Series consists of records relating to a number of issues, activities and areas of interest relating to Gordon M. Shrum's involvement with Simon Fraser University. Records reflect information on the architectural competition to design SFU, convocation, staff, scholarships, and other like topics. Includes correspondence, reports, briefs, memoranda, architectural drawings, and publications.

Series consists of records relating to the creation and revision of the university's Academic Freedom and Tenure statements and policies. Includes reports, examples from other universities, correspondence, and notes to file.

Series consists of records of the Vancouver Women's Caucus. The group began as the Women's Caucus at Simon Fraser University. In 1969 the group moved off-campus in order to reach a larger number of women. The activities of the caucus included demonstrations, discussions, and abortion counseling. It also dealt with issues such as jobs, education, and society's responsibility for children. In 1969 it founded the feminist newspaper, The Pedestal (later known as Women Can), and in 1970 it organized the Abortion Cavalcade/Caravan to Ottawa. Includes correspondence, minutes, articles and position papers.

Series consists of records relating to the history, organization, and activities of the Vancouver Women's Caucus. This group, which started at Simon Fraser University in 1968, moved off campus in 1969 in order to focus on broader community interests. Most active until 1971, the group eventually divided into issue oriented organizations. Includes minutes, membership lists, discussion papers and other documents.

Series consists of the official files of the Premier's Office opened, or continued, in 1960. The records reflect topics such as the Oil Pipeline, P.G.E. Railway, Pacific Northern Railway and Power Development. Included are correspondence with members elected in 1960 (years are cumulated), other correspondence, reports, press releases, minutes, memoranda and speeches.

Series consists of the official files of the Premier's Office opened, or continued, in 1968. The records reflect topics such as B.C. Hydro, Federal Departments, Federal-Provincial Conferences, Finance, Oil Pipeline, P.G.E. Railway, B.C. Medical Plan and Premiers' Conference. Included are correspondence, financial statements, reports and speeches.

Series consists of records relating to elections for the Executive Council of the Student Society. Included are election rules, reports to council, correspondence, election results and related material.

Series consists of the official files of the Premier's Office opened, or continued, in 1971. The records reflect topics such as B.C. Hydro, B.C. Energy Board, C.B.C., Federal Departments, Federal-Provincial Conferences, Finance, Oil Pipeline and Premiers' Conference. Included are correspondence, file notes, schedules, memoranda, reports and speeches.

Records consists of records relating to Federal-Provincial Conferences. Included are summaries of proceedings, working papers, memoranda, correspondence, reports and draft agreements.

Series consists of records relating to dealings of the Department with publishing companies. It includes correspondence and reports.

Records include correspondence, press releases, newspapers, and other materials.

Series consists of records relating to meetings within the PSA Department and between the department and other University units. Includes minutes, transcripts, agendas and other documents.

Series consists of materials relating to a Departmental review committee. It includes correspondence, memoranda, and reports.

Series consists primarily of records relating to the suspension hearings for Nathan Popkin. Also contains some records relating to suspension hearings for Kathleen Aberle, Louis Feldhammer, John Leggett, and Prudence Wheeldon, as well as records relating to the appeal for non-renewal of contract for Tom Brose and Gerald Sperling. Includes handwritten notes made during the Popkin hearing, schedules, procedural rules, chronologies, statements, transcripts, and other documents.

Series consists of records providing background information about the PSA dispute and miscellaneous documents created in the course of the dispute. Includes reports, constitutions, petitions, news clippings, and other documents.

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.

Series consists of records relating to Maggie Benston's research interests on feminist topics including her seminal paper, "On the Political Economy of Women's Liberation." Includes correspondence regarding the publication of this paper, drafts of the paper, manuscript notes for a follow-up article and book, daily notebooks and other documents.

Series consists of records relating to Maggie Benston's many personal and professional interests such as the women's movement, environmental issues and socialism. Includes publications, reports, clippings and other documents.

Series consists of records arising from the activities of the Interdisciplinary Committee on Kinesiology. Series includes minutes of meetings, correspondence, reports and proposals relating to the development of staff and resources to facilitate the study of Kinesiology at the University.

Series consists of Benston's personal correspondence with relatives, Louis Feldhammer, as well as information regarding a libel suit and salary pay scales from 1966.

Series consists of records relating to the Archaeological Sites Advisory Board. It includes draft budgets, correspondence, map copies, and memoranda.

Series comprises records made or received by the Vancouver Island Division of the BCHPA. Records include minutes and notices.

Series consists of Bill Messenger's incoming correspondence, 1946 to 1956, and outgoing correspondence, 1950 to 1954, and 1970. Incoming correspondence includes letters from friends, his aunt, and the University of Washington, which he attended from 1955 to 1956. Series also includes report cards received by Bill while attending Everett Senior High School, between 1946 and 1948. Outgoing correspondence consists mainly of letters and photographs sent to his parents, Edmund and Inge Therese (Tess) Messenger, and to his grandmother and his aunt while he was in the air force, 1951 to 1954. Correspondence pertains to family matters, as well as his air force training and activities.

Series consists of 7 aerial photographs of SFU by Lockwood Survey Corporation and others.

Series consists of press clippings collected by and for Gordon M. Shrum. Press clippings reflect information about education and Simon Fraser University.

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.

Series consists of materials relating to the External Review committee charged with evaluating the external review of the Department in 1969. It includes correspondence, memoranda, and reports.

Series consists of correspondence of Ann Messenger's father-in-law, Edmund (Ed) Messenger. Includes correspondence to his family and a journal written during his military service in World War One. Activities, events and topics documented include his military work and Radio Operator training; life on board ship; his travels; his view of war events; his trial and acquittal for disregarding military censorship protocol; celebrations at the end of the war; the burning and sinking of the USS Pennsylvania; as well as his military service after the war and his father's efforts on his behalf to have him discharged after the war. Includes postcards collected during his service, and photographs of Ed, fellow service men, and places that he travelled to during his service. Later correspondence includes a letter to his mother in 1951 concerning his son Bill's activities, correspondence to Bill in the 1950s, and correspondence to Bill and Ann in the 1960s, relating mainly to his activities and those of family friends. Although a few early letters include accounts of his wife Tess and her activities, the majority of this correspondence dates from after her death in January 1964.

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.

This set of departmental minutes from 1967-1969 was donated to the Archives by professor and former chair Edgar F. Harden. The minutes document the first democratic procedure for electing a departmental chair at SFU.