Repository: UIHistories Project: UIS Long Range Plan - 1970 (Sangamon State Univ) [PAGE 15]

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PART II - A. "The primary commitment at Sangamon State University is to teaching, to education in public affairs, and to creating an environment in which vocational objectives may be pursued in a manner consistent with liberal learning ... We feel the need of a quality of intimacy, of concern for the dignity of the individual, and natural, easy and attractive means of sharing with a few or many, the intellectual resources of this community." "We intend to build a teaching institution, an institution in which the style of inquiry, dialogue with students, the style and method of addressing problems and seeking answers, is productive of the three ends of humane learning, literacy and culture ... This means we shall ask our students to combine their pursuit of the sciences, the social sciences and the humanities with direct concern about where this knowledge will lead them, and what its implications are for personal growth and community and human welfare ... The University is as concerned with the quest for knowledge and wisdom as it is with finding answers." The Academic Plan emphasizes the concept of the new campus as "a community of learning" and "an educational city". It defines the student-faculty relationship as one of working together, "the former contributing primarily energy, idealism and a questioning spirit, the latter adding maturity and perspective to the tasks of learning". It calls for an outreach from the campus into the public world. This means more than the familiar instance of faculty members serving as consultants to government and industry, or of students being assigned to project laboratory work under the auspices of special grants. The program sets up a degree requirement to expose all students ?i. « examination and study of problems facing the public , which includes a requisite of off-campus, tull-time employment or involvement in "teaching business, government or community service or anv other activity that contributes to the student's education". ***««*. o

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