http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0489p7t8 No online items Guide to the University of California, Office of the President Records, 1914-1958 Processed by The Bancroft Library staff. The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California, 94720-6000 Phone: (510) 642-6481 Fax: (510) 642-7589 Email: [email protected] URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu © 2003 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Guide to the University of CU-5, Series 2 1 California, Office of the President Records, 1914-1958 Guide to the University of California, Office of the President Records, 1914-1958 Collection number: CU-5, Series 2 The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California Contact Information: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California, 94720-6000 Phone: (510) 642-6481 Fax: (510) 642-7589 Email: [email protected] URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu Processed by: The Bancroft Library staff Date Completed: September 2003 Encoded by: James Lake © 2003 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Collection Summary Collection Title: University of California, Office of the President records, Date (inclusive): 1914-1958 Collection Number: CU-5, Series 2 Creator: University of California (System). Office of the President Extent: 612.5 linear ft. Repository: The Bancroft Library. Berkeley, California 94720-6000 Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Languages Represented: English Access The collection is open for research, although certain kinds of confidential information may be withheld if found. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Guide to the University of CU-5, Series 2 2 California, Office of the President Records, 1914-1958 Preferred Citation University of California, Office of the President records. CU-5, Series 2, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Provenance Office of the President, University of California; transferred between 1959 and 1967. Scope and Content Note Series 2 of the Records of the Office of the President, University of California, covers the period 1914-1958. As in other series of these records, they reflect the activity of the entire office, not limited to the files of the president only. Individual campuses, and those research stations which came to be considered separate campuses during this period, had little autonomy for the most part; administrative decisions were highly centralized in the Office of the President.. Los Angeles did have a local administrator who had some local authority, but even so President Robert Gordon Sproul spent several weeks each year on that campus. The content of the files changed greatly as the university administration decentralized and responsibility for various facets of the administration devolved to individual campus, beginning in 1952, with the appointment of a chancellor for the Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses. In 1952 the files in this collection became slim indeed but then grew as the systemwide administration was restructured. Accordingly, while there are indeed still files on, for example, particular departments on a campus, major high administrative level information on that department will be found in the individual campus's chancellor's records; only certain aspects of operation would rise to the level of the president's office. Because of the history of the university and it's growth, the Berkeley campus and the systemwide administration were more or less synonymous; for this reason there are very few entries under Berkeley or UCB. On the other hand, an attempt has been made to gather materials relating to other campuses under an abbreviation for that campus, UCD, UCLA, UCR, etc. Another anomaly is that departments of instruction were generally not listed separately in the source documents for this index; they are all filed alphabetically under "Departments" (or "UCLA [or other campus] - Departments." (There is not necessarily a file for every department in every year.) In the early years of this period there is much more indexing and coding into file numbers by specific heading. However, as time progressed and the coding system achieved more regularity folder headings became broader and were subdivided by campus or by subunit. For example. you might find for some years and entry under "UCLA - Library" while for later years the entry "Library" will be subdivided by campus, even if this is not necessarily indicated by the heading. The index which follows covers the period 1931-1958. It was compiled from existing year-by-year lists of folder titles, which begin with the year 1936, and by actual examination of files from earlier years. This was followed by some weeding of the files, a complete inventory of the entire span years, and an extensive review of the folder titles to ensure as much uniformity as possible. Although this finding aid represents the records by means of a topical/organizational approach, extensive and much more detailed card indexes exist, which may be consulted through University Archives. As of this writing it has not been possible to convert to machine readable form all the records for this period in order to prepare a finding aid for the entire series. The years 1914-1930 will require much additional work. Access to these years is through extensive card files, requiring consultation through University Archives. The files do not attain much regularity or realization of the advantage of filing based upon a topical/organizational approach until the 1930s. These earlier years have much more reliance a personal name approach; for example, files relating to the Department of English may be indexed under the name of the chair of the department only. These files are arranged first by year, then by file number. Requests should specify the collection number, then year, then file, e.g., CU-5 Ser. 2 1944:35. It will be of great assistance to submit extensive requests in chronological and file number order. 1931 Item: 1931:002 News Bureau - Public Information Service Item: 1931:003 Comptroller's Office Item: 1931:008 International House Item: 1931:009 Administrative and academic committees Guide to the University of CU-5, Series 2 3 California, Office of the President Records, 1914-1958 Container List Item: 1931:011 Class of 1917 Item: 1931:012 UCLA - Administrative matters Item: 1931:013 Buildings and grounds Item: 1931:014 UCSF - College of Dentistry Item: 1931:015 UCSF - buildings and grounds Item: 1931:017 Board of Research Item: 1931:018 UCLA - A Capella Choir Item: 1931:019 Treasurer Item: 1931:020 Scripps Institution Item: 1931:022 UCSF - College of Pharmacy Item: 1931:023 Library Item: 1931:024 American Trust Company Item: 1931:025 Loans Item: 1931:026 Hesse Hall Item: 1931:027 Humboldt County Redwood Reforestation Committee Item: 1931:028 Southwest area development (UCB) Item: 1931:029 Budget Item: 1931:031 Pensions, annuities, retirements Item: 1931:034 Legislative matters, Four year colleges Item: 1931:035 UCSF - buildings and grounds Item: 1931:036 Lick Observatory Item: 1931:038 Chambers of Commerce Item: 1931:040 Legislative matters - budget Item: 1931:041 Associated Students of UC - athletics Item: 1931:042 Travel grants and leaves Item: 1931:043 Alumni Association Guide to the University of CU-5, Series 2 4 California, Office of the President Records, 1914-1958 Container List Item: 1931:046 Vitt Property--leases, golf course Item: 1931:048 Class of 1922 Item: 1931:050 Comptroller's Office - pension funds Item: 1931:051 Winged Helmet Item: 1931:057 President Sproul correspondence Item: 1931:058 President Sproul and Deutch Correspondence Item: 1931:059 Chepourkoff, Michael - art Item: 1931:060 Pan American Reciprocal Trade Conference Item: 1931:061 Scholarships Item: 1931:062 Wachs, Annie N. and Aaron N. Scholarship Item: 1931:063 University Attorney Item: 1931:064 Employment rules and regulations Item: 1931:068 UCLA - Graduate work Item: 1931:070 Admissions requirements Item: 1931:071 Admissions Item: 1931:073 Brown, Arthur Item: 1931:074 Coit, Lillie H. estate Item: 1931:075 Walton, Frank J. memorial loan fund Item: 1931:078 Hooper Foundation Item: 1931:081 Bear Gulch Water Company Item: 1931:082 Buildings - by name of building Item: 1931:083 Comptroller's Office Item: 1931:084 Cowell Hospital Item: 1931:088 Gifts Item: 1931:089 Signature authorization Item: 1931:090 Eli Lilly Company Guide to the University of CU-5, Series 2 5 California, Office of the President Records, 1914-1958 Container List Item: 1931:094 University of Oregon Item: 1931:095 Registrar's Office Item: 1931:100 Departments, museums, collections Item: 1931:101 Police Administration - Vollmer Item: 1931:103 UCSF - University Hospital Item: 1931:104 Kearney Vineyard Item: 1931:105 Kearney Vineyard Item: 1931:106 Bowles Hall Item: 1931:108 UCLA - Dormitory (Kerckhoff Hall) Item: 1931:110 National Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities Item: 1931:112 Chambers of Commerce; Community Chest Item: 1931:114 College of Agriculture