Today the office of the Dean of Faculties is responsible for overseeing various aspects of the faculty position and the curriculum at Indiana University. Its duties include: evaluation of applications for sabbatical leaves, review of dossiers for promotion and tenure, negotiation of individual grievances, analysis of recommended terms of appointment to assure conformity with university policies, review of all proposals for curricular and degree program changes on the campus, administrating policies affecting Associate Instructors, and administration of the Patten Foundation and Horizons of Knowledge lectureships.
Since 1940, the position of Dean of Faculties has been filled by the following people:
Herman T. Briscoe 1940-1959
Ralph C. Collins 1959-1963
Ray L. Heffner, Jr. 1964-1966
Joseph L. Sutton 1966-1968
Joseph R. Hartley 1968-1969
Henry H. Remak 1969-1974
Harrison Shull 1974-1975
Margaret Jean Peterson 1974-1977
Frank A. Franz 1978-1983
Anya Peterson Royce 1983-1993
The subject files document the Office's involvement in almost every facet of the daily operations of the university. Within the collection are correspondence files for each school and department. These include: School of Music, School of Law, School of Business, School of Education, and College of Arts and Sciences and its individual departments.
Files can be found on virtually every academic program and university service. A few of the more prominent entries include: Academic Computing, Calendar Committee, Budget, Instructional Development, Fellowship, International Programs, Review Committee, Research and Graduate Development, student services and programs, and University Division.
The collection also contains various files of administrative policies and procedures concerning faculty members. These files cover such areas as: promotion and tenure, recruitment, retirement, salaries, complaints and grievances, affirmative action, review committees, research, etc.
The Office of the Dean of Faculties also oversees curriculum development and various academic administrations. File topics include: Admissions, Degree Program Proposal Committee, Associate Instructors, foreign language requirements, grading policies, registration, etc.
Chronological files for several individuals of the Office of the
Dean of Faculties can also be found within the collection. These
include files of both staff and administrators. The following names
are represented in the collection: Frank Franz, William Lynch, Margaret
Jean Peterson, and Stephen L. Wailes.
Dean of Faculties 1975-1980 Box 1 Academic Computing 1971-79 Academic Fairness Committee 1975-78 Academic Office Committees 1975-77 Academic Officers Committee 1974-79 APPC 1975-79 APPC 1974-75 Academic Ranks and Titles 1975-77 Access to Records 1976-79 Accounts, Structure and Assignment Accreditation 1971-78 Adjunct Title 1978 Administrative Appointments 1973-76 Administrative Committee 1975-76 Administrative Review 1977-79 Administrative Seminars 1976-79 Administrative Supplements 1976-77 Admissions 1979 Admissions, Foreign 1979 Admissions, Task Force 1976-77 Admissions, Task Force 1977-78 Admissions, Task Force 1978-79 Admissions, Search and Screen 1978-79 Box 2 Affirmative Action Goals, 1975-76 Affirmative Action Goals, 1974-75 Affirmative Action Goals, Campus 1977-78 Affirmative Action Goals, Campus 1977-78 (MORE) Affirmative Action Goals, Campus 1977-78 (MORE) Affirmative Action Goals, Arts and Sciences, 1976-77 Affirmative Action Goals, 1976-77, Education-Library Affirmative Action Goals, 1976-77, Library, HPER, Law, Music Affirmative Action Implementation 1975-76 Affirmative Action Implementation, 1974-75 Affirmative Action, IU-B, Campus 1975-76 Affirmative Action, IU-B, Campus 1976-77 Affirmative Action, IU-B, Campus 1977-78 Affirmative Action, IU-B, Campus 1978-79 Affirmative Action Plan, Campus, 4/77 Box 3 Affirmative Action Plan, 1972-74 Affirmative