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 the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies and its departments. The Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies was established in 1970. It was dissolved in 1985 and its departments were redistributed to the Faculty of Arts and the newly created Faculty of Applied 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 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-series consists of records relating to matters affecting the teaching and research of university faculty and the academic operations of the university. Activities and topics documented include academic program development, including Resources and Forestry Management and the Masters of Publishing programs; First Nations education, including the SFU / Secwepemc Cultural Education Society program; endowed chairs, faculty resignations, mandatory retirement, and the evaluation of teaching, including the Gates-Kennedy Report (1979) and faculty responses; research proposals and projects, university-industry liaison, and development of research facilities, including Research / Discovery Park, and proposals for a Slowpoke Neutron facilities, a joint-university particle accelerator, and a microelectronics facility. Records include correspondence, reports, proposals, financial statements, agreements, notes and working papers, and reprints and other printed reference material.

Sub-series consists of records relating to federal granting agencies, the funding of SFU research chairs, and research grants awarded to SFU faculty. For the list of granting agencies included in the correspondence, see "Access points" below. Records include correspondence, proposals, applications, letters of award, agreements, lists of award recipients, news releases, and printed reference material circulated by the granting agencies.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the university's interactions with the federal government. Records include correspondence, briefs, and government news releases and other printed reference material.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the university's fees policy, including special fees, tuition fees, and tuition waiver policy. Records include correspondence, reports, policies and procedures, fee schedules, forms, and meeting minutes.

Sub-series consists of records relating to university finances and budget. Activities and topics documented include allocation of departmental operating budgets; capital projects planning (construction, equipment, infrastructure); faculty salary allocation formula; determination of the provincial government's funding formula for allocating the operating grants to BC's universities; the financing and planning of a joint SFU / Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) / University of Juba project to build a community / university centre in Sudan (1980-1981); financial planning for academic program development, and approval and authorization of new programs; and development of policy relating to tuition and other fees. Records include correspondence; departmental budget proposals and requests; reports, projections and calculations; operating and capital budget applications, and capital plans; new academic program planning records, including proposals, budget estimates, meeting minutes, Senate motions, letters of intent, and program brochures; and briefs presented by the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) relating to tuition and other fees.

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Financial Aid Office, from the period in which it moved from the Registrar's Office to the VP University Services. The Financial Aid Office was established in 1970, expanded its name to Financial Aid and Awards in 1989, and ceased operations in 1994, when its functions were transferred to the Student Academic Resources Office in the Registrar's Office. Activities and topics documented in this sub-series include Financial Aid's administrative organization and reporting relationships, budget allocation, and program development, including the work study program and scholarships. Records include correspondence and reports.

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Financial Aid Office during the period in which Financial Aid reported to the VP Academic (1985-1989). The Financial Aid Office was established in 1970, expanded its name to Financial Aid and Awards in 1989, and ceased operations in 1994, when its functions were transferred to the Student Academic Resources Office in the Registrar's Office. Activities and topics documented in this sub-series include development of financial aid programs and services, department budget, reporting structure, and staff relations. Records include correspondence, reports, and briefs.

Sub-series consists of records relating to university finances and budget in general. Activities and topics documented include operating budget allocations, the budget reductions of the early 1980s, faculty salary budgets, the activities of the Committee to Review TA Budget and Related Matters (1982), a review of university programs in 1984-1985, correspondence with the federal and provincial governments relating to funding, and the university's participation in a Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) project involving the University of Juba in Sudan (1982-1984). Records include correspondence, reports, statistics and comparisons; request for funds, estimates, calculations, projections, proposals, and recommendations; operating budgets, and SFU's budget applications to the provincial government; and notes and working papers.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the Vice-President, Academic's liaison with provincial and federal government bodies. Activities documented include meetings with Ministry officials, and advocacy of the university's views on government policy. Records include correspondence, discussion papers, briefs, speeches, meeting minutes, and government press releases and wide-distribution memoranda.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the university's interactions with provincial and federal ministries and agencies. Activities and topics documented include university-government liaison; government funding, the allocation formula for dividing provincial funds between the universities, and the activities of The University Presidents' Council (TUPC) Allocation Subcommittee; the provincial Funding Excellence in Education (FEE) program and SFU program FEE proposals (1986-1988); SFU's response to government legislation and policies; the activities of provincial advisory bodies, including the Joint Planning and Articulation Committee (JPAC), the University Advisory Council, and the Response Committee on Teacher Education; the establishment of the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC); and SFU's response to the Federal Cultural Policy Review Committee (Applebaum / Hébert Commission, 1981). Records include correspondence; statistics, reports, briefs and submissions; copies of legislation, drafts, discussion papers, and commentaries; government news releases, wide-distribution memoranda, and other publicity material; meeting minutes; agreements and legal advice; and FEE program proposals from SFU departments.

