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UWRF Series 83 Collection Inventory
Faculty Senate and Faculty Council (1934-present)
Quantity: 45 boxes

Background: Faculty government on the River Falls campus had its beginnings in 1911 with the establishment of a number of faculty committees. Prior to 1946, there was no official faculty governance organization. Most administrative matters requiring faculty involvement were handled during monthly faculty meetings over which the college president presided. A standing committee structure coordinated such various aspects of the school’s business as athletics, alumni relations, or graduation requirements. Ad hoc committees were created as needed.

With the post-World War II enrollment boom, the number of staff members increased rapidly. President E.H. Kleinpell proposed establishing a Faculty Council to replace the system of monthly meetings. The resulting five-member appointed council considered faculty-related matters until 1967, when the Faculty Senate was organized. The Senate is composed of an elected representative for every 30 faculty members within each academic college and seven elected at-large representatives. Consult the Faculty Handbook (UWRF Series 91) for additional information regarding the Senate’s organization, powers, duties, and responsibilities.

Scope and Content: UWRF Series 83 consists of three series: Records of the Faculty Council (1956-1967), records of the Faculty Senate (1967-present), and records of faculty committees (1934-present). Council records include correspondence and minutes of council and committee meetings. Senate records include agendas, minutes, reports, correspondence, and memoranda.

See UWRF Series 84 (Faculty Subject Files) for related materials.

Faculty Council
Box/Folder Contents Years
1/10-14 General Reference Files     1956-1963
2/1-4 General Reference Files 1963-1967
1/1-9 Minutes 1956-1967
Faculty Senate
2/5-8 Agendas 1970-1976
26/1-6 Agendas 1976-1985
2/9-11 Minutes 1967-1969
3/1-8 Minutes 1969-1977
26/7-14 Minutes 1977-1985
31/6 Minutes & Agendas 1985-1986
38/3-4 Minutes & Agendas April 1986-May 1988
45/3-5 Minutes & Agendas Sept. 1988-1993
45/6 Motions 1988-1989
26/18-19 Budget 1973-1975
27/1-4 Budget 1975-1984
6/3-5 Central Admin-Memoranda 1974-1975
44/2-4 Chair’s Materials 1986-1989
45/1 Chair’s Materials 1989-1990
24/5-8 Chairman’s Files-Ray Anderson 1973-1974
25/1 Constitution 1967, 1975
6/2 Const.-Article II, Amend. Voting Results 1975
6/6 Constitution and By-Laws-Proposed 1967, 1974, 1976, n.d.
27/5 Correspondence 1968-1970
4/7-9 Correspondence 1970-1973 May
5/1-7 Correspondence 1973 July-1975 Mar.
6/1 Correspondence 1975 April-May
27/6-11 Correspondence 1975 June-1976 May
25/2 Correspondence 1976-1980
28/1-7 Correspondence 1979 July-1985
38/2 Correspondence 1986-1988
18/9 Elections 1967-1978
6/9 Fiscal Exigency 1973-1975
7/1 Gifted Student Program 1959
7/2-5 Graduate Program-Accreditation Material 1959-1963, n.d.
6/7-8 Personnel Rules 1974-1975
38/1 Proposals & Reports  
4/1-6 General Files (Reference) 1967-1976
38/7 Misc. 1976-1988
38/6 UW-System-Documents 1976-1986
26/15-17 UW-System-Faculty Reps 1976-1980
38/5 UW-System-Faculty Reps 1986-1987
Semester Course Conversion Materials
Box/Folder Contents
40/1 Ag. Economics
40/2 Ag. Education
40/3 Ag. Engineering, Ind. Edeucation, Gen. Engineering
40/4 Graduate Ag. Education
40/5-6 Animal Science
40/7 Anthropology
40/8-9 Art
40/10-11 Biology
40/12-13 Business Adm., Mgmt., Mark., Acct., Business Law, Finc.
