Scope and Contents This collection contains records relating to John Keiser’s work at SSU. This includes manuscript drafts, outlines, research notes, and graphs for Keiser's book, "Building for the Centuries: Illinois, 1865-1898," published in 1977 by the University of Illinois Press as part of the Sesquicentennial History of Illinois series. It also includes collected pamphlets, clippings, reports, correspondence, newsletters, journals and other publications concerning labor history and unions, particularly...

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This collection contains letters, memos, minutes, and reports that in the aggregate provide a detailed view of one year’s administrative problems and solutions. Notable documents include long-range planning, in which demographic changes and new financial constraints affecting higher education in the 1990s are dramatically apparent.