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-sub-series consists of records relating to the planning and implementation of the university's Employment Equity policies and programs, deliberations and activities of the Employment Equity Advisory Committee, and formation of faculty Equity Committees. Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, statistics and reports, equity plans of university department, and copies of Compliance Review Reports.

Sub-sub-series consists of the Vice-President Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Vice-President Financial Services (called Vice-President, Finance from 1985-1988), and some departments in that VP's reporting portfolio (Facilities Management and Security). Topics include payroll, accounting, capital planning, budget policies and procedures, tuition fee policy, development of the administration information system for payroll and personnel, the report of the President's Advisory Committee on Finance (1985), and a report on The Finance Function at SFU prepared by the Woods Gordon firm. Records include correspondence, reports, budget applications, capital plans, and financial statements.

Sub-sub-series consists of records relating to joint meetings, consultations, and negotiations between the university and the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU). Records include correspondence, meeting agendas, minutes and supporting papers, a copy of the TSSU memorandum of settlement (1995), and TSSU bargaining bulletins (1999).

Sub-sub-series consists of correspondence of the Vice-President, Academic with, related to, or copied from the Vice-President Research. Topics include research policy development, research grants and professorships, development of the student information system (SIMON), supervision of research centres and institutes, and the deliberations and activities of a number of university committees including the SFU / Canada Foundation for Innovation Steering Committee, the University Publications Committee, the President's Research Grant Committee, and the University Radiology Safety Committee. Records include correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, communiqués and press releases, annual reports of research centres, and research grant proposals, summaries, and awards lists.

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-sub-series consists of the Vice-President Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Director of Human Resources. Topics include training, pensions, benefits, staff study leave, the university's strike plan (1994), and the activities of the Joint Job Evaluation and Salary Review Committee (a joint APSA / SFU committee, 1996-1997). Records include correspondence, reports, and questionnaires.

Sub-sub-series consists of records relating to joint meetings, consultations, and negotiations between the university and the Professional Staff Association (APSA). Records include correspondence, meeting agendas, minutes and supporting papers.