Faculty Committees
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection includes records from ad-hoc faculty committtees, task forces, and councils, as well as now-defunct standing faculty committees.
This collection consists of minutes, correspondence, and reports from various committees composed of faculty members. These committees discuss the curriculum, finance, and the development of the College.
Dates
- Creation: 1921 - 2005
Creator
- Barnard College (Organization)
Reproductions Restrictions
Photocopies or scans may be made for research purposes.
Publication Rights
Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Barnard Archives and Special Collections. The Barnard Archives and Special Collections approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Extent
3.34 Linear Feet (8 document boxes)
Language
English
Abstract
This collection consists of materials from Barnard College faculty committees.
Collection Arrangement
This collection is arranged by committee. The materials of each committee are arranged chronologically.
Physical Location
This collection is located in the Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library. To use this collection, please contact the Barnard Archives and Special Collections at 212.854.4079 or archives@barnard.edu.
Acquisition Information
Barnard-Columbia Joint Committee on Cooperation transferred from President's Office, 1978.
Draft of Code of Academic Freedom and Tenure and Report of the Committee to Review the Curriculum transferred from Barnard Library, 1978.
Report of the Committee to Review the Curriculum and Report of the Sub-Committee on the Program of Studies: College Preparation and the Barnard Curriculum transferred from Registrar's Office, 1992.
The following materials from 2003-2004 were transferred from Professor Sue Sacks in 2023: Tenure Review Process Committee, Off-Ladder Faculty Committee, Learning Disabilities Committee.
The acquisition date and source of the rest of the material is unknown.
Accruals
Additions are expected.
Processing History
This collection was processed and the finding aid written by Alice Griffin, 2015. From March to April 2024, Olivia Newsome made significant changes to the collection contents and description.
During March-April 2024, Olivia Newsome moved records from the Committee to Meet the Needs of the Disabled (CMND)/Barnard Design for Access (BDA); the Committee on Institutional Assessment; and Judicial Council to the record group BC19 (committees), after determining that these were not faculty committees.
In April 2024, Olivia Newsome moved the following materials from standing committees out of this collection and created new collections for them in record group BC06: Advisory Committee on Appointments, Tenure, and Promotions (ATP), now BC06.06; BLAIS Advisory Committee; Faculty Budget and Planning Committee (FBPC), now BC06.04; Faculty Governance and Procedures Committee (FGPC), now BC06.09; Faculty Finance and Resource Committee (FFRC), now BC06.09; Committee on Committees, now BC06.12; and Faculty Executive Committee (FEC), now BC06.13.
In April 2024, Olivia Newsome moved the following materials out of this collection and into the Committee on Instruction collection, BCO6.03: Committee on Courses of Study; Curriculum Committee; Curriculum Review Committee; Subcommittee on Advanced Placement and Advanced Standing; Subcommittee on Administrative Problems.
Additionally, Olivia Newsome moved the collections formerly in BC19.13, BC19.06, BC19.08, BC19.04, and BC19.10 (Committee on Scholarships; Committee on Foreign Language Requirements; Committee on the Schedule of Hours; Committee on Committee on Advice to New Students and Committee on Students' Programs; and Committee on Transfers) from the BC19 record group (Committees) to BC06.01 (Faculty Committees) to reflect these are or were all faculty committees.
In April 2024, Olivia Newsome moved the records of the Ad-Hoc Summer School Committee from the Committee on Instruction collection, BC06.03, to BC06.01 to reflect that it was an ad-hoc faculty committee. Olivia Newsome also moved the Committee on Foreign Language Requirements from BC06.03 to BCO6.01 because its contents were unrelated to Committee on Instruction. Olivia Newsome also moved the records of the Committee on the Developing Student from BC05.02 to this collection since it was a faculty committee. Additionally, Olivia Newsome moved the Barnard Council file to BC05.07, Development Office, since it was not a faculty committee and was administered by the Development Office.
From June 2024-August 2024, undergraduate associates Ruben Carter and Gabriela Ogando Ortega rehoused the majority of the collection and added historical notes to most of the committees.
In February 2025, Olivia Newsome moved the committees materials within BC44 Diversity Collections to BC06.01, as these were faculty committees. Additionally, BC44 was dissolved and no longer exists.
Finding aid adheres to descriptive rules prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard.
- Scholar and Feminist X Planning Committee minutes.
- Memos from President's Office to faculty and staff.
- Report from a 1991 self-study.
- Memo from CORRE.
- Faculty meeting minutes and agendas.
- Memos to Women's Center.
- Committee to Meet the Needs of the Disabled (CMND)/Barnard Design for Access (BDA) materials
- Advisory Committee on Appointments, Tenure, and Promotions (ATP); BLAIS Advisory Committee; Faculty Planning Committee; Faculty Governance and Procedures Committee (FGP); Faculty Finance Committee (FFC); Committee on Committees; Faculty Executive Committee (FEC).
- Committee on Courses of Study; Curriculum Committee; Curriculum Review Committee; Subcommittee on Advanced Placement and Advanced Standing; Subcommittee on Administrative Problems.
- Barnard Council
- Title
- Guide to the Faculty Committees Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Alice Griffin and Olivia Newsome
- Date
- © 2015 and 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Barnard Archives and Special Collections Repository