Action, Search and Screen 1975-79 Affirmative Action Students, 1976-79 Aging and Aged, Center for 1976-79 Allied Health Sciences 1972-76 Alumni Association 1970-79 Amer. Assoc. of Univ. Professors (National and Local) 1975-82 Amer. Assoc. of Univ. Professors, Part-time Questionnaire, Faculty 1977 Amer. Council on Education 1972-79 American Council on Education (ACE) 1979-81 AFSCME June 1973 - AFT 1979 - 1979 Annual Reports, Faculty 1978-79 Annual Reports, Faculty 1972-78 Annual Reviews, Faculty 1978-79 Appointment Dates 1972-79 Art Museum 1978 Arts Administration 1970-81 Arts/Humanities-Adv. Committee 1969-81 Arts and Sciences, Dean Search 1977-81 Associate Dean of the Faculties #1 Search and Screen 1978 Associate Dean Roger C. Buck 1970-75 Associate Dean Dan Hopson Associate Dean Margaret Jean Peterson 1974-77 Associate Degree Program 1975 Associate Instructor, Agreements 1969-77 Associate Instructor Affairs Committee 1976-77 Associate Instructor Affairs Committee 1978-79 Associate Instructor English Exam 1978-79 Associate Instructor English Exam, Salaries 1977-79 Associate Instructor General 1970-77 Associate Instructor Grievance Procedures (Department Boards) 1970-79 Associate Instructor Parking 1978 Associate Instructor Salaries 1969-80 Associate Instructor Training Program 1970-77 Box 4 Audio Visual Center 1978-79 Audio-Visual Center Review 1970-71 Awards and Fellowships 1978-79 Background Information received from Units for AG's Sect. J 1977 Basic Skills Basic Skills 1975-78 Basic Skills 1978-79 Basic Skills 1979-80 Bicentennial 1975-79 Black Laboratory, Glenn A. 1970-76 Bloomington, City of IUB, Task Force and Misc. 1975-77 BFC: Affirmative Action Committee 1974-79 BFC: Agenda Committee 1976-78 BFC: Budgetary Affairs Committee 1973-79 BFC: Educational Policies Committee 1978-79 BFC: Faculty Affairs Committee 1971-79 BFC: General Correspondence 1972-79 BFC: General Committees 1974-79 BFC: Elections 1970-78 3o3 BFC: Election Certification (Lists) 1973-79 BFC: Library Committee 1969-79 BFC: Promotion Tenure Survey 1977 Board of Trustees, Misc. 1975-79 Bomb Threats 1975-76 Bookstore Advisory Committee 1975-79 Budget Conferences 1977-78 Budget (Biennial) 1977-79 Budget (Biennial) 1975-77 Box 5 Budget 1975-76 Budget 1976-79 Budget Request for 1975-77 Bulletin Task Force (Report) 1976-78 Bulletin Copy Bureau of Evaluative Studies and Testing 1978-79 Bursar's Office 1974-79 Calendar Proposal 1976 Calendar, University Committee 1976-79 Campus Report 1976-79 Carnegie Commission Report 1975-78 Career Development Grant 1979 CAUSE Grant Award 1975 Centers/Institutes-Procedures and Applications 1975 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1975-77 Chicano-Requeno Studies 1975-77 CCHSS 1975-77 CHRON FILES: Frank Franz, Chron: Jul-Dec 1979 Frank Franz, Chron: 11/79 - 12/79 (Missing 1/79-10/79 Frank Franz, Chron: Jan-Jun 1979 Frank Franz, Chron: Jul-Dec 1978 Frank Franz, Chron: Jan-Jun l978 Box 6 Frank Franz, Chron: Jul-Dec 1977 William W. Lynch 10/78 (one letter) 7/79-12/79 Missing 1/79-6/79 SLW Chron: Jul 1974-Dec 1979 (Stephen L. Wailes) SLW Chron: Jan 1979-Jun 1979 (Stephen L. Wailes) SLW Chron: Aug. 1978-Dec 1978 (Stephen L. Wailes) Classification Project 1977-79 Classification Project 1976-77 College of Arts and Sciences, Placement 1978 Commencement Committee 1975-79 Committee, Bloomington Campus 1975-79 Committee, Institutional Cooperation (CIC) 1976-79 Committee, Institutional Cooperation (CIC) 1972-76 Committee, Institutional Cooperation (CIC), Independent Study Proj. 1978-79 Committee, Institutional Cooperation (CIC), Independent Study Proj. 1975-78 Complaints, Faculty 1975-79 Complaints, Other 1975-79 Contract Administration 1975-79 Cooperative Programs for Academic Development 1975-76 Coordinator, School English Language 1975-77 (position dropped 8-81) Coordinator, School Foreign Language 1978-79 Coordinator, School Foreign Language 