Records of the College of Arts and Sciences

 

This collection includes administrative files (constitutions, assembly meeting minutes, annual reports, etc.) as well as program files (mostly program proposals) and publications of the College and Arts and Sciences.

The records of each academic unit in the school are also included. Because of its large size, the records of the history department are inventoried separately.

Some of the records of the College of Arts and Sciences can also be found online in OUR@oakland.

The collection includes information on the development of the Kettering Magnetics Laboratory. Additional information can be found in the University Archives Buildings File and the Durward B. Varner Papers.

Box 1

- Administrative Files

Accreditation:  memos, 1978-1983--North  Central and NCATE

Annual Reports: 1965-6, 1966-7, 1967-8, 1976-7, 1978-9, 1979-1980, 1980-1981

Assembly -- Minutes and agendas [incomplete]  1968--   4 folders.

Chairpersons and Directors Group

Constitution:  1967, 1968, 1978,  1981, 1987,  1996

Deanship.  Memos, job descriptions

Executive Committee. 1968--

Memos, correspondence.  1963-    (2 folders)

Organizational Chart

Planning (Five Year Plans and One Year Plan, 1978-1986)

Summary Data: Faculty, Students, Costs, Productivity:  1990-1991

- Committees

Academic Development Coordinating Council.  1983-84.  [An interdisciplinary committee for academic development activities in off-campus settings]

Ad hoc Affirmative Action Committee. 1977.   

Ad hoc Committee on Racial Relations.  1988.

Ad hoc Committee on the Applied Social Sciences.  1971.

Ad hoc Committee to Study Proposed Position Shift Layoffs. 1976.

Ad hoc Journalism Study Committee.  1973.

Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunity [university-wide committee] 1981-2

African Studies Committee.  1974.

Committee on Academic Mission and Priorities: Memos and Unit Reports. 1981-1983. (5 folders)

Box 2

Committees,  cont.

Committee on Academic Mission and Priorities: Memos and Unit Reports. 1981-1983. (2 folders)

Committee on Appointment and Promotion

Committee on Instruction.  Memos, minutes, misc.  1971-.  (2 folders.)

Computer Literacy Committee  1978-79.

Elections Committee

Ethnic Studies Program Committee. 1981.

Governor’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education in Michigan (responses to the 1984 report)   1984-5.  (2 folders)   See also Champagne Papers

Oakland Educational Cooperative.  1984-6. (with School of Education)  (2 folders)

Planning Council 1984.

- Curricular and Program Information Files

Program proposals:

1965.  Liberal Arts College

1965.  Psychology MA

1965   English MA and MAT

1965.  Linguistics Concentration

1966.  Physics MS

1967.  French MA

1968.  Developmental Psychology M.A.

1968.  Science Ph.D.

1969.  History MA, MAT.

1969.  Linguistics B.A.

1969.  Mathematics Ph.D.

1971.  Science Ph.D.

1971.  Biological Sciences Ph.D. and D.A.

1972.  Speech Communication Concentration

1972.  Evening College Proposal.

1973.  Biology MS

1973.  History MA

1974.  Area Studies MA

1974.  Film Aesthetics and History & Film and Television Concentrations

1976.  Journalism BA

1976.  Medical Physics MS

1976.  Music MM

1977.  Linguistics MA

1977.  Medical Physics M.S.

1978.  Applied Statistics.

1978.  Public Administration MPA

Box 3

Proposals, cont.

1978. Sociology MA

1978.  Applied Mathematics MS

1979.  Science Ph.D.  (Biomedical Sciences & Resource and Energy Sciences)

1980?  Michigan Studies Concentration

1980?  Sociology MA

1981. Dance BFA

1981.  Medical Physics Ph.D.

1982.  Health and Environmental Chemistry Ph.D.

1983.  Cellular Biology of Aging Ph.D.

1983.  Fundamental and Applied Sciences

1984.  Administrative Sciences  Ph.D.

1986.  Applied Statistics BS

1991.  Biological Sciences Ph.D.

1993.  Applied Mathematical Sciences Ph. D.

1996.  Biology MA

1999.  Biomedical Sciences (Biological Communication) Ph.D.

1999.  Women Studies BA

2000.  Liberal Studies MA

2001.  Studio Art BFA

2005.  Music Education Ph.D.

2006. Social Work BSW

2007. Acting, Musical Theatre, Theatre Design BFA.

2007. Dance BFA

2007. Engineering Biology BS

2006. International Relations BA

2007. Japanese Language and Literature BA

2008.  Writing and Rhetoric BA

2009.  Actuarial Science BS

2009.  Cinema Studies BA

2009.  Communication MA

2009. Graphic Design. BA

2010.  Creative Writing BA

2010.  Liberal Studies BA

2011.  Biomedical Sciences BS

2011.  Applied and Computational Physics Ph.D.

2012.  Psychology MS, Ph.D.

Box 4

- Publications

Brochures, publicity, etc, press clippings.

