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Koenraad Kuiper graduate student mailbox collection

The series consists of one file made up of materials that were deposited in Koenraad Kuiper's graduate student mailbox in 1969. Taken as a whole, it provides a sense of the types of materials that were circulating on campus during a tumultuous period in SFU's history.

Records include reports, articles, newsletters, and correspondence related to the PSA affair; memorandums and correspondence about the trial of the 114 students who were arrested for occupying the Academic Services building; a report from the Presidential Search Committee; copies of articles from The Peak; a copy of Focos magazine; two issues of SFU Komix; a copy of the first issue of SFU Comment; and miscellaneous materials related to Kuiper's role as a graduate student.

Kuiper, Koenraad

Martin Johnson Dido and Aeneas production records

The records consist of material related to the production of the Dido Aeneas opera that was put on by the Centre for Communications and the Arts from June 8 to 10, 1973. Records include a scrapbook with photographs, drawings, sketches, programs, and newspaper clippings related to costume and production design (file 1). There are also four photographs that were found loose with the records (file 2); programs and press reviews (file 3); textual files on production and design (files 4, 5, 6); and a sketch and design template that were found loose with the records (file 7).

Original order was retained in the arrangement of the files.

Johnson, Martin

Talks and speeches

Series consists of talks and speeches given by Mitch Taylor to various organizations relating to establishing, growing and operating Granville Island Brewing (GIB); the brewing business; the GIB brewing process; and Taylor’s experiences as an entrepreneur.

Press and publicity

Series consists of press and publicity relating to Mitch Taylor and includes a published article concerning Taylor and Bill Harvey’s Creekhouse venture.

Granville Island Brewing Company Limited records

Series consists of records relating to the founding, development, administration and operation of Granville Island Brewing Company Limited during the time of Mitch Taylor’s involvement with the company. Types of material include reports; policy and procedure documents; photographs; promotional material; press clippings; and artefacts such as beer bottles, tap handles, kegs, glasses and t-shirts.

The series is arranged into seven sub-series:

Granville Island Brewing Company Limited

Official Minutes

Series comprises official minutes of regular meetings including open, closed and confidential sessions as well as official minutes of special Board meetings. Includes official appendices comprising committee minutes, correspondence, financial statements, correspondence, reports, lists of appointments and other documents. Open sessions are open to all members of the University community and the public; closed sessions are restricted to Board members, the Board secretary, the Vice-Presidents' group, the director of Media and Public Relations, and anyone else who has the permission of the Board Chair to attend. Confidential sessions are restricted to Board members, the Secretary of the Board, and anyone else who has the permission of the Board Chair to attend. These records are used to document all deliberations of the Board including the passage of motions and resolutions and the approval of governing decisions. Until approximately 1975, all Board sessions were considered closed. After that time, meetings were divided into open and closed sessions. In 2004, official meeting minutes began to be filed together with agenda support papers into docket packages. To view official meeting minutes from 2004 onwards, see series F-33-10 Meeting dockets.

Meeting dockets

This series comprises meeting dockets distributed to Board members, selected University officials, and campus organizations before each regular meeting, starting from 2004 onwards. The dockets include minutes from the previous meeting for approval, along with the current meeting agenda and all pertinent support papers.

Includes meeting agendas, minutes, and support papers including correspondence; reports; financial statements; board committee minutes; contracts; architectural drawings; personnel records such as curriculum vitae, reference letters, and appointment forms; news clippings, and other documents.

For minutes or agendas and support papers related to meetings held before 2004 when these records were kept separately, please refer to series F-33-1: Official Minutes and F-33-2: Agenda support papers.

Board Retreats and Strategy Sessions

This series consists of records created during the planning and facilitation of retreat events attended by Board executives and members. The retreats involved socializing and networking, discussing issues and concerns relevant to the Board, reflection on University events and priorities, as well as strategic planning. Includes retreat agendas and notes, memos, invoices, reports, presentations, correspondence, evaluation forms, event facility brochures, articles, speaker bios, and maps.

