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Committee files

Series consists of the records of committees of the Faculty of Education and documents their activities and deliberations. Records include meeting agendas, minutes, supporting papers, committee correspondence, and reports; also includes one sound recording relating to an Extraordinary Faculty Meeting in April 1978 (sub-series 3, file 30).

Centres and departments files

From 1965 to 1972 the Faculty of Education was organized into a number of separate centres and departments. This series represents the surviving records of these bodies.

Special media records

Series consists of non-textual records (special media) created by the Faculty of Education and maintained separately from the textual files. Records include photographs, audio-visual recordings, and audio recordings.

Program area files

In 1972, the Faculty of Education re-organized, moving from a departmental structure (based on centres and departments) to a functional one, based on program area divisions. This series represents records made or recieved by the program area offices. Note that to date (July 2008) only one program area (Professional Programs, sub-series 1) has transferred records to the Archives. Records comprise primarily correspondence and reports; see sub-series descriptions for more detail.

Course files

Series consists of course outlines, reading lists, and descriptions of assignments for Faculty of Education courses. The bulk of the files relate to graduate courses offered by the faculty between 1978 and 1994. There are only three undergraduate courses documented: EDU202 (1965-1967), EDU489 (1987), and an early file relating to a Behavioural Science Foundations course (BSF424) from 1966.

Office of the Dean of Education files

Series consists of records made or recieved by the Office of the Dean of Education and includes the Dean's correspondence and subject files, as well correspondence of the Administrative Assistant to the Dean. See sub-series descriptions for activities documented and record types included.

Joint Board of Teacher Education files

Series consists of records made or receive by the Dean of Education in the Dean's capacity as an officer of JBTE. Activities documented include Board meetings, program reviews and proposals, policy recommendations, and liaison with the provincial government and other educational agencies and institutes. Records include meeting agendas, minutes, reports, correspondence, proposals and course descriptions, recommendations, meeting schedules, budget statements, reprints and other reference material.

Joint Board of Teacher Education

Publications

Series consists of publications produced by the Faculty of Education relating to its programs, courses, and services. Note that while the date range covers a 40-year span starting in 1965, there are relatively few publications for the period between 1988 and 1997.

President's Committee on Athletic Awards files

Sub-series consists of records relating to the activities of the President's Committee on Athletic Awards. Records include terms of reference, reports, correspondence, press releases and news clippings, recommendations and lists of recipients.

President's Athletic Award Committee

Professional Programs Committee files

Sub-series consists of records made or received by the Professional Programs Committee in the course of its activities and deliberations. Activities documented include program and curriculum review, recommendations to the Director, the Dean, and the faculty as a whole, policy development, and liaison with subcommittees. Records include meeting schedules, agendas, minutes, reports and discussion papers, correspondence, proposals and recommendations, course descriptions, and calendar revisions.

Note that there is a gap in the holdings for this series, with few records documenting the early years (only two files earlier than 1976).

Faculty of Education. Professional Programs Committee

Faculty Tenure Committee files

Sub-series consists of two files (from 1974 and 1978) containing records relating to the activities of the Faculty Tenure Committee. Records include correspondence, salary recommendations, meeting minutes, committee procedures, and reports.

Faculty of Education. Faculty Tenure Committee

"The Future of Education Research" public lecture series audio recordings

Sub-series consists of audio recordings (cassettes) of a three-day public lecture series held by the Faculty of Education in July 1985, called "The Future of Education Research." Speakers were Robin Barrow (SFU), Jonas Soltis (Columbia University), Kieran Egan (SFU), Denis Phillips (Stanford University), LeRoy Daniels (University of British Columbia), and John Wilson (Oxford University). Records consist of audio cassettes.

Educational Foundations Centre files

Sub-series consists of records made or received by the Educational Foundations Centre and some of its committees. Activities documented include the internal re-organization of the Centre over 1969 and 1970 (incorporation of new departments), curriculum and policy development, departmental meetings, and the activities and deliberations of the Centre's Undergraduate Studies Committee and Department of Social Relations Committee. Records include correspondence, reports, proposals, course outlines, and meeting agendas and minutes. For a list of committees whose records are included in the files and other bodies represented in the correspondence, see the "Access points" section below.

Educational Foundations Centre

Professional Programs files

Records consists predominantly of correspondence, reports and course-related material. See sub-series descriptions for more detailed information. The audio cassettes are found in sub-sub-series 1 ("Director's subject files").

Faculty of Education. Professional Programs

Professional Programs publications

Series consists of publications relating to the Professional Programs divsiion, including the Professional Development Program (PDP). Records include program information; handbooks and manuals for students, Faculty Associates, and School Associates; the Professional Foundations Centre's newsletter, Communiqué (1971-1972); registration packages and scholarship information; and the student-produced "PDP Jargon Dictionary" (1983).

Photographs collection

Series consists of photographic material relating to the Faculty of Education. Activities and subjects documented include the operations of the Learning Resources Centre ca. 1970s; portraits of staff, faculty, and faculty and school associates ca. 1980s; the 1982 faculty Christmas party; particular PDP courses; conferences; and faculty jubilee events (1989). Formats include black and white and colour prints, contact sheets, and slides.

