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Frederick S. Obear Papers

On Campus series

Box 1
Academic Affairs -- Asst. V.P for Academic Affairs -- Robert H. Bunger [ 6 folders]
Academic Affairs AP Advisory Committee
Academic Audit Committee, Ad hoc
Academic Safety and Security Committee
Academics (OU sponsored Journal)
Academy of Dramatic Art (Performing Arts) -- Terence Kilburn, J.L. Dahlmann, W.W. Kent [4 folders]
Administrative Council [4 folders]
Administrative Organization Special Committee
Administrative Policies Committee
Administrative Professional Association [6 folders]

Box 2
Administrative Professional Assembly
Administrative Services -- Thomas Atkinson [4 folders]
Admissions
Admissions and Scholarships -- Glen Brown, Jerry Rose [6 folders]
Advising
Affiliate Artist Program
Affirmative Action [2 folders]
Allied Health Professions -- -- Clifford Harding, Moon J. Pak
Allport College [2 folders]
Alumni Relations
Annual Reports [11 folders]

Box  3
Annual Reports [37 folders]

Box 4
American Association of University Professors (AAUP) [6 folders]
Analytical Studies Committee
Animal Care Committee
Applied Social Sciences, Ad hoc Committee on
Applied Statistics, University Committee on
Area Studies -- Carlo Coppola (Includes Proposal for Establishment of a Master of Arts Program in Area Studies) [2 folders]
Art and Art History -- Carl Barnes[4 folders]
Art Gallery
Artistic Expressions Review Board
Athletics, Sports, Physical Education, Recreation
Audio Visual [2 folders]
Automotive Archives Committee
Baird William B
Bargaining Council
Becoming School
Biological Sciences, Department of [2 folders]
Biological Sciences, Institute of -- V. Everett Kinsey, Venkat N. Reddy [4 folders]
Biomedical Sciences Support Grant Committee
Black Education Development Committee
Black Studies
Board of Trustees [2 folders]

Box 5
Board of Trustees  [6 folders]
Book Center
Budget 1970-1974 [16 folders]

Box 6
Budget 1974- 1979  [11 folders]
Budget Cost Study [3 folders]
Budget -- Formula Budgeting
Budget -- Program Budget Evaluation System (PBES)
Budget Office -- Ray Harris
Business Affairs -- Vice President -- Robert Swanson  [7 folders]

Box 7
Business Affairs -- Miscellaneous -- Robert McGarry [2 folders]
Cadet Engineering Program
Calendar
Campus Development -- Glen Brown  [4 folders]
Campus Issues
Campus Security Advisory Committee
Career Advising and Placement
Catalog [2 folders]
Charter College
Chemistry [3 folders]
Child Care Center
Chrysler Corporation Program
Chrysler Institute
Class Scheduling items
Classics
Classroom Contact Hours
Classroom Disruptions
Classroom Office Building II  [4 folders]
Clerical Technical Association [4 folders]

Box 8
Collective Bargaining [7 folders]   (mostly 1976-77 bargaining)
Collective Bargaining Executive Support Group
College Entrance Examination Board
College of Arts and Sciences -- George Matthews, Reuben Torch, Deans [11 folders]
College of Arts and Sciences -- Assembly [2 folders]
College of Arts and Sciences -- Chairpersons
College of Arts and Sciences -- Committee on Instruction

Box 9
College of Arts and Sciences -- Committee on Instruction
Commencement 1963-1977  [12 folders, includes programs,speeches, organizational plans]
Communication Arts -- Donald Hildum   (SEE also Theatre)
Community and Human Development, Center for -- Wilma Ray Bledsoe  [4 folders]
Community and Human Development, School of (proposed) [4 folders]

Box 10
Community and Human Development, School of (Proposed -- William Moorhouse [2 folders]
Community and Human Development, School of (proposed) -- Manpower Development Program
Community College/Senior College Relations Advisory Committee
Community College Relations -- William H. Jones (Assistant to the President) [7 folders]
Community Service
Commuter Students Consultants
Compensation, Ad hoc Committee on
Computer and Information Science
Computer Priority Council [2 folders]
Computer Services -- Benjamin Cheydleur [6 folders]
Computer Services Policy Committee

