02. Academic Support Services

Scope and Contents

This collection contains materials related to the continuing education program on campus and the Academic Support Center-Center for Student Success. Correspondence from the Information Technology department is also present.

Once the material from a particular office reaches a certain level (enough to support a full document box), they are split off from the overarching Academic Support Services Subject files collection and given a resource of their own.

Scope and Contents The 4 year plan was an advanced outlook on goals, outlines, and expectations of the Academic Advising Center. The advising manual details the responsibilities of individual advisors and outlines required courses and available opportunities. The planning sheets are a comprehensive list of majors and minors, accompanied by course requirements and responsibilities. The publicity folder contains information from 1970 up to 2009 for publicity of the Academic Advising Center. The training...

Scope and Contents This collection contains files kept by Carolyn Sheehy from her time as director of Library Services. They include files on North Central College Library services related to curriculum and administration of the library as well as material related to her professional activities, her role as Director of Assessment and Accreditation, and her work at North Central College and in the Naperville community. The Department files include correspondence with Department Chairs and faculty while Library...

Scope and Contents This collection contains resources about cultural events and speakers brought to campus. This includes brochures and fliers promoting academic and cultural events on campus. Schedules and programs from cultural events including Convocation, Lecture Courses, the Artists Series, and Special Events, and the Fine Arts Festival are also present. Some schedules combined activities on campus from different groups. There are also meeting minutes from the committee overseeing events in Pfeiffer Hall...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of Edward Meachen’s files from his time as Director of the Library. The files include materials concerning administration of the library with topics ranging from on-line catalogs, book purchasing, and bibliographic instruction, to gifts, grants, and awards. Also included are files on campus-wide, as well as external committees and projects in which Meachen participated. These included the Campus Computerization Committee and the LIBRAS Cooperative Collection...

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The Library files collection includes reports, memoranda, financial records, meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, and other documents generated by the North Central College library. The main subjects covered include building construction and renovation, finances, library instruction, collections, cataloging systems, gifts, grants, awards, policies, and procedures. See series notes for further details.

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This collection contains brochures and fliers, related to academic opportunities on campus. Correspondence, meeting minutes, brochures, from programs, such as the Honors Program, the Honor Society, Mid-Winter Study Term (D-Term), and Urban Semester, which started before the creation of the Office of Academic Opportunities, are also present. This series also has programs from the Rall Symposium and materials on available scholarships.

Scope and Contents The Office of International Programs Records contains promotional materials including brochures with destinations for studying abroad and brochures to recruit those living outside the United States to study at North Central. There are also fliers and correspondence related to events and opportunities on campus. Newsletters created by the office under the name Global Dimensions, and created by students studying and improving their English skills. The correspondence and a copy of the initial...

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This collection contains office files, course schedules, student registers, and student transcripts produced by North Central College.

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This series consists of honors theses completed and submitted by members of the College Scholars Honors program during their senior year. Topics represent all areas of the College curriculum, including business, humanities, arts, and sciences. The earliest thesis is from 1985, with only one or two submissions each year until 1994. After 1994, the number of theses increased.