Finding Aid for Senate Committee Reports and Correspondence File, 1940-83, 1940-1983 | University of Illinois Archives

Title: Senate Committee Reports and Correspondence File, 1940-83, 1940-1983

ID: 4/7/4

Primary Creator: Faculty and Student Senate

Extent: 3.3 cubic feet

Arrangement: Alphabetical

Subjects: Academic Calendar, Administrator Evaluation, Budget, Center for Advanced Computation, Committees, Council on Program Evaluation (COPE), University Senate, University Statutes

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

Senate Committee Reports and Correspondence File of the Clerk of the Senate contains agendas, minutes, reports, guidelines, newsclippings, and correspondence of Senate Committees, Ad Hoc Committees, and Sub-Committees including academic calendar, academic freedom, admissions, athletics and recreation, community and public relations, DuBois Club, educational policy (1963-70), equal opportunity, Faculty Advisory Committee, faculty benefits, financial aid, General University Policy, honorary degrees, honors, library, memorials for deceased faculty and administrators, student affairs, student discipline, and university statutes and senate procedures. Correspondents include Steven P. Hill, Marion Benfield, G. D. Brighton, Eugene E. Oliver, D. P. Operman, Charles W. Sanford, E. C. Seyler, and Morton W. Weir.

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<p class='main'>On March 11, 1869 the Board of Trustees entrusted the day to day governance of the Illinois Industrial University to an appointed Regent and the faculty.<a href='#ftn1'>¹</a> In 1877 the Board clarified the duties of this group by charging it with the "immediate control of the discipline and studies" of the University. The Board further stated that its members should consist of professors, assistants, and instructors and that it should meet once a month.<a href='#ftn2'>²</a> The Faculty Senate was created in 1901 when the Board decided to restrict membership to administrators (president, vice president) and to deans, ranking professors, chairmen or heads of each of the departments. The name of the group changed from "General Faculty" to "University Senate".<a href='#ftn3'>³</a> In 1906 membership requirements were changed to include only full professors.<a href='#ftn4'>⁴</a> In 1908, the purpose of the senate was restated as exercising "general legislative functions" concerning "the educational policy of the University".<a href='#ftn5'>⁵</a></p>

<p class='main'>Due to the increase in the size of the University, the Faculty Senate was split into three groups--a senate for each campus: Urbana-Champaign, Chicago Professional Colleges, and Chicago Undergraduate Division.<a href='#ftn6'>⁶</a> In 1967 the membership requirements were changed to allow associate and assistant professors to elect one member for each ten of their number per department.<a href='#ftn7'>⁷</a> In 1968 students, as members of committees were given the right to vote on matters of concern of those committees.<a href='#ftn8'>⁸</a> In 1971, the Board voted to abolish the membership requrements of the constitution of the Senate and to allow each campus unit to establish its own, separate senate which would, in turn, set its own membership requirements. In 1971 the Board accepted the constitution of the Urbana-Champaign Senate.<a href='#ftn9'>⁹</a> It accepted Chicago Medical Center's in 1973,<a href='#ftn10'>¹⁰</a> and Chicago Circle's in 1974.<a href='#ftn11'>¹¹</a></p>

<p class='note'><a name='ftn1'>1.  Board of Trustees Transactions, 2nd Report, March 11, 1869, p. 90.</a></p>

<p class='note'><a name='ftn2'>2.  Board of Trustees Transactions, 9th Report, September 11, 1877, pp. 45-46.</a></p>

<p class='note'><a name='ftn3'>3.  Board of Trustees Transactions, 21st Report, June 11, 1901, p. 86.</a></p>

<p class='note'><a name='ftn4'>4.  Board of Trustees Transactions, 23rd Report, March 13, 1906, p. 328.</a></p>

<p class='note'><a name='ftn5'>5.  Board of Trustees Transactions, 25th Report, December 28, 1908, p. 54.</a></p>

<p class='note'><a name='ftn6'>6.  Board of Trustees Transactions, 49th Report, February 14, 1951, p. 261.</a></p>

<p class='note'><a name='ftn7'>7.  Board of Trustees Transactions, 54th Report, April 19, 1967, p. 490.</a></p>

<p class='note'><a name='ftn8'>8.  Board of Trustees Transactions, 55th Report, April 9, 1969, p. 367.</a></p>

<p class='note'><a name='ftn9'>9.  Board of Trustees Transactions, 56th Report, March 17, 1971, pp. 251-54.</a></p>

<p class='note'><a name='ftn10'>10.  Board of Trustees Transactions, 57th Report, June 20, 1973, p. 296.</a></p>

<p class='note'><a name='ftn11'>11.  Board of Trustees Transactions, 57th Report, March 20, 1974, p. 517.</a></p>

Academic Calendar
Administrator Evaluation
Budget
Center for Advanced Computation
Committees
Council on Program Evaluation (COPE)
University Senate
University Statutes

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: June 24, 1998, April 2, 1999

Other Note: 2 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/0407004.pdf

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