Much like the other University Weeks, the fall of 1972 was no different. The theme for the week would be “Careers in the Seventies and Eighties” and while called “University Week”, the lectures, classes, and speakers were done over a period of six weeks. The University Week committee at the time was chaired by G. Ernst Giesecke.

Speakers and participants included Ivar Berg, Judy Everson, Daryl Hohweiler, Robert Reid, Harold L. Hodgkinson, Robert L. Appel Jr., Cullom Davis, James B. Holderman, Sister Mary Patrick O'Brien, Robert L. Poorman, James Rosser, Robert C. Spencer, John F. Grede, Sherwood Dees, Mark Erenburg, Joyce Griffin, John H. Keiser, Douglas Kindschi, John Swalec, Wayne Obannon, and Ruth Shinn. Topics and subjects of speakers included work, higher education, careers, employment-Illinois, and discrimination in employment.