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Academic Planning / Secretariat Services

Sub-series consists of records relating to the activities of the Academic Planning Services unit within the Vice-President, Academic's Office (1992-1995), and then Secretariat Services which took over some the Academic Planning Services' functions in 1995. Activities and topics documented include university endowment accounts, administrative support for external reviews, development of an "accountability framework," and budget planning for new academic program proposals. Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, and drafts; external review committee terms of reference, itineraries, summaries, and reports; and program proposals, comments (internal and external), and funding estimates.

Academic Planner

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Academic Planner. The Office of the Academic Planner was established in 1964; it ceased operations in 1974, when the incumbent, John Chase, was made Director of a new department, Institutional Studies (later Analytical Studies). Activities and topics documented in the correspondence include development of planning mechanisms, enrollment projections, faculty salaries, the trimester system, development of new academic programs, teaching methods, and space allocation planning. Records include correspondence, reports, and statistics.

Academic Computing Services - general

Sub-sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Director of Academic Computing Services (ACS). Since its inception in 1991, ACS has remained within the reporting portfolio of the VP Academic. Activities and topics documented in the correspondence include operations of the SFU Microcomputer Store, including its reorganization in 1992-93; policy development and stategic planning for IT services, including the review of ACS and Operations and Technical Support (OTS) in 1998; and systems upgrade planning. Records include correspondence, agreements, strategic plans and other planning documents, and reports.

Academic Computing Services

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from Academic Computing Services (ACS), and records relating to the activities and deliberations of university committees with responsibilities for university computing policies, operations, and services. Since its inception in 1991, ACS has remained within the reporting portfolio of the VP Academic. Activities and topics documented in the correspondence include policy development and strategic planning for IT services, including the review of ACS and Operations and Technical Support (OTS) in 1998; systems upgrade planning; operations of the SFU Microcomputer Store; and the activities of the Academic Computing Services Committee, the Administrative Computing Coordinating Committee, the Committee on Instructional Computing, the Committee on Research Computing, and the University Computing Advisory Committee. Records include correspondence, reports, meeting agendas and minutes, agreements, and strategic plans and other planning documents.

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