urn:taro:utexas.cah.00914 A Guide to the UT Executive Vice President and Provost Office Records, 1970-1988 Original EAD encoding by Shelley Rowland according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. April 2008 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary UT Executive Vice President and Provost Office UT Executive Vice President and Provost Office Records 1970-1988 Materials are written in English. 94-135; 96-273; 2005-114 165 feet, 5 inches Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Departmental and project files, correspondence, and publications and printed material document the activities of the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost and its predecessors from 1970 to 1988. Historical Note

The primary mission of the Provost's Office is to secure the vitality of the University's academic life, to foster the intellectual well-being of students, staff and faculty, and to marshal and allocate resources in support of academic excellence, and in doing so, to serve as an educational asset for the benefit of the state and the nation.

When the University of Texas opened in 1883, there was no provost. Beginning in 1899, however, a chief academic officer was appointed as second in command to the president. The title “provost” first appeared in 1957 when Harry Huntt Ransom was appointed as vice president and provost. The position went through numerous incarnations, finally becoming the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost in 1985.

 Scope and Contents

Departmental and project files, correspondence, and publications and printed material document the activities of the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost and its predecessors from 1970 to 1988.

 Access Restrictions

Unrestricted access.

 Use Restrictions

The bulk of this collection is stored remotely. Advance notice required for retrieval.

