faculty governance

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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.

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 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 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 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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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.

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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 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 Faculty Policy Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has responsibility for maintaining a broad overview of academic programs; interprets, implements, and helps formulate policies on a broad range of issues of concern to the faculty. The committee identifies issues of concern to the faculty and facilitates interchange between members of the faculty and administrators of the Institute. The collection contains agendas, enclosures including supplemental materials and...

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 consists of meeting minutes, reports, and correspondence of the Committee on the HASS Requirements, 1985-1986. It also includes background materials used by the committee.

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The collection contains minutes of the faculty committee, Standing Committee on Scholarships, written by secretary of the faculty Harry W. Tyler and state faculty recommendations for each award, 1891-1894. The collection also includes scholarship awards agreements for the period 1923-1924.