Campus News items

The College: Oakland University College of Arts and Sciences Newsletter. (Fall 1995-Winter 2007)

Continuum  (Spring 2010, Spring 2011)

Judaic Studies (Summer 2010, Fall 2011)

- Subject files

Advising   1978-1984.  2 folders

Automotive  Archives Proposal, 1974-5.  2 folders

Chautauqua! At Oakland University, 1984

Commencement

Consulting

Diplomat in Residence Program

Electronics Shop

Honors College

- Academic Units, Concentrations, Special Subject Areas

Generally single folders of various materials, e.g. memos, planning documents, program reviews, brochures, misc. items; additional materials specified below.

Afro American Studies.

American Studies (1975-1980)

Archaeology

Area Studies (also includes Annual reports, 1967-8, 1974-5, 1980-1; Area Studies Newsletter) (2 folders)

Art and Art History  (also includes  Annual reports 1967-8, 1974-5, 1975-6, 1979-80, 1980-1, 2008-9; Barnes Collection exhibit memos;  Art and Art History Newsletters) (4 folders).   

Biochemistry

Biological Sciences  (also includes  Annual reports 1965-6, 1974-5, 1975-6, 1981;  Newsletter: Bio Updates; Faculty reports and vitae for selected years)  (6 folders)

Biological Sciences, Institute of  (Annual reports 1977-8; 1980-1)

Box 5

Academic Units, cont.

Center for the Arts, (1983-1989)   (7 folders)

Chemistry (also includes Annual reports 1967, 1974-5, 1981; Catalyst Newsletter) (7 folders)

Classical Languages and Literatures  (Annual report 1974-5)

Communication Arts  (also includes Annual reports 1975-6, 1980-1)  (2 folders)

See also: Rhetoric, Communication & Journalism; Speech Communication

Energy Studies  (1979-1982)

English (also includes Annual reports 1968, 1975-6,  English Channel Alumni Newsletter)  (3 folders)

Environmental Studies (1970-1978)

Film Aesthetics and History

Gerontology

Box 6

Academic Units, cont.

International Education  (19 folders)

Learning Skills

See also Rhetoric Communication & Journalism

Liberal Studies

Linguistics (also includes Annual reports 1974-5, 1980-1 and Japan Cross Cultural Training Program, 1984)  3 folders

 

Box 7

Academic Units, cont.

Mathematics  (also includes Annual reports 1967-8,1974-5, 1975-6, 1979-80, 1980-1, 1983-4, 1985-6, 1986-7)   (5 folders)

Modern Languages and Literatures (also includes Annual reports  1967-8, 1974-5, 1975-6, 1980-1, Newsletter, 1974-77; Nuestras Voces; a Poetry and Prose Journal)  (5 folders)

Philosophy (also includes Annual reports 1968, 1975, 1981-2)  (2 folders)

Physical Education Program

Physics (also includes Annual reports 1964-5, 1965-6, 1967-8, 1974-5, 2003-4, 2007-8, 2008-9, 2013-14; Kettering Magnetics Lab memos)  (3 folders)

Political Science (also includes Annual reports 1968, 1974-5, 1975-6, 1980-1)  (2 folders)

Preprofessional Studies

Psychology  (also includes Annual reports 1968, 1974-5, 1980-1)  (2 folders)

Religious Studies

Rhetoric, Communication & Journalism  (2 folders )

 

Box 8

Slavic Studies  (1978-1985)

See also Slavic Folk Ensemble collection

Sociology / Anthropology. (also  includes Annual reports 1968, 1975, 1980-1, 1994-5, 1995-6, 1996-7, 1997-8, 1998-9, 1999-2000, 2001-2, 2002-3, 2004; ; James Dow files; Bear Bones Newsletter) (8 folders)

Social Work

Speech Communication (formerly Communication Arts)  (Annual report 1974-5)

Urban Studies

Women’s Studies  (also includes Annual report 2001-2) (5 folders )

Collection arranged and inventoried by Linda Hildebrand - finding aid by Dominique Daniel - 10/30/14