1971-79 Coordinator, School Mathematics 1973-81 Coordinator, School Science 1980-81 Coordinator, School Science 1977-80 Box 7 Coordinator, School Science, 1973-77 Coordinator, General File 1975-78 Coordinator, School Social Studies 1977-80 Calendar/Schedule Committee 1978-79 1 Calendar/Schedule Committee 1978-79 2 Calendar/Schedule Committee 1971-78 3 Calendar/Schedule Committee 1971-78 2 Calendar/Schedule Committee 1971-78 1 Correspondence, FAF/FAC 1977-78 Counseling and Psychological Services 1975-79 Counseling Services, School of Education 1978 Courselector I 1975 Courselector II 1975 Courselector Material, Shared and IUSA Fledgling Eval. 1974 Course Survey 1969-79 Credit Inquiries 1975-76 Credit Transfers 1979 Credit Transfers 1978 Credit Transfers 1976-77 Curriculum Dev. Grants Application 1975-79 Curriculum Dev. Grants 1975-79 Curriculum and Program Proposals 1975-79 Box 8 Cyclotron 1978-79 Danforth Graduate Fellowships 1979-80 Danforth Graduate Fellowships 1975-79 Data Requests 1975-79 Dean for Women's Affairs 1976 Dean's Calendar 1979 Dean's Meetings 1976-79 Dean's Meetings 1975-76 Degree Program Inventory 1977 Degree Program Inventory 1976 Degree Program Inventory 1975 Degree Program Proposal Instructions and Procedures 1975 Degree Program Proposal, Jan. 1979-Aug. 1979 Degree program Proposal 1977-78 Degree Program Proposal 1976-77 Degree Program Proposal Review Committee 1978-1979 Degree Program Proposal Review Committee 1978-79 Degree Program Proposal Review Committee 1977-78 Box 9 Degree Program Proposal Review Committee 1976-80 Degree Program Proposal Review Committee 1975-76 Degree Program Proposal Review Committee 1975-76 Degree Program Proposals, Rules 46-47 #1 1979-78 Degree Program Proposals, Rules 46-47 #2 1977-78 Degree Program Proposals, Rules 46-47 #3 no date Degree Program Proposals, Rules 46-47 #4 1977-78 Degree Program Proposals, Rules 46-47 #5 no date Degree Program Proposals, Rules 46-47 #6 1978 Degree Program Proposals, Rules 46-47 #7 1977-78 Developmental Training Center 1975-79 Distinguished Ranks and Awards 1975-79 Division of General and Technical Studies 1975-79 Due Dates (Academic Personnel Matters) 1972-79 Employee Assistance 1977-78 Energy Crisis 1975-78 Enrollment 1975-79 Enrollment Policy Committee 1978-79 Box 10 Equipment Equity Salary Reviews 1975-79 Ethology Committee 1975-77 Exchange Visitor Program 1975 Experiential Education External Degree 1975-79 Facilities, Use of 1975-79 Faculty Board of Review Procedures 1975-79 Faculty Board of Review Reports 1975-76 Faculty Data, university Systems Faculty Development 1975-79 Faculty Employee Retirement Program, Data Base (FERP) Faculty Information 1973-75 Faculty Orientation Faculty Newsletter 1975 Faculty Service Locator 1975-76 Fee Remission 1979-82 Fee Remission 1975-79 Fees 1978-81 Fees 1975-77 Fellowships, Grants, Faculty 1974-79 Fellowships and Assistantships, Students 1975-79 Final Examinations Policy 1975-76 Fine Arts Museum 1975-79 Ford Foundation 1975-79 Foreign Language Requirements 1975-78 Foreign Student Affairs 1975-79 Founder's Day 1975-79 Frank Franz, Dean, 1977-82 Free Week 1975-78 Fringe Benefits,During Leave 1975-78 33 Fringe Benefits, Insurance 1975-79 Box 11 Fringe Benefits, retirement 1975-79 Fringe Benefits, Review Committee 1975-78 Fringe Benefits, Student 1975-79 Fulbright 1975-79 Grading Policy 1976-78 Graduate Fellowships 1978-79 Graduate/Professional Opportunities Program 1975-79 Graduate Support and Graduate Financial Aid Procedures Task Force, 1977-78 Guggenheim Fellows 1975-79 Halls of Residence 1975-79 Hamburg Program 1975 Handicapped, Coordinating committee on 1974-82 Hearing Officers/Review Board, Student Conduct Code 1975-76 Higher Education Commission 1978-79 Higher Education Commission 1977-78 Higher Education Commission 1976 Higher Education Commission 1975 High School Program, College Courses 1978 Historic New Harmony 1976-77 Historic