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President's Records - Internal and External Subject Files – Alex Lacy, Jr.

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0032

Scope and Contents

This collection contains the subject files related to President Lacy during his 1978-1980 administration. It contains topics such as the general assembly, degree programs, community colleges, individual programs, and clusters; faculty, staff, and student senates, off-campus instruction, tuition, University Relations, and Federal Programs.

Dates

  • Majority of material found within 1976-1981

Creator

Access

The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the University of Illinois- Springfield (UIS)

Copyrights

Copyrights to this collection are held by UIS.

History

Alex B. Lacy, Jr. was born November 26, 1936, in Clover Virginia to Alex B. Lacy and Josephine (Anderson) Lacy. He earned is Bachelor of Arts from Duke University in 1959 in Political Science. He would go on to earn his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Virginia in 1936. He worked in a variety of positions from Tulane University to The Brookings Institute, to the University of Virginia, before finally becoming Dean at the School of Urban Life at Georgia State University in 1968. He was there until 1974 when he became the Deputy Director in the Division of Public Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was at the NEH until 1978 when he became the president of Sangamon State University. He was at SSU until 1984 when he was succeeded by Dr. Durward Long.

He married Mary Lois LaRoe and they have three children. As of 2020 he resides in Arkansas.

Extent

4 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Provenance

Transferred to the archives on November 22, 1988.

Property Rights

UIS owns the property rights to this collection.

Processing Information

This collection was reprocessed in January and February 2024. The original order was kept as close to the original as possible. The order of the collection is in alphabetical order.

Creator

Source

Title
Finding Aid to the President's Records - Internal and External Subject Files – Alex Lacy, Jr.
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the UIS Archives/Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
One University Plaza, MS BRK 140
Springfield IL 62703-5407 US
217-206-6520