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Caption: Dedication - Brookens Library (UIS) (Proceedings)
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policy. The university addresses itself to specific and manifold government needs through special courses, projects, and student internships. Every student participates in Public Affairs Colloquia which deal with major topics or problems involving public policy study projects. An off-campus applied study experience Js required of all undergraduate students, providing further extension of the university into the community and increasing contacts between students, faculty, and business and government leaders. Dr. Robert C. Spencer was chosen in the summer of 1969 as Sangamon State University's founding president, and has continued in that office. The university opened in interim facilities for the fall term of 1970, with an initial enrollment of some: 800 students and a faculty of 45. The first class was graduated in December, 1971, although the first formal commencement and the inauguration of President Spencer did not take place until June, 1972. Sangamon State currently has ->me 4000 students and a faculty Of 200, with an enrollment of 6000 anticipated before 1980. More than half of Sangamon State's students are married, more than half are part-time students, and almost half attend evening classes. The student body tends to be older than that of most state universities. About 40 r nt of thr students are taking grad. f d work. Sangam State operates from two am- pum the Main Campus i some 740 at cd f I > Springfield six miles : of the Capitol mplex, and the . downtown within c ac-
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