New Harmony 1976 Home Economics 1977-79 Homosexuality 1976 Honorariums for Outside Referees, for Candidates for P and T Honors Division 1975-78 Hoosier Courts Nursery School 1974-79 Housing 1975-79 Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) 1979-82 Human Subjects Committee 1975-80 IDS 1975-79 IHETS 1975-79 Indiana Committee on Humanities 1975-77 Indiana Public Service Fellowship Program 1975-77 Indiana University, East 1976 Indiana University, Foundation 1975 Indiana Conference on Higher Education 1975-79 Individual Service Reports 1975-80 Box 12 Information, 1978-1979 INPIRG 1977-80 Institute for Advanced Study 1976-79 Institute for Advanced Study 1979-81 Institute for Sex Research 1975-82 Instructional Development, General 1976-78 Inter-Campus Affairs Committee 1975-77 International Programs 1975-79 *MISSING* Interviews *MISSING* Interviews 9/4/79 IVY Tech 1978-79 IUPUI 1975-78 IUSA 1977-79 Labor Ed. and Research Center 1972-75 Legionnaires 1978 Libraries 1975-78 Library: Indiana University Libraries, Annual Report 1975-79 Living Learning Center 1975-79 Long Range Planning 1977-78 Long Range Planning 1975-75 Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory 1975-77 National Assoc. of State Univ. Land Grant Colleges Neural Sciences, Center for 1976-78 North Central Association 1975-June 1977 North Central Association 1977-78 Ombudsman 1975-78 Box 13 Personnel 1975-81 Peterson's Annual Guide to Graduate and Undergraduate Studies 1977 Peterson, Margaret Jean - Chron Peterson, Margaret Jean, Correspondence, Faculty Jan-Feb. Mar. Apr. 1977 Peterson, Margaret Jean, Correspondence - MJP 4/76- Peterson, Margaret Jean, Correspondence - MJP 2/76 - 3/76 Peterson, Margaret Jean, Correspondence - MJP 2/75 - 1/76 Planning for Excellence 1979-81 Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships 1979-80 Poynter Center 1975-76 President's Planning Seminar 1978 Prison Education Development Program 1976-79 Professional Practices Program 1976-79 Promotion and Tenure, Unit Procedures & Criteria Review 1978-79 Box 14 Promotion and Tenure, Unit Procedures & Criteria 1975-76 Promotion and Tenure, Unit Procedures & Criteria 1974-78 *MISSING* Promotion Committee 1975-80 Publishing, Subvention Quality Improvement Requests 1979-80 Quality Improvement Requests 1979-80 II Records and Admissions 1977-79 Records and Admissions 1976-77 Recruitment: Faculty, 1974-75 Recruitment: Faculty, 1973-74 Recruitment: Faculty Interviews & Offers, 1974-75 Recruitment: Faculty, Librarians 1974-75 Recruitment: Faculty, Non-Instructional, 1974-75 Recruitment: Faculty Offers, 1974-75 Box 15 Regional Campuses 1975-80 Registration Implementation Committee 1975 Registration Implementation Committee 1975-76 Registration Search and Screen 1979 Reorganization 1977 - Reorganization 1975-76 Reorganization 1975 Reorganization 1969-74 Research and Graduate Develpment 1979-80 Research and Graduate Development 1978-79 Research and Graduate Development 1980-81 Research and Graduate Development, Dean Search 1975-78 Residence Life 1979-80 Residence Requirements, Students 1976 Retention of Women and Minority Faculty 1979 Retired Faculty Prerequisites 1975-81 Retirement General 1972-81 Retirement: Early Retirements options 1975-81 Salaries, Faculty 1975-77 Box 16 Scholarships and Financial Aids 1973-81 SCHOOL OF: Arts and Sciences 1978-79 Arts and Sciences 1975-77 Arts and Sciences, Dean Search Arts and Sciences, Search and Screen, for Assoc. Deans, 1980-82 Arts and Sciences Policy Committee 1968-1977 Afro American Affairs 1977 Anthropology 1976-77 Biological Sciences 1975-79 Biological Sciences 1975-79 Biological Sciences Executive Committee 1974-75 Biology 1976-78 Chemistry 1975-79 Classical Studies 1977 Comparative Literature 1975-76 East Asian Languages and Cultures 1975-79 English 1973-79 Fine Arts 1975-79 Forensic Studies 1974-76 French and Italian 1978-81 Germanic Studies 