Box 11
Concert Band proposal
Concert Lecture Committee
Constitutional Improvement, Ad hoc Committee on
Constitutions
Continuing Education -- Lowell R. Eklund [3 folders]
Continuing Education -- Placement -- Dorothy C. Hope
Continuing Education -- Program Advisory Committee
Continuing Education -- Continuum  Center for Women
Convocation 1959-1973 [3 folders]
Cooperative Education programs Advisory Council
Critchfield (Robert) Bequest  (Engineering)
Curricular Options, Center for the Development of (proposed, 1973)
Curriculum [2 folders]
Data Processing
Deans & Chairs -- Memos, correspondence [5 folders]
Development Priorities Committee
Distinguished Lecture Series
Dodge Chair  SEE Engineering School of John F. Dodge Chair
Early Childhood Program 2
Early Retirement Committee
Ecological Studies ( Alice Tomboulian)
Economics and Management, School of -- Norton Seeber [2 folders]

Box 12
Economics and Management, School of [6 folders]
Economics and Management, School of -- Master of Science in Management
Economics and Management, School of -- Assembly
Economics Department of
Educational Reform Commission, Ad hoc Blue Ribbon Committee
Education, School of -- George E. Coon, Laszlo Hetenyi   [11 folders]

Box 13
Education, School of  [8 folders]
Education, School of  -- Assembly
Education, School of -- Committee on Appointment and Promotion
Education, School of -- Constitution
Education, School of -- Human Resource Development Program
Education, School of -- Manpower Development Proposal
Education, School of -- Social Services Building Program Outline
Educational Institutions, Joint Committee on
Electronic Shop Committee
Employment Relations -- Carl Westman, Clare Magoon, John B. Coyle [ 6 folders]
Employment Relations, Advisory Committee on
Engineering, School of -- John Gibson, Paul Paslay [4 folders]

Box 14
Engineering School of  [8 folders]
Engineering School of -- Assembly
Engineering School of -- DSD Grant
Engineering School of -- Engineering Seminar
Engineering School of -- Instrument Shop
Engineering School of -- John F. Dodge Chair
Engineering School of -- Systems Engineering Ph.D program
English Department [2 folders]
Enrollment Projections
Equipment Security Policy Committee
Evening College, Ad hoc Committee
Evening Council
Evening Program -- Billie Demont (Assoc. Provost) [3 folders]
Evening Program -- Developmental Program Proposal for Adult
Exploratories
Faculty – Academic Misconduct
Faculty Affairs Committee
Faculty Commission – Hoffman Case
Faculty Discipline

Box 15
Faculty Exchange Program
Faculty Exchange Program -- Haifa University
Faculty Exchange Program -- Mamzan University
Faculty Layoffs -- 1974 1975
Faculty Layoffs -- 1975-1976
Faculty Layoffs -- Classics Dept.
Faculty Levels -- 1971 1972
Faculty --  Fall 1970 [2 folders]
Faculty Orientation Fall 1972
Faculty Reemployment and Promotion Committee [2 folders] SEE ALSO University Tenure and Appointment Committee
Faculty Staff Community Memos  [5 folders]
Fees
Fellowships Committee
Ferndale First Program  [2 folders]
Financial Aid Office -- Gladys Rapoport [ 2 folders]
Freedom of Information Act
Freshmen Advisory Council
Freshmen Orientation [2 folders]
General and Career Studies -- Billie Demont
Grading Policies, Ad hoc Committee on Implementation of
Grading System
Graduate Study -- 1968-1970 -- William H. Jones [2 folders]

Box 16
Graduate Study -- 1970 -1978 -- G. Phillip Johnson [4 folders]
Graduation Lists and Honors  [3 folders]
Graduation Procedures 
Grants and Contract Administration -- Dicron Tafralian
Guidance and Counseling Program
Health Science Professions Study Committee, 1974
Health Science Professions Study Committee -- Nursing
Health Sciences Center -- Moon J. Pak [3 folders]
Health Sciences Center -- Report of the Committee on Recommendation V
Health Sciences Center -- Cardiac Rehabilitation Program Proposal
Health Sciences Center -- Clinical Research Laboratory
Health Sciences Center -- Graduate Medical Education
Health Sciences Center -- Medical Review Program for FLEX (Foreign Medical Graduates program)  [2 folders]
Health Sciences Center -- Medical Technology Program
Health Sciences Center -- Oakland Health Education Program (OHEP) [3 folders]

Box 17
Health Sciences Center -- Occupational Health & Safety  [2 folders]
Health Sciences Center -- Optometric Education
Health Sciences Center -- Physical Therapy
Health Sciences Center -- Professional Credentials Committee
Health Sciences Center -- Faculty Council  Minutes
Higher Education -- Clippings, notes, essays  [2 folders]
History Department  [4 folders]
Honors Banquet -- 1966, 1967, 1969  [3 folders]
Honors List --1971,1972
Honors Program
Honorary Degrees
Human Relations Council
Human Resources and Community Development, School of   Proposed
Human Resources and Development Program  (School of Education)
Human Subject Research Proposal Review Committee
Immigration
Institutional Research Office -- David Beardslee  [5 folders]

