University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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O UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA. ILLINOIS F CE or THF P ssl CNT DCCBIHEJBI' 12, T3 THE STULEXYS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: V From lts beginning the Unlverslty of Illinois has been responsive to public needs and has constantly tried to fulfill its mission as a Land-Grant College and state-supported unlverslty. when world War I began, the University immediately Thous- offered all of its facilities and services to the country. ands of students and alumni served in that war and lE4 made the supreme sacrifice. with the beginning of World War II, the Unlverslty again made its facilities and services available for the successful prosecution of this war. Over l7,000 llllnl are serving in the armed forces and over SOO of them have paid the last full measure of devotion. On the campus, the Unlverslty has provided both college grade and technical training programs for the Army and the Navy, and various departments have contributed materially to the war effort through their research and extension programs. . By establishing a Division of Special Services for War Veterans, the University has been a pioneer ln providing an educa- tional and counselling service for the benefit of returning ser- vicemen. In the poet-war period the University will adjust its programs to meet the changing conditions and the needs of the people. We hope that when victory comes we shall be prepared to deal wisely and effectively with the problems which will confront - 5 both the State and the University of Illlnols. Cordially ours, President '

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llDlllllllSTRHTlllll The educational, academic, and research programs of the University are the primary obiectives of the institution. Simultaneously, there operates another program, quietly and in the background, namely, that of administration. The administrative staff includes many officers of the University who do no teaching and no research. They are the operators of the University, the managers, the welfare officers, the business agents, the record keepers, the engineers, and the public relations officers. The President of the University is the chief of the administrators. He is the coordinator of all the work of the University, both academic and operational. He is aided by a group of specialists, each with his own staff and field of operations. These specialists consist of the Provost, the Comptroller and his staff, the Director of the Physical Plant, the Registrar, the Dean of Students, and the Public Relations officer. Other administrative officers are in the lllini Union, the Personnel Bureau, the Alumni Association, the Athletic Association, the Bureau of Institutional Research, the High School Visitor's Office, the Press and Information Office, the Radio Station and the Retirement System oftices. The administrative organization is established to contribute the most effective operational methods and procedures in order that the educational, academic, and research programs may go forward smoothly and effectively. H l H 1 1 l

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Arthur Cutts Willard President, University of Illinois Elected by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees on March 13, 1934, Arthur Cutts Willard became seventh president af the University in July of that year. He came in the year 1913 as an assistant professor of heating and ventilation in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He was made a full professor a few years later, and in 1920 was named head of the department. He had been made Acting Dean of the College of Engineering nine months previous to his election as president of the University. Dr. Willard was born in Washington, D. C. and attended Central High School there. For one year he was a student at the National College of Pharmacy and then he entered the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, where he took a chemical engineering COUYSB. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1904. Following his graduation from M.I.T., he taught for one year at the California School for Mechanical Arts in San Francisco and for three years at George Washington University in the nation's capital. For tour years, preceding his transfer to Illinois, he was Sanitary and Heating Engi- neer in the United States War Department. Three honorary doctors' degrees have been conferred upon Presi- dent Willard: Doctor of Engineering by the Case School of Applied Science, Doctor of Laws by George Washington University, and also the Doctor of Laws by Northwestern University. 13