Sub-series consists of records relating to the activities of Kathy Heinrich, appointed Special Assistant to the Vice-President, Academic – Academic Planning (1996-1999). Activities and topics documented include university faculty renewal planning, development of the university's accountability framework and participation in the Minister's Forum on Universities ("Accountability Forum") in 1997, development of the university's mission statement, and the activities of the Ad Hoc Committee on Planning Priorities (1997). Records include correspondence, reports, planning documents, notes and working papers.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the Vice-President, Academic's involvement with Senate and various Senate committees. It is not always possible to determine whether the records represent the VP Academic's working file as a committee member or rather correspondence between the VP and the committee. 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).

Sub-series consists of records relating to the Vice-President, Academic's interactions with the Registrar (Registrar / Dean of Student Services after 1996) and with university departments during the periods in which they reported to the Registrar / Dean, including the University Archives. Most of the functions of Student Services were merged with the Registrar's Office in 1996 and the Registrar became the Registrar / Dean of Student Services. Throughout the period covered by this series, the Register / Dean reported to the VP Academic, either directly or indirectly through the Associate VP Academic. Activities and topics documented include enrollment, admissions, registration procedures, high-school liaison, and student recruitment; grading policy, class scheduling, and calendar revisions; Registrar's Office organization and staff relations; the telephone registration project (1990-1991); development of student information systems, including a systems plan (1980), the design and implementation of the SIMON database (1986), and planning (from 1996) for the replacement / migration of SIMON; and implementation of compliance with the BC Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPP) Act (from 1995). Records include correspondence, reports and statistics, job descriptions, IT systems technical specifications and planning documents, and FOIPP advice and access request case documentation.

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from Analytical Studies during the period in which it belonged to the VP Academic's reporting portfolio (1985- ). Activities and topics documented include provision and analysis of data to support academic planning, student academic experience surveys, instructional load reports, and classroom utilization studies. Records include correspondence, reports, statistics, and surveys.

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Centre for University Teaching. The Centre was established in 1994 and ceased operations in 2000, when it merged with the Instructional Media Centre to form the Learning and Instructional Development Centre (LIDC). During the whole of its existence, the Centre reported to the VP Academic. Activities and topics documented in the correspondence include the administrative organization of the Centre, development of teaching support programs and services, methods of evaluating teaching, and the activities of the Instructional Support and Development Group. Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, and reports, including annual reports of the Centre.

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).

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).

Sub-series consists of records relating to the university's interactions and cooperation with external organizations. Activities and topics documented include a proposal for a Centre for Arts and Science (1978-1980), SFU's relationship with the cable television station KCTS 9 and the Knowledge Network, university development in Indonesia, and the Maclean's magazine survey. For a list of correspondents, see "Access points" below. Records include correspondence, reports, and agreements.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the university's interactions with the provincial government. Activities and topics documented include determination of the provincial funding formula for allocating government funds to BC's universities; correspondence with the Ministry responsible for universities (under it various name changes); the activities of the British Columbia Human Resources Development Project (1991-1992) in which SFU participated; the activities of SFU's Administrative Costs Study Steering Committee (1992); funding under the provincial Teacher Education Expansions program (1992-1995); the establishment and activities of the Post-Secondary Application Service of British Columbia (1993-1995); funding proposals by SFU departments under the province's Innovation Fund (1993-1996) program; correspondence with the British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfers (BCCAT) and participation in the Degree Program Review Committee (DPRC), the provincial body established in 1995 to approve academic degree programs. Records include correspondence, reports, statistics, briefs and submissions, meeting minutes, agreements, funding proposals and evaluations, and news releases, bulletins, guidelines, and other government printed reference material.

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from International Cooperation, during the period in which it reported to the VP Academic (1998-2001). International Cooperation was established in 1985; it ceased operations in 2001 when it merged with several other departments to form SFU International. Activities and topics documented in the correspondence include development of SFU's international strategy, proposals for international programs, international recruitment, the trip of a delegation to Asia (1998), and the activities of SFU's Eastern Indonesia Universities Development Project (EIUDP). Records include correspondence, reports, itineraries, presentations, agreements, and notes and working papers.

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).

Sub-sub-series consists of records relating to the regular meetings and forums in which the Vice-President, Academic participated, including meetings of the SFU Vice-Presidents, Deans, Chairs, Academic Directors, and Administrators; the Simon Fraser Student Society / Administrators meetings; and meetings of the Vice-Presidents, Academic of other western Canadian universities. Records include meeting agendas, minutes, supporting papers, reports, correspondence, notes and working papers.