Dean of Education correspondence

Sub-series consists of the incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Dean of Education on matters relating to the faculty, including policy development, faculty appointments and staffing, budget, curriculum, government liaison, and liaison with various school boards. Records include correspondence (inter-university and external), reports, policies and procedures, budget and salary papers.

Dean of Education subject files

Sub-series consists of records made or received by the Dean of Education relating to matters concerning the faculty as a whole. Activities documented include the administration and restructuring of the faculty; faculty appointments, staffing, salaries and promotions; space allocation; curriculum development; the operations of the Learning Resources Laboratory; liaision with the provincial Committee on Certification (CAC); and development of faculty policy and procedures. Records includes correspondence, organization charts, policies, reports, meeting minutes, salary tables, statistics, and offers of appointment and letters of acceptance.

Faculty Meeting files

Sub-series consists of the agendas, minutes, and supporting papers of the Faculty Meeting. Supporting papers include reports, policy and curriculum proposals and recommendations, motions, and course descriptions. There are four audio cassettes recording the proceedings of an Extraordinary Faculty Meeting in April 1978.

Faculty of Education. Faculty Meeting

Salaries and Promotions Committee files

Sub-series consists of records relating to the acitivties of the Salaries and Promotions Committee. Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, faculty CVs and resumes, evaluations and recommendations, contract renewal forms, and salary sheets.

Faculty of Education. Salaries and Promotions Committee

Graduate Programs Committee files

Sub-series consists of records made or received by the Graduate Programs Committee in the course of its activities and deliberations. Activities documented include review of course and program proposals, development of policies and procedures, curriculum development, support for graduate students, and liaison with the Senate Committee on Graduate Studies and with the Office of Graduate Studies. Records include course and program proposals and recommendations, draft calendar statements, correspondence, reports, and motions.

Note that the there are gaps in the holdings. There are no committee records from 1981 to 1984 or for 1989.

Faculty of Education. Graduate Programs Committee

Undergraduate Programs Committee files

Sub-series consists of records made or received by the Undergraduate Programs Committee in the course of its activities and deliberations. Activities documented include review of degree requirements and curriculum content, calendar revisions, development of policies and procedures, staffing priorities, and liaison with the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies. Records include meeting agendas and minutes, reports, correspondence, program proposals and recommendations, course descriptions, new course proposal forms, and statistics. Note that there are gaps in the holdings, with few records before 1983 (just two files from 1972 and 1974 respectively).

Faculty of Education. Undergraduate Programs Committee

PDP Scholarship and Awards Committee files

Sub-series consists of one file relating to the deliberations and activities of the PDP Scholarship and Awards Committee over a two-year period (1979-1981). Records include calls for nominations and list of nominees.

Faculty of Education. PDP Scholarship and Awards Committee

Physical Development Centre files

Sub-series consists of records made or received by the Physical Development Centre in the course of its operations. Activities documented include hiring, program development, and a review of the finances, organization and needs of the Department of Athletics and Recreational Services (1970). Records include correspondence, CVs and resumes, press releases, and reports.

Physical Development Centre

Department of Behavioural Sciences Foundations files

Sub-series consists of records made or received by the Head of the Department of Behavioural Science Foundations, R.J.C. Harper, in the course of administering the department. Activities documented include departmental planning (budget, enrollment, staffing, space); curriculum and program development (course planning, development of the Communication Studies program and establishment of the Department of Communication); student relations (enrollment, applications for graduate studies, registration and examinations); relations with faculty members (appointments, tenure, salaries); liaison with other university departments and participation in university, faculty and departmental committees; and liaison with external agencies and associations involved in education. Records include correspondence, reports, invitations, statistics and estimates; course proposals, outlines, and descriptions; and committee meeting agenda, minutes and supporting papers.

For a list of the departments, committees, and external organizations represented in the correspondence and subject files, see the "Access points" section below.

Department of Behavioural Science Foundations

J.S. Woodsworth Summer Institute on Peace and War lecture series: audio recordings

Sub-series consists of audio recordings (cassettes) of a month-long series public lectures co-sponsored by the Faculty of Education and the Institute for the Humanities in July-Auguust 1986, called the J.S. Woodsworth Summer Instittute on Peace and War. Speakers were Dr. Ursula Franklin (University of Toronto), Dr. Magaret Benston (SFU), Dr. Martin Kitchen (SFU), Dr. David Barash, Dr. Neil Kyle, George Ignatieff (University of Toronto), Dr. Doug Ross (SFU), Dr. William Vanderburg (University of Toronto), and Joanna Miller (UNICEF Canada).

Faculty of Education publications

Sub-series consists of Faculty of Education publications that relate to the faculty as a whole. Records include faculty-produced instructional material, handbooks, studies, and event posters; publicity material for the Summer Institute of Teacher Education (SITE); Learning Resources Centre material; the annual Administrative Guide to the Faculty of Education (ca. 1978 to 1989); and newsletters and journals, including Plain Facs (1982-1983) and Contact: Review for French Teachers (1982-1986).

Graduate Programs publications

Series consists of publications relating to the Graduate Programs division of the Faculty of Education. Records includes program information, brochures, handbooks, and the Graduate Programs newsletter (1997-1999).

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