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uaufc Inventory of the Undergraduate Faculty Council Records, 1952 - 1972 Processed by: Jane Veronica Charles; machine-readable finding aid created by: Jill Katte; updated by Kim Sims March 2007 University ArchivesDuke University

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from automated markup system. Date of source: July 2000 Processed by Jane Veronica Charles July 2000; Finding Aid encoded by Jill Katte, University Archives, Duke University, May 2005 Description is in English. 05-01-2006 PUBLIC "-//University Archives//TEXT (US::NDD::::Undergraduate Faculty Council Records)//EN" "uaufc.xml converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15).Also, the top level of the finding aid (above the dsc) was changed to conform to the NC EAD Best Practice Guidelines. Within the dsc, dates for series were normalized. Inventory of the Undergraduate Faculty Council Records, 1952 - 1972 University Archives Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0202 USA

Descriptive Summary Undergraduate Faculty Council Records, 1952 - 1972. Duke University. Undergraduate Faculty Council. 6.0 Linear Feet, 4200 Items University Archives, Duke University For current information on the location of these materials, please consult University Archives, Duke University. Formed in 1952, the Undergraduate Faculty Council (UFC) was responsible for the governance of undergraduate education at Duke University. The Undergraduate Faculty Council of Arts and Sciences succeeded the UFC in October 1971, when undergraduate education in engineering and nursing formed separate governing bodies. Collection includes minutes, memoranda, correspondence, questionnaires, reports of standing and ad hoc committees, and other papers pertaining to faculty oversight of undergraduate education. The bulk of the material consists of the records of the Subcommittee on Curriculum, a part of the Committee on Undergraduate Instruction. Other committees include Honors, Program II, the Faculty Advisory System, Residential Life, Study Abroad, Undergraduate Admissions, Financial Aid, and Academic Standards. One of the major accomplishments of the UFC was a report called "Varieties of Learning Experience," or the Krueger Report (1968), which led to major changes in the undergraduate course of study known as the "new curriculum." English. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

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Provenance

The Undergraduate Faculty Council Records was received by the University Archives as a transfer in 1964-1992.

Processing Information

Processed by Jane Veronica Charles

Completed July 2000

Encoded by Jill Katte, May 2005

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Historical Note

Undergraduate Faculty Council began in 1952, as a result of a re-organization of the Duke University Faculty. The Undergraduate Faculty Council (UFC) was responsible for the governance of undergraduate education, a task that the Faculty Council previously had undertaken. The UFC included representatives from the Engineering and Nursing schools. The Dean of Trinity College served as chair. The UFC first met on November 13, 1952. The Undergraduate Faculty Council of Arts and Sciences succeeded the UFC in October 1971, when undergraduate education in engineering and nursing formed separate governing bodies.

Standing Committees of the Undergraduate Faculty Council included Undergraduate Instruction (which absorbed the Curriculum Committee and the Committee on Courses of Instruction between 1964-1965), Honors, Program II, the Faculty Advisory System, Residential Life, Study Abroad, Undergraduate Admissions, and Financial Aid. Ad hoc committees included Academic Standards, Committee on Committees, and the Committee on the Organization and Functions of the UFC. The creation of a report called "Varieties of Learning Experience," or the Krueger Report (1968), represents one of the major accomplishments of the Undergraduate Faculty Council. The Krueger Report led to major changes in the undergraduate course of study known as the "new curriculum."

Collection Overview

Collection includes minutes, memoranda, correspondence, and questionnaires, reports of standing and ad hoc committees, and other papers pertaining to faculty oversight of undergraduate education. The bulk of the material consists of the records of the Subcommittee on Curriculum, a part of the Committee on Undergraduate Instruction. The Subcommittee's records feature the Krueger report, "Varieties of Learning Experience (1968), which led to the substantial changes in the undergraduate courses of study known as the "new curriculum." These files include results of a survey of faculty members and freshmen participating in small group learning experiences. The other major curriculum study is the Parker report (1960).

The Program II files contain material from the period after 1971, when the Undergraduate Faculty Council of Arts and Sciences was formed. Records of the Supervisory Committee for the Faculty Advisory System include scattered minutes of the committee, memoranda, correspondence, and reports, as well as handbooks for faculty advisers from 1952 to 1964. A number of ad hoc and superseded committees' files are also in the collection.

Subject Headings

These and related materials may be accessed under the following subject headings in the Duke University Libraries online catalog.

