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Hugh Johnston fonds Sub-series
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Background material - Academic Departments, Women's Movement and the Epilogue

Sub-series consists primarily of photocopied source material about academic departments, and the Women's Movement. It also consists of source material for the Epilogue of Radical Campus. Subjects, activities and events documented include academic freedom and tenure; faculty appointments; prominent members of the SFU community; student activism; faculty and student associations; the development and expansion of SFU; and the Women's Movement. Sub-series includes briefs, reports, correspondence, discussion papers, memoranda, minutes, working papers, and newspaper and journal articles.

Background material - Chapters 1, 2 and 3

Sub-series consists primarily of photocopied background material, which Hugh Johnston used as sources for chapters one, two and three in Radical Campus. Subjects, events and activities documented include the socio-political context of post-secondary education in the 1960s; the establishment of SFU; prominent members of the SFU community; student activism; and university disputes. Sub-series includes correspondence, memoranda, minutes, newspaper articles, reports, press releases, journal and magazine articles, working papers, bulletins, drafts, book excerpts, and discussion papers.

Background material - Chapters 4, 5 and 6

Sub-series consists of photocopied source material for chapters four, five, and six of Radical Campus. Subjects, events and activities documented include student conduct; student affairs; student activism; student associations; faculty associations; SFU governance; academic departments; prominent members of the SFU community; university disputes; and the Women's Movement. Sub-series includes memoranda; issues of the Peak; correspondence; minutes; newsletters; newspaper and journal articles; reports; research notes; briefs; and an index for the material compiled by Hugh Johnston.

Background material - Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology Department

Sub-series consists primarily of photocopied material related to the trusteeship over the PSA department, the PSA Strike, and the subsequent dismissal of eight faculty members of the PSA department. Subjects, events and activities documented include the PSA Tenure Committee; the SFU Faculty Association; the Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee and statements; the CAUT Committee of Inquiry and motion of censure; the American Anthropological Association (AAA) ad hoc committee to investigate the SFU dispute; the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (CSAA)'s boycott of SFU; the American Sociological Association ad hoc committee on the SFU dispute; the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA)'s position; the Association of University and Colleges of Canada (AUCC)'s Committee on Academic Freedom; the Palmer Committee decision; the Rosenbluth Committee Report; the Supreme Court of BC in Wheeldon vs. SFU; and the university administration's actions under Presidents Kenneth Strand and Pauline Jewett. Sub-series consists of reports, issues of the Peak, minutes, memoranda, abstracts, press releases, correspondence, research notes, telegrams, newsletters, newspaper articles, strike bulletins, CAUT bulletins, book excerpts, journal articles, and printed online material.

Interviews

Sub-series consists primarily of interviews with prominent members of the SFU community, including faculty, administrators, and students. Hugh Johnston conducted interviews; however he also collected audiocassette recordings and transcripts of interviews conducted by other researchers. They include Liisa Fagerlund, Ken Nielsen, Elika Kohler, Robin Fisher and Ruth Sandwell. Johnston's research assistants, John-Henry Harter and Dionysios (Dino) Rossi, also conducted interviews. Subjects, events and activities documented include student activism, the governance and administration of SFU, the 1968 CAUT motion of censure, the PSA affair and the history of SFU. Sub-series consists of audiocassette recordings and transcriptions of the interviews.

Miscellaneous background material - C.R. Day

Sub-series consists of original and photocopied material related to the Senate Committee on Rules and Procedures Pertaining to Professional Conduct. Subjects, events and activities documented include professional conduct at other universities; the Faculty Association Committee on the University Act; legal matters related to professional conduct; university governance; and the Planning Committee on Interior Programming's 1977 report. Sub-series consists of memoranda, correspondence, reports, minutes, newspaper clippings, book excerpts, and drafts of procedures on professional conduct.

Miscellaneous background material - Steve Hicks

Sub-series consists primarily of material related to Steve Hicks' work as Robin Fisher's research assistant. Subjects, events and activities documented student life and the political impetus for the establishment of SFU. Sub-series consists of research notes, interview questions, and drafts of chapters for an unpublished book.

Radical Campus - chapter drafts

Sub-series contains drafts of all the chapters of Radical Campus. Johnston's publishers, Douglas and McIntyre, reviewed the manuscript draft of Radical Campus and asked Johnston to condense the book. This sub-series includes lengthier versions of the chapters.