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Departmental / program affairs

Series consists of records relating to the ongoing activities of each department or program within the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies. Activities and topics documented include, but are not limited to, liaison of the Dean's Office with individual departments and program areas within the Faculty; departmental organization and governance; development and delivery of courses; the hiring, promotion, and awarding of tenure to faculty members; selection of chairpersons; research projects, centres and institutes; budgetary decisions; and university reviews of departmental performance. Not all of these activities are documented for each department or program area. Series includes correspondence, reports, proposals, working papers, agendas, minutes, statistics, and other documents. Addition of a sub-series in May 2004 includes records documenting the Africa/Middle East Studies program.

Administrative committees

Series consists of records relating to committees concerned with the administration and the evaluation of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies (FIDS). The Dean's Advisory Committee consisted of the FIDS departmental chairs and program directors. FIDS was reviewed by the University Review Committee and the Presidential Advisory Committee on University Priorities; various Senate committees liaised with FIDS in matters of curriculum and student representation; and the Dean of FIDS was a key member of university committees concerned with computing policy because of the Department of Computing Science within FIDS. Series includes agendas, minutes, reports, and working papers.

Doctoral thesis

Series consists of a bound volume entitled Researches in Physics. The volume contains Gordon Shrum's doctoral thesis, "The Doublet Separation of the Balmer Lines," and two reprints about Shrum's research with his doctoral supervisor, J. C. McLennan, on the liquefaction of hydrogen and helium.

Shrum and SFU interviews

Series deals with the relationship between Gordon Shrum and Simon Fraser University. Interviews and supporting materials emphasize Shrum's work at SFU in contrast to biographical materials that describe Shrum's entire life. Series contains unedited and edited transcripts and audio recordings of an interview of Gordon Shrum conducted in 1974 by Liisa Fagerlund, a librarian and University Archivist. The interview was part of an SFU oral history program.

Series also includes recordings of several television shows in which Shrum is interviewed. There are two appearances on the Vancouver show, one broadcast in 1977 and another in 1985 which includes a presentation by Iona Campagnolo of a Lifetime Achievement Award to Gordon Shrum. There are also two episodes of the Jack Webster show: the September 9, 1980 show, in which host Jack Webster interviewed Shrum and SFU President George Pedersen; and another from November 15, 1983 which commemorates the life of Gordon Shrum upon the establishment of the Shrum Science Chair at Simon Fraser University.

Series also contains textual material, and audio and video recordings of the dinner held in honour of Shrum to establish the "Gordon M. Shrum Chair in Science" November 19, 1983.

Faculty publications

Series consists of publications produced by the Faculty of Science. Records include Faculty of Science Who's Who booklets, weekly faculty newsletters and safety bulletins, workshop and conference programs, LAMBDA - the SFU Science Undergrad Journal, Albert Einstein Centennial Lecture series posters, the Department of Biology Safety Manual, curriculum program guides, institute brochures, and one calendar.

Faculty members

Series consists of files related to the appointment, salary, and tenure of faculty members, as well as research grants. It includes correspondence, curricula vitae, memoranda and reports.

Faculty members

Series consists of files related to the appointment, salary, and tenure of faculty members, as well as research grants. It includes correspondence, curricula vitae, memoranda and reports.

Buildings and services

Series consists of records relating to policies and procedures for safety and security in the Physics Department, with particular reference to laboratories. It includes correspondence, memoranda, and reports.

Associations and societies

Series consists of records relating to the involvement of the Department in external associations and societies, including the Canadian Association of Physicists. The series includes correspondence, minutes of meetings, and registration materials from a symposium held at S.F.U.

Administrative departments

Series consists of records relating to the relationship between the Vice-President, Administration and the various departments and units which reported to that office. These included the Bursar, Ancillary Services, Computing, Personnel, Athletics and Recreation, and Physical Plant and Planning. The series includes correspondence, memoranda and reports.

Newsletters

Series consists primarily of newsletters from the East Enders Society. Includes two newsletters from the Battered Women's Support Services.

Society history

In the early 1990s, a member of the Kettle Society undertook a project to write the history of the East Enders Society. As part of this project, she interviewed several members of the Society and partial transcriptions of the audio taped interviews were completed. Members of the Society also submitted notes and proposals for book sections. The book project was eventually abandoned before the Society was officially dissolved in 1994. Series includes audio taped interviews, partial transcripts of interviews, notes and correspondence.

Chair's correspondence

Series consists of records arising from the administrative activities of the Chair of the Department of Kinesiology. Series includes incoming and outgoing correspondence as well as memos, minutes of departmental meetings, and financial statements. In addition, the series includes correspondence relating to professional research interests of Chair E.W. Banister.

Financial Aid policy files

Series consists of records relating to the delivery of scholarships, bursaries, and other forms of financial aid to undergraduate and graduate students.

Records include policies, procedures, proposals, correspondence, lists of award candidates and winners, statistics, and other documents.

Recreational club records

Series consists of records related to the operations of recreational clubs. Activities and topics documented include the establishment of general club guidelines; objectives of the Athletic Clubs Council; and operations of the cricket, rugby, sailing, skiing, and soccer clubs. Predominant document types include correspondence, handbooks, statements of objectives, minutes, press clippings, rosters, schedules, club histories and statistics, photographs, news bulletins, rule books, and reports.

Publication and publicity records

Series consists of records related to publications and publicity produced by the Departments of Athletics and Recreation. Activities and topics documented include the promotion of team events and achievements; and the advertising of workshop/course offerings and other departmental services. The predominant document types include news releases, sports publications and newsletters, press clippings, press guides, programs (game/event and season), posters, and yearbooks.

Sports Information Office files

The Sports Information Office, reporting to the Director of Athletics, is responsible for implementing promotional activities; liaising with the media, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, and other sports information offices; and the recording of intercollegiate sport statistics and results.

Series consists of records related to the operations of the Sports Information Office.

Administrative records

Series consists of records relating to the general administrative activities of the editor and staff of West Coast Review. Topics documented include the establishment of the journal, liaison with writers, and efforts to secure funding through grants, advertising, and donors. Series consists primarily of correspondence.

Publication records

Series consists of records relating to the publication of particular thematic issues of West Coast Review as well as general files relating to the printing of the journal. Includes correspondence, selected copies of West Coast Review, invoices, and a manuscript record book.

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