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Committees

Series consists of records relating to the Dean's involvement on or liaison with various university and inter-university committees related to continuing studies/education. Records include agendas, minutes, correspondence, reports and working papers.

Non-credit programs

Series consists of records relating to the administration and development of non-credit courses and programs offered by the Office of Continuing Studies and sponsored by SFU's academic faculties, departments and schools. Records include correspondence; working papers; reports; budgets and financial working papers; course proposals, outlines and evaluations; agendas and minutes; program contracts; student binders; pamphlets; and photographs and contact sheets.

Exhibition files

Series consists of records relating to the production of in-house and travelling exhibitions. Records include correspondence, flyers, programs, statistics and other documents.

Budget and financial records

Series consists of records relating to the management of the financial resources of the School and its predecessors. Activities and events documented include budget planning, funding and grant requests. Records include budgets, budget submissions and supporting papers; correspondence and reports; faculty, TA and sessional requirements, requests and authorizations; applications and proposals; capital equipment requests; and notes and working papers.

Financial records

Series consists of records of the Vice-President, Research relating to budget development, research fellowships and grants including the W.A.C. Bennett Fund, the Macmillan Family Fund, and the R.H. Wright Olfactory Prize. Records also include correspondence with the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the National Research Council, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Document types include correspondence, working papers, financial statistics, and reports.

Centres and Institutes

Series consists of records relating to research centres and institutes formed by SFU researchers, or operated under partnership with SFU, that reported to the Vice-President, Research. Some of the centres and institutes have been disbanded due to inactivity. For a list of all centres and institutes, see the list of access points below.

Document types include correspondence, working papers, budgets, policies and procedures, and reports.

Chair's correspondence

Series consists of records relating to the Chair's/Director's correspondence with School program areas and faculty, other university departments and external (non-university) individuals and organizations. Activities, events and topics documented include policy development, faculty and student relations, reference letters, graduate student review, facilities and space planning in the West Mall Complex, collaboration with other university departments and research and consulting for external organizations. Records include correspondence; reports; notices; letters; invoices; newsletters; proposals; and working papers.

Publications and posters

Series consists of publications and graphic material created by the School and its predecessors. Material includes annual reports, course guides, brochures, booklets, posters and newsletters.

Organization records

Series consists of records relating to the establishment, structure and governance of the Association. Activities documented include incorporation, policy development, and liaison with the provincial Ministry of Women's Equality. Records includes certificate of incorporation, constitutions, policies and procedures, and correspondence.

Personal documents

Series consists of Benston's personal correspondence with relatives, Louis Feldhammer, as well as information regarding a libel suit and salary pay scales from 1966.

Lower Mainland regional planning files

James Wilson served as the first executive director of the Lower Mainland Regional Planning Board for thirteen years (1951-1964) The Board was one of the first regional planning authorities in Canada and paved the way for further Canadian work in this field.

Includes Wilson's personal memoir, "The Lower Mainland's Regional Plan: A Retrospective Introduction," as well as reports, correspondence, minutes, publications and other documents.

Organization and administration files

Series consists of records relating to the internal organization of Press Gang Printers. Activities, events and topics documented include incorporation, the separation of the printing and publishing collectives, collective structure and history, office administration, and unionization. Records include correspondence, reports, articles and papers, resolutions, licenses, photographs, logbooks, and agreements.

Meeting agendas, minutes and supporting papers

Series consists of records relating to meetings of the Press Gang Printers collective and its committees, including general staff meetings, general collective meetings, business meetings, and meetings of the Finance Committee, Sales Committee, Ladies Auxiliary, and the Publishing Collective before its separation from the Printers. Records include agendas, minutes, correspondence, reports, financial statements, planning documents and other supporting papers.

Student relations files

Series consists of records relating to students of the School and its predecessors. Activities, topics and events documented include the development of student-related policies (lab and workshop fees, reviews of student productions, and guidelines for MAs by special arrangement), and student projects (including the film "The Painted Door", a dance lecture / demonstration project in secondary schools, and a study of Vancouver public art entitled "Art for View").

Records include correspondence, project budgets, invoices, grant application forms, questionnaires, and project products (script, booklet).

Correspondence

Series consists of correspondence created and received by Makara magazine. Includes correspondence with contributors, rejection letters, subscription requests, and general correspondence.

A Woman's Place records

Series consists of records of A Woman's Place Society, formed to establish and operate a house for women in Vancouver. The house was to provide a centre where women could meet to discuss issues and common problems, and to act together. The house would also serve as the focus for the development of several projects relating to childcare, health, information resources and legal aid. Includes constitution, correspondence, proposals, reports, logbooks, and newsletters.

Correspondence and subject files

Series consists of records relating to Press Gang Printers' involvement in feminist and other social movements. Activities, events and topics documented include abortion, lesbian rights, unionism, political correspondence and letters of support, conferences, and liaison with other organizations. Records include correspondence, reports and photographs; reference material collected by Press Gang, including publications, newspapers, newsletters, and brochures; conference material; and notes and other working papers.

