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University matters - correspondence

Series consists of records relating to the Associate Vice-President, Academic's interactions with senior university administrators (President and other Vice-Presidents) and the university departments and committees that reported to them. Records consists predominantly of correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, reports, and policies. For more detailed description of record types, see individual sub-series descriptions.

University Librarian's records

Series consists of records related to the activities of the University Librarian and includes correspondence with members of the university community, other universities and external organizations; reports including Library reviews; building renovations; development of Library policies and patron regulations; management planning; 10-year projections for the Library; annual reports; and student and faculty user surveys.

Records include correspondence and working papers, agendas and minutes, reports, statistics, and policies.

University Correspondence

Series consists of records relating to the Vice-President's correspondence with members of the university community including the President, Resources Office, Board of Governors, Alumni Association, University Services Office, Resources Office, Residences, Cooperative Education, the Centre for Communications and the Arts, and the Bursar's Office regarding program administration, budgeting, and student concerns. Also included are reports by Lolita Wilson on students in academic difficulty and statistics on course drops, and a planning report for SFU by Arthur Erickson Architects. Records include correspondence and working papers, agendas and minutes, reports, questionnaires, and financial statements.

University committees

Series consists of the records relating to the Sociology / Anthropology Articulation Committee (representing Sociology and Anthropology departments in BC universities and community colleges), and SFU's Senate Committee on Admissions and Standings.

University committees

Series consists of departmental files relating to the Articulation Committee and University Review Committee of the Faculty of Arts. Series includes memoranda, minutes, and correspondence.

University Bookstore records

Series consists of records related to the University Bookstore and includes correspondence of the University Librarian with the Bookstore manager, the university community regarding the Bookstore, and vendors; Bookstore policies and operating procedures; year end reports; a Bookstore research study; operating budget and financial statements; plans for renovations to the Bookstore; the report of the Bookstore Review Committee and responses to it; and records of a joint grievance committee hearing.

Records include correspondence, reports, budget and financial working papers, and newsletters.

University

Series consists of records relating to the relationship of the Department with interdisciplinary programs and other departments of the University, including the Computing Centre, Continuing Studies, and the Distance Education program. The series includes correspondence, memoranda and reports.

Universities and colleges - correspondence

Series consists of records relating to the President's liaison with local, national and international universities and colleges and involvement on joint university projects such as the Tri-Universities Presidents Council, Council of Western Canadian University Presidents and the Tri-University Meson Facility. Records include correspondence, working papers, agendas and minutes, project proposals and reports.

Union action records

Series consists of correspondence, legal records, photographs, and other material relating to the Canadian Farmworkers Union’s promotion and certification of the union in individual work sites; negotiations with farm owners; individual workers’ complaints; strikes; and participation in rallies for a variety of causes.

The series is arranged into four sub-series: Unionization and organizing notes, photographs, and other records ([198-]-1985); Certification correspondence, contracts, and photographs (1980-1992); Photographs, legal records, and correspondence relating to complaints, strikes, and rallies (1979-[199-?]); and General planning and research newspaper clippings, notes, and photographs ([1978]-1997).

Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue and Centre for Dialogue records

Series consists of records documenting the establishment and development of SFU's Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue (USD) program by Mark Winston in his capacity as director of the program. It also includes records relating to the development of SFU's Centre for Dialogue and its programs by Winston in his capacity as the Centre's academic director and as a fellow. Records include correspondence, agendas, minutes, reports, proposals, photographs, and other materials.

The series is arranged into 2 sub-series in order to keep separate the records of the USD program, which entail administrative records created and received by Winston in the course of his activities in founding, developing, and sustaining this academic program for the university. These materials are unique and considered university records. However, because Winston created and received these university records as he created and received his personal papers, the archivist opted to keep them in Winston's fonds rather than remove them to a university fonds.

Series is arranged into 2 sub-series:

  1. Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue program
  2. Centre for Dialogue

UBC Project on Non Academic Women records

Series consists of notes, correspondence, memos, lists of names, questionnaires, and receipts related to Frances Wasserlein's involvement with a project to produce a history of the Dean of Women's Office at UBC, then known as the Women Students' Office.

Typeface design

Series consists of material related to Rimmer’s design and production of typefaces for both the Rimmer Type Foundry and the Lanston Type Company. Records include preliminary sketches, drawings in ink and pencil, transparencies, samples, digital print-outs, electronic files, master patterns, specimen castings, matrices, lead working patterns, and cast metal sorts. Some files contain notes and instructions for modification, and some include explanatory comments written by Rimmer. Electronic files were created by Rimmer on a Macintosh computer using the typeface design software IKARUS and saved to 3.5" floppy disks and compact discs.

Rimmer, Jim

Tynehead Zoological Society of BC

Series consists of records related to Webster's involvement on the Board of the Tynehead Zoological Society. Records include minutes, correspondence, meeting notes, and a manual.

Turning left to the ladies

Series consists of records relating to Braid's work on her book Turning Left to the Ladies. Records include drafts, correspondence with her publisher and editor, and drafts for the editor.

TRIUMF correspondence files

This series consists of files created by SFU faculty and administrators who served as SFU representatives on the TRIUMF Board of Management in the first half of the 1980s. The material (some of it originally housed in binders) appears to have been transferred at some point in the early 1990s to Academic Planning Services and consolidated into a single block. Activities and topics documented in the files include planning for the construction of a KAON factory, contribution funding, negotiation of a borrowing agreement, IT planning, patent policy, employee relations, the review of TRIUMF by the NRC (1983), the internal review of the Operations Committee (1984-1985), and TRIUMF's 10th anniversary celebrations in 1985. Records include correspondence, reports, meeting summaries, agreements, legal advice, notes and working papers, and TRIUMF newsletters and other printed matter.

TRIUMF

Traveling film festival

Series consists of records relating to obtaining funding for the traveling film and video festivals, including grant proposals, budgets and correspondence. Series also contains information related to the organization and administration of the traveling film festivals.

Travel souvenirs, notes, and ephemera

Series is made up of souvenirs, personal notes, and ephemera kept by French Shackleton from or about places she visited. Destinations include the U.K., Martinique, Mexico, the Bahamas, St. Kitts and New Orleans.

Shackleton, Doris French

Travel records

Series consists of textual records and photographs relating to locations to which Blaser traveled. Records include travel schedules, receipts, handwritten notes, boarding passes, event programs, ticket stubs, and brochures.

Travel films

Series consists of analogue and digitized films created by Erickson during his travels to Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, and Tanzania. Subjects include local inhabitants, architecture, and wildlife.

Transition House records

Series consists of records relating to the Vancouver Transition House, and other transition houses in British Columbia. Transition houses were set up to offer a refuge for women and children forced to leave their homes due to violent and abusive situations. The goal of the transition houses was to secure the safety and health of the women and children in their care, and to ensure that they not return to unresolved and dangerous situations. Includes academic papers, articles, briefs, correspondence, minutes and publications.

Topical files and reports

Series consists of subject files created by the Office of the Vice-President, Academic relating to a variety of topics, including university administration, policies and procedures, the work of various university committees and task forces, and liaison with faculty, students, government, and external organizations. Records consists predominantly of correspondence and reports. For detailed descriptions of record types, see individual sub-series descriptions.

To this cedar fountain

Series includes records related to writing and publishing To this Cedar Fountain, Braid's book of poetry written in response to Emily Carr's paintings, which was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay (BC) Poetry Prize. Records include corresondence from readers, publisher, book reviews, interviews with Braid, and rough drafts.

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