Sub-series consists of records relating to matters affecting the terms and conditions of employment of university academic teaching staff. Activities and topics documented include development, revision, interpretation, and reorganization of the university's academic policies and procedures, including appointment, faculty workload, and the harassment policy; faculty recruitment planning, leaves, sabbaticals, and retirements; the university's employment equity program and the activities and deliberations of the Salary Equity Study Committee and the Employment Equity Advisory Committee; faculty salaries and the activities of the Market Differential Advisory Committee (1991-1993) and the University Salary Appeals Committee (1992-1995); faculty renewal, tenure and promotion processes and the activities of the University Tenure Committee. Records include correspondence, reports, policies, drafts and working papers, faculty position authorizations, performance review statistics, questionnaires, meeting agendas and minutes, and university Compliance Review Reports by the SFU Employment Equity Coordinator.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the activities of the Academic Planning Services unit within the Vice-President, Academic's Office (1992-1995), and then Secretariat Services which took over some the Academic Planning Services' functions in 1995. Activities and topics documented include university endowment accounts, administrative support for external reviews, development of an "accountability framework," and budget planning for new academic program proposals. Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, and drafts; external review committee terms of reference, itineraries, summaries, and reports; and program proposals, comments (internal and external), and funding estimates.

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Harassment Resolution Office during the period in which it belonged to the VP Academic's reporting portfolio (1998-2004). Activities and topics documented include the organization of the Office, revision of the university's Harassment Policy in 1998 and its subsequent implementation and operation, and the activities of the Harassment Resolution Policy Board. Records include correspondence, annual reports, appointment letters of investigators and mediators, lists of advisors, and legal advice.

Series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with officers of other universities, including the University of British Columbia (UBC), University of Victoria (UVic), the Open Learning Agency (OLA), and the Technical University of British Columbia (TechBC). Activities and topics documented include inter-university liaison and cooperation, and academic exchanges. Records include correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, news releases and bulletins, and agreements.

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Graduate Studies office. The first Dean of Graduate Studies was appointed in 1970. Prior to 1985, the Dean of Graduate Studies had major responsibilities for the university's research support services (thereafter transferred to the Vice-President, Research / Information Systems). Activities and topics documented in the correspondence include the administrative organization of Graduate Studies; graduate students and their enrollment, progress, supervision, fees and support; teaching assistants and their unionization; research ethics and the development of the university's Research Ethics Policy; correspondence with and applications to external research granting agencies; supervision of research centres and institutes; academic program proposals and planning; and the activities of the University Publications Committee (1980-1985) and the Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate – Faculty Relations (1993). Records include correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, reports, proposals, and planning documents.

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Faculty of Business Administration and its subdivisions. The Faculty of Business Administration was established in 1981, having its origins in two earlier departments of the Faculty of Arts: the Economics and Commerce Department (1965-1979) and the Department of Business Administration (1979-1981). For a general description of record types contained in the correspondence, see the series description for faculty correspondence in general (F-200-3).

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Faculty of Applied Sciences and its schools. The Faculty of Applied Sciences was created in 1985, incorporating a number of departments from the former Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies and the short-lived Faculty of Engineering Sciences. For a general description of record types contained in the correspondence, see the series description for faculty correspondence in general (F-200-3).

Sub-series consists of records relating to the Vice-President, Academic's involvement with the various external (non-university) committees, both standing and ad hoc. It is not always possible to determine whether the records represent the VP Academic's working file as a committee member or rather correspondence between the VP and the committee. 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).

Sub-series consists of records relating to the activities of the Office of the Vice-President, Academic, including personal correspondence, business correspondence not filed under more specific file categories, and (after 1992) memoranda sent by the VP Academic for wide distribution on a variety of subjects. Activities and topics documented include the search for a Vice-President, Academic (1968-1970) and the appointment of the Associate Vice-President (1975); correspondence with external individuals and organizations; purely personal correspondence of the Vice-President with colleagues, students and professional bodies; the organization and administration of the VP Academic's office, and staff relations; university policy development and university reorganization; strategic planning, and budget planning and allocation; legal advice; and meetings with Vice-Presidents, Academic from other universities. Records include correspondence, policies, reports, job descriptions, invitations, contracts and agreements, legal services invoices and legal advice, wide-distribution memoranda, and personal papers and essays.

Note that sub-sub-series 4 ("Chronological correspondence") consists of copies ("flimsies") of all outgoing correspondence, arranged chronologically. The records are duplicates of "file copies" that were organized by subject using the classification plan (both flimsies and file copies are annotated with the same classification code). The VP Academic's Office maintained such "chrono files" throughout the entire time span of this sub-series (1968-1999), but the Archives has only retained the records for the period prior to the appointment of Brian Wilson as VP (i.e. September 1970); the sub-sub-series therefore represents the chrono files of the first two Acting VPs Academic, R.R. Haering and Lalit Srivastava. With Wilson's appointment, the Office was formally established and the file classification system clearly in place. Prior to it, it is not always possible to establish that records in the chrono files are in fact duplicated in the subject files, and therefore they have been retained in their entirety.