Box 18
Institutional Research Office   [7 folders]
Inventory, 1974
Inventory Policy Committee
Journalism
Kettering Magnetics Laboratory
Kinsey Lecture Conference Fund Drive  [2 folders]  Everett Kinsey,   Eye Research Institute
Labor  Education Service -- Don Stevens
Labor Studies
Learning Skills Department -- Peter G. Evarts[2 folders]
Liberal Education School of  (Proposed)
Library -- 1967-1970 -- Royce Butler [4 folders]

Box 19
Library -- 1970-1978 -- George Gardiner [13 folders]
Library -- Administrative Group -- Meeting with Provost
Library -- Addition
Library -- Building Remodel Project  [2 folders]
Library -- Dean Search
Library -- Professional Development
Library -- Report to the Board of Trustees,1976

Box 20
Linguistics Department
Long Range Development Committee  [3 folders]
Long Range Development Committee -- University Mass Transportation System Report
Long Range Systems Planning Report
Lowry Early Childhood Center -- Stephanie Riley
MACRAO
Management by Objectives [5 folders]
Manpower Institutional Grant
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Collection Committee
Mass Communications
Mathematics Department -- George Feeman [6 folders]

Box 21
Mathematical Sciences Crimel Oakland Project
Matthews (George) -- Recommendations Task Force Reports 1974
Meadow Brook Hall -- Academic Use
Meadow Brook Hall -- Advisory Committee [2 folders]
Meadow B rook Hall -- Brochures of Special Programs
Meadow Brook Hall -- Lew Ayres in Person
Meadow Brook Hall -- Memos
Meadow Brook Hall -- This Month at Meadow Brook calendars
Medical Physics  incl. Proposal for a MS in Medical Physics
Metropolitan Studies
Midrasha College of Jewish Studies
Modern Languages and Literatures [2 folders]
Mosquito Control Program
Music -- Raynold Allvin [4 folders]
Music Master Classes
Music Programs 1976-1978
National Security Council
NCATE Accreditation [ 4 folders]

Box 22
New Building Program
New Charter College [2 folders]
New College
News Services
Nkporo Committee
Non Discrimination in Off Campus Housing
Nursing, Ad hoc Committee on
Nursing, School of -- Geraldene Felton [4 folders]
Nursing, School of -- Grant Proposal 1975
Nursing, School of -- Providence Hospital
Oakland Center
Oakland Prep School
Obear, Frederick -- Correspondence -- Incoming -- 1964-1974 [8 folders]

Box 23
Obear, Frederick -- Correspondence -- Outgoing -- On Campus -- 1964-Jan. 1971[22 folders]

Box 24
Obear, Frederick -- Correspondence -- Outgoing -- On Campus --Feb. 1971-March 1973 [23 folders]

Box 25
Obear, Frederick -- Correspondence -- Outgoing -- On Campus -- April 1973-Dec. 1975 [23 folders]

Box 26
Obear, Frederick -- Correspondence -- Outgoing -- On Campus -- 1976-1978 [ folders]
Obear, Frederick -- Correspondence -- Outgoing -- Off Campus -- 1964, 1966-1975 [ folders]
Obear, Frederick -- Correspondence -- Outgoing -- Off Campus -- Personal [2 folders]
Obear, Frederick -- Curriculum Vitae
Obear, Frederick -- Essays, articles
Obear, Frederick -- Fitzgerald House Resident Faculty Couple, 1963
Obear, Frederick -- IBM Customer Executive Program 1969
Obear, Frederick -- Rice University  American Council on Education Fellowship, 1968-1969

Box 27
Obear, Frederick -- Speeches & Possible Speech Material [ 6 folders]
O’Dowd, Donald D. -- Memos from -- 1970-1978 [ 10 folders]
Occupational Health and Safety Association Committee
Ombudsman -- Kenneth Coffman
Operations Research
Optometric School (Proposed)
Out of State Fee Committee
Overseas Study Programs [ 3 folders]
Parents Day
Parking Commission
Patent Policy Committee, Ad hoc
People Against Racism
Performing Arts, School of -- W. W. Kent [2 folders]

