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Caption: UIS Long Range Plan - 1970 (Sangamon State Univ)
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PART II - THE PROGRAM AND THE LAND A. THE ACADEMIC AND SPACE PROGRAM A surveyor's stake/ standing in the furrowed ground of an Illinois prairie, announces that the co-ordinates of plan upon plan, meeting upon meeting, drawing upon drawing, and survey upon survey have focussed on this as the point around which all the activities of a new university will revolve. The length of pine 2x2, with a scrap of colored plastic tied to its tip for visibility at a distance, stands for Sangamon State University even when the institution exists only as a legal entity and an educational concept. It signalizes that commitments to certain teaching procedures and learning experiences have been adopted as convictions, and are about to be carried out. In physical terms, it implies a paved plaza in the immediate area, a Library-Learning Resource Center a short distance to the northeast, Administration to the south, Auditorium to the northwest, and all the facilities to be used by 12,500 students at specified sites at various distances from this marker, with more than 500 first-year enrollees in interim facilities. Since the campus design of a university has but one purpose, to serve the educational design, it follows that the master plan for the academic program must establish determinants of the structure and character of the environmental setting. The genesis of the University's intellectual spirit is in its educational master plan. It is the architects' obligation to recognize the explicit guidelines and the implications of this plan, and to build an environment that will further the program, participate in the diverse life of the campus, respond readily to future needs to expand and modify the physical plant, and contribute to the institution's identity. The educational design objective, fully described in the 57-page Academic Plan of July 1970, need be summarized here only in terms of the reference points that it establishes for the construction and space program. Its goals are concisely stated by President Spencer:
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