Dean of Faculties Records
Collection
Identifier: UA018
The Dean of Faculties records include minutes, legal records, personnel files, financial records, and correspondence.
(six record center cartons)
Authorization is required for research of personnel and student records.
Files on tenure and advancement in Box 5 are restricted.
Permission to publish materials from this collection must be obtained from the Head of Archives and Special Collections.
6 Linear Feet
Records include minutes, legal records, personnel files, financial records, and correspondence. There is also considerable information on program development, construction, and funding, as well as correspondence and records from the Franklin Foundation Lecture Series.
The office of the Dean of Faculties is first referred to in the 1949 Blueprint, the Georgia Tech yearbook. The Dean of Faculties was responsible for the oversight of the academic programs on campus. Lloyd W. (Lloyd Walter) Chapin served as the first Dean; Paul M. Weber succeeded Chapin by 1956 and continued in the position for about a decade. After about 1967, the Engineering Division, the General College Division, the Engineering Experiment Station, and the Graduate Division were each headed by a Dean.
Files are arranged alphabetically.
Accession #1986.0301 (old #86-03-01).
(six record center cartons)
A more detailed inventory is available on request in the Archives reading room.
Christine de Catanzaro encoded this collection summary in March 2006.
Part of the Archives and Special Collections, Library, Georgia Institute of Technology Repository