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

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CHooL or joua ALI M A D COMMU ierxrio Director Frederick S. Siebert The objective of the School of journalism and Communications is to provide profes- sional education for men and women who plan careers in journalism, advertising, or broadcasting. This professional training is preceded by a preliminary program of general education, which the student usually obtains in the Col- lege of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Facilities for the School include an out- standing journalism and communications li- brary, special classrooms and laboratories, AM and FM radio stations and a VHF edu- cational television station. As a professional division of the University, the School has service responsibilities. It pro- vides headquarters for various press and broadcasting associations. The School of Iournalism was established i11 1927. The change in name was made in 1950 after the addition of the radio curricu- lum, which has since been expanded to in- clude television. xx I -- yi-?e: k semi, -.tgfl '

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GRAD TE COLLEGE The Graduate College began in 1892 when the Board of Trustees authorized four fellow- ships for post-graduate work to . . stimulate in all departments the idea and habit of re- search .... U From this small beginning, the graduate student body has a present enroll- ment of 3,000, the third largest college on the campus. Graduate programs stressing independent work and individual research have been established in over sixty-five departments and divisions of the University. The four original fellowships authorized by the Board of Trus- tees have been increased to provide a sub- stantial number of awards for students of unusual promise. Other students of excep- tional ability gain valuable teaching and re- search experience through the many part time assistantships which are available. The Grad- uate College conferred about 750 masters, degrees in recent years and over 300 doctor- ates during the last calendar year. Dean Frederick T. Wall

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COLLEGE OF LAW Since its founding in 1897, the College of Law has been in the forefront in the move- ment for improvement of standards of legal education and admission to the bar in the United States. Training men and women for the practice of law is the primary purpose of the College. But its program is also valuable for those who become judges, legislators, and teachers of law, for administrators in government, and for executives in private business. It seeks to guide students in appreciating the func- tions of law in the social order and in aiding the law to keep pace with changing condi- tions. Its responsibility embraces much more than the mere learning of legal rules and formulasg it provides part of the educational foundation for men and Women who will become leaders in community service and directors of public thought. The fall of 1955 marked the moving of the staff and facilities of the College to its new, modern building on south campus. Dean Albert J. Harno i ff if'xWE'?LiJili