Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). College of Arts and Sciences

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This collection consists of index cards that document the credits, majors, courses taken, and graduation dates of alumni, spanning 1923 through 1958.

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The College of Arts and Sciences faculty and assistants records consist of two sets of index cards, filling four boxes. The first set contains faculty cards only and spans the years 1856-1926. The second set includes two folders of assistants cards as well as faculty cards and dates from 1922 to 1939. The assistantships represented here are usually held by graduate students either in a research or teaching capacity for departments of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Abstract The minutes of the meeting of the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences document the development of policy and other administrative matters of the College from its inception in 1856 through the present. Among various matters recorded in the minutes are the adoption of new or revised rules and degree requirements, curricular changes, committee appointments, reports of committees, recommendations for students' awards and honors, recommendations for promotion and graduation of students,...

Abstract The Quarterly Grade Reports record the number of each letter grade awarded and percentage of students receiving the respective letter grades in courses offered by Northwestern University's College of Arts and Sciences from 1946 to 1955, and in all undergraduate schools from 1956 to 1968. The series consists of two groups of records. The first group, spanning the period from Fall quarter of 1946 to the Fall quarter of 1955, is comprised of bound and unbound grade reports compiled by the...

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The records of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences date from 1927 through 2001 (the bulk from the late 1960s through the mid-1990s) and fill 56 record cartons. They are divided into four subseries: files of assistant and associate deans and administrators, Program Review files, subject files, and departmental and academic programs files.

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These records, comprising eleven boxes, are the administrative records of Robert H. Strotz, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from September 1, 1966 to October 31, 1970. The records do not span the entire term of Strotz's deanship but fall mainly in the years from 1966 through 1968.
The records, which include correspondence and related materials, document a variety of matters involving the administration of the College and the University.

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Simeon E. Leland served as Professor of Economics and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Northwestern University from 1946-1966. These records comprise the administrative files of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences during Leland's tenure.

Abstract Lawrence Dumas became assistant professor in the Biological Science Department at Northwestern University in 1970, was appointed associate professor in 1975, and full professor in 1980. Dumas also served as chair of the department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology, and as dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, before becoming University Provost. This collection of his papers fills 58 boxes and spans the years from 1953 it 2008. It contains biographical...

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The Papers of Thomas William Heyck (also known as "T.W." and "Bill") document his career as educator and administrator at Northwestern University from 1968 to 2007. A scholar of British and Irish history, he was also involved in significant campus committee work, including establishing the Residential College system and chairing the Task Force on the Undergraduate Experience.

Abstract This series consists of 9 boxes of material consisting of Robert H. Strotz's tenure at Northwestern University's Economics Department. The bulk of the material covedrs the period 1962-1969. The collection's time period also covers Strotz's tenure as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1965-1970. Files on conferences and lectures, general correspondence, graduate students, course materials, book and manuscript reviews, and site visits to other educational institutions on behalf of the...