Sub-series consists of the Associate Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Registrar's Office during the period in which it reported to the AVP Academic (1985-1996). In 1996, the Registrar's Office was reorganized as part of Student Services. Activities documented in the correspondence include admissions, registration and teleregistration, enrollment management, and IT systems planning. Records include correspondence, reports, surveys, and meeting minutes.

Series consists of records made or received by the Director of the Professional Programs division of the Faculty of Education in the course of administering the program area.

Activities documented include policy development, budget planning, and staffing, including the hiring and orientation of school and faculty associates (professionals from the BC school system seconded to assist in the delivery of the PDP program); curriculum and program planning, including First Nations education, French immersion, and decentralization of SFU's PDP program; conferences, colloquia, liaison with school districts, and administration of external PDP sites; liaison with faculty task forces and committees, other units in the faculty, other SFU departments, other universities, provincial government ministries and agencies, and educational and professional associations; and student relations, advising, and post-graduation employment.

Records include correspondence, reports, proposals, statistics, program information, orientation packages and handbooks, lists of faculty associates, policies and procedures, event schedules, notes and working papers, and printed reference material.

For a list of organizations included in the correspondence, see the "Access points" section below.

Sub-sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Registrar / Dean of Student Services and units that reported to the Registrar, including Financial Aid and Admissions. Activities and topics documented include enrolment, admissions, registration procedures, high-school liaison, and student recruitment; grading policy, class scheduling, calendar revisions; office reorganization and staff relations; the telephone registration project (1990-1991); and development of student information systems, including a systems plan (1980), the design and implementation of the SIMON database (1986), and planning (from 1996) for the replacement / migration of SIMON. Records inlcude correspondence, reports, job description, technical specifications and planning documents.

Sub-series consists of the Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Registrar's Office. Although the Registrar reported to the VP Academic from the outset, for the first two years of the file classification plan (1970-1971), correspondence with the Registrar was grouped under "Administration." Activities and topics documented in the correspondence include department organization, calendar preparation, registration issues including pre-registration in the context of the trimester system, enrollment and convocation. Records includes correspondence, reports, and a transcript of the Acting VP Academic's comments to Senate on pre-registration on December 1, 1969.