1975-78 History 1974-79 History and Philosophy of Science 1975-77 Home Economics Problems 1975 *MISSING* Home Economics 1977-79 Hungarian Studies 1980 Latin American Studies 1975-77 Latino Affairs 1975-79 Linguistics 1975 Mathematics 1975-77 Near Eastern Languages and Literatures 1979 Philosophy 1975-80 Physics 1974-79 Political Science 1975-79 Psychology 1975-76 Religious Studies 1976-79 Slavic Languages and Literatures 1975-79 Speech Communication 1975-77 Speech and Hearing Sciences 1975-76 Telecommunications 1975-79 Theatre and Drama 1976-79 Uralic and Altaic Studies 1976-79 West European Studies Program 1974-78 Box 17 Business, School of 1978-79 Continuing Education 1974-79 Continuing Studies 1975-79 Education, Dean Search and Screen Committee 1980 Education 1979-80 Education 1978-79 Education 1977-78 Education 1976-77 Education 1975-76 Education 46-47 Education Merger Education, Policy Council Education, Annual Reviews and reappointments 1978 Graduate Graduate Library School 1975-79 Graduate School 1975-79 Box 18 Graduate School, Dean Search HPER, School of 1975-79 HPER, Dean Search HPER, Relationship Journalism, 1975-79 Law School 1976-79 Law Merger Law, Dean Search and Screen 1975 Medical Sciences Dance Instruction 1978-79 Music, School of, Procedures Optometry SPEA 1975-79 School Programs, Office of: Coordinator, Social Science 1981-82 School Programs, Office of: Coordinator, Social Science 1980-81 Search and Screen-Dean of the Faculties 1977 Shell Grant 1977-78 Shuttle Bus 1976-77 Sigma Xi 1977-79 Smith, Ronald - jr. ethnomusicology position 1977 Smoking 1973-82 Social Security Numbers 1977 Social Studies Development Center 1974-79 Sohio Forum 1976 Staff Meeting 1977-78 Staff Meeting 1976 Staff Meeting 1975 Student Academic Appointments 1974-81 Student Conduct Code 1975-78 Student Course Evaluations Student Evaluation Forms 1975-79 Box 19 Student Evaluation of Teaching 1975-79 Student Health Service 1973-82 Student Life Study 1977-78 Student Loan Administration 1977 Student Records Privacy 1975 Student Recruitment, July 1979 Student Recruitment Jan. 1979-June 1979 *MISSING* Student Recruitment 1979-79--Not Rec'd in Archives Student Recruitment 1975-78 Student Retention 1978-79 *MISSING* Student's Development Project 1976 Summer Sessions 1977 Summer Sessions 1975-76 Sunshine Law 1977 Supplementals/Overloads 1975-79 Sycor (Computer) 1977 Task Force, General (RMON 1977) 1977 Taxes Teacher Certification Teaching Resources Center 1975-78 Terminated Staff 1976 Terminated Staff 1976 Terminated Staff 1978 Terminated Staff 1979 Terminated staff 1980 TIAA/CREF, Exceptions Committee Ticket Office Requests Title IX 1979 Travel Policies 1975-79 Truth in Testing Bill 1980 Undergraduate Life 1978-82 Union Board Univ. Calendar Committee 1975-79 University Counsel 1971-80 Box 20 University Division, Annual Report 1975-76 University Division, Annual Report to President 1976-77 University Division 1979-82 University Division 1978-79 University Division 1975-77 University Division, Search and Screen 1975-76 University Division Advisory Committee 1975-79 University Relations 1979-81 University Research Operation Committee 1975 Veterans Affairs, Office of Vice President, Administration (Williams) 1975-79 Vice President, Bloomington 1977 Vice President, Bloomington 1975-76 Vice President, IUB, Search and Screen Vice President Development Vice President, University Relations Vice President's Retreat *MISSING* Vocational and Technical Programs 1980 Vocational and Technical Programs 1979 Wage and Hour Law 1976 Wells Award Committee 1975-79 Withdrawal 1977-79 Women and Minorities (Faculty Lectures) 1974-79 Women Faculty Organizations 1975-80 Women's Affairs, Dean of 1980-82 Women's Affairs, Dean of 1975-79 Women's Center, Task Force 1977 Women's Status 1975-77 Women's Studies 1979-82 Women's Studies 1975-78 Women's Task Force 1977 Word Processing 1979-81 Work Study 1978-79