40/14 Chemistry
40/15 Communicative Disorders
40/16 Computer Science
39/2 Course Book and Plan Document (1988-1989)
40/17 Economics
40/18-19 Elementery Education
40/20-21 English
41/1-2 English
41/3 Graduate English, American Studies
41/4 Food Science
41/5 French
41/6-7 Geography
41/8 German
41/9-14 Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Athletics (SE, PE)
41/15-16 History
41/17 Graduate History
41/18 Humanities
41/19 Journalism
41/20-21 Math
41/22 Graduate Math, Computer Science
41/23 Metro. Regional Studies
41/24 Norwegian, Japanese & Chinese
42/1-2 Music
42/3 Music (Applied) and Ensembles
42/4 Philosophy
42/5 Physics
42/6 Plant &Earth Science-Agronomy
42/7 Plant &Earth Science-Geology and Horticulture
42/8 Plant & Earth Science-Resource Managment and Soils
42/9 Political Science
42/10-11 Professional Studies, Secondary Education
42/12 Psychology
42/13-14 Sociology
42/15 Spanish
42/16-18 Speech Communications & Theater Arts
42/19 Women's Studies
Faculty Senate Committees: A-Cu
Box/Folder Contents Years
29/1-2 Annual Reports 1957-1967, 1969
34/6 Annual Reports 1985-1988
29/3 Membership Lists 1959-
45/2 Meeting Minutes 1991-1992
29/4 Academic Energy; Energy Conservation 1978, 1980
8/2 Academic Policy and Program 1975-1984
29/5 Academic Staff 1979, 1981-1987
8/3-8 Academic Standards 1955-1964
9/1-10 Academic Standards 1964-1976
29/6 Academic Standards 1977-1987
9/11 Acad. Standards-Senior Writing Proficiency 1961-1966
10/1 Admissions Credits, Grad. & Schedules 1934-1944
29/7 Advising 1979-1980
34/8 Affirmative Action 1986
10/2 Agriculture-Advisory to College of Ag. 1968-1969
10/3 Allocations 1951
10/4-8 Alumni Relations 1952-1975
11/1 Alumni Relations 1976-1984
11/2 Alum. Relations-Alumni Activity Brochures 1950, 1958-1970
11/3 Alum. Relations.-Correspondence 1963-1970
32/1 Alum. Rel.-Distinguished UWRF Alumnus
44/1 Academic Policies and Programs Committee 1988-1990
11/4 Apptointment, Promotion, Tenure, & Appeals-minutes 1967-1975
29/8 Apptointment, Promotion, Tenure, & Appeals-Kim Anderson Subcommittee 1971
29/9-11 Apptointment, Promotion, Tenure, & Appeals-Corres. 1968-1984
8/1 Appointments 1964-1977, n.d.
11/5 Assembly 1950
43/1 Athletic-Policy Paper 1976
43/2 Athletic 1976-1977
43/3 Athletic 1978
43/4 Athletic 1979-1980
43/5 Athletic 1981-1982
43/6 Athletic 1983-1986
43/7 Athletic 1987-1988, n.d.
11/6-7 Athletic 1935-1955
31/1-5 Athletic 1955-1975
11/8 Budget (Ad hoc) 1972
11/9 Calendar 1967-84, 1986-88
11/10-11 Campus Planning 1965-1972
12/1-2 Campus Planning 1973-1977
25/3 Campus Planning 1976-1984
12/4 Campus Planning-Building Naming-Survey 1973
12/3 Campus Planning-Correspondence 1970-1978
25/4 Campus Planning-Proposals 1974-1979
34/7 Committees-Chancellor’s Council 1987
13/1 Commencement 1935-43, 1968-69
13/2 Committee on Chancellors 1974
17/9 Committee to Discuss Assumptions 1974
25/7 Computer Guidance & Annual Reports 1973, 1977-1980, 1987-88, 1989-90
13/3-11 Concerts and Lectures 1936-1956
14/1-5 Concerts and Lectures 1957-1976
25/8 Concerts and Lectures-Appearances Lists 1948-1967
14/6 Concerts and Lectures-Correspondence 1967-1983
14/8 Concerts and Lectures-Correspondence n.d.
