Records of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)

This series consists of two boxes of records pertaining to the activities and functions of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), compiled by J. Lyndon Shanley, Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and Northwestern University's representative on the committee. The records, which span the period between January 18, 1958 and May 3, 1973, include agendas and minutes of CIC meetings, annual reports, correspondence, and reports issued by the Committee.

Agendas and minutes of the Committee, January 18, 1958 - May 3, 1973 are included in Box 1 as is an index to CIC meetings, January 18, 1958 - June 12, 1961. Box 2 includes correspondence pertaining to committee activities, March 30, 1965 - December 29, 1969; annual reports of the committee, 1961/1962 - 1973/1974 (with the later addition of reports for 1974/75-1978/79, 1979/81, 1983/85); public relations material issued by the committee and eight reports issued by the committee. Topics covered in these reports include: the CIC conference on the disadvantaged, costs and cooperation in university publishing, a proposal for beginning exotic language offerings at the universities, funding of CIC programs and projects, a listing of CIC conference groups and panels, a survey of fringe benefits at the universities, possible staff office locations in metropolitan Chicago, and lists of members of CIC panels and groups representing Northwestern University.