Scope and Contents This collection contains notes, published works, speeches, correspondence, memoranda, course material, meeting minutes, and one audio tape relating to Giesecke’s career in academia. Series I: Higher Education, 1948-1976, consists of material relating to the state of higher education in the United States, university administration, reform of university policies and educational programs, and unrest on university campuses. Divided into three sub-series: Trinity College Degree...

Scope and Contents This collection was reprocessed in August 2023.The material in this collection came from the original collection of “Sangamon State University Major Reports and Documents, 1963-1995” Original order has mostly been maintained, though some documents that were published in other areas were removed as they were determined to be redundant. This collection contains major reports and documents concerning the need for a senior university in Springfield as well as...

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...

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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.

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....

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...

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

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...

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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.