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In 1937, the buildings were renamed for university trustees Mary E. Busey and Laura B. Evans. [2] The residence halls were still in use as all-female student housing until the fall semester of 2019, when the Evans hall was designated as all male for the first time in its history to accommodate the closure of another all male residence hall on ...
COUCH began in 1997 as an umbrella organization for the independent housing co-ops in the Champaign–Urbana area, but was also founded with the vision of creating a larger co-op community to advance co-oping, establish community, and achieve economies of scale within the co-op community. It currently consists of three houses:
Established as one of 37 public land-grant institutions established after the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act. The act was signed by Abraham Lincoln on July 2, 1862. The Morrill Act of 1862 granted each state in the United States a portion of land on which to establish a major public state university, one which could teach agriculture, mechanic arts, and military training, "without excluding ...
The Association of College and University Housing Officers-International (ACUHO-I) (formerly the Association of College and University Housing Officers) is a professional association for student affairs administrators who work in residence life within higher education. Founded in 1951, ACUHO-I has almost 1,000 member institutions in 16 ...
The Veterans Affairs Office Building was established in late 1974 when they moved to the old Real Estate Building, also known as the Real Estate House. [ 1 ] Demand for a dedicated campus center began to gain momentum in 1977 following the decline of student space in the Union Building and Cavanaugh Hall. [ 2 ]
Alpha Phi Fraternity House-Beta Alpha Chapter (Champaign, Illinois) Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity House (Champaign, Illinois) Alpha Xi Delta Sorority Chapter House (Champaign, Illinois) Altgeld Chimes; Altgeld Hall; Astronomical Observatory (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Atkins Tennis Center
Maudelle Bousfield (AB 1906, mathematics and astronomy) - the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Illinois. St. Elmo Brady (MS 1914; PhD 1916, chemistry) - the first African-American to earn a doctoral degree in chemistry. Nancy Brinker (BA 1968, sociology) - founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
The Engineering Campus is the colloquial name for the portions of campus surrounding the Bardeen Quadrangle and the Beckman Quadrangle at the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. It is an area of approximately 30 square blocks, roughly bounded by Green Street on the south, Wright Street on the west ...