Dean of the University and Provost
Donald D. O'Dowd Papers (1961-1970)
Donald O’Dowd joined the faculty of the newly established Michigan State University – Oakland (MSU-O) as an associate professor of Psychology in 1960. O’Dowd and David Beardslee, professor of Psychology, founded the department of Psychology. He also served as assistant to the dean of faculty for the Social Sciences during his first year at MSU-O. O’Dowd was appointed dean of Oakland University in 1966, and his title was changed to provost, and then to vice chancellor for Academic Affairs and provost. He also served as the dean of Graduate Study and professor of Psychology.
In 1970, O’Dowd was appointed acting chancellor of Oakland University while the issue of whether Oakland should become independent of Michigan State University was under consideration. O’Dowd was appointed the first president of the independent Oakland University by its charter board of trustees, and served through 1979, when he was designated president emeritus.
See also the collection: Donald D. O'Dowd Papers
| Box 1 | Academic -- Area Studies | Box 10 | Library -- Long Term |
| Box 2 | Art -- Buildings | Box 11 | Major -- Michigan | Box 3 | Buildings -- College | Box 12 | Michigan -- National |
| Box 4 | College -- Conferences | Box 13 | National -- O'Dowd |
| Box 5 | Consulting -- Economics | Box 14 | O'Dowd -- Performing Arts |
| Box 6 | Economics -- Enrollment | Box 15 | Performing Arts -- Publications |
| Box 7 | Essay -- Faculty | Box 16 | Registrar's -- Social Sciences |
| Box 8 | Faculty -- Grants | Box 17 | Sociology -- Study |
| Box 9 | Grants -- Liberal Arts | Box 18 | Sturner -- Worker |
Box 1
Academic Advising [3 folders]
Academic Advising Committee
Academic Affairs Committee [4 folders]
Academic Assembly
Academy of Dramatic Art [2 folders]
Administrative Group [4 folders]
Administrative Policies Committee
Admissions (Glen Brown) [3 folders]
Admissions -- Annual reports (1963/4; 1964/5; 1966/7; 1967/8)
Allport College
American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
Alumni Council SEE Placement Office and Alumni Council
Alumni Office
Alumni Continuing Education
American Studies
Annual Reports -- Michigan State University - Oakland (1960; 1960/1; 1961/2; 1963/4)
Anti poverty program
Area Studies
Box 2
Art Department (John Galloway) [2 folders]
Art Department -- Annual Reports (1967/8)
Arts Cultivation and Acquisition, Committee on
Asian Studies
Athletics
Atkinson, Thomas SEE Registrar's Office
Audio Visual Materials
Barn Council
Beardslee, David (Office of Institutional Research)
Biological Sciences, Institute of
Biology Department (Clifford V. Harding)
Biology Department - Annual Reports (1968/9)
Black Studies
Bookstore
British Civilization Major
Brown, Glen SEE Admissions
Budget [10 folders]
Buildings & Campus Development
Buildings -- Classroom Office Building #1 [2 folders]
Buildings -- Classroom Office Building #2
Buildings -- Education and Social Sciences [2 folders]
Buildings -- Engineering [2 folders]
Box 3
Buildings -- Engineering [1 folders]
Buildings -- Library Remodel
Buildings -- Wilson Hall
Burke, Richard SEE Philosophy Department
Business Office (Robert W. Swanson) [3 folders]
Butler, Royce SEE Library
Calendar -- Class Schedules
Calendar -- Trimester
Calendar, Ad Hoc University Senate Committee
Career Conference Committee
Catalog Committee
Centers of Excellence
Chancellorship 1970
Charter College [11 folders]
Chemistry Department [2 folders]
Chemistry Department -- Annual Reports (1967/8; 1968/9)
Civil Defense Committee
Coffman, Kenneth SEE Psychological Services
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences -- Annual Report
College of Arts and Sciences -- Assembly
Box 4
College of Arts and Sciences -- Assembly
College of Arts and Sciences -- Dean George Matthews [2 folders]
College of Arts and Sciences -- Dean Reuben Torch
College of Arts and Sciences -- Humanities Division
College of Arts and Sciences -- Humanities Division -- Annual Reports (1962/3; 1963/4)
College of Arts and Sciences -- Science & Engineering Division
College of Arts and Sciences -- Science & Engineering Division -- Annual Reports (1961/2; 1962/3; 1964/5)
College of Arts and Sciences -- Social Sciences Division
College of Arts and Sciences -- Social Sciences Division -- Annual Reports (1962/3)
Commencement [2 folders]
Committee on Instruction [3 folders]
Community Arts Council Committee
Community Service Proposal
Comprehensive Exams Committee
Computer Committee
Computing and Data Processing [4 folders]
Conferences [4 folders]
Box 5
Consulting by OU Representatives
Continuing Education (Lowell Eklund) [3 folders]
Continuing Education Committee
Continuum Center
Corker, John SEE Dormitories
Corona, Carlos SEE Personnel Office
Counseling and Testing Office
Course Offerings 1960-1961
Credit Union
Crittenton Hospital
Crowder, Troy SEE University Relations
Cultural Programs Committee
Curriculum [4 folders]
Curriculum Study Group
Dahlmann, Jerry SEE Off Campus Study Programs
Deans Lists [2 folders]
Dean of Students (Robert Holms, Duncan Sells, Thomas Dutton) [2 folders] SEE ALSO Student Affairs
Dean of Students -- Annual Report (1961/2)
Dean of the University SEE O'Dowd, Donald D.
