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In addition to minutes, agendas and audio tapes, this series includes informal documents as memos, correspondence, reports announcements and meeting notices. The earliest audio tape is dated June 14, 1991. Box #5 & 6 added May 25, 1995. These are audio tapes that run from April 22, 1993 and April 16, 1995; April 20, 1995 to May 4 1995.

Scope and Contents This collection has two series. The first being the Faculty Senate - Agendas, Minutes, and Working Papers which includes materials such as agendas, reports, correspondence, about elections by-laws, task forces, leave, and committee work. The committees covered include Academic, Budget and staffing, Committee on Committees, and Community College Coordination. The arrangement of this series was mostly alphabetical.The Second series is audio cassette tapes that are of recordings of...

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The collection contains material related to the committee’s work such as correspondence, minutes, agendas, reports, and program reviews. It also includes material related to SSU’s efforts to develop communication skills from all students as well as records that document university-wide program evaluations. The second box also includes two cassettes from one meeting.

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These are audio tapes of "SSU reports," a program aired on local Springfield radio stations. Included are interviews and panel discussions on such topics as University Week, among many SSU projects and activities.

Scope and Contents This oral history focuses on the history of home birth advocate Catherine Feral and her memories of her life in Springfield, IL, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. McGregor, a long serving history professor at UIS sought to understand and preserve the story of Cat Feral's contributions to the Women's Health Movement. This story includes a description of her childbirth practice in Illinois and also notes the federal government charges of consumer fraud brought against Feral in 1982 that...

Scope and Contents Student project compiled by Lynda Thompson for a tutorial with Gary Combs, includes; a catalog of the Illinois State Museum 1973 exhibit, "Art of the 1930's"; an audio tape of an interview with Robert Evans of the Art Department of the Illinois State Museum with Lynda Thompson as interviewer; selected slides of various projects done during the New Deal Art Years, including a detailed listing; a catalog of an art exhibit at Southern Illinois University entitled "WPA revisited"; a reference...

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Audio Broadcasts for MUS 492: The Changing Symphony taught by SSU professor Mark Siebert as Radio Side-band Course during Fall of 1980 and 1981. Each program consists of tapes with a narrative script and the music used. This course covered the changing symphony from its beginnings in the 18th century to the present with emphasis on listening. [Fall 1980: 81 reels stored with tape collection TM] & [Fall 1981: 60 tapes stored 6-M-2]

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Audio broadcasts for MUS 493: Jazz roots taught by SSU Professor Jerry Troxell as a radio Side-band course during fall 1980. This course covered the beginnings of jazz, early styles and performance/composers; the evolution of jazz instrumental tradition up to the year 1940.

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Audio broadcasts for MUS 412: Opera as drama taught by SSU Professor Mark Siebert as a radio Side-band course during Spring 1981 and Spring 1986. This course covered the presentation of drama though musical means in opera, from its beginnings in the earlier 17th century to the present.

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Audio broadcasts for PAC 407: Individual Freedom and the State taught by SSU Professor Peter Wenz as a radio Side-band radio course during summer 1981. This course explored the tension between individual freedom and the state action, focusing on the paradox that the state often requires what individuals would not freely choose, yet the social order it secures appears to be the precondition of all freedom. Based on the recorded lectures of the 1977 Intersession.