Office of the Vice-President Academic and Dean, 1965-2021
Description
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Types
- Announcements
- Correspondence
- Documents
- Forms (Documents)
- Description
- ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY;
The Academic Dean, who is also Vice-President of St. Jerome's University, is the chief academic officer of the University and has supervision over and direction of the academic work and general administration of the University and its faculty, academic officers, and students. The Vice-President and Academic Dean also has such other powers and duties as from time to time may be conferred upon or assigned to him/her by the Board of Governors or the President. Some of these duties are:
a) Development and continuing assessment of academic programs and departments;
b) Allocation of departmental budgets in general;
c) All formal academic recommendations to the President;
d) University of Waterloo relations on the decanal level;
e) Overseeing the advising of non-major students;
f) Chairs the Academic Committee, the Supervisors'Committee, and the Research Committee.
The Vice-President and Academic Dean is appointed by the Board of Governors, through the President, for a term of five years and he or she may be reappointed for an additional term of up to five years.
The name of the office was changed in February, 2014 to Vice-President Academic and Dean.
SCOPE AND CONTENTS:
This subgroup comprises the general administrative records relating to the academic operation of St. Jerome's University which emanate from the Office of the Academic Dean. Records include official documents and forms, correspondence, notes, memorandum, agendas and minutes of meetings, reports, and various other materials.
The records are arranged in series by Academic Dean and committees chaired by the Academic Dean:
1) Academic Committee records;
2) Zachary Ralston, C.R., 1965-1970;
3) James A. Wahl, C.R., 1970-1975;
4) Douglas R. Letson, 1975-1981 and 1987-1989;
5) Peter Naus, 1981-1987;
6) Kenneth McLaughlin, 1989-1995;
7) Michael W.. Higgins, 1995-1999;
8) Kieran Bonner, 1999-2005;
9) Myroslaw Tataryn, 2005-2011;
10) James S. Frank, 2011-2014;
11) Scott Kline, 2014-2019;
12) Christina Vanin (Interim), 2019-2021.
- Notes
- Series descriptions are available.
Arrangement: The records for each Academic Dean are arranged by subject.
Language: The records are primarily in English; there are some in French.
Accruals: Further accruals are expected.
- Date of Publication
- 1965
- Corporate Name(s)
- St. Jerome's University
- Collection
- St.Jerome’s College records
- Language of Item
- English; French
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.4694629930038 Longitude: -80.5461678844833
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- Physical Description
- 2.32 m. of textual records 3 computer diskettes
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- SJU Archives
- Location of Original
- 2-1-3-B3;
B4;
B21;
B22;
B23;
2-1-4-C17;
2-2-4-C24;
2-2-4-C25;
2-2-4-C26;
2-2-4-C27;
2-1-2-A40;
2-2-2-A49 - Terms of Use
- By permission of the Office of the Vice-president Academic and Dean.
- Contact
- St. Jerome's University LibraryEmail:sjuarchives@uwaterloo.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:290 Westmount Rd. N.
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G3
St. Jerome's University is located in Waterloo, Ontario, and is situated in the University of Waterloo. It was founded as St. Jerome's College in 1865 by the Congregation of the Resurrection. In 1959, it was granted university status and changed its name to the University of St. Jerome's College. It has been federated with the University of Waterloo since 1960. In 1998, the name was officially changed to St. Jerome's University.