Declaration of Major
Degrees and Honors, Ad hoc Committee
Delta College Accreditation (O’Dowd served on Visitation Committee)
Detroit Teacher Internship Program
Development Office (James P. Dickerson)
Developmental Programs Committee
Disclaimers and Parental Approval
Dormitory Items:
(includes A Survey on Student Needs for Future Residence Hall Construction, 1963, Residence Hall Planning Program, 1963 and Dormitory Planning Program, 1963 all by John W. Corker, 1963)
Dutton, Thomas SEE Dean of Students
Economics and Business Department [ 2 folders]
Economics and Business Department -- Annual Report (1968/9)
Economics and Management, School of (Norton Seeber)
Box 6
Economics and Management, School of
Economic Impact Study
Edison Institute (proposed)
Education, School of (Laszlo Hetenyi) [5 folders]
Education, School of -- Annual Reports (1965/6; 1966/7; 1967/8; 1968/9)
Education, School of -- Assembly
Educational Policy Committee
Educational Reform, Ad Hoc Blue Ribbon Commission Report
Eklund,Lowell SEE Continuing Education
Elective Courses [2 folders]
Elementary Education Committee
Emblem Committee
Engineering, School of (J.E. Gibson) [2 folders]
Engineering, School of -- Annual Reports (1967/8)
Engineering, School of -- Assembly
English Department [3 folders]
English Department -- Annual Reports (1967/8; 1968/9)
English Department -- Secondary Education English Major
Enrollment [3 folders]
Box 7
Essay Contests
Events [6 folders]
Events, Committee on Special
Evening Courses
Extension Courses
Faculty Affairs Committee SEE Senate Committees - Faculty Affairs Committee
Faculty Applications [4 folders]
Faculty Attendance at Professional Meetings
Faculty Correspondence [3 folders]
Faculty Grants [3 folders]
Faculty Grants Committee
Faculty Handbook [2 folders]
Faculty Meeting Minutes
Faculty Misconduct
Box 8
Faculty Orientation
Faculty Positions
Faculty Reorganization Committee
Faculty Research Annual Reports
Faculty Research Committee [4 folders]
Faculty Seminar
Faculty Teaching Loads
Faculty Tenure
Fellowships
Fine Arts Festival
Freshman Convocation [2 folders]
Freshmen Learning Seminar
Freshmen Orientation [4 folders]
Galloway, John SEE Art Department
Gibson, J.E. SEE Engineering School
Grades
Graduate Record Exam
Graduate Studies
Graduation Reception Aug. 1965
Grants [4 folders]
Box 9
Grants [2 folders]
Harding, Clifford V. SEE Biology Department
Harlan, (C.Allen ) Gift
Hetenyi, Laszlo SEE Education School
History Department [2 folders]
Holms, Robert SEE Dean of Students
Honors Banquet [3 folders]
Honors Committee
Honors List
Hoopes,Robert (Assistant Dean)
Hope, Dorothy C. SEE Placement Office
Hopkins Robert (Director of Counseling & Testing)
Howes, Robert C. (Assistant Provost)
Huber Committee (Michigan Legislature)
Inner Colleges (Freshmen Exploratories) [2 folders]
Institutional Research, Office of SEE Beardslee, David
Insurance, Committee on
International Education [7 folders]
Jones, David (Purchasing Department)
Kent, W.W. SEE Performing Arts School
Kettering Magnetics Laboratory
Learning Groups
Lecture Series [2 folders]
Lepley, Hollie (Physical Education, Recreation & Athletics) [2 folders]
Liberal Arts Colleges: essay by Paul L. Dressell, MSU
Box 10
Library (David Wilder, Royce Butler) [10 folders]
Library -- Annual Reports (1959/60; 1962/3; 1963/4; 1964/5; 1965/6; 1966/7; 1967/8)
Library -- Current subscriptions (1962/3)
Library -- Friends of the Library
Library -- Recruitment for Director 1966
Linguistics Department [2 folders]
Little College [2 folders]
Long Term Growth Plan for Oakland
Box 11
Major Fields Report
Mathematics Department [2 folders]
Mathematics Department -- Annual Reports (1967/8; 1968/9)
Meadowbrook Festival
Meadow Brook Summer School of Music [12 folders]
Meadow Brook Theatre
Michigan Council of State College Presidents
Michigan Council of University Officers for Academic Affairs
Michigan. State. Dept. of Education [2 folders]
Box 12
Michigan. State. State Government Agencies
Michigan State University [8 folders]
Midrasha Jewish Studies [4 folders]
Mobley, Ralph SEE Physics Department
Modern Languages and Literatures [1 folders]
Modern Languages and Literatures -- Annual Reports (1967/8; 1968/9)
Mott Center for Community Affairs
Music Department [2 folders]
Name Change Proposal for MSU-O
National Defense Education Act [2 folders] Includes NDEA Institute in France, Don Iodice
Box 13
National Science Foundation [11 folders]
New College [2 folders]
News Clippings SEE Press Releases and News Clippings
