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TechnographBoard expands programs of study available to University students
Increasing costs of public education addressed at Springfield meeting
By Brittney Foreman
Posted: 6/6/07 Section: News
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Board of Higher Education made motions to improve the opportunity for a higher level of education at the University. To support their clear vision, perhaps signified by the crystal chandeliers that hung from the ceiling, they approved four additions to the University campus today in Springfield.
In Salons A and B of the ballroom at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel and Conference Center the board passed a motion that will permit the University to have a bachelor's of science program in LAS in Earth System, Environment and Society.
The program, which deputy director Gary Alexander said would be the only program of its kind in Illinois and one of few in the nation, will be housed in the newly approved school of Earth, Society and Environment (SESE). SESE will include the existing departments of atmospheric science, geography and geology at the University.
The board also approved a University school of literatures, cultures and linguistics which will offer more than 30 languages associated with literature and cultures, and a permanent Technology and Entrepreneur Center.
The school of literatures, cultures and linguistics will bring together the departments of classics, East Asian languages and cultures, French, Germanic languages and literatures, linguistics, Slavic languages and literatures, and Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
It will also house the comparative and world literature program, the study of religion program, the division of English as an international language and the unit for cinema studies.
The Technology Entrepreneur Center, previously operating under temporary status by the IBHE, works to prepare the state's next generation of entrepreneurs - University engineering students - as well as assists the Office of Technology Management.
At the meeting, while a slideshow displaying artwork of the winners and finalists of the 2007 Annual Collegiate Artists Competition played on a dropdown screen, Chairwoman Carrie Hightman talked about the board's plans to develop a Master Plan. She also addressed the corruption involving student loan/lender practices nationally and the tragedy surrounding Virginia Tech.
In Salons A and B of the ballroom at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel and Conference Center the board passed a motion that will permit the University to have a bachelor's of science program in LAS in Earth System, Environment and Society.
The program, which deputy director Gary Alexander said would be the only program of its kind in Illinois and one of few in the nation, will be housed in the newly approved school of Earth, Society and Environment (SESE). SESE will include the existing departments of atmospheric science, geography and geology at the University.
The board also approved a University school of literatures, cultures and linguistics which will offer more than 30 languages associated with literature and cultures, and a permanent Technology and Entrepreneur Center.
The school of literatures, cultures and linguistics will bring together the departments of classics, East Asian languages and cultures, French, Germanic languages and literatures, linguistics, Slavic languages and literatures, and Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
It will also house the comparative and world literature program, the study of religion program, the division of English as an international language and the unit for cinema studies.
The Technology Entrepreneur Center, previously operating under temporary status by the IBHE, works to prepare the state's next generation of entrepreneurs - University engineering students - as well as assists the Office of Technology Management.
At the meeting, while a slideshow displaying artwork of the winners and finalists of the 2007 Annual Collegiate Artists Competition played on a dropdown screen, Chairwoman Carrie Hightman talked about the board's plans to develop a Master Plan. She also addressed the corruption involving student loan/lender practices nationally and the tragedy surrounding Virginia Tech.
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