Education, 1976, p. 1.
5. Ibid.
Black Students
Educational Policy
Minorities
Minority Recruitment
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1003062.pdf
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