Duke University--Administration. Duke University--Admission. Duke University--Curricula. Duke University--Faculty. Duke University--Faculty--Handbooks, manuals, etc. Duke University. Program II. Duke University--Students. Duke University. Undergraduate Faculty Council. Duke University. Undergraduate Faculty Council of Arts and Sciences. Education, Higher--Aims and objectives. Education, Higher--Curricula. Contents of Collection Executive Committee, 1952-1971

The Executive Committee series contains agendas, correspondence, minutes, petitions, rosters, and lists of the standing committees of the Executive Committee of the Undergraduate Faculty Council. Topics include the reorganization of the faculty, committee appointments, and petitions to suspend classes for the 1961 Cotton Bowl.

1 Agendas, 1954-1971 Correspondence, 1952-1961 Correspondence, 1962-1970 Minutes, 1952-1960 Minutes, 1961-1962 Minutes, 1963-1964 Minutes, 1965-1967 Minutes, 1968 Minutes, 1969 Minutes, 1970 Minutes, 1971 Petitions, 1958, 1960 Rosters, 1959-1971 Committees, 1953-1971 Advisory Committee on Committees, 1962-1970

This series contains correspondence of the Advisory Committee on Committees of the Undergraduate Faculty Council. Topics include bylaws, student participation, and committee appointments.

1 Correspondence, 1962-1970 Committee on Academic Standards, 1953-1968 1 Correspondence, 1956-1964 Minutes, 1963-1964 Reports, 1954-1968 6 Attrition studies Committee files, 1954-1962 Correspondence, 1953-1956 Minutes, 1953-1955 Minutes, 1955-1956 Reports, 1955-1958 7 Minutes, 1956-1962 Committee on Courses of Instruction, 1948-1971

This series includes agendas, correspondence, course approvals, minutes, and proceedings of minutes of the Committee on Courses of Instruction of the Undergraduate Faculty Council. Topics include the approval of proposals for new courses, programs, and professors.

1 Agendas, 1965-1971 Correspondence, 1951-1954 Correspondence, 1955 Correspondence, 1956-1957 Correspondence, 1958 Correspondence, 1959 Correspondence, 1960 Course Approvals, 1970-1971 Minutes, 1948-1964 Minutes, 1965-1969 Proceedings of Minutes, 1948-1960 Proceedings of Minutes, 1961-1965 Committee on the Organization of the Undergraduate Faculty Council, 1962-1971

This series contains correspondence, minutes, and reports of the Committee on the Organization of the Undergraduate Faculty Council. Documents include a detailed report on the organization and the functions of the Undergraduate Faculty Council.

1 Correspondence, 1965-1966 Minutes, 1963 Reports, 1962-1964, 1971 Committee on Study Abroad, 1961-1971

This series contains correspondence between educators at Duke and other institutions such as Vanderbilt and Stanford, minutes, program brochures, reports, and student records of the Committee on the Study Abroad of the Undergraduate Faculty Council. This series also contains one photograph, which is housed in a folder labeled "miscellaneous." Topics include program designs, descriptions of summer study programs, academic qualification of students, and recommendations.

1 Correspondence, 1961-1967 Correspondence, 1968-1969 2 Correspondence, 1970-1971 Minutes, 1961-1971 Miscellaneous, 1962-1971 Programs, 1966-1971 Reports, 1962-1976 Committee on Undergraduate Instruction, 1953-1967

This series contains correspondence, newspaper clipping, notes, proposals, publications, and reports of the Committee on Undergraduate Instruction of the Undergraduate Faculty Council. Topics include curriculum proposals, committee appointments, and education program reviews. Publications include the Academic Guide for Freshman, the Manual of Style for Duke Undergraduate Term Papers, and the Duke University Faculty Newsletter.

2 Correspondence, 1964-1966 Correspondence, 1967 Newspaper Clippings, 1967 Notes, 1966-1967 Proposals, 1963-1967 Publications guide, 1964-1965 Publications, 1953-1964 Publications, 1965-1967 Reports, 1964 Reports, 1965-1967 Subcommittee on Curriculum, 1958-1971

This series contains correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, notes, publications, questionnaires, and reports of the Subcommittee of the Curriculum of the Committee on Undergraduate Instruction of the Undergraduate Faculty Council. This series includes multiple drafts of the Krueger Report, called "Varieties of Learning Experience" (1968), which is a curriculum study funded by the Board of Education of the Methodist Church. Topics include committee appointments, work-study, honors program, the arts, physical education, and other curricular matters from faculty, alumni, and student groups.

