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hanced through I faculty advising process, with uV student selecting the jdemic adviser of his or I choke. cess to tht H'tsiative and executive offices Sangamon State University received in of state at \ocz\ government. The interim April, 1975, full accreditation by the Nort <f It made up of attractive steel buildj Central Association of Colleges and Schools, in welMandscaped settings. The Norris t which accredits maK nstitutions of higher r ens Library, occupied In December, 1975, is the first of the permanent buildings. education in', thi Midwest Sele- /e pr& grams in the preparation of teacri , educ The Pt-•-!<- Affairs Center, now under construction, been planned specifically for tional administration, and elementary and academic progran having a distinct secondary school counseling have been cer i thrust. The center's 2000-seat fied by the Illinois Board of Education. mditor i will provide faciliti for comSangamon State's faculty have the dis well as university cultural activisity of background and quality of prepare tion needed to provide the contemporary zamon State University is one of three and exciting progran which combine tl ••-. gpverned by the state Board of world of learning with the world in which legem nder the supervision of the Illinois people live and work. More than SO percent oard of H cr Ed ation> The other Reof the full-tinr faculty bold doo ites. > . . *re Illinois State University at Many of them bring with them expert d Northern Illinois University at business, administration, and the arts as well i he University Assembly made up as in the scholarly profession t, fac , and staff senates has >tabli*hed as a ampus advisory body. The Sangamon State University Foundarsity is organized into three admintion is charitable not-for-profit organiza•e divisions which function under the tion which helps t" provide ed" tonal <>n of vice-preside the Division of opportunities to student!, alumni, and the tic A* rs, Division of Business and public b i ncouraging gifts money, propAdministrative Services, and Division of Uni* erty, ar histof ateri.i '** .my ol - ity Rf:.- ons. gift which could enhance the work of tfM Academic off< .# it areas of natural universit The Clayville Stagecoach Stop , social science, humaniti* and pro* presented to the Foundation early in 1973 ifonal idy make up 26 degree programs by Dr. md Mrs. Emmet R Pear spt-< sequences and optioj Consisrestored rural life i nter where student with its liberal arts mandate, Sangamon learn of the past by studying ai pari • iters only the Bachelor of Arts and ting In folfc cult" : Che ineic Master of Arts degrees. The univcr asks century prairie support for ttud< its faculty to be fully committed not only to cial nd. applied stud) experiences, m • scho rly endeavor >ut \*> irtovatlve f public affairs progi s mal up a Urg< teaching d an open system of evaluation. of the Foundation'! efforts. Personal tteniion to each student h en-