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Higher Education

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

James Worthy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0028
Scope and Contents This collection contains the personal papers of James Worthy relating to his time as a member of the President’s Commission on Campaign Costs, the Illinois Board of Education’s Master Plan Committee N on Governing Structure, and as a Professor of Public Administration and Management at Sangamon State University. It includes meeting agendas and minutes, reports, correspondence, memoranda, class notes, and memoirs on the SSU Management Program written by Worthy. It is divided into three...
Dates: 1956-1978

NCACSS Accreditation Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0068
Scope and Contents

The Accreditation by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (NCACSS) contains self-study reports as well as reports of NCACSS-appointed visiting teams. It also includes memos, history, status, and project status of the institution.

The collection is primarily in reverse chronological order with other reports added in which are mostly in alphabetically by office of origin.

Dates: 1972-1982

President’s Office – Annabelle Patton subject files

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0034
Dates: Majority of material found within 1969-1974

President's Office - Board of Regents files

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0036
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, meeting minutes, memoranda, reports. Correspondence includes interaction between President Robert Spencer and the Board of Regents regarding student fees, campus competition, response to NCA Evaluation teams and accreditation of SSU. Meeting minutes include Board of Regents meetings that pertain to SSU and NIU. Memoranda from President Spencer to include the following: Wilber Moulton, Board of Regents, Edith Terwilliger and individual board members....
Dates: Majority of material found within 1968-1977

President’s Office – Illinois Board of Higher Education records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0043
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials sent to the President’s office from the Illinois Board of Higher Education. It includes minutes, agendas, executive director reports, memos, and presidential annotations. It should be noted that because of how the collection was originally processed and split, some of the meeting minutes are separated into different boxes.The collection has three series. The first series is meeting notes, agendas, and items relating to the meetings. The second...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1968-1984

Rent-A-Student Conference records

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Identifier: UA 0033
Scope and Contents

This collection contains registration documents, agendas, speeches, readings, and texts that were used to help in the conference.

Dates: 1969

Self-Study Reports Submitted to North Central Association

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0057
Scope and Contents This collection contains the self-study reports that were prepared by the presidentially appointed North Central Association (NCA). It also includes NCA visitation team reports and the SSU produced Agenda for Action report which the 1974 review of SSU’s NCA self-study report of the same year.This collection deals with reports, working papers, questionnaires, fact sheets, and reference material in the university’s dealings with the NCA.There are three series, One, the...
Dates: 1969-1978

Semiannual Personal Listings

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0124
Scope and Contents

Each volume lists SSU administrators, faculty and staff members. Also listed are rank, position title, highest degree earned, monthly salary starting date, full or part-time employment and the number of months in contract as well as distribution of administrators and faculty members in various divisions, offices, and programs of the University.

Dates: 1971-1979

University Assembly - Constitutional Convention Records

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Identifier: UA 0013
Scope and Contents The Constitutional Convention 1973-74 and SSU Constitution 1975 files include: documents, memoranda, and correspondence. Included are drafts for Faculty Bill of Rights, Constitution, powers, and responsibilities of the University Governance Structure. Memoranda are from President Robert Spencer and convention members of the University Assembly. This material contains the first constitution of this university. It defines membership in the university community, components of the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1970-1975

University Events Chronology Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0103
Scope and Contents This collection includes chronological listings of events at SSU, administrative statistics and program recommendations. Events include lectures by Mark Heyman, Margaret Sloan, Ray Marchall, Tom Hamlstead, Cullom Davis, Charles Schweighauser and Gene Roddenberry. Topics include: "White Man looks at the Back man's World; Community Energy Self-Reliance; Patterns of Interaction in the Family; the New U.S. China Policy; and Law Enforcement & the Elderly." Administrative statistics provide...
Dates: 1971-1980