Collections : [University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library]

The Administrative series includes grant proposals, by-laws, meeting minutes, and promotional material. A draft proposal prepared for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) offers the most complete overview of the organization's goals, objectives and inspirations. Meeting minutes also reveal strategies that were devised to gather the collective and individual memories of the community before opportunities disappeared. Since the organization's primary intent was to publish a book, the folder entitled "Book, Notes and Outlines for" is valuable for understanding the scope of the project.

The Administrative series best illustrates the internal structure and workings of the organization, particularly in its constitution and bylaws, reports to the national organization (scattered), minutes of executive and general meetings, and incoming and outgoing correspondence. Correspondence files, for example, effectively illuminate the organization's concentrated effort to broaden community support for the organization. Numbers of these documents are marked as "agenda items" and similar items appear also in files containing minutes for executive and general meetings. Newsletters, initiated in 1987, are an effective vehicle for ascertaining how the branch projected itself to its membership, and press releases are a useful source for looking at the range of issues and activities it relied on the media, in a large part, to write about and help promote. Thirteen folders of newspaper clippings attest to the success of the branch in utilizing and responding to media attention. (The collection of clippings were copied onto acid-free paper and are arranged chronologically.)

Administrative material also holds applications prepared for the prestigious Thalheimer Award, recognition bestowed annually on chapters at each national NAACP convention for outstanding programmatic activity. This is a particularly rich source. Each application includes summaries of the year's activities, offers supporting evidence, illustrates local support, and in most cases, includes photographs (photocopied onto acid-free paper) of major events. Researchers should note that a file of financial material in this series is closed until the year 2006.

The Administrative series (2.5 linear feet) contains general information about the various branches of the Core Technology Alliance, the application for funding from 21st Century Jobs, reports and reviews, by-laws, grant applications, information on the relations with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and other administrative information.

The Administrative series (1 linear ft., 1969-2000) covers aspects of running and managing Schuler's restaurants, including public relations files, manuals and employee handbooks, and food and cost evaluations. The Administrative series also includes files covering special events planning, like the All-Michigan meal, Harvest dinners, and Michigan Week activities. Employee and family background materials can also be found here, including resumes and biographies of Win and Hans Schuler and the Board of Directors.

The Administrative series, 1945-1995, contains minutes, reports from officers, financial reports, and governance information. The minutes document meetings, decisions, activities and events, and membership in Gamma Chapter, and are complete between 1945 and 1959; gaps appear throughout the remaining years. Presidents' reports contain regular reports created by the chapter president for the national leadership of Mu Phi Epsilon and presidential speeches to Gamma members, which report on the status and activities of the chapter. Reports from other officers regarding the fulfillment of their duties are included in the Officers' reports, along with reports created by district leadership for national and chapter leaders. The series also includes available are the available annual financial reports for Gamma Chapter. Finally, the series contains materials pertaining to governance, such as Gamma Chapter bylaws, the national constitution and bylaws and officer manuals, from before and after Title IX legislation, and a rushing manual, used in initiation activities.

The Administrative series, 1964-2000 (0.6 linear feet), documents the daily details of running the Center The records included in this series trace the growth and development of the Center. Of particular note are the annual reports covering the activities and projects of the CRSO, changes in faculty, and grant activity.

The Administrative series (0.6 linear feet and one oversize folder) consists mostly of correspondence and work-related files maintained between 1966 and 1969, although it also includes several scattered folders of information from the late 1990s. Several folders of historical material and staff meeting minutes are also included.

The Administrative series, 1983-2003 (0.10 linear feet), contains minutes of Armenian Studies Program committee meetings. The minutes of these committee meetings discuss the current status and future objectives of the program. Of particular note is the agreement that the University of Michigan has with Yerevan State University for the Summer Language Institute.