Scope and Contents This file consists of a proposal for a law school, correspondence, working papers, notices of events and brochures. Working papers include course syllabi and the program self-evaluation. Correspondence includes letters from John Keiser, Dean of Public Affairs to various SSU faculty. The proposal is for the William Chamberlain Memorial Law School to be established in Springfield in the later 70's. Added material includes LES records, correspondence, course schedules, part-time faculty...

Scope and Contents Course schedules published by the Office of Admissions & Records identify course offerings for the semester. The entries include time, location, and names of instructors for each class, and often include course descriptions. Addenda were created to include classes added to or deleted from the schedule after it was published. Original class schedules were in a newspaper format. By 1993, SSU changed the class schedule to a magazine/ booklet format. This format was kept when the...

Scope and Contents Established by order of the U.S. District Court in March 1977, following the Court's December 1976 order providing for the integration of Springfield public schools. Chaired by Ed Armstrong, editor of the Illinois State-Journal Register. Volunteers monitored classrooms and observed bus routes during the first year of integrating Springfield's public schools, rating student-teacher and black-white student relationships, discipline, and health and safety. Administrative records,...

Scope and Contents Member of the UIS history faculty, 2001-2007. Dr. Paludan held the University's first distinguished chair, the Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, established in 2001. Before coming to UIS, Paludan taught at University of Kansas, Rutgers University, and University College, Dublin. One of the nation's most preeminent American Civil War historians, Paludan wrote several books on the topic including The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln and Victims, a True Story of the Civil...

Scope and Contents The President Alex B. Lacy Subject Files consists of personal correspondence, correspondence with Division Heads, and off-campus correspondence, social invitations, holiday cards, President's Calendar, minutes and memos of President's Cabinet, travel records' reports and other material on Clayville, intersessions, commencement, and tenure cases. The file also includes letters of recommendations from Lacy, individual employment files, memos of employment opportunity and applications for...

Scope and Contents Papers of Charles Schweighauser:Box 1 includes correspondence, memos, course proposals, lecture notes, syllabuses and examinations.Box 2 includes correspondence, memos, course proposals, lecture notes, syllabuses and examinations. It also contains information regarding the UIS Observatory. Of particular interest are press releases, articles, and photographs pertaining to the University's telescope specifically designed to accommodate people in wheelchairs (the...

Scope and Contents Personal papers of Don Yohe, professor of Social Work and Human Service. Series I consists of course documents such as, but not limited to, syllabus, class assignments, and student feedback. Other documents found in this collection are program self-studies, Council of Social Work Education Commission on Accreditation, and D.C.F.S. work. Series II is restricted information of student grades and class identification numbers, primarily Registrars Class and Grade Sheets. Series II...

Scope and Contents Publications of the University (1970-) contains pamphlets, brochures, leaflets, booklets, handbooks, magazines, directories, maps and catalogs. Also includes the Budinger Report, commencement programs, Magazine Class publications and a variety of other topics and items. Duplicate copies of many items in this collection are stored in other record series. Includes Friends of Brookens Library newsletter. Note: Sports Guides moved to K5/1/4 Athletics: Sports Guides collection. Note: David...