Collections : [University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library]

The Administrative Records series (1 linear foot) include budget information, departmental histories, and club and organizational records. Budget files contain worksheets, used to track salaries, which detail increases, decreases and promotions. There is also correspondence concerning justification for budget requests. Departmental histories include several brief histories, as well as a copy of the script from a play, titled "T.H.", performed in 1957 in honor of T.H. Hildebrandt's retirement. There is, in addition, an interesting thirteen-page transcript of the recollections of Raymond L. Wilder, in which he discusses other faculty members, recruitment, and curriculum changes during his tenure as professor from 1926 to 1968. Wilfred Kaplan's history includes an appendix listing all of the faculty members who served in the department from 1841 to 1988. Club and organizational records contain the files of the Undergraduate Mathematics Club and the Ishango Society of Mathematics. The Undergraduate Mathematics Club was established ca. 1890 and was designed to stimulate discussion on mathematical topics through presentations and meetings. The records include a minute book covering the years 1913 to 1937. It presents a relatively complete record of the club's activities, finances, and papers presented. The Ishango Society of Mathematics was created in 1975 by African American graduate students to give voice to their demands for more minority students and faculty members. The materials primarily consist of correspondence between the organization and the department.

The Administrative Records series is divided into two subseries, Staff Files and Topical Files. The Staff Files subseries contains the Directors' Correspondence for the late 1960s, most of the 1970s and the early 1980s, information on the Center's associates, a few Library files regarding the Center's holdings in the Graduate Library's Asia Library, and Center correspondence with other Southeast Asian studies institutes. It includes information on staff and student work, and travel documents, and donor files. The Topical Files subseries was organized alphabetically, with new materials organized on the box level, and documents Center projects, studies groups, mailings and information on specific areas of South and Southeast Asian study.

The Administrative series includes office correspondence, financial files, meeting minutes, and planning proposals, giving information on the daily operations of the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs. The Administrative series includes records of Minority Student Services (MSS). Within these files are notes from the MSS retreat, MSS training council, and the multi-cultural training program. These programs helped the staff learn more about other cultures and how to plan better programs that serve the needs of students who identified with those cultures. This series also includes materials related to MESA's student organization grant program, files from the computer of Program Manager, associate director and interim director Linh Nguyen, and materials related to the Growing Allies retreat.

The first series, Administrative Records (1936-1983), contains topical files relating to a number of areas of the Society's operation, documenting the work of and on various committees and activities. It also includes articles of incorporation and bylaws, newsletters, correspondence, and records relating to real estate owned by the cooperative.

The series Administrative Records (1957-1997) consists of seven sub-series: Executive Committee, Inter-Center Council, Curriculum Materials, Orientation Materials, Advisory Council, Business Outreach, and Conference Materials. The sub-series Executive Committee documents the administration of CREES since it was founded. Of special interest to the researcher will be the history of the center. The Inter-Center Council was made up of representatives from all of the area centers. Its concern was how all of the centers should work together at the university. Curriculum Materials contains many bibliographies that were used for the courses that were taught. Orientation Materials are the records of a series of orientations that CREES held in conjunction with the Business School for people who were traveling to Russia or East European countries. They introduced people to a basic history of the country, the current political and social situation of the country and the culture of the country. Business Outreach and Advisory Council documents CREES's interest in making ties to the business community. Business Outreach covers the earlier, initial phase of the program, while Advisory Council is the official name that was given to the program once it became an established part of the center. The final sub-series, Conference Materials, documents the planning that went into many of the conferences that CREES sponsored.

The Administrative Records documents some of the daily operations of GTN, its staff. The series includes some correspondence, as well as company advertisements, and newsletters.

The Administrative Records series documents the work of a number of departmental and university committees and the management of the women's athletics program. The principal files in the Administrative Records series include: Topical File, Advisory Committee on Recreation, Intramurals, and Sports Clubs; Advisory Committee on Women's Intercollegiate Athletics; Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics; Budget; Salary and Personnel; Championships and Tournaments Hosted; and Individual Sports.