 Preferred Citation

UT Executive Vice President and Provost Office Records, 1970-1988, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory 94-135/1 General correspondence: 94-135/1 College correspondence "A-H", 1971-1972 94-135/2 College correspondence "I-W", 1971-1972 94-135/4 1973-1974 94-135/6 Conservation through Coordination Board, pre-1982 94-135/8 Coordination Board through Measurement and Evaluation, pre-1982 94-135/10 Natural Resources and Environment Centers: DNA Biohazards, pre-1982 94-135/12 Committee on Education Policy through Enrollment, pre-1982 94-135/14 Enrollment through Faculty Retirement, pre-1982 94-135/16 Faculty salaries through Tinker Foundation 94-135/18 Chair of Free Enterprise through Humble Company Foundation 94-135/20 Fraternity, Honorary, through Legislation, pre-1982 94-135/22 Leave of absence through minority organizations, pre-1982 94-135/23 Academic deans through Arts and Science Foundation, pre-1982 94-135/24 NACUB through Off Campus Courses, pre-1982 94-135/25 Association of American Colleges through Budgets, pre-1982 94-135/26 Off Campus Courses through Office of Institutional Studies, pre-1982 94-135/27 Budgets through Conference, pre-1982 94-135/31 K through Z; Interdisciplinary programs, 1973 94-135/32 Architecture through Business, 1972-1978 94-135/33 Budget; Continuing Education; Coordinating Board, 1979-1980 94-135/34 UT System through Whitehouse Fellowship, 1971-1980 94-135/35 Coordinating Board; Visiting scholars, 1977-1979 1977-1979 94-135/36 Miscellaneous, 1977-1979 94-135/41 1974-1976 94-135/42 1975-1977 94-135/45 1973-1974 94-135/50 Internal audits through Professorships 94-135/53 Project Ahead through Small Class Report, pre-1982 94-135/54 SACS through Texas Education Agency, pre-1982 94-135/67 Colleges and President's Office, 1973-1974 94-135/69 Texas Instruments through Utilities, pre-1982 94-135/3 Correspondence 7, Administrative and EOM, 1971-1972 94-135/66 All correspondence, Arts through Science, 1971-1972 94-135/5 Foundation, Scholarships, 1971-1972 94-135/7 Colleges and Schools: 94-135/7 Architecture through Education, pre-1982 94-135/9 Engineering through Fine Arts, pre-1982 94-135/11 Graduate School through Liberal Arts, pre-1982 94-135/13 Liberal Arts through Nursing, pre-1982 94-135/15 Pharmacy through Social Work, pre-1982 94-135/28 LBJ School of Public Affairs; System Correspondence; General, 1973-1974 94-135/29 Business through Pharmacy, 1973-1974 94-135/30 Architecture; Departmental, J through Z; Administrative, 1972-1974 94-135/49 1974-1980 94-135/57 Humanities through Social Work, 1972-1978 94-135/60 Architecture through Engineering, 1981-1984 94-135/61 Fine Arts through Nursing, 1980-1984 94-135/62 Pharmacy through Social Work 94-135/15 Departments: 94-135/15 Accounting through Art, pre-1982 94-135/17 Art museums through Geography 94-135/19 Government through Management, pre-1982 94-135/21 Marine Science Institute through Zoology, pre-1982 94-135/47 History through Zoology; Appropriations; Governor's Council 94-135/48 Accounting through Government 94-135/51 1973-1974 94-135/56 Architecture through Humanities, 1972-1973 and 1978-1979 94-135/58 Accounting through Home Economics, 1972-1978 94-135/62 Accounting through Computer Science 94-135/63 Civil Engineering through Zoology, 1980-1984 94-135/52 Colleges and Departments 94-135/52 Institute of Latin American Studies through Zoology, pre-1982 94-135/37 Inactive faculty files, 1976-1977 94-135/38 Inactive faculty files, continued, 1976-1977 94-135/39 Inactive faculty files, continued, 1976-1977 94-135/40 Inactive faculty files, continued, 1976-1977 94-135/43 Moody Grant 94-135/44 Assistant Provost correspondence, 1971-1974 94-135/46 System office, 1974-1980 94-135/55 Amoco; Teaching awards; Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, 1973 94-135/59 Admissions through UT Press, 1980-1983 94-135/64 University office; President's Office; Executive Vice President and Provost's correspondence, 1971-1972 94-135/65 Departmental correspondence, 1971-1972 94-135/68 Brown Lupton Foundation through Various donors, 1972-1979 96-273/1 Aeronautical Research, Center for, 1980-1982, 1985 96-273/1 Animal Resources Center, 1980-1986 96-273/1 Applied Microbiology, Institute for, 1980-1985 96-273/1 Applied Research Labs, 1979-1986 96-273/2 Applied Research Labs, 1986-1988 96-273/2 Applied Research Labs Director Search, 1979-1980 96-273/2 Applied Research Labs Excellence Awards 96-273/2 Applied Research Labs ONR Site Visit 96-273/3 Argonne Universities Association (AUA), 1981-1982 96-273/3 Artificial Intelligence Lab, 1984-1985 96-273/4 Association of University Research in Astronomy (AURA), 1979-1983 96-273/4 Biomedical Research, Institute for, 1980-1988 96-273/5 Brackenridge Field Laboratory, 1980-1986 96-273/5 Business Decision Analysis, Center for, 1982 96-273/5 Business Research, Bureau of, 1980-1986 96-273/5 Cell Research Institute, 1980-1986 96-273/5 Classical Archeology, Institute for, 1981-1986 96-273/5 Clayton Foundation Biomedical Institute, 1980-1985 96-273/5 Cognitive Science, 1980-1984 96-273/5 Communication Technology and Society, Center for Research on, 1985-1986 96-273/5 Computation Center, 1981-1983 96-273/6 Computation Center, 1984-1988 96-273/6 Computer and Vision Research Center 96-273/6 Computer Science and