Box 28
Performing Arts, School of [4 folders]
Performing Arts, School of -- Dance
Performing Arts, School of -- Frederick Prausnitz Report 1971
Performing Arts, School of  -- Overture to Opera
Personnel Actions 1977- 1978  [ 2 folders]
Personnel Office -- Lawrence Fitzpatrick  [ 2 folders]
Philosophy Department -- Richard Burke
Physical Education and Athletics -- Corey Van Fleet [ 3 folders]
Physical Education Study Committee
Physicians Assistants Program Subcommittee
Physical Therapy
Physics -- Abe Liboff [ 2 folders]
Pitzer, Kenneth S
Placement Council
Placement Council  Military Recruiting
Policy Priority Conference 1970-1971
Political Science Department -- Edward Heubel [ 2 folders]
Pontiac, Michigan -- Proposed inner city programs 1968
Positions Base
Prejudice and Discrimination Council

Box 29
Presidents Club
Presidents Club Lecture Series [ 4 folders]
Presidents Office --Executive Group 1973-1978 [6 folders]
Presidents Office -- Assistant President for Planning -- William F. Sturner  [3 folders]
Presidents Office -- Assistant to the President -- William Connellan [ 2 folders]
Presidents Office -- Vice President for Public Affairs -- John DeCarlo [2 folders]
Professional Affairs Committee
Professional Development Degree Program
Programming Committee
Project 20
Provost’s Office -- Assistant Provost -- James Bullock [2 folders]
Provost’s Office -- Assistant Provost -- Robert Bunger

Box 30
Provost’s Office -- Assistant Provost -- James E Davis [ folders]
Provost’s Office -- Assistant Provost -- Billie Demont [2 folders]
Provost’s Office -- Assistant Provost -- William Morehouse
Provost' s Office -- Associate Provost -- Keith R. Kleckner  [2 folders]
Provost’s Office -- Provost’s Breakfast Meetings
Provost’s Office -- Discretionary Funds
Provost’s Office -- Provost’s Group -- 1970-1981  [5 folders]
Provost’s Office -- Provost’s Personnel Committee  [2 folders]

Box 31
Provost’s Office -- Provost’s Personnel Committee [ 6 folders]
Provost’s Office -- Staff Writer
Provost’s Office -- Vice Provost -- George T. Matthews [9 folders]
Provost’s Office -- Vice Provost -- William F. Sturner [4 folders]
Provost Selection Committee
Psychological Services
Psychology Department
Public Meetings Act

Box 32
Race Relations
Radiation Health Safety Committee
Radiological Safety Committee
Registrar [5 folders]
Religious Activities Committee
Religious Studies Committee
Resource Services -- Fred Smith, Dean
Research and Institutional Services -- Lewis Pino  [16 folders]

Box 33
Residence Hall Committee
Residential Colleges --Residential colleges and the politics of change; Counterpart of the residential college in the commuter setting (both by Obear)
Scholarship Committee Fashion Show 1966
Science Building -- 1975-1977  [2 folders]
Science Ph.D
Sigma Xi [2 folders]
Skill Development Center
Social Work Materials -- 1977-1978
Sociology and Anthropology Department [2 folders]
Space Allocation and Planning
Special Educational Programs
Special Projects -- Robert Dearth, Director
Speech Communication Department --Adeline Hirshfield Medalia
Spring and Summer Sessions  [5 folders]
Staff Analysis
Stoutenburg Herbert, Assistant Chancellor
Student Affairs -- 1968-1970 -- Fred Smith, Thomas Dutton
Student Affairs -- 1971-1972 -- James Appleton
Student Affairs -- 1973-1976 -- Kenneth Coffman  [2 folders]
Student Affairs -- Miscellaneous  [4 folders]
Student Conduct (Advisory Council) (University Committee on Student Conduct) See also Senate Academic Conduct committee

Box 34
Student Congress [3 folders]
Student Employment Opportunities
Student Evaluation of Faculty
Student Internship Program
Student Life Commission
Student Services -- Miscellaneous [3 folders]
Student Services -- Special Services
Student Services -- Transfer Students
Student Shop
Systems Engineering Ph.D.  SEE Engineering School
Telephone Task Force Committee
Theatre Arts -- Adeline Hirschfield Medalia
Title VI
Transfer Students  [2 folders]
Transportation Committee
Tuition
Tuition Task Force Committee
Undergraduate Research Grant Committee
University Attorney -- James Howlett
University Governance Committee
University Marshal -- Lewis Pino
University Organizational Memberships -- 1972-1973
University Planning Committee [9 folders]
University Programming Committee
University Relations

Box 35
University Senate -- Academic & Career Advising Committee
University Senate -- Academic Budget & Planning Committee
University Senate -- Academic Conduct Committee
University Senate -- Academic Policy Committee [9 folders]
University Senate -- Academic Standing & Honors Committee [4 folders]
University Senate -- Admissions Committee
University Senate -- Athletics Committee
University Senate -- Campus Development & Environment Committee
University Senate -- Committees
University Senate -- Constitution
University Senate -- Elections Committee [ 2 folders]
University Senate -- External Affairs Committee

