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Records of the Council of Deans, Rec. Gr. 127, University of Rhode Island.
The records of the Council of Deans were transferred from the Provost Office located in the Carlotti Administration Building on April 23, 1997. The records are in good condition and consist of the Agenda and Minutes of the Council of Deans from 1974-1984.
The records are contained in one series titled Agenda and Minutes. This series contains records relating to meetings of the Deans and Academic Vice President acting as a formal advisory body to the President of the university on academic issues. Included are agenda and minutes of meetings, reports, correspondence, memos and project proposals. The records of the Council of Deans can also be found in the Records of the Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs: William Ferrante Papers.
The collection is arranged in one series as follows:
The records of the Council of Deans were transferred from the Provost Office located in the Carlotti Administration Building on April 23, 1997.
Before the records were transferred, the records were held by the Provost Office.
The series contains the agenda and minutes of the weekly meetings of the Council of Deans. The Council of Deans, chaired by the Vice President for Academic Affairs and consisting of the deans of the various colleges or their designees, served as advisory council to the President of the University of Rhode Island on academic issues. Among the issues considered by the Council of Deans were the budget, faculty promotion and tenure, program reviews, collective bargaining, accreditation of the university and individual colleges and programs, exceptional salary increases for faculty, and proposed revisions to the university manual.
The records in this series are arranged alphabetically by the type of record and chronologically within folders.