Note that sub-sub-series 5 ("File indices") is an artificial series established by the archivist for the annual file index created by the VP Academic's Office. The file index shows classification codes and category titles; the indices were created by Office but not integrated into the classification system.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the Vice-President, Academic's participation in the university's consultations and negotiations with the Simon Fraser University Faculty Association (SFUFA) on matters relating the collective framework agreement, academic policies, and other matters affecting the terms and conditions of academic employment. Records include correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, the report of the Joint Committee on Appeals on Matters Affecting Terms and Conditions of Employment (1993) and other reports, lists of SFUFA executive members, and arbitration briefs.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the Vice-President, Academic's interactions with university students and the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS). Records include correspondence, news releases, and SFSS Ombuds Office annual reports.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the Vice-President, Academic's interactions with the President and with university departments during the periods in which they reported to the President, including Analytical Studies, University News Service / Media and Public Relations, the Development Office, the University Archives, and Student Services. Activities and topics documented include the VP Academic's reporting relationship to the President (meetings, advice, reports); meetings with other senior university administrators; policy development and implementation, including the Harassment Policy and the Employment Equity program; university reorganizations and departmental program development; university ceremonies and fundraising; meetings and consultations with the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS); meetings and deliberations of President's Advisory Committees relating to university planning; and inter-university cooperation, government liaison and international activities. Records include correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, legal advice, press releases, university planning documents and mission statements, reports and statistics, SFSS Ombuds Office annual reports (1983-1990), budget modeling exercises, and budget proposals.

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from International Relations, an office established in 1999 reporting to the VP Academic. International Relations ceased operations in 2001 when it merged with several other departments to form SFU International. Activities and topics documented in the correspondence include strategic planning, international proposals and projects, and hosting of visiting delegations. Records include correspondence, reports, and agreements.

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Continuing Studies office. The Division of Continuing Education was established in 1971; in 1974 its Director was elevated to the rank of Dean, and in 1975 it was renamed Continuing Studies. Activities and topics documented in the correspondence include policy development, fees, teaching appointments, program development, downtown programming prior to the establishment of the Harbour Centre campus, programming for the BC Interior, distance education, the Prison Education Program, workshops and seminars, and SFU's participation in the cable TV Knowledge Network (KNOW). Records include correspondence, reports, proposals, contracts and agreements, program posters, brochures and other printed material.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the activities of Ian Mugridge (Assistant VP Academic, 1972-1975), Robert R. Walsh (Special Assistant to the VP Academic, 1976-1977), and Sue Roppel (Assistant to the VP Academic, 1996-1999). Activities and topics documented include budget planning, university endowment funds, and (from 1999) external reviews. Records include correspondence and reports, including external review reports. Note that there is a gap in the series between 1977 and 1995.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the activities of the Associate Vice-President, Academic (AVP). Division of responsibilities between the VP and the AVP has changed over time and varied according to the individuals holding these positions. This sub-series includes the actual correspondence of the AVP for the period prior to 1983; around that date, the Office of the AVP Academic established its own file classification system and thereafter the AVP's correspondence was maintained separately (see fonds F-201). Activities and topics documented in the files include meetings between the VP and the AVP, policy development, program proposals, government liaison, international activities, budget planning, supervision of units that reported to the AVP, high-school liaison, promotion of university research, space allocation planning, renovations, and construction of new buildings. Records include correspondence, proposals, reports, meeting agenda and minutes, agreements, capital plans, space simulation model reports, architectural plans and drawings, and notes and working papers.

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from Academic Computing Services (ACS), and records relating to the activities and deliberations of university committees with responsibilities for university computing policies, operations, and services. Since its inception in 1991, ACS has remained within the reporting portfolio of the VP Academic. Activities and topics documented in the correspondence include policy development and strategic planning for IT services, including the review of ACS and Operations and Technical Support (OTS) in 1998; systems upgrade planning; operations of the SFU Microcomputer Store; and the activities of the Academic Computing Services Committee, the Administrative Computing Coordinating Committee, the Committee on Instructional Computing, the Committee on Research Computing, and the University Computing Advisory Committee. Records include correspondence, reports, meeting agendas and minutes, agreements, and strategic plans and other planning documents.

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from Reprographics during the period in which it belonged to the VP Academic's reporting portfolio (1991-2002). Activities and topics documented include space planning for Reprographics' facilities, development of its programs and services, and the contracting of services. Records include correspondence, reports, duplicating statistics, and tenders.