Box 36
University Senate -- Financial Aids Committee
University Senate -- Memos [2 folders]
University Senate -- Research Committee [2 folders]
University Senate -- Responsibilities and Concerns
University Senate -- Senate actions 1971-1972
University Senate -- Steering Committee [5 folders]
University Senate -- Teaching & Learning Committee
University Senate --Visitor Policy Committee, Ad hoc
University Services -- Frank Clark
University Statistics Committee
University Swim Club -- Advisory Committee
University Tenure and Appointment Committee [11 folders]

Box 37
Upward Bound -- Manual Pierson
Urban Affairs Center  [3 folders]
Urban Affairs Center -- University Year for Action  [5 folders]
Urban Affairs Center -- Volunteers in Probation
White House Fellowship
Women Faculty -- Report on the Status of Women Faculty at OU 1971
Women’s Higher Education
Women's Rights Committee, Ad hoc
Word Processing Equipment
Writing Center

 

Off Campus series

Box 38 
American Association for Higher Education [6 folders]
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)
American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) [4 folders]
American Council on Education [18 folders]

Box 39
American Industrial Hygiene Conference
Association of Michigan Collegiate Faculties
College and University Personnel Association
College Board Review & College Entrance Examination Board
Coordinating Council for Continuing Higher Education
EDUCOM  [2 folders]
Fellowships
GM Coach and Truck Division
Grant Proposals [2 folders]
Higher Education General Index Survey (HEGIS)
Marygrove College  (Obear was a member of the Governing Board of Trustees) [8 folders]

Box 40
Marygrove College [6 folders]

Box 41
Michigan Council of Osteopathic Medicine [3 folders]
Michigan Council of State College Presidents [26 Folders]
(Includes report: Feasibility of an External Degree Program among the Member Institutions of the Michigan Council of State College Presidents, ca 1972)

Box 42
Michigan. State. Auditor General
Michigan. State. Department of Education [19 folders]

Box 43
Michigan.  State.  Department of Education. [ 7 folders] Includes Financing of Public Baccalaureate Institutions in Michigan 1975 and Financing the Next Decade of Higher Education in Michigan 1975 and Program Inventory of Public Baccalaureate Institutions in Michigan 1975
Michigan. State. State Agencies
Michigan. State. Higher Education Task Force 
Michigan. State. Legislative Fiscal Agency [2 folders]
Michigan. State. Michigan Employment Security Council
Michigan. State. Senate. Appropriations 2 folders
Michigan Library Consortium
Michigan State University
Off-Campus Organizations
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges [2 folders]
National Science Foundation [ 6 folders]
New Planning and Management Practices in Postsecondary Education Forum

Box 44
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools [17 folders]
Planning and Management Systems Conference


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Content of Collection

On Campus series

Box 1: Academic -- Administrative Prof.

Box 2: Administrative Prof. - Annual Reports

Box 3: Annual Reports

Box 4: American - Board of Trustees

Box 5: Board of Trustees - Budget

Box 6: Budget - Business Affairs

Box 7: Business Affairs - Clerical Technical

Box 8: Collective Bargaining - College

Box 9: College -- Community

Box 10: Community - Computer

Box 11: Concert Band - Economics

Box 12: Economics - Education

Box 13: Education - Engineering

Box 14: Engineering - Faculty

Box 15: Faculty - Graduate

Box 16: Graduate - Health Sciences

Box 17: Health Sciences - Institutional Research

Box 18: Institutional Research - Library

Box 19: Library

Box 20: Linguistics - Mathematics

Box 21: Mathematics - NCATE

Box 22: New Building - Obear Correspondence

Box 23: Obear Correspondence

Box 24: Obear Correspondence

Box 25: Obear Correspondence

Box 26: Obear Correspondence - Obear Rice Univ.

Box 27: Obear Speeches - Performing Arts

Box 28: Performing Arts - Prejudice

Box 29: President's Club - Provost's Office

Box 30: Provost's Office

Box 31: Provost's Office - Public Meetings

Box 32: Race Relations - Research

Box 33: Residence Hall - Student Conduct

Box 34: Student Congress - University Relations

Box 35: University Senate

Box 36: University Senate - University Tenure

Box 37: Upward Bound - Writing Center

Off Campus series

Box 38: American Assn. - American Council

Box 39: American Industrial - Marygrove College

Box 40: Marygrove College

Box 41: Michigan Council

Box 42: Michigan. State

Box 43: Michigan State. -New Planning

Box 44: North Central - Planning and Management

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