- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
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Subseries 1A: Complete and Final Minutes of Faculty Meetings, 1781-2010
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
The Complete and Final Minutes subseries groups together the faculty minutes in their bound, final form. The eighteenth and nineteenth century minutes consist mostly of entries written carefully in minutes books; the minutes from the twentieth century to the present also include printed reports and documents from various committees. Minutes from the later half of the twentieth century to the present include an agenda for the next meeting. Beginning in 1968 and ending in 1984, abstracts (or summaries) were created in the interest of transparency. These abstracts form subseries 1B and, from June 1970 to June 1984, are not restricted. Since 1984, the clerk of the faculty no longer wrote up an abstract in addition to minutes, and simply wrote abstracts as if they were the actual minutes. For this reason, the minutes of the faculty from 1984 to the present are not restricted. Clerks of the faculty changed frequently, and they each put their own stamp on the format and content