Computer Applications, Institute for, 1980-1984 96-273/6 Computer Time Allocations and Miscellaneous Computing Time Supplement Requests, 1984-1986 96-273/6 Computer Time Supplement Requests, 1981-1986 96-273/7 Construction Industry Institute, 1983-1985 96-273/7 Constructive Capitalism, Institute for, 1980-1988 96-273/7 Culture Collection of Algae, 1982-1984 96-273/7 Developmental Biology, Center for, 1983-1984 96-273/7 Drug Dynamics Institute, 1980-1984 96-273/7 Earth Sciences and Engineering, Center for, 1981-1984 96-273/8 Economic Geology, Bureau of, 1980-1987 96-273/9 Economic Geology, Bureau of, 1987-1988 96-273/9 Economic Geology, Bureau of, Texas Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institute, 1982-1983 96-273/9 Economic Research, Center for, 1980-1983, 1986-1987 96-273/9 Electrical Engineering Research Lab, 1980-1984 96-273/9 Electrochemistry Lab, 1980-1983 96-273/9 Electromechanics, Center for, 1980-1986 96-273/10 Electromechanics, Center for, 1986-1988 96-273/10 Electronics Research Center, 1980-1984 96-273/10 Energy Studies, Center for, 1981-1988 96-273/11 Energy Studies, Center for, Geothermal, 1980-1982 96-273/11 Energy Studies, Center for, Separation Research Program, 1983-1984 96-273/11 Energy Studies, Center for, TENRAC, 1982-1983 96-273/11 Engineering Research, Bureau of, 1980-1984 96-273/11 Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery, Center for, 1980-1983 96-273/11 Fast Kinetics Research, Center for, 1981-1988 96-273/12 Ferguson (Phil M.) Structural Engineering Laboratory, 1980-1983 96-273/12 Fusion Engineering, Center for, 1980-1984 96-273/12 Fusion Research Center, 1980-1988 96-273/12 Fusion Studies, Institute for, 1980-1988 96-273/13 Genetic Institute, 1980-1983 96-273/13 Geophysics, Institute for, 1981-1985 96-273/14 Geophysics, Institute for, 1985-1988 96-273/15 Geotechnical Engineering Center, 1981-1983 96-273/15 Health Care Research and Evaluation, Center for, 1981-1984 96-273/15 Human Development, Institute for, 1980-1984 96-273/15 Human Resources, Center for the Study of, 1980-1984 96-273/15 Harry Huntt Ransom Humanities Research Center, 1980-1984 96-273/15 JOI, 1980 96-273/15 Latin American Studies, Institute for, 1980-1988 96-273/16 Linguistics Research Center, 1980-1984 96-273/16 Marine Science Institute, 1980-1982 96-273/17 Marine Science Institute, 1982-1985 96-273/18 Marine Science Institute, 1986-1988 96-273/19 Marine Science Institute, Advisory Council, 1983-1987 96-273/19 Marine Science Institute, Austin, 1980-1983 96-273/20 Marine Science Institute, Directors Search, 1982-1983 96-273/20 Marine Science Institute, Galveston (Inc. Port Holiday Mall), 1980-1981 96-273/20 Marine Science Institute, Lund Founders Fund, 1982-1984 96-273/20 Marine Science Institute, Migration Symposium, 1982-1984 96-273/20 Marine Science Institute, PALAU Contract with the University of Wisconsin, 1982-1984 96-273/21 Marine Science Institute, Personnel Files 96-273/21 Marine Science Institute, St. Croix, 1980-1983 96-273/22 Materials Science and Engineering, Center for, pre-1984-1985 96-273/23 McDonald Observatory, 1980-1987 96-273/23 McDonald Observatory, 300 inch Telescope, 1980-1985 96-273/24 McDonald Observatory, 1987-1988 96-273/24 McDonald Observatory Board of Visitors 96-273/24 Microelectronics Research Center, 1983-1984 96-273/24 Natural Fibers 96-273/24 Numerical Analysis, Center for, 1980-1984 96-273/25 ORU Report, 1987 96-273/25 Particle Theory, Center for, 1980-1984 96-273/25 Phonetics Lab, 1982 96-273/25 Plant Resources Center, 1982 96-273/25 Policy Research Institute, 1982-1984 96-273/25 Polymer Research Institute, 1981-1984 96-273/25 Population Research Center, 1980-1984 96-273/25 Ilya Prigogine Center for the Study of Statistical Mechanics, 1980-1984, 1987-1988 96-273/25 Radiation Biology, Laboratory of, 1980 96-273/25 Radiocarbon Lab, 1980-1983 1980-1983 96-273/25 Relativity, Center for, 1980-1984 96-273/26 Reports and Brochures 96-273/26 Reproductive Biology, Institute of, 1980-1984 96-273/26 Research Instruments Lab, 1981-1982 96-273/26 Social Work Research, Center for, 1981-1984 96-273/26 Solvay Conference, 1986-1988 96-273/26 Space Research, Center for, 1981-1984 96-273/26 Spectroscopic Survey Telescope, 1985-1988 96-273/26 Statistical Science, Center for, 1981-1984 96-273/27 Structural Studies, Center for, 1980-1983 96-273/27 Teacher Education, Research and Development for, 1980-1986 96-273/27 TENRAC, 1981-1983 96-273/27 Texas Archeological Research Lab, 1980-1988 96-273/27 Texas Archeological Survey, 1981-1984 96-273/27 Texas History, Center for Study in, 1983 96-273/28 Texas Memorial Museum, 1980-1988 96-273/28 Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for, 1981-1982, 1986-1988 96-273/28 Theoretical Physics, Center for, 1981-1983, 1987 96-273/28 Transportation Research, Center for, 1980-1984 96-273/28 Vertebrate Paleontology Lab, 1981-1984 96-273/28 Water Resources, Center for Research in, 1981-1984 96-273/28 Weinburg Research Institute, 1982 2.325/F25c UT Centennial, publications and printed material, 1983 2.325/F25c VHS videocassettes 2.325/F25c J. J. “Jake” Pickle Research Campus Dedication, [UT Balcones Research Center renamed in honor of Pickle], March 30, 1994 2.325/F25c The William P. Hobby-Robert E. Eberly Telescope: The Movie, [McDonald Observatory, UT], 1994