14/7 Concerts and Lectures-Programs 1967-1980
14/9 Constitution Committee 1973-1974
14/10 Cultural Commission 1970-1971
14/11 Cultural Level (Ad hoc) 1956
Curriculum Committee
Box/Folder Contents Years
25/9-10 Curriculum Committee 1962-1984
37/10 Agricultural journalism 1984
36/14 Annual reports and minutes 1981-1982
31/7 Arts and Sciences 1973-74, 1982-83
38/8 Arts and Sciences: Minutes & Agendas 1988-1991
38/9 Arts and Sciences: Transition Guidelines, Schedules & Program Conversions 1988-1989
38/10 Arts and Sciences: course transition documents 1988-1989
35/19 Bachelor of Fine Art in Art 1976
35/8 Broad Area Major in Business Education 1974-1976
37/7 Changes in existing courses 1983-1984
37/16-17 Changes in existing courses 1985-1986
16/2 College of Education 1970 (June-July)
15/6-8 Correspondence and memoranda 1966-1979
35/12 Correspondence and memoranda 1975-1976
35/21 Correspondence and memoranda 1976-1977
36/10 Correspondence and memoranda 1980-1981
36/13 Correspondence and memoranda 1981-1982
36/8 Correpondence, memoranda and transmittal forms 1979-1980
37/11 Correpondence, minutes and misc. 1984-1985
37/14 Correpondence, minutes and misc. 1985-1986
37/3 Correpondence, minutes and transmittal forms 1982-1983
37/6 Correpondence, reports, minutes and transmittal forms 1983-1984
35/1 Courses added pre-1907
35/10 Courses approved 1974-1975
36/3 Courses approved 1977-1978
36/4 Courses approved II 1977-1978
30/1 Course Proliferation (Ad hoc) n.d.
17/1-4 Course Proposals 1971-1975
16/3-8 Course Proposals 1971-1975
35/15-18 Course Proposals 1975-1976
36/12 Course Proposals 1980-1981
36/15 Course Proposals 1981-1982
37/1-2 Course Proposals 1981-1982
37/4-5 Course Proposals 1982-1983
37/8-9 Course Proposals 1983-1984
37/12-13 Course Proposals 1984-1985
37/15 Course Proposals 1985-1986
14/12 Minutes 1935-1936
14/13-14 Minutes 1963-1966
15/1-5 Minutes 1966-1976
24/1-4 Minutes 1972-1973
35/14 Minutes 1975-1976
36/7 Minutes 1979-1980
35/20 Minutes, academic policy and program minutes 1976-1977
37/20 Minutes and agendas 1988-1989
36/11 Minutes and transmittal forms 1980-1981
35/22 Miscellaneous 1976-1977
35/13 Misc. reports and documents 1975-1976
35/2 New Courses Approved 1971-1972
35/4 New Courses Approved 1972-1973
35/6 New Courses Approved I 1973-1974
35/7 New Courses Approved II 1973-1974
36/1 New Courses Approved 1976-1977
36/6 New Courses Approved 1978-1979
36/9 New Courses Approved 1979-1990
35/3 Non-approval & transmittal form correspondence 1972-1973
37/18 Program proposals 1986-1988, n.d.
35/5 Reports, minors & transmittal forms 1973-1974
35/9 Reports, minors & transmittal forms 1974-1975
36/5 Reports, transmittal forms, minutes, and correspondence 1978-1979
36/2 Reports, transmittal forms, corresp., bylaws, AP&P minutes 1977-1978
16/1 Reports and Statements ca. 1956-1972
17/5-6 Student opinion in re: Basic Studies 1973
35/11 Transmittal forms 1975-1976
37/19 Transmittal forms and correspondence 1988-1989
Faculty Senate Committees: D-I
Box/Folder Contents Years
17/7 Departmental Council 1963
17/8 Development 1956-1957
17/10 Divisions of Humanities n.d.
17/11 Education 1938-1939
17/12 Elementary Curriculum 1952
17/13 Enrollment Decline (Ad hoc) 1973
17/14 Environment Teach-In 1970
17/16 Evaluation of Administrators (Ad hoc) 1974-1975
17/15 Evaluation 1961
17/17 Executive-A-V Saturation Study 1965
18/1 Experimental Studies 1972
18/2 Faculty Academic Affairs & Welfare n.d.
18/3 Faculty Advisory on Foreign Students 1963
18/4 Faculty Advisory to U.W. Presidents 1971-1972
18/5 Faculty Fund Survey n.d.
