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Simon Fraser University Archives and Records Management Department Sub-series
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Background material - Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology Department

Sub-series consists primarily of photocopied material related to the trusteeship over the PSA department, the PSA Strike, and the subsequent dismissal of eight faculty members of the PSA department. Subjects, events and activities documented include the PSA Tenure Committee; the SFU Faculty Association; the Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee and statements; the CAUT Committee of Inquiry and motion of censure; the American Anthropological Association (AAA) ad hoc committee to investigate the SFU dispute; the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (CSAA)'s boycott of SFU; the American Sociological Association ad hoc committee on the SFU dispute; the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA)'s position; the Association of University and Colleges of Canada (AUCC)'s Committee on Academic Freedom; the Palmer Committee decision; the Rosenbluth Committee Report; the Supreme Court of BC in Wheeldon vs. SFU; and the university administration's actions under Presidents Kenneth Strand and Pauline Jewett. Sub-series consists of reports, issues of the Peak, minutes, memoranda, abstracts, press releases, correspondence, research notes, telegrams, newsletters, newspaper articles, strike bulletins, CAUT bulletins, book excerpts, journal articles, and printed online material.

Governance Working Group

This sub-series consists of records related to the activities of the Governance Working Group. The final report and recommendations issued by this group resulted in the formation of the Governance Committee in July of 2004. Includes meeting agendas, memos, correspondence, and presentations.

Events and projects files

Sub-series comprises records relating to SCWIST-organized events and projects. Activities documented include the founding of the BC chapter of the Canadian Association for Girls in Science (CAGIS); the organization of educational conferences and workshops (Discover the Possibilities, High School Outreach pilot project, Quantum Leaps in conjunction with Douglas College, Say Yes to Math and Science Careers for Women, Science for Young Canadians, Visiting Scientists Project, Women Do Math conferences, and the Women Inventors Project); the production of professional and educational resource material (the Registry of Skilled Women, BC and Yukon, the video What Do Scientists Do?); and the organization of information and networking events for professionals in the fields of science and technology (Speakers' Bureau, Small Business Women's Workshops, Women in Science panels, XX Evenings at Science World). Records consist of correspondence; reports; grant applications and supporting documentation; presentations; audio recordings; handbooks and manuals; event evaluations; publicity brochures, and contracts.

Background material - Chapters 1, 2 and 3

Sub-series consists primarily of photocopied background material, which Hugh Johnston used as sources for chapters one, two and three in Radical Campus. Subjects, events and activities documented include the socio-political context of post-secondary education in the 1960s; the establishment of SFU; prominent members of the SFU community; student activism; and university disputes. Sub-series includes correspondence, memoranda, minutes, newspaper articles, reports, press releases, journal and magazine articles, working papers, bulletins, drafts, book excerpts, and discussion papers.

Background material - Chapters 4, 5 and 6

Sub-series consists of photocopied source material for chapters four, five, and six of Radical Campus. Subjects, events and activities documented include student conduct; student affairs; student activism; student associations; faculty associations; SFU governance; academic departments; prominent members of the SFU community; university disputes; and the Women's Movement. Sub-series includes memoranda; issues of the Peak; correspondence; minutes; newsletters; newspaper and journal articles; reports; research notes; briefs; and an index for the material compiled by Hugh Johnston.

Background material - Academic Departments, Women's Movement and the Epilogue

Sub-series consists primarily of photocopied source material about academic departments, and the Women's Movement. It also consists of source material for the Epilogue of Radical Campus. Subjects, activities and events documented include academic freedom and tenure; faculty appointments; prominent members of the SFU community; student activism; faculty and student associations; the development and expansion of SFU; and the Women's Movement. Sub-series includes briefs, reports, correspondence, discussion papers, memoranda, minutes, working papers, and newspaper and journal articles.

Radical Campus - chapter drafts

Sub-series contains drafts of all the chapters of Radical Campus. Johnston's publishers, Douglas and McIntyre, reviewed the manuscript draft of Radical Campus and asked Johnston to condense the book. This sub-series includes lengthier versions of the chapters.

Canadian Farmworkers Union interviews and transcripts

Sub-series consists of records arising from Hari Sharma's research into institutional racism in the workplace and focuses on farm labour in British Columbia where labour migrations (from South Asia and elsewhere) have created a multiracial working class. Includes questionnaires, responses, notes, memos, membership campaign materials, and articles written by Sharma.

Canadian Farmworkers Union

Literary records - general

Sub-series consists of records relating to Peter Buitenhuis's writing and publications, including a copy of his dissertation on Henry James (with associated review committee notes); correspondence with his book printer; drafts of his published works; research notes; drafts of an interview he conducted with Timothy Findley; photographs of Jack Hodgins; and an unpublished manuscript titled Empires of the Mind: British Authors' Roles in World War II.

Materials include correspondence, research notes, literary drafts, manuscripts, photographs, a journal, and a notebook.