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 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.

Sub-series consists of records relating to SFU's high-school liaison and recruiting programs. Records include correspondence, reports, and meeting minutes.

Sub-series consists of records relating to policy for foreign faculty recruitment and university assistance to non-Canadian faculty on matters of immigration. Records include correspondence, policies, reports, and statistics.

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Instructional Media Centre (IMC) during the period in which IMC reported to the VP Academic (1973-1985; 1990- ). Note that the department was called the Audio Visual Centre until 1981, and in 2002 it merged with the Centre for University Teaching to become the Learning and Instructional Development Centre (LIDC). Activities and topics documented in the correspondence include the establishment of the Audio Visual Centre as department administratively independent of the Library (1973); policy development, including the audio-visual equipment policy; provision of audio-visual support services to faculties and departments, and costs and charges; administrative organization and staff relations; administration of Images Theatre; and the activities of the Audio-Visual Committee (1972) and the Instructional Media Centre Advisory Committee (1982-1983). Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, reports and statistics, policies, drafts and working papers.

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 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 records relating to projects undertaken jointly by SFU and other universities and colleges, including Fraser Valley College, Cariboo College, the Shuswap / Secwepemc Cultural Education Society (SCES), and The University President's Council (TUPC), a forum comprising the presidents and senior administrators of British Columbia's universities. Records include correspondence, reports, proposals, budgets, meeting minutes, agreements, and notes and working papers.

Sub-series consists of records relating to matters affecting the terms and conditions of employment of lab instructors at SFU. Activities and topics documented include salary reviews, and appointment requests and authorizations. Records include correspondence, reports, and statistics.

Sub-series consists of records relating to faculty leave. Activities and topics documented include development of policy and procedures, and the activities and recommendation of the Sabbatical Leave Committee. Records include correspondence and statistics.

Sub-series consists of legal advice received by or copied to the Vice-President, Academic. Topics documented include employee relations (employment contracts, arbitration, union certification), student discipline, human rights, and faculty tenure and retirement. Records include correspondence, legal opinions, comments on university policies, background papers, copies of legal decisions, appeal books, transcripts, and statements of account for legal services.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the Vice-President, Academic's interactions with the University Library and the University Bookstore (which reported to Library until 2000) during the periods in which the Library reported to the Vice-President, Academic (1970-1985, 1990-1994). Activities and topics documented include policy development; evolution of the Library's administrative structure; meetings of the Library Management Group (after 1992); external reviews, including a departmental review (1973-1974), review by the President's Advisory Committee on the Library (1984), and the Library Review Committee (1991-1992); library budget and funding; acquisitions and collections policy; cooperation with other libraries, including the "college processing" project of the early 1970s; IT systems planning and implementation; and management, operations, and finances of the Bookstore. Records include correspondence, reports, budgets, meeting minutes of the Library Management Group (LMG), legal advice, inventories, and Bookstore financial and operating statements.

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 planning for the budget requirements of new and proposed academic programs, including proposals that were not successful. For a list of departments whose proposals are included in the files, see "Access points" below. Records include correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, program proposals and curricula, comments by external reviewers, and budget estimates and calculations.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the allocation of departmental operating budgets to units with the Vice-President, Academic's reporting portfolio. Activities and topics documented include budget planning, requests for funding, budget reductions in the early 1980s, and the budget of the VP Academic's own office. Records include correspondence, budget submissions and proposals, some job descriptions and records relating to position reclassification, and notes and working papers.

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with or related to external granting agencies, including the Donner Foundation, and the Commonwealth of Learning. Records include correspondence, reports, and agency brochures and other printed reference material.

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Personnel Department (renamed Human Resources in 1992). Activities and topics documented in the correspondence include development and implementation of the university's personnel policies; matters relating to campus employee unions, including the Association of University and College Employees (AUCE) strike in 1979, and the formation of the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) and the Administrative and Professional Staff Association (APSA); benefits, study leave, and the modified work week; and an external review of the department in 1973. Records include correspondence, reports, policies, collective bargaining proposals and agreements, transcripts of legal and arbitration proceedings, legal advice, union constitutions and newsletters, press clippings, and a student petition relating to SFU–AUCE negotiations in 1979.