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Office of the Vice-President, Academic and Provost fonds
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Office of the Vice-President, Academic and Provost fonds

  • F-200
  • Fonds
  • 1965 - 2000

The fonds consists of records made or received by the Office of the Vice-President, Academic in the course of its activities. Activities documented include development of university policies and procedures; supervision of units reporting to the VPA; budget planning and allocation; participation in university committees; liaison with internal and external bodies, including SFU faculties and departments, employee associations and unions, government bodies, other universities, and external associations; space management, allocation, and planning; and speeches and engagements undertaken as a representative of SFU. The records consists predominantly of correspondence, reports, and meeting agenda and minutes. For more detailed description of records types, see individual series and sub-series descriptions.

Office of the Vice-President, Academic and Provost

Teaching and instructional staff matters - correspondence

Series consists of records relating to matters affecting teaching and faculty staff, including librarians and lab instructors. Activities and topics documented include development of the university's academic policies and procedures; faculty appointments, salaries and economic benefits; renewal, tenure and promotion; leave, retirement and immigration; and negotiations and consultations with the Simon Fraser University Faculty Association (SFUFA) and the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU). For a description of record types, see individual sub-series descriptions.

Teaching and instructional staff matters - general

Sub-series consists of records relating to various matters relating to teaching and staff, including salaries, benefits, teaching load, policy development, faculty discipline procedures, research ethics (including the activities of the University Research Ethics Review Committee), faculty exchange programs, contracts for services (including the contract relating to the SFU / Secwepemc Cultural Education Society program), faculty disputes, and faculty and university responses to the province-wide general strike ("Operation Solidarity") in 1983. Records include correspondence, reports, faculty handbooks, the Simon Fraser Student Society teacher and course evaluation guide (1980), sessional budget requests, policies and procedures, agreements and contracts, and legal advice.

Committee records and correspondence

Series consists of records relating to the Vice-President, Academic's committee work, including participation or correspondence with Senate committees, Board of Governors committees, other standing and ad hoc university committees and task forces, search committees for senior university administrators, and external (non-SFU) committees. Records include correspondence, reports, and policies and procedures; meeting agendas, minutes, and supporting papers; terms of reference, and memberships lists; policies and procedures; and some case files.

University Committees

Sub-series consists of records relating to the Vice-President, Academic's involvement with the various university committees, both standing and ad hoc. The VP Academic's relation to particular committees may vary: the VP may be a member; or the senior administrator to which the committee reported; or a correspondent. For a general description of record types, see the description for the series of committee records and correspondence as a whole (series F-200-8).

Faculty of Science

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Faculty of Science and its departments. The Faculty of Science was one of the three charter faculties established at SFU in 1965. For a general description of record types contained in the correspondence, see the series description for faculty correspondence in general (F-200-3).

Faculties - correspondence

Series consists of records relating to the Vice-President, Academic's interactions with the university faculty Deans and academic departments. Activities and topics documented include development, implementation and interpretation of academic policies; appointments, sabbaticals, leaves, salaries, renewal, tenure and promotion; disputes, grievances, and investigations; external reviews, internal administration, and reorganizations of faculties and departments; academic planning and program proposals; budget, funding, space planning, special equipment and facilities needs; and the activities of affiliated research centres and scholarly journals. Records include correspondence, reports, external reviews, curriculum and program proposals, budget proposals and estimates, meeting agendas and minutes, agreements, legal advice, planning documents, and research centre constitutions, financial statements and annual reports.

University Search Committees

Sub-series consists of records relating to the Vice-President, Academic's involvement with university search committees for senior academic and academic support administrators, including faculty deans, the Registrar, the University Librarian, and the Director of Computing Services. For a general description of record types, see the description for the series of committee records and correspondence as a whole (series F-200-8).

Faculty of Arts

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Faculty of Arts and its departments. The Faculty of Arts was one of the three charter faculties established at SFU in 1965; it was renamed Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in 2004. For a general description of record types contained in the correspondence, see the series description for faculty correspondence in general (F-200-3).

Faculty of Education

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Faculty of Education and its subdivisions. The Faculty of Education was one of the three charter faculties established at SFU in 1965. Until 1971 it was administratively organized into a number of Centres and sub-sub-series 2 contains the correspondence relating to these. For a general description of record types contained in the correspondence, see the series description for faculty correspondence in general (F-200-3).

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