Correspondence, 1965-1966 Correspondence, 1967 Correspondence, 1968 Correspondence, 1968 Correspondence, 1969-1971 Krueger Report -- Drafts, 1967-1968 Krueger Report, 1968 Krueger Report -- Papers, 1968 Minutes, 1965-1969 Newspaper Clippings, 1966-1968 3 Notes, 1967-1971 Publications, 1958; 1964-1967 Questionnaires, 1960, 1968 Questionnaires, 1970-1971 Reports, 1965-1966 Reports, 1967 Reports, 1967 Reports, 1968 Reports, 1968 Reports, 1968-1969 Reports, 1969-1971 Reports--PER, 1967-1968 A.G. Reichenberger Current Meeting, 1971 1971 Personal documents, 1971 Comparative Literature, 1970 Grading, 1969-1970 Graduating with distinction in interdisciplinary programs Humanities, comparative literature, 1970 Duke University Research Council, 1971 Minutes, 1970-1971 Interdisciplinary Programs, 1970 Miscellaneous corresondence New Curriculum, 1968 Report, 1971 Questionnaire Questionnaire, 1970 Questionnaire results, 1970 Questionnaire, comments Nursing, 1969 Materials from Ballantyne, 1968-1970 Paramedical program, 1970 Physical Education Requirement, 1969-1970 4 Physical Education Major, 1967-1970 Physical Education, 1971 Report, 1971 Report, 1971 Unfinished business, 1969-1970 Wilson House, 1970 Zoology, Beaufort Program, 1970 Medieval and Reinaissance Studies Bruce Wardropper, memoranda and correspondence, 1970-1972 Minutes, proposals and reports Foreign Language Requirements Memoranda, correspondence, minutes and reports Unclassified Subcommittee on Grading, 1965-1970

This series contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and reports of the Subcommittee on Grading of the Committee on Undergraduate Instruction of the Undergraduate Faculty Council. Topics include modification of the grading system, the possible institution of a plus and minus grading system, the pass-fail grading system, and academic standards and grading.

Correspondence, 1966-1970 Newspaper Clippings, 1965-1966 Reports, 1965-1966 Subcommittee on Policy, 1964-1971

This series contains memoranda, reports, and minutes of the Subcommittee on Policy of the Committee on Undergraduate Instruction of the Undergraduate Faculty Council. Topics include administering the plus and minus grading system, the pass-fail grading system, the structure of the subcommittee, and subcommittee appointments.

Memoranda and Reports, 1968-1971 Minutes, 1964-1968 1971 Curriculum Committee, 1955-1969

This series contains agendas, correspondence, and reports of the Curriculum Committee of the Undergraduate Faculty Council. Topics include curricula reviews, course approval requests, course revisions, long-range planning, and curriculum models for undergraduate education.

4 Agendas, 1958 Correspondence, 1955-1959 Correspondence, 1960 Correspondence, 1961 Correspondence, 1962-1964 Reports CSRL, 1969 General, 1957-1960 General, 1961-1964 General, 1964-1965 Parker Report, 1959-1960 Parker Report, 1961 Supervisory Committee for the Faculty Advisory System, 1952-1972

This series contains Faculty Advisors' Handbooks, correspondence, and reports of the Faculty Advisory System of the Undergraduate Faculty Council. Topics include pre-registration, curricula, the pass-fail grading system, advisement schedules, and reports pertaining to the faculty advisory program.

4 Faculty Advisors' Handbook, 1952-1957 Faculty Advisors' Handbook, 1958-1959 and undated 5 Faculty Advisors' Handbook, 1960-1962 Faculty Advisors' Handbook, 1963-1964 SCFAS Correspondence, 1952-1966 SCFAS Reports, 1955-1971 and undated Program II Committee, 1969-1972

This series contains agendas, correspondence, minutes, reports, and student proposals of the Program II Committee of the Undergraduate Faculty Council. Topics include general program information, committee appointments, student applications with proposals, and graduating with distinction. Program II allowed students to design their own plan of study.

5 Agendas, 1970-1972 Correspondence, 1970-1972 Minutes, 1969-1972 Reports, 1970-1971 Student Proposals, 1971-1971 Student Proposals, 1971-1972 Student Proposals, 1972-1972 Robert Charles Krueger Files, circa 1967-1972

This series contains the files of Robert Charles Krueger, who headed the Curriculum Committee which overhauled the undergraduate curriculum. His reforms allowed students leeway to select more elective courses from a broader range of disciplines.

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8-11 Robert Charles Krueger files Related Material Undergraduate Faculty Council of Arts and Sciences records. University Archives, Duke University.