North Carolina State University, Committees, University Government Committee Records 1945-1985 (bulk 1954-1972)

A College Committee on Government and Administration was formed in 1945 to survey the governmental structure of the then North Carolina State College. It issued a report and appears to have disbanded the following year. In 1952 a Committee on College Government was formed to recommend "an instrument of faculty government." Based on its recommendations, a Faculty Senate was instituted on a three-year trial basis in 1954, and the Committee was charged with observing the faculty government and make recommendations for its improvement. The trial period was extended an additional three years in 1957, and in 1960 the Committee recommended that the Senate be established on a permanent basis. The Committee continued to observe faculty government, and made additional recommendations. Its name was changed to the University Government Committee in 1967. The committee was abolished in 2006 and its duties are now handled by the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate.

The University Government Committee Records include memos, reports, drafts and letters documenting the work of the Committee. The most prominent aspect of that work was the establishment of the Faculty Senate and the refinement of mechanisms for faculty representation in University academic administration during the years 1952-1974. There is also a single folder of materials relating to an earlier iteration of the Committee and its 1946 report, and a folder of documents from the mid-1980s regarding faculty status of librarians. Aside from this latter folder, the records do not document the Committee's activities after 1974, although the University Government Committee appears to have remained in existence up to 2006, when it was disbanded and its duties assigned to the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate.

This collection retains the order originally found by the processors. The records were acquired in several batches, from at least three different donors. There is a good deal of repetition in the contents, but the arrangement keeps together files that appeared to have been compiled by the same person. Unless otherwise noted, folder labels are original.

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[Identification of item], North Carolina State University, Committees, University Government Committee Records, UA 022.028, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

Transferred from the University Government Committee, and various members thereof, in 15 lots between 1965 and 1984.