Thesis Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the theses and PhD dissertations that have been given to the Archives. The collection was originally organized by topic and/or department. Starting in 2024, the theses are listed in the order in which they were added to the collection.
While the collection does include signficiant portion of the theses and dissertations put out by students, there are works that have not been given to the archives.
Dates
- 1978-
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
In 1969, the Illinois General Assembly created a board of regents to operate a trio of universities and Governor Richard Ogilvie eventually signed a bill creating Sangamon State University (SSU). This school was to be an “upper division” university with only two years of classes. The first classes were held in September 1970 in downtown Springfield. The school would eventually move full time to the current property. Through the 1970s and 1980s the school would grow and soon in 1995, Governor Jim Edgar signed a bill that merged SSU into the University of Illinois system.
Master’s projects and theses are an important record of the scholarly activities of a university's students. University Assembly Bill 6-13 "Policies on Graduate Study" of 1978 stated that "the written portion of the [masters] project must be filed in the University Library." The UIS Archives holds over 5600 projects/theses received from the 1970s onward.
Extent
TBD Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Provenance
Collection contains works from UIS students as a culmination of their program (ongoing)
Property Rights
UIS owns the property rights to this collection.
Processing Information
This collection was re-housed/reprocessed between 2023 and 2025.
- Anthropology
- Biology
- Child, Family, & Community Service
- Communication
- Community Arts Management
- Computer science
- Counseling
- Economics
- Education--History
- Educational leadership
- English
- Environmental Studies
- Gerontology
- Health services administration
- Human Development Counseling
- Human ecology Study and teaching
- Human services
- Individual Option
- Journalism
- Legal Studies
- Liberal and Integrative Studies
- Management information systems
- Mathematical Sciences
- Nutrition
- Political Studies
- Psychology
- Public Affairs Reporting
- Public administration
- Public health
- Social Justice Professions
- Social justice
- Sociology
- Thesis & dissertation series
- Women
- Women’s studies
- Title
- Sangamon State University/University of Illinois - Springfield Thesis and Dissertations
- 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
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
One University Plaza, MS BRK 140
Springfield IL 62703-5407 US
217-206-6520
archives@uis.libanswers.com