Title: Legislative Staff Intern Files, 1958-74
ID: 21/1/16
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Institute of Government and Public Affairs
Extent: 3.6 cubic feet
Arrangement: by type of material and chronological and alphabetical thereunder
Subjects: Ford Foundation, Illinois Politics, Legislative Staff Interns, Legislature, State Government
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Files for the Legislative Staff Intern Program, funded by the Ford Foundation, containing agendas and minutes for Sponsoring Committee meetings; annual data sheets on inters; conference and seminar meetings schedules and topics; correspondence; orientation schedules; personnel files for inters, including application forms, correspondence, letters of recommendation and daily logs of Springfield activity; progress reports to State General Assembly; press releases; brochures and photographs.
Following a recommendation from the State of Illinois that the University develop a broad program of teaching, research and extension in government and public affairs, the Institute of Government and Public Affairs was established August 5, 1947.1 It was set up as an autonomous body under a Director responsible to the President of the University.2 The Institute conducts policy-oriented research and public service focusing on important areas of state and local government structure and process and emphasizing problems of urbanization. Though the Institute offers no courses, its faculty members teach in academic departments, guide research, and direct intern programs.3
1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 44th Report, August 5, 1947, pp. 493-94.
2. Ibid., p. 494.
3. Graduate College Catalog, 1974-1976, p. 81.
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/2101016.pdf
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