Lecture files

The sub-series consists of records relating to Beyerstein's delivery of lectures. One lecture includes documentation that shows it was given as part of an SFU course:

• PSYC 383 - Psychopharmacology, Spring 2002 (file 5)

Records include handouts, overhead slide transparencies, handwritten notes, reports, and planning material.

Files are arranged chronologically.

Audit Committee

The Audit Committee functioned as a standing committee with the responsibility of recommending the approval of annual financial statements to the Board of Governors. It also received the Audit Report from the Provincial Auditor General, oversaw the Internal Audit Report, and monitored the Annual Insurance and Risk Management Report. Additionally, the committee recommended approval of policies related to asset insurance.

This sub-series comprises records associated with the committee's tasks and includes meeting agendas and minutes, reports, financial statements, terms of reference, and correspondence.

Simon Fraser University. Board of Governors. Audit Committee

Ms Infinity program files

Sub-series comprises records relating to the development and delivery of the Ms Infinity program, a series of one-day conferences for young women in grades 9 and 10 in British Columbia and the Yukon to attend hands-on workshops, presentations and panel sessions that provide information about career options for women in science and technology. The program was started in 1990 and continues in existence. Ms Infinity conferences are organized by the local communities while SCWIST provides a manual and video, training for the community liaison person, and expenses and honoraria for workshop leaders. Records consist of correspondence, reports; committee meeting minutes and supporting papers; grant applications and supporting documentation; workshop presentation materials, including overheads and transparencies; manuals and handbooks; and publicity brochures.

SFU course files

Sub-series consists of records relating to Fellman's teaching at SFU. Courses documented are:

  • History 190, Approaches to History (1976)
  • History 212, The United States to 1877 (1985-1994, 2000)
  • History 213, The United States since 1877 (1995-2001)
  • History 450, The United States in the 19th Century: The Era of the American Civil War (2002)
  • History 482, Introduction to Psychohistory (1977)
  • History 486, Early Modern English Society (1995)
  • History 495, Methodology and Philosophy of History (1987)
  • Liberal Studies 813-5, Religious and Secular World Views: Tensions in Utopia (1993).

Files also include a 1986 proposal for a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program (Fellman would become Director of the graduate program in Liberal Studies in 2000). Records include program proposals; course outlines and descriptions, reading lists, and exam questions; offprints and reference materials; lectures and lecture notes.

Files arranged alphabetically by course number.

First Nations-SFU partnership files

Sub-series consists of records arising from Hari Sharma's involvement with the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society of the Shuswap Nation and the Simon Fraser University partnership program. Sub-series includes reports, agreements, notes, statements, correspondence, programs, booklets, newsletters, pamphlets, transcripts, lists, and proposals.

Press releases

Sub-series consists of paper press releases created by Communications and Marketing and its predecessors. SFU discontinued producing the paper versions of its news releases around 2003. For the successor records in digital format, see sub-series F-61-5-3.

Files are arranged chronologically.

Bee Masters Program

Sub-series comprises material relating to the Bee Masters program. Bee Masters is an intensive course in advanced beekeeping sponsored by the British Columbia ministry responsible for agriculture. The first course was held in 1955. Since around 1986, it has been held at Simon Fraser University and offered jointly by the BC government and SFU's Department of Biological Sciences. Early courses were lengthier to include a field trip to a beekeeping location, while later courses dropped the field trip component and thus shortened to five days in length. Documents include the first written examinations from 1955 and 1958, course outlines, lectures, articles, participant and speakers lists, evaluations, forms, correspondence, pamphlets, and other course material.

Interviews

Sub-series consists primarily of interviews with prominent members of the SFU community, including faculty, administrators, and students. Hugh Johnston conducted interviews; however he also collected audiocassette recordings and transcripts of interviews conducted by other researchers. They include Liisa Fagerlund, Ken Nielsen, Elika Kohler, Robin Fisher and Ruth Sandwell. Johnston's research assistants, John-Henry Harter and Dionysios (Dino) Rossi, also conducted interviews. Subjects, events and activities documented include student activism, the governance and administration of SFU, the 1968 CAUT motion of censure, the PSA affair and the history of SFU. Sub-series consists of audiocassette recordings and transcriptions of the interviews.

Executive Committee

This sub-series consists of records related to the activities of the Executive Committee. This standing committee served to exercise all powers and perform all duties of the Board of Governors in the case of urgent matters where it was not possible to wait for a scheduled Board meeting. The Executive Committee later merged with the Compensation Committee to form one entity. Includes meeting agendas and minutes, curriculum vitae, memos, contracts, proposals, and correspondence.

Simon Fraser University. Board of Governors. Executive Committee

Biographical material

Sub-series consists of Iris Garland’s personal records of a biographical nature primarily documented through letters and family photographs, and in part through publicity materials featuring her contributions to dance at SFU and beyond, as well as her celebration of life. Records include photographs, correspondence, copies of clippings, and other materials.

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