advisory bodies

Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection includes the earliest records and minutes of the Alumni Association of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dating from 1874 discussions of its formation to the formal minutes and report from 1875, when the Alumni Association was organized. There are reports on course of study at the Institute, prepared in the years 1870 to 1877. The colleciton also includes annual reports of the Committee on the School dated 1881, 1884, and 1885. A report on the Women's...

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The collection comprises records produced by Donald P. Severence and William J. Hecht, Executive Vice Presidents of the Association of Alumni and Alumnae of MIT. The materials span the years of 1962 to 1970 and 1980 to 1997.

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The collection consists of the reports of the committee and appendices with copies of many of the organizations' constitutions, bylaws, organizational charts, and other records.

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The collection contains copies of questionnaires completed by faculty and students, analyses of the responses, drafts of the final report; and correspondence, memoranda, and notes of the committee.

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The collection comprises records created by the Administrative Advisory Committee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1993 to 1998.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The records of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Club of New York contains the club constitution and bylaws, correspondence and reports of club officers, and newsletters. Minutes of the general meetings of the club (1947-1959), and minutes of executive committee meetings are included, as are correspondence, reports, and minutes of meetings of the Board of Governors, the Finance Committee, the Membership Committee, and the Program Committee. There is information about the...

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The MIT Club of Washington, DC was established in 1899 in order to serve area alumni and alumnae. This collection documents the activities and membership of the club from the 1940s to the present (2004). The records include flyers and announcements of major club events and annual club meetings, minutes of meetings for the years 1956-1994, correspondence, and club newsletters from 1970 to 2004.

Abstract The collection of the Art Committee covers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) covers the period 1960-1973. Materials document committee work and development of programs for the arts at MIT. The records were kept by Catherine N. Stratton (wife of MIT president Julius Stratton), a founder and active member of the Art Committee, and its successor organization, the MIT Council for the Arts. The collection contains correspondence, minutes and agendas of meetings, news releases,...

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...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection consists of the files maintained by Lynwood Bryant, aide to the committee, and contains numerous drafts and revisions of the final report, both typed and handwritten. It also contains correspondence and memoranda that document interactions between the members of the committee on planning, researching, and writing the final report. The final version of the report, titled "Report of the Committee on Educational Survey," focuses on five areas: the development of an educational...

Scope and Contents The collection contains minutes of the Committee on Advanced Degrees and Fellowships; and minutes and agendas of meetings of the Committee on Graduate Courses and Scholarships, the Committee on the Graduate School, and CGSP. Also included are supporting documents about curriculum, enrollment, and the awarding of degrees, fellowships, and scholarships. Committee minutes are partially indexed. Some issues involving individual students are discussed in minutes, reports, and supporting...

Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection documents the activities of the Committee on Nominations, a standing committee of the Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Materials in the collection span from 1951 to 1963 and are composed of correspondence, reports, background materials, lists, and meeting minutes. These materials were generated by the committee in the course of soliciting and circulating nominations for the following officers of the faculty: a chair, a secretary, and an associate...

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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.

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The records of the Committee on Provisional Students and Discipline records (1922-1946) contain of minutes of meetings of the committee and includes lists of students who were readmitted or dismissed from the Institute.

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The collection contains background information from MIT and other institutions on the legal issues involved in harassment and policies in force to handle the problem. Also included are minutes of the committee's meetings, notes kept by committee members, and proposals and annotated drafts of the final report.

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The records of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Committee on Simplification of Curricula contain the Committee's final May 1944 report to the faculty, along with background materials.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection consists of the files of the chair of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Committee on Student Environement. Problems addressed by the committee included the classroom environment, public spaces in the Institute, and especially students' living situations in dormitories, fraternity houses, and off campus. In 1963, the committee recommended a major dormitory construction program. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, reports produced by the committee, reports...

Scope and Contents The collection documents the work of the Committee on the HASS Requirement, 1973 to 1980, which reviewed courses offered to fulfill requirements in humanities subjects. The records include course descriptions submitted for consideration by the School of Humanities and Social Science departments, notes about course content, reading lists, assignments, correspondence between committee members and department heads, reports about subjects under review, and a record of the final decisions. The...

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The collection contains minutes of meetings from 1898 to 1949 and records including minutes and reports from 1999 to 2005.

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Series 1 includes agendas, background materials, and minutes of the Committee on the Undergraduate Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a committee of the faculty. Series 2 consists of minutes of the Subcommittee on the Communication Requirement. Series 3 consists of the minutes of the Subcommittee on the HAAS Requirement Minutes, a subcommittee created in May 2009. Chronological and topical indexes are included in each years set of notes.

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The collection consists of inactive case files, project files, and terminated protocols. The files include applications from faculty members for committee authorization, correspondence between project directors and project staff, project reports, and formal permissions from the committee. Also included are agendas and minutes of committee meetings.

Scope and Contents of the Collection Records received in 1980, boxes 1-2, 1978-1980, contain videotapes and audio tapes of interviews done in preparation for exhibits in the Compton Gallery. Also included are composite tapes used as part of the exhibit of Gyorgy Kepes’s work and an exhibit on Building 20, taped interviews and correspondence concerning background research for exhibits, videotapes of lectures that accompanied the exhibit on Gjon Mili, and registers of visitors to the Compton Gallery.Records received...

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The collection comprises records of the Committee on the Writing Requirement at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) spanning the years of 1981 to 2002. Records include administrative files regarding "The Commons," Writing Across the Curriculum, undergraduate seminars, the writing requirement, and prizes for writing. Also included are sample writing requirement essays created by students.

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The collection comprises records created by the Committee on Undergraduate Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1950 to 1960.

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...