18/6 Faculty Hearing, Grievance & Appeals 1975; 1979
18/7 Faculty Personnel 1965
18/8 Faculty Reorganization 1966-1967
18/12 Final Examinations 1970
18/10 Faculty Social 1935-41, 1975-76
18/11 Faculty Welfare & Personnel Policies 1974-1975
18/13-15 Fiscal Implications of Enrollment Decline 1972-1973
30/2 Faculty Government (Ad hoc) 1980
30/3 Faculty Personnel Rules (Ad hoc) 1976
30/15 Reorganization of Faculty Council 1967
19/6 Faculty ID Cards (Ad hoc) 1970
30/4 Faculty-Student Personnel 1966
30/5 Faculty Welfare & Personnel Policies 1980-84, 1987-88
30/6 Financial Aid Advisory 1979
19/1 General Education 1959-1965
19/2 Higher Education Finance 1973-1974
19/3 Honors 1958-1965
19/4 Human Relations 1968-1971
19/5 Hungarian Scholarship 1956-1957
30/7 Human Relations 1968-1984
30/8 Hunt Arena 1979
19/7 Image n.d.
19/8 Improvement of Instruction 1965-1975
19/9 Institutional Development 1969-1970
30/9 Institutional Development 1968
39/1 Institutional Data Action Group 1986
34/9 Institutional Ethics  
19/10 Institutional Planning 1963-1964
30/10 Institutional Studies, Research, & Grants 1967-1981, 1984
19/11 Institutional Studies, Research, & Grants 1967-1974
30/11 Instructional Improvement 1976-1981, 1987
30/12 Instructor Techniques Analysis 1973
17/18 Interim Faculty Consultative Council 1972-1976
34/10 International Students 1973
19/12 International Studies 1975
30/13 International Study 1977-1984
Faculty Senate Committees: J-V
Box/Folder Contents Years
20/1 Judiciary Board 1966-1970
20/2 Legislative and Research Affairs 1970
20/3 Legislative Action n.d.
20/4 Liberal Arts 1956-57, 1961-62
20/5-7 Library 1935-44, 1950-74,1975-85, 1988
20/8 Library Addition 1964-1965
34/11 Long Range Planning 1987
20/9 Manual Rewriting 1969
20/10 Parking 1969-1970
20/11 Personnel 1950-1964
20/12 Personnel-Student Housing & Welfare 1965-1967
20/13 Physical Education 1969
20/14 Professional Division 1950-1951
20/15 Publications 1965-1970
30/14 Parking 1968
33/1 Public Relations-Scholarship Reports 1936-1942
33/2-10 Public Relations 1935-1982
34/1-5 Public Relations 1983-1987, n.d.
21/1 Publications 1971
34/12 Recruitment, Admissions, & Retention 1986-1988
21/2 ROTC 1971-1972
21/3 Rules & Discipline 1969
30/16 Sabbatical 1978-1984, 1986
21/4-9 Salary-Documents, Surveys, Reports, Correspondence and minutes 1969-1984
39/3-5 Salary-Minutes & Agenda, Peer Evaluation 1987-1989, n.d.
22/5 Scholarship Fund Drive 1934-1937
22/1-4 Scholarships 1948-1955
30/17 Social 1967
25/5-6 South Hall 1974-1979
22/6 Special Events 1967-1974
22/7 Special Summer Session n.d.
22/8 Student Activities 1968
22/9 Student Affairs 1967-1974
30/18 Student Affairs 1967-1974
23/8 Student Center Governing Board 1961-1965, 1971
22/10 Student Counseling Center 1971
23/1-2 Student Health & Welfare 1935-1944
30/19 Student Publications 1968-1971
23/3 Student Relations Subcommittee n.d.
23/4 Student Social Life Committee 1935-1937
23/5 Student Teaching- Secondary Level 1956
23/6 Student-Faculty Relations 1939-43, 1970-71
23/7 Student-Faculty Rules & Discipline 1963
23/9 Studies & Research (S & R) 1951, 1963-1969
23/11 S & R-“Student & Faculty Reactions to Certain College Activities” 1959-1960
23/10 S & R-5 Year Follow-Up Study 1963-1967
23/12 Study Abroad 1969
23/13 Summer Task Force Reports 1966
30/20-21 Superior Student 1961-1984
23/15 Termination 1969-71
30/22 Termination 1984
23/16 Termination Election 1972, 1975
23/17 Textbook Library 1969
23/18 University Activities Board 1965
23/19 University Council 1965-1971
23/20 University Health 1970
30/23 University Judiciary Board 1967-1970
23/21 University Structure n.d.
23/14 UW Task Force on Faculty Productivity 1972
23/22 Visiting Professor 1969-1975

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