Director of University Services

Series consists of records relating to Stephen Stratton's work as Director of University Services. Activities documented include new student orientation; wheelchair students on campus; participation on the Deans Fees Committee; projects including visits to local high schools and student placement; a proposal for integration of Financial Aid and the Resources Office; studies on student attrition and withdrawals; and liaison with student services including Day Care, Health Services, Counselling, and the Simon Fraser Student Society. Records include correspondence and working papers, reports, minutes and statistics.

Director's correspondence files

Series consists of records relating to the Chair's/Director's correspondence with school program areas and faculty, other university programs, and external (non-university) individuals and organizations. Activities, events and topics documented include technical reports, graduate and undergraduate curriculum development, Faculty Association meetings and case files, interdisciplinary program development with other faculties, SFU's Speaker's Bureau, Student Society, involvement with professional organizations, and Ted Sterling's cancer research.

Records include correspondence, reports, notices, letters, budgets, proposals and working papers.

Project, research and grant files

Series consists of records relating to grants, scholarships and awards prepared or received by faculty members during the course of university-wide, national and international research. Included are funding applications for Simon Fraser University President's Research Grant Stipend, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Science Council of British Columbia. Noted research projects include the Canadian Society for Fifth Generation Research; proposal for a National Microelectronics Facility; a joint proposal by Computing Science, Engineering Science and the Physics Department; and planning for a site visit to SFU by NSERC.

Records include grant application forms and policies, proposals, financial budgets, correspondence, reports, minutes, faculty curriculum vitae, working papers, statistics, contracts and agreements.

Computing laboratory, centre and facility files

Series consists of records relating to the establishment and operation of computing laboratories and other facilities used by students and faculty for research and coursework completion. Activities, events and topics documented include the Centre for Systems Science (CSS), the Computer Graphic Centre, the Computing Centre, and the proposal for a remote academic terminal. Also included are records on the Computer Assisted Instruction Centre (CAI), Computing Science Instruction Lab (CSIL), and the Laboratory for Computing and Communications Research (LCCR).

Records include correspondence, reports, course files, policies and proposals, and working papers.

Women's Monument background records

Series consists of records which were used to define and develop the Project within its social and artistic contexts. Includes reference materials such as statistics on violence against women; original proposals for the Project; speeches given by Committee members at public functions; biographies of the fourteen women; "What They're Saying," a brochure of quotations from well-known public figures who supported the Project; information on other memorials; a budget and a financial statement. Examples of core published materials, such as brochures and the single rose logo and letterhead, are preserved here as well as a cloth banner. Also includes a VHS copy of the film, Marker of Change, donated by the film's producer.

Fundraising records

Series consists of records relating to the fundraising activities which financed the Project. Activities documented include Reel Change, a filmathon; See Jane Fly, a poetry "bash;" and Lives We Value, a reception. Includes direct mail request letters, and specific requests made to corporations, foundations, unions, associations, VanCity Credit Union and government. Also includes examples of published materials such as programs and flyers.

Exhibits records

Series consists of records relating to the art gallery exhibitions of sixteen Special Mention designs which the Jury selected from the national design competition for the Monument, as well as the three finalists' stage two designs. Activities documented include the first exhibit, Giving Voice, at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1994, and the touring exhibits at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto in 1995, the Nickel Arts Museum in Calgary in 1996 and the Surrey Art Gallery in 1997. Includes programs and other published materials. Also includes mock-up drawing of exhibit lay-out.

Photographs and slides

Series consists of photographs of various activities including fundraising events, December 6th memorials, jury process, committee meetings, design competition exhibition, Monument construction, and dedication of the Monument. Permission to copy the photographic material was granted by the various photographers in return for photo credit.

Departmental correspondence

Series consists of the Chair's correspondence with University administration and other departments. Activities and events documented include budget preparation, conference planning, and program development. Records include correspondence, publications, and a single issue of the departmental newsletter.

Liaison with associated groups

Series consists of records relating to the Port Coquitlam Area Women's Centre's association with other women's groups. Records reflect liaison with the Vancouver Status of Women, the BC Federation of Women, women's centres throughout the Province, and others. Includes correspondence, reports, membership lists, agenda, minutes, newsletters, and ephemera.

Publications

Series consists of publications produced and collected by the Port Coquitlam Area Women's Centre. Includes the centre newsletter Women Today, a history of women's centres, guides, bulletins, newsletters from other organizations and newspaper clippings.

Constitution and by-laws

Series consists of the constitution and by-laws of the Simon Fraser University Faculty Association. Includes the Certificate of Incorporation, memoranda of understanding, a list of Faculty Association presidents, proposed revisions to the constitution and correspondence.

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