Collections : [Central Michigan University Clarke Historical Library]

The collection includes minutes and correspondence related to the Academic Senate, its committees, and chairpersons.

The strength of the collection is the Meeting Minutes of the Academic Senate and its related committees. Other materials found in the collection include: curriculum change requests; Dean’s Advisory Councils meeting minutes; resolutions; correspondence; special reports; recommendations; course syllabi; the Senate Constitution; and miscellaneous materials. Some Meeting Minutes are only represented in the collection in cassette form. Pre-Senate materials, 1940-1964, are also included. Folders with contents described as “Materials” includes a mixture of meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, calendars, etc. See separate finding aid for additions to the collection.

For additional Senate Records see Richard Wysong papers (He served as Chair of the Senate in the 1960s).

Processing Note: The published reports of the CMU President have been removed from the collection and separately cataloged.

In order to facilitate future use by the Academic Senate, Boxes 1-14 and 25 were processed and left in the original order in which they were kept in the Senate office prior to being transferred to the Clarke in May and June 2002. Boxes 15-24 were processed differently, having been compiled from vertical files and prior donations from various sources.

The collection includes minutes and correspondence related to the Academic Senate, its committees, and chairpersons.

The strength of the collection is the Meeting Minutes of the Academic Senate, and its related committees and Executive Board, 1980-2000. Other materials found in the collection include: Academic Senate Chairperson Correspondence, 1980-2000; Undergraduate Curriculum Minutes, 1978-1994; School and later College Curriculum Committee Minutes, 1980-2000; Dean’s Advisory Councils Minutes, 1980-2000; Miscellaneous Minutes of the MSA Council, 1999-2005. Also included are Academic Senate Committee Documents, 1980-2000; Senate Minutes, 1983-1984. Materials are organized chronologically and then alphabetically in an order used by the Secretary of the Academic Senate. Original order was maintained. This 2009 addition is a continuation of the CMU. Academic Senate Organizational Records, 1940-2003, 23.5 cubic ft. (in 25 boxes) donated in 2002-2004. See separate finding aid for the 1940-2003 collection.

The collection consists of Osborn's personal work and research correspondence, notes, and data, proposals, photographs, reports, and published articles related to his work on the Coleman Meteorite, Hubble Space Telescope and at the National Underground Research Observatory (NURO) at Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff (Ariz.), teaching materials, and biographical information.

The collection is divided into three series: Osborn Papers; CMU Materials; and CMU Physics Department Materials.

The Osborn Papers, 1965-2012, and undated, (2 cubic ft.) consist mainly of his personal work and research correspondence, notes, and data, published articles, teaching materials, and biographical information. Included here are his research proposals, reports, notes, articles, photographs and other related materials on the Coleman Meteorite, and his research projects at both the Hubble Space Telescope and at NURO. Also in this series are his correspondence with Dr. Francisco Fuenmayor and Dr. Antonio Luis Cardenas, both of the Universidad de Los Andes in Merida, Venezuela, 2000-2001 and 1970-1976, respectively, and his correspondence with Juan Jose Claria, 1979-1979. Osborn worked with Claria at the Venezuelan National Observatory, 1973-1976. Claria later became the Director of the National Astronomical Observatory in Cordoba, Argentina. The Claria correspondence is in Spanish.

The CMU Materials, 1959, 2006, (approximately 1 cubic ft.) consists mainly of memos, meeting minutes, reports, and other materials of a substantial nature documenting changes in policy, procedure or interests at CMU that Osborn received while working at CMU. Of note here is the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools Report and Assessment, 2000.

The CMU. Physics Department Materials, 1968-2006 (approximately 3.5 cubic ft.), consist mainly of various departmental and other meeting minutes, 1972-2006. Included here are student manuals and study guides for CMU astronomy and physics classes, mainly taught by Osborn, 1976-2005 (Scattered). All of the manuals and guides are by Osborn unless otherwise noted. They include sample class presentation notes, quizzes, study guides, and exams. There are also a few materials he received or helped generate, such as the Off-Campus Observatory Proposal and Study, 1968-1976, Colloquia and Seminar Notes, 1980-2006, and various Department Program Reviews, 1981-1998 (Scattered), and Proposals. A few miscellaneous departmental materials complete the collection.

Processing Notes: Over the years, many of Osborn’s Physics Dept. donations were filed into the Clarke’s CMU Vertical Files for the Physics Dept. With his last donation, all the Physics Dept. files he had donated in the last ten years were merged with his papers. A number of CMU. Faculty Association newsletters, the Courier, were merged into the existing CMU. Faculty Association collection and two OMB reports were merged into the CMU. Miscellaneous Financial Collection. Duplicate materials, mainly minutes, were recycled.

The collection documents the career of Professor Macleod. His papers are divided into two series: Department of History and CMU committees.

The papers document the career of Professor Macleod, especially committees and special projects at CMU, on the Academic Senate, and within the Department of History. As such the collection has been processed into two main series: Department of History, and CMU committees. Materials are then organized alphabetically and chronologically within each series.

There is extensive documentation of the Department of History through departmental agendas, meeting minutes, policies and notices, 1970-2000, as well as the various committees Macleod served on. Chief among these are the Graduate Committees and Strathclyde committees and correspondence, as well as International Education and Long-Range Planning committees materials which led to the creation of and support for the History Exchange Program between Strathclyde University, Scotland, and CMU, 1980s-1990s. Other committees, departmental projects and a myriad of issues, such as teacher education, certification, preparedness, and testing, use of graduates, writing requirements, are also well documented. CMU Department of History Newsletters, 1976-2004 (Scattered), are also included. With a folder of Professor Macleod’s Biographical Materials, the History Department materials compose most of the collection, Boxes 1 through part of 8, approximately 4 cubic feet. This series provides excellent historical documentation of the department, 1970-2000.

The second series consists of Boxes 8 (part)-12, approximately 2 cubic feet, and documents CMU committees, mostly Academic Senate and General Education committees, council, subcommittees, ad hoc committees, the graduate council, and the Clarke Historical Library Director Search Committee, all of which Professor Macleod served on or chaired. Materials include mostly correspondence, including emails, agendas, meeting minutes, related materials, reports, official “documents,” surveys, proposals, forms, drafts, resolutions. These materials provide very good documentation of the working, goals, and accomplishments of these departments. The last folder includes documents the crisis of loss of CMU’s faculty’s confidence in President Edward B. Jakubauskas, 1989, which resulted in his resignation.

Processing Note: All evaluations, vitas, personal information of others, and numerous miscellaneous notes, the main points of which were later incorporated into correspondence or reports have been withdrawn from the collection, as well as general reading materials, generic newspaper clippings, and numerous duplicates.