History of SSU-UIS: 1970-1971

(from the 1970-71 SSU Catalog)

Message From the President

(Robert C. Spencer)

This guide sets forth initial programs and features of the operating style of Sangamon State University. As the first freestanding university to be established in Illinois in this century and as the State’s initial upper division university, this new institution has a unique threefold mandate.

History of SSU-UIS: Opening of SSU

SSU Doors Will Open This Fall

By Caryl Castens
State Journal-Register, January 1, 1970, p. 42

History