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The College of Nursing's history begins in the early 1940s. At that time, nursing courses were offered at the University of Illinois at the request of hospitals. In 1949, an affiliate program between the University of Illinois and area hospital schools of nursing was established. The School of Nursing was designated as an autonomous unit of the University of Illinois in 1951. UIC became the first public institution in Illinois to offer the Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and the first class of eight students graduated in 1957. In 1959, the School was renamed the College of Nursing.
The 1960s and 1970s were decades of expansion for the College of Nursing. Graduate degrees were added; in 1963, the College of Nursing admitted the first students to the new Master of Science in Nursing program. In 1974, UIC made the decision to offer a Ph.D. program in Nursing, becoming the first institution in Illinois to do so. The College of Nursing grew physically as well in these decades. In Chicago, a new building with larger capacity was begun in the late 1960s. In the 1970s, the College of Nursing expanded to the Peoria, Rockford, and Urbana campuses, then to the Quad Cites in 1980. The University of Illinois College of Nursing was named the first World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Midwifery in the U.S. in 1986.
This collection contains material about the history of the UIC College of Nursing including articles about the history of the College, timelines, press releases, brochures records of the committee that oversaw the new College of Nursing Building and biographies of College of Nursing personnel.
Full Collection Title:
College of Nursing (017) -- Office of the Dean (01) -- College of Nursing (03) -- Historical records (01)
College of Nursing historical records, Collection Code 017-01-03-01, Box #, Folder #, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Illinois Chicago.
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Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois Chicago
Released on 2019-12-06.
Released on 2019-12-06.