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Videotapes from the Office of Development, includes Leadership Roundtable meetings and investiture ceremony for distinguished professorship.

Scope and Contents The University Relations subject File, 1981-2001 consists of memos, correspondence, reports, speeches, meeting notes, news clippings, and other material between the UIS campus community and internal and external entities. This file contains recruitment reports, including the search for a new Chancellor when Naomi Lynn retired and Richard Ringeisen was selected; the expansion of the campus with the construction of the Health and Sciences Building; the implementation of the Capital Scholars...

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Videotapes of the "Development of Classifiers Training Project" developed by Geoffrey Y. Cornog for the Illinois Department of Personnel under a contract between Sangamon State University and the Department. Sessions covered organization planning and design, task and job analysis, position management, manpower planning, work simplification, work measurement, systems analysis, and program evaluation.

Scope and Contents Master's project by Chuck Hill entitled "The Invisible Veterans" contains a series of interviews with military nurses who served in Vietnam.  They were recorded on 3/4" cassette tapes. This collection consists of copies of the final version of the documentary.  Chuck Hill and GHWessm Productions (1984) created the film with a grant from the Film Fund, New York.  Tapes include universal news footage from 1966-67 and interviews with Donna Buechler, Ellen Lally, and Penny Newton in 1984....

Scope and Contents The International Festival is an annual program that highlights the cultural diversity at Sangamon State University/University of Illinois at Springfield. Organized by the International Student Organization, the festival features exhibits, food, and entertainment provided by international students and featuring their home countries. Each yearly festival is centered on a theme that explores the unique differences between the featured countries. Examples of themes include wedding...

Scope and Contents The Foundation was established in 1986 to present an annual lecture series marking the deadly coal miners' strike in Virden, Illinois in 1898. For many years the Foundation held its annual Mother Jones Dinners at Sangamon State University. The collection includes financial records, membership lists, minutes, correspondence, posters, flyers, and newsletters; also records of arrangements, donations, ticket sales, entertainment, and speakers for the annual Mother Jones Dinner and lecture...

Scope and Contents Records, collected literature, and audio and videotapes concerning the unlicensed, low-power radio station of Mbanna Kantako of Springfield, Illinois, and the micro-radio movement in general. The efforts of the FCC to shut down Kantako's radio station attracted international press attention. This material was largely collected or created by Michael Townsend, an associate professor of Child, Family and Community Services at UIS. Its primary focus is Mbanna Kantako (originally...

Scope and Contents The Donner Family Collection consists of newspaper articles, artifacts, books, correspondence, photographs, articles, journals, newsletters, brochures, notes, photocopies, posters, land grants and deeds, videocassettes, cassette tapes and CD-ROMs. The material pertains to the family of George Donner, who left Sangamon County, Illinois in 1846 to emigrate to California. After a series of mishaps and delays, they and their emigrant party were trapped by heavy snow and faced starvation in the...

Scope and Contents This series contains personal correspondence, memos, course materials, lecture notes, syllabuses, student papers and examinations, press releases, sociology articles, photographs, videotape and audiocassette recordings. This collection also contains material from the Chicago Area Project, the nation's first community-based delinquency prevention program; Ron Sakolsky's Free Speech Case; United Students for Africa; Citizens Against Prostitution, a Springfield-based community organization;...

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This collection consists of the minutes and working papers of the Strategic Planning Task Force. It also consists of workshops and retreat workings. This collection also contains notes and minutes pertaining to the colloquia “The Future of the University 2000” which were held in 1990 and 1991. The collection also includes one video cassette.