Holdings Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Office Building Committee File Finding Aid Holdings Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Office Building Committee File Finding Aid Title: Building Committee File, 1954-58
ID: 15/1/32
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Extent: 0.3 cubic feet
Arrangement: Alphabetically by subject and chronologically thereunder
Subjects: Biological Science, Buildings, Museums, Natural History Building, Space Allocations
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Building committee file including correspondence, minutes of meetings, memoranda and plans relating to the Liberal Arts and Sciences Building and Space Committee's work on departmental space requirements, space requests and allocations in new buildings, museum and storage space, remodeling and faculty offices.
Prior to 1954, building committee records were maintained in the departmental offices of committee members.
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/1501032.pdf
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