Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, Meeting Minutes
Scope and Contents
These records contain meeting agenda and minutes, committee and sub-committee reports and recommendations, correspondence, and other reports. The minutes contained in the first five boxes are bound into five volumes, and contain hand- and typewritten records. Please note that there is a gap in the records between 1894 and 1906. Although the Dean's office was not created until 1946, faculty did meet regularly since the founding of the college, and those records are represented in this collection.
Some meetings do not have records in the collection, including:
September 2001
January to May 2002
Dates
- 1864-ongoing
Creator
- Bates College (Lewiston, Me.). Dean of the Faculty (Organization)
Access Restrictions
Records are closed to researchers for 20 years from date of creation.
Use Restrictions
The collection is the physical property of Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library. Bates College holds literary rights only for material created by College personnel working on official behalf of the College, or for material which was given to the College with such rights specifically assigned. For all other material, literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for obtaining permission from rights holders for publication or other purposes that exceed fair use.
Biographical / Historical
The office of Dean of the Faculty was created by President Phillips in August, 1946. The Dean oversaw and coordinated the educational activities of the faculty of the college. The first Dean was Harry Rowe, who served in that capacity until 1958. In 1986, the name of the office was changed to the current designation, the Office of Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty.
Today the office oversees the Academic Departments and Programs, as well as: Athletics, the Museum of Art, the Math Workshop, the Registrar and Student Financial Services, and the Writing Workshop. The Dean is responsible for the College's academic programs and curricula; faculty appointments; review, promotion, and tenure procedures; and programs for faculty development, including funding for student-faculty research. (Administrative information is from the Dean of Faculty website.)
Extent
10 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This sub-group contains meeting agenda and minutes, committee and sub-committee reports and recommendations, correspondence, and other reports generated by the Dean of the Faculty. The first Dean was Harry Rowe, who served in that capacity until 1958. In 1986, the name of the office was changed to the current designation, the Office of Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty.
Arrangement
The records are arranged chronologically by date of meeting, with the exception of the "Excerpts" folder in Box 6, and the "Index" folder in Box 8.
Creator
- Bates College (Lewiston, Me.). Dean of the Faculty (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, Meeting Minutes, 1864-ongoing
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Pat Webber
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Description is in: English
- Edition statement
- ©2011
Repository Details
Part of the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Repository
70 Campus Avenue
Lewiston Maine 04240 United States of America
207-786-6354
muskie@bates.edu