North Central Association of Colleges and Universities Accreditation 1964-66
Oak Park Project
Oakland Center
Oakland Observer (student newspaper) SEE ALSO Student publications
Obear, Frederick (Dean of Freshmen, 1964-65)
Obear, Frederick (Provost, 1965-69)
Obear, Frederick Ace Fellowship
O’Dowd, Donald D. -- Biography
O”Dowd, Donald D. -- Correspondence [4 folders]
Box 14
O’Dowd, Donald D. -- Correspondence [17 folders]
O'Dowd, Donald D. -- Dean of the University Annual Reports (1961/2; 1962/3; 1963/4; 1964/5)
O'Dowd, Donald D. -- Personal
O’Dowd, Donald D. -- Speeches
Off Campus Study Programs (Jerry Dahlmann)
Organization of the University [2 folders]
Overseas Study SEE International Education
Parents Day
Peace Corps
Performing Arts, School of -- Annual Reports (1966/7; 1967/8)
Performing Arts, School of -- Dance
Box 15
Performing Arts, School of -- Faculty Policies
Performing Arts, School of -- General (Dean W.W. Kent)
Performing Arts, School of -- Music
Performing Arts, School of -- Theatre
Performing arts, School of -- Prospectus
Personnel Office (Carlos Corona) [2 folders]
Philosophy Department (Richard Burke)
Physics Department (Ralph Mobley)
Pino Lewis (Director of Research Services; Assistant to the Chancellor)
Placement Office and Alumni Council (Dorothy C. Hope) [3 folders]
Placement Office -- Annual Reports (1963/4; 1964/5)
Plagiarism and Academic Violations
Policy Items
Political Science Department
Pontiac Community Projects
Pontiac Cooperative Program
Pontiac Motor Division
Pope, Loren (Assistant to the Chancellor)
Premedical Study, Ad Hoc Committee
Presidential Selection (University) 1970
Press Releases and news clippings
Proposals – Higher Education Act, Title VI 1967
Provost's Office -- Annual Reports (1966/7; 1967/8; 1968/9)
Provost's Office -- Provost’s Breakfast meetings
Provost’s Office -- Staff Writer
Psychological Services (Kenneth Coffman)
Psychological Services -- Annual Reports (1963/4; 1964/5; 1965/6; 1966/7; 1967/8)
Psychology Department
Public Relations Program Schedules
Publications Committee
Box 16
Registrar's Office (Thomas Atkinson) [5 folders]
Registrar's Office -- Annual Reports (1962/3; 1964/5; 1965/6; 1966/7)
Residence Halls SEE Dormitories
Room Allocation
Scholarships
Secondary School Committee
Seeber, Norton SEE Economics and Management School
Sells, Duncan SEE Dean of Students
Senate Committees
Senate Committees -- Academic Standing
Senate Committees -- Admissions
Senate Committees -- Constitution
Senate Committees -- Elections
Senate Committees -- Faculty Affairs
Senate Committees -- Graduate Study
Senate Committees -- Library
Senate Committees -- Research [3 folders]
Senate Committees -- Teaching and Learning
Senate Minutes and Agendas 1962-1967 [5 folders]
Ski Club
Social Science Conference Committee
Social Sciences, Statistical Laboratory for the
Box 17
Sociology & Anthropology Department
Spring Semester [2 folders]
Stoutenberg, Herbert (Director of Admissions and Registrar 1959-1965)
Stoutenberg, Herbert (Assistant to the Chancellor 1966-1970)
Student Activities
Student Affairs Committee
Student Affairs (Roy Alexander, Director)
Student Artistic Expression
Student Attrition
Student Commission on Student Life [4 folders]
Student Conduct Committee
Student Correspondence [3 folders]
Student - Disadvantaged Students
Student Employment
Student Faculty University Council
Student Foreign Language Requirement
Students from Michigan High schools
Student Government
Student Health Services
Student Information [3 folders]
Student Nomination Committee, Ad Hoc University Senate
Student - Out of State Students
Student - Outstanding Students
Student Protests
Student Publications SEE ALSO Oakland Observer
Student Readmitted
Student Rights Committee, Ad Hoc University Senate
Student - Special Projects (Upward Bound)
Student - Special Services (Project 20)
Student Withdrawals
Study Abroad SEE International Education
Box 18
Sturner, William (Assistant Provost)
Suburban Affairs, Institute on
Summer School Committee
Swanson, Robert W. SEE Business Affairs
Swim Club Advisory Committee
Teacher Education Curriculum
Tenure and Appointment [2 folders]
Time Magazine article replies (Sept 28, 1959)
University Courses (UC)
University Government Committee
University Relations (Loren Pope, Troy Crowder)
Varner, Durwood B. [8 folders]
Western Civilization course
Wilder, David SEE Library
Wilson Awards
Women’s Rights Committee
Work Study SEE Student Employment
Worker Student Alliance