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This collection contains records from the tenures of Associate Provosts for the Arts Ellen T. Harris and Alan Brody.

Scope and Contents The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Commencement Committee records date from 1925 to 1986. The collection includes files of various members of Commencement Committee. These files include letters, memoranda, schedules, and drafts of programs. Also included in the collection are 46 bound volumes including lists of committee members, reports, correspondence, memoranda, minutes of committee meetings, copies of general letters to students and faculty participating, and programs. The index...

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The collection includes correspondence and reviews of individual cases relating to MIT's policies and procedures about outside employment by Institute faculty and staff. There is also some general background policy information including reports and a chronology dated 1965 that outlines faculty and outside work issues and actions. Committee meeting files in this collection are about individual faculty cases and are restricted.

Abstract The Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation was created in 1883 on the recommendation of a committee of members appointed by President Francis A. Walker to propose changes in the organization of the Institute's governing structure. The Executive Committee meets ten times each academic year and consists of the chair of the Corporation, president and treasurer (ex officio members), up to five members and two rotating...

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This collection contains faculty records kept by the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection comprises reports prepared by the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The bulk of the collection consists of reports prepared by the department between 1935 and 1961 for the MIT Department of Mathematics Visiting Committee of the MIT Corporation. The remainder of the collection is made up of reports describing the research activities of faculty members, dating between 1939 and 1966. Reports in the collection are arranged...

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This collection comprises files on faculty members maintained by the Department of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1938 to 1992. Official personnel files are kept by the Department of Human Resources.

Abstract A record of the MIT faculty begins with the minutes of the September 25, 1865, meeting and continues to the present day. Among the topics discussed at faculty meetings are proposed degree programs, disciplinary actions, admission and graduation requirements, enrollment and diversity, and issues concerning student life. This collection includes biographical material in Killian Award and Edgerton Award announcements and resolutions on the death of individual faculty members written by faculty...

Abstract The collection documents the responsibilities of Julius A. Stratton for academic development and research in the positions of provost, vice president and provost, and chancellor, which he held between 1949 and 1957. The records contain reports and memoranda from the schools, departments, and research laboratories, including Lincoln Laboratory, the Research Laboratory for Electronics, and the Computation Center, and material on Projects Charles, Hartwell, Meteor, Troy, and Whirlwind. There...

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The collection comprises records produced by Assistant to the President and Provost, Norman C. Dahl, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from approximately 1971 to 1980. Records include administrative files and records pertaining to the Bicentennial Committees.

Abstract The Office of the Provost, Assistant Provost Doreen Morris records contain records from Morris’s office documenting her work with the Office of the Provost. Morris came to the MIT in 1978 when she joined the Budget Office. In 1982, she became the financial officer in the Office of the Dean of Science. In 1985, she became assistant to the provost and in 1992, she was appointed assistant provost for administration. Records include budgets and five year plans, materials on gender equity at MIT,...

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The collection consists of letters from seniors responding to a survey from Associate Provost Samuel Jay Keyser, and anonymous excerpts from those letters. The letters recount the students' experience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and include comments on the academic workload and requirements, the faculty, the advising system, and student living groups.

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Each year the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Office of the Provost holds an orientation and introduction to MIT for new faculty the week before the academic year starts in September. A handbook of campus information resources is compiled each year by the office as part of the orientation. The collection consists ofa number of these handbooks dating from 1997 to 2006.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection contains the records of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) provost Charles H. Townes. He served as provost from 1961 to 1966 and the collection contains administrative files on MIT’s academic departments, laboratories, and centers, as well as minutes, agendas, reports, and notes from committees Townes was involved with as provost. Records about the Birla Institute of Technology, the Kanpur Indo-American Program, and the Technical University of Berlin reflect the...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection contains administrative files of Exectuive Officer Joel Orlen in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Office of the Provost. Materials include correspondence, reference material, working notes, and reports on various activities of the office, including coordination of space and research planning, administration of special research funds, representing MIT on the Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation and in various university research consortia, and...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of reports, budgets, and tenure and other personnel records from the schools, laboratories, and centers that report to the provost, including the Libraries and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; records of committees Low chaired or participated in, including the Committee on International Institute Commitments, the Council on Resources of the Institute, the Institute Planning Group, the Research Policy Committee,...

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Includes files of provosts John Deutch, Mark Wrighton, and Joel Moses.

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The collection comprises records created by the Office of the Provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The records, which were created during Robert A. Brown's tenure as Provost, span the years of 1998 to 2005.

Materials include: correspondence, programs information, records pertaining to the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) and the Council on Faculty Diversity.

Abstract Louis Menand became assistant to the provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968 with the responsibility to supervise several programs, including the MIT student-operated tutoring program at Rindge Technical School in Cambridge, Mass., and the Upward Bound program. He chaired the Law-Related Studies Committee and served on the Interdisciplinary Environmental Council. He also worked on university-community relations. In 1974 he became...

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The collection contains records kept by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Office of the Associate Provost for Educational Programs and Policy from 1985-1993. Materials include correspondence, reports, and memoranda related to disciplinary and harassment issues; information about student, staff, and faculty programs; and files about minority issues on campus and personnel issues.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection consists of the records of Walter Alter Rosenblith while associate provost, 1969-1971, and provost, 1971-1980, though the collection contains a few earlier records pertaining to continuing projects under the supervision of the Office of the Provost. The major portion of the collection, the general administrative files, documents Rosenblith’s activities as provost as well as the academic and political climate of MIT during the 1970s.During Rosenblith’s time in...

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This collection documents Dr. Shelia Widnall’s work as the Associate Provost at MIT. Materials document her responsibilities around academic integrity, including conflict of interest policy, federal relations, faculty retirement, tenure and promotion policies, and international educational programs. In addition, there is some correspondence and speeches related to her work.

Abstract The collection contains records of the chairs of the Faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961-1995 (with a gap between 1973 and 1993). The officers of the Faculty are the chair, the associate chair, the secretary, and, ex officio, the president of the Institute. In the absence of the president, the chair of the Faculty presides at Faculty meetings. The collection contains correspondence, notes, and minutes of faculty meetings and faculty standing committees and task forces,...

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The collection contains personnel records of faculty and some academic staff kept by the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1953-2019. Records include letters of appointment, curricula vitae, and writings and publications.

Abstract This collection documents the activities of the Staff-Administration Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Founded in 1938, the committee examined issues involving relationships between administration and faculty or other academic staff with teaching responsibilities. It was composed of two sections: the Administrative Section and the Staff Section. Members of the Administrative Section were appointed by the president. The Staff Section consisted of both faculty and...

Scope and Contents The collection includes some correspondence, subscription records, and office manuals of the Tech Engineering News, a monthly professional journal published by undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working with alumni and faculty. It was originally conceived of as a supplement to the student newspaper,The Tech, in 1919, when Tech advertising manager Ray St. Laurent discovered that some businesses preferred to advertise in a college technical journal rather than a...