Agenda support papers

These files were kept by the Secretary and Assistant to the Board of Governors and contain documents that provide background information for the various agenda items. In most cases, the documents formed part of packages that were sent to Board members, selected University officials, and campus organizations prior to each Board meeting. A few documents were kept by the Board secretary for her own reference and did not circulate. After 2003, agenda support papers were filed in docket packages alongside the meeting agendas and minutes. To view support papers from 2004 onwards, see series F-33-10 Meeting dockets.

Series includes agendas, unsigned minutes, and support papers including correspondence; reports; financial statements; board committee minutes, contracts; architectural drawings; personnel records such as c.v.'s, reference letters and appointment forms; news clippings and other documents.

Donna Laws was the Board Secretary from 1968 to 1993.

Policies and procedures

The Board of Governors approves all academic policies, most general policies unless they are procedures, and significant administrative policies. Series consists of policies and procedures and working files.

Correspondence

Series includes correspondence of Board officers including secretaries (C. J. Frederickson and R. E. Lester); and chairs (R. E. Lester, Kenneth Caple, and Paul Cote).

Board reports

Series comprises 33 reports to the faculty of Simon Fraser University regarding actions taken by the Board of Governors. Also includes a progress report on the University Library.

Special hearings

In the fall of 1969, nine professors in the Department of Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology withdrew their services in response to the department being put under trusteeship by the University administration. The University appointed a trustee because of allegations of departmental mismanagement of finances. The department also did not produce a constitution and tenure committee structure that were acceptable to the University administration. Various student and faculty support strikes and protest actions followed. The President suspended nine PSA faculty members who were most actively involved in the strike and later fired seven of them.

The series comprises audio recordings of the suspension hearings held by the Board of Governors for six of those faculty members. The Board conducted the hearings to enable faculty members to appeal their suspension by the President. In each case, the Board upheld the decision by the President to suspend the faculty members. Additional legal proceedings followed the suspension hearings.

Presidential committees

The Board established a Presidential Search Committee in 1968, in 1973, and again in 1978 to recommend candidates for the position of University President. The committees included Board members: faculty, administration, and student representatives; and later alumni and employee representatives. The series contains records relating to the work of these committees.

Includes correspondence, agendas, minutes, terms of reference, procedures, lists of candidates, c.v.'s, reports, press releases, and clippings.

Committees

This series comprises records pertaining to the establishment, execution of responsibilities, integration, and dissolution of committees; as well as task forces formed to support the Board of Governors in achieving its objectives. It encompasses standing committees and ad hoc committees. The records include committee meeting agendas, minutes, and notes; memos; reports; budget projections; project plans; correspondence; contracts; bargaining agreements; proposals; curriculum vitae and applications; policies and procedures; financial statements; terms of reference; promotional materials and articles; lists of award recipients; student surveys; and presentations.

Minute appendices and indexes

This series consists of indexes to the Board of Governors official minutes of regular meetings. The indexes are arranged chronologically. A list of all Members of the Board of Governors and details of each individual’s term; as well as a list of all Chancellors, Chairs of the Board, and Presidents from 1963-2000 are included at the beginning of the indexes.

Personal correspondence

Series consists of personal correspondence between Frances M. Frazer and Ron Baker. Includes day-by-day accounts of the writing of the Macdonald Report and the planning and beginnings of Simon Fraser University.

SFU correspondence and subject files

While still a faculty member at UBC, Baker became one of the chief contributors to John B. Macdonald's report, Higher Education in British Columbia and a Plan for the Future. This report led directly to the government's decision to establish a second university (SFU) in the Lower Mainland. Baker also served on the provincial Academic Board for Higher Education, established to advise the government on applying the recommendations of the Macdonald Report.

Records in this series relate to Baker's work on the Macdonald Report and the Academic Board as well as his role as academic planner and a charter faculty member in the early years of SFU. These files supplement the official records of the Office of Academic Planning, F 49. Includes personal and professional correspondence, reports, reference materials, a memoir by Baker about the early history of SFU, and other documents.

Academic Planning files

Series consists of records relating to the activities of Ron Baker as academic planner for Simon Fraser University. Series includes correspondence, statistics, agendas, minutes, publications and other documents.

Correspondence

Series consists of correspondence created and received by Dr. Douglas Cole in both his personal and professional life. Includes records that reflect his teaching and research interests, and his involvement in various university committees and professional offices. Also includes correspondence relating to awards, honours, and citations, research funding and publication of work.

Unpublished articles, conference papers, research notes, and lectures

Series consists of unpublished work of Dr. Douglas Cole. Records reflect topics in Canadian and art history, such as anthropological exploration in the northwest, Indian policy, aesthetic views of the Canadian wilderness, and the like. Includes articles, conference papers, research notes and lectures.

Correspondence

Series consists of correspondence made or received by Thelma Finlayson. Activities and topics documented include entomological research, the publication of Professor Finalyson's scholarly papers, adjudicating other scholars' research, providing recommendations for academic positions, and service in professional organizations.

One file contains correspondence regarding the publication of a two-volume work on the immature stages of insects. This work represented the first new information on this subject in over 100 years.

SFU subject files

Series consists of records relating to Professor Finlayson's administrative service and membership in Academic Women. Includes correspondence and newsletters.

Publications

Series consists of records relating to Professor Finlayson's administrative service and membership in Academic Women. Includes correspondence and newsletters.

Course files

Series consists of records relating to classes that Professor Finlayson taught at Simon Fraser University including Biological Sciences 102 and Biological Sciences 317 (Entomology). Includes lecture schedules, midterm exams, final exams, marking schemes, and laboratory lessons.

Drawings

Series consists of illustrations and graphs by Thelma Finlayson and copies of publications written or co-authored by her. Drawings depict structure and detail of larvae, cocoons, puparia, spiracles, and other insect anatomy. File F-37-5-0-0-10 and files numbered from F-37-5-0-0-12 through to F-37-5-0-0-35 are drawings associated with "The Systematics and Taxonomy of final-instar larvae of the family Aphidiidae (Hymenoptera)" publication, which is protected by copyright, and the copyright for these drawings subsits with the Entomological Society of Canada.

Graduate Student Union

Series consists of records relating to the operation of this predecessor of the TSSU. Activities documented include the establishment of the GSU, negotiation of responsibility for graduate matters with Simon Fraser Student Society, organizing meetings, membership expansion, researching current graduate conditions and proposing improvements through reports and lobbying, participation in university committees, liaison with other university graduate student organizations, and publicizing efforts through newsletters. Records include GSU statutes, policies and history; extensive correspondence including legal advice on the GSU's status; meeting notices, agendas, notes, and accounts; membership and election material; reference and research sources; reports and papers (e.g. on the need for a teaching assistants' union); and newsletters.

Graduate Student Union

AUCE 2 Strike

Series consists of records arising from TSSU's involvement in the 1979 AUCE 2 strike over wages and temporary employee rights. Activities documented include the discussions and decisions of the TSSU Steering Committee and TSSU emergency meetings, TSSU participation in the joint Academic Penalties Committee and the Job Action Committee, members' strike action, and the actions of the SFU 18 Defense Committee. Records include agendas, minutes, motions and reports; correspondence and memoranda to union members, the university community, and administration; publicity materials for and against the strike, including a petition; administration, departmental and student notices and statements; bulletins, news releases and press clippings. Details of strike action are included in lists of members respecting picket lines, the picket captain's register and sign-up sheets, individual job action reports, and letters of resignation from the TSSU.

Operation Solidarity

Series consists of records relating to TSSU's participation as an affiliate of Operation Solidarity and the Solidarity Coalition in the province-wide opposition to the 1983 Social Credit government budget and its proposed legislation. Activities documented include TSSU membership meetings and resolutions in support of the B. C. Government Employees Union and Operation Solidarity; the formation and operation of a Strike Coordination Committee; involvement in the SFU Budget Coalition; picketing and labour withdrawal; liaison with other labour organizations; and communication with SFU administration and TSSU members. Records include TSSU resolutions and strike vote sheets; SFU's affidavit and Labour Relations Board complaint against TSSU and other unions for illegal labour withdrawal and picketing; TSSU Strike Coordination Committee meeting notes; SFU Budget Coalition minutes and press releases; picket schedules, lists of participants and of those observing picket lines; motions, minutes and notices from the steering committees of Operation Solidarity and the Solidarity Coalition; bulletins and press releases from the Solidarity groups and the B.C. Federation of Labour; correspondence with SFU administration and TSSU members; and various strike and meeting notices, and press reports.

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