Sub-series consists of records relating to university space allocation planning, a process in which the Vice-President, Academic had major responsibilities. Sub-sub-series 3 contains records relating to the activities and deliberations of the University Space Allocation and Planning Committee. Records include correspondence, reports, space inventories and classroom usage statistics, proposals, cost estimates, meeting agendas and minutes, and architectural drawings.

Sub-series consists of records relating to faculty renewal, tenure and promotion. Activities and topics documented include development of policy and procedures, and the activities and recommendation of the various Faculty Tenure Committees. Records include correspondence, statistics, presentations, lists of faculty for consideration, and recommendations.

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 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 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 records relating to the development, implementation and interpretation of university policies and procedures, especially academic policies ("A" series). Policies documented include faculty responsibilities, resignations, salary, sabbatical leave, relocation expenses, dismissal for cause, financial exigency, and the operations of Images Theatre. Records include correspondence, policies, drafts and working papers, legal advice, and printed reference material.

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 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 Animal Care Facility during the period in which it belonged to the VP Academic's reporting portfolio. Activities and topics documented include operation of the facilities, including assessments by the Canadian Council on Animal Care; department budget and staff relations; development of university policy relating to the use of animals in research; and the activities of the University Animal Care Committee. Records include correspondence, proposals, job descriptions, facility assessment reports, fact sheets, and notes and working papers.

Sub-series consists of files relating to university-wide matters and which did not fall under more specific classification categories. Activities and topics documented include conferences held on campus, conference funding, and the adoption of the metric system at the university. Records consist predominantly of correspondence.

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 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 records relating to matters affecting SFU students. Activities and topics documented include enrollment; student recruitment, retention, and attrition; international students and student exchanges; literacy and communication skills; and students with learning disabilities. Records include correspondence, reports, briefs, 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 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 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 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 development, implementation, and interpretation of university policies and procedures. Policies documented include faculty workload, faculty personnel files, university professorships, financial exigency, research grants, patents and copyright, curriculum approval, add / drop regulations, examinations, employment equity, harassment, and the university smoking policy. Records include correspondence, reports, policies and procedures, drafts and working papers, and legal advice.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the university's consultations and negotiations with the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU). Activities and topics documented include collective bargaining negotiations, the activities of the TSSU Labour / Management Committee, interpretations of collective bargaining provisions, and union grievances. Records include correspondence, statistics and reports, Labour Relations Board (LRB) decisions, legal advice, collective bargaining proposals and agreements, meeting minutes, notes and working papers, and printed reference material.

Sub-series consists of records relating to matters affecting the terms and conditions of employment of regular faculty at SFU. Activities and topics documented include employment equity, including the activities of the Employment Equity Resource Group; appointments and the activities of the University Appointments Committee; pensions, benefits, housing and moving expenses; salaries, the Compensation Stabilization Program, and the activities of the Committee to Review the Full Professors Salary Scale (1980-1981), the Salary Policy Review Committee (1985), and the University Salary Appeals Committee; renewal, tenure and promotion processes, including the activities of various Departmental Tenure Committees and the University Tenure Committee (UTC); and leave, sabbaticals, retirement, and early retirement. Records include correspondence, reports and statistics; appointment requests and authorizations; meeting agenda, minutes and supporting papers; policies; legal advice; notes, working papers, and printed reference material.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the Vice-President, Academic's involvement with the various university task forces. The VP Academic's relation to the individual task forces may vary: the VP may be a member; or the senior administrator to which the task force reported; or simply 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).

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from Cooperative Education, which has remained in the VP Academic's reporting portfolio since its establishment in 1978. Activities and topics documented include program development, liaison with Senate and Senate committees, budget, federal and provincial funding, the external review of Cooperative Education in 1982-83, and the activities of the SFU Coop Advisory Council. Records include correspondence, reports, program proposals, presentations, enrollment statistics, 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 matters affecting the terms and conditions of employment of professional librarians at SFU. Activities and topics documented include development of the university's librarian's policy, salary, benefits, and leave. Records include correspondence, reports, statistics, policies, drafts and working papers.

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.

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 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 matters affecting the terms and conditions of employment of visiting faculty and limited-term appointments. Activities and topics documented include appointments and salaries. Records include correspondence and statistics.

Sub-series consists of records relating to university matters in general. Activities and topics documented include the organization of the faculties, academic and strategic planning, IT planning, fundraising (including the President's Club and Challenge 2001 campaign), capital planning, proposal for an SFU Metrotown campus, faculty relations, women and the university (including correspondence with Academic Women), labour relations, and community relations. Records include correspondence, reports, meeting notes, capital plans, wide-distribution memos sent by the VP Academic to faculty Deans, and printed reference material.

Sub-series consists records relating to the Vice-President, Academic's interactions with various associations in which the university participated or corresponded with. For a list of associations included in the correspondence, see "Access points" below. Records include correspondence, reports, proposals, membership invoices, contracts, questionnaires, and brochures and other printed material.