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Ad Hoc Committee on Summer Program minute books
Minutes, memoranda, correspondence, survey responses, notes, drafts,
proposals, and reports document the work of the Ad Hoc Committee on Summer
Program, 1961-1962, successor to the Faculty Committee on Education
Objectives. The committee studied programs and drafted proposals for summer
programs for transfer students, high school students, and Architecture
students. The committee elicited survey responses and correspondence from
high school principals, art teachers, and guidance officers regarding a
summer program. They received correspondence and brochures from institutions
with existing programs including the Wisconsin Art Education Association's
schedule and student handbook for their summer program.
The series includes the report: Team B - Summer School, January 1961, one of
a series of spot-check reports instituted by Dean Strout September 27, 1961.
See Academic Affairs Subject files, Dean's Reports, 1961; Museum, 1961-1987;
Night School, 1961 for similar reports. See also the minutes of the Dean's
Advisory Committee, 1961-1962
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1961-1962
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Academic Advisory Council minute books
Minutes, agendas, memoranda, meeting notes, reports, correspondence, and
yearly summaries document the work of the Academic Advisory Council and its
predecessors, 1981-2006. Monthly meetings are held to discuss academic
policy and share information. The Council evolved from the Division Chairmen
meetings of the 1970s, as the Deans and Chairmen meetings (1981-1984), the
Council of Deans (1984-1986), and the Academic Council, which included the
Librarian and Director of Continuing Education (1986-1999). The expansion of
the Council in 1986 and later led the Council to restructure the weekly
meeting schedule, holding separate meetings for Deans and the full Council
beginning in 1991-1992, with records kept separately beginning in 1995. (See
Dean's Advisory Council Minute books, 1995-[ongoing])
Records for 1981-1992 include meeting notes taken by Acting VP for Academic
Affairs Friedrich St. Florian (1981-1984), VP for Academic Affairs Paul Nash
(1984-1985), Dean of Liberal Arts Edward Dwyer (1985-1992), and Associate VP
for Academic Affairs Robert Rindler (1986-1987). Recorded minutes begin in
1989. The bulk of the collection, 1985-1992, comes from Dwyer, who brought
the records to Academic Affairs when he was appointed Associate Provost in
1995. The Committee files hold records kept by Nash (1983-1987), Rindler
(1987-1994), and Provost Hardu Keck (1994-1995), which fill gaps in Minute
books for 1988-1989 and 1993-1995.
Topics discussed at meetings include grades, credits, registration
procedures, academic advising for students, structure of degree programs,
building hours, TU's, appointment and reappointment of faculty, curriculum
proposals, budgets, registration statistics, the academic calendar, academic
space analysis, and the organization of Academic Affairs. Extensive
documentation of subjects exists primarily for 1984-1992. Minutes for
President's Staff meetings may be provided.
The materials in this group are arranged chronologically.
These materials are closed for 20 years after creation
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1981-2006
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Deans Advisory Council minute books
Agendas, minutes and summaries, memoranda, budget spreadsheets,
correspondence, reports, studies and proposals, surveys, and publications
document the activities of the Deans Advisory Council, 1995-2007. The
Council (Deans Meetings, 1991-1999) met separately from the Academic Council
beginning in 1991-1992, but records were filed with the Academic Council
records until 1995. See Academic Council records (Committee files and
Academic Advisory Council Minute books) for Deans Meeting records,
1991-1995.
The Council serves as an advisory and informational body, which meets every
other week (every week until 1999) to discuss academic initiatives, space,
faculty issues, budgets, and other topics that impact upon academic policy.
Brief minutes or summaries as part of an agenda begin in 1997. The records
for 1996-1997 are missing. The bulk of the records are supporting documents
for policy discussions distributed at meetings.
Subjects include capital and non-salary budgets, TU allocations, the
academic calendar, faculty contract issues, enrollment statistics, computer
use, faculty arbitration decisions, campus master plan, the Ten-Year plan,
space allocations, and sexual harassment. Records include the RISD Museum of
Art's Expansion Feasibility Study (1999), the Foundation Studies Major
Selection survey (2001), and yearly goals for Deans and Academic Affairs.
Records may include personal information on individual students.
The materials in this group are arranged chronologically.
These materials are closed for 20 years after creation. Records must be
reviewed by Archives staff before use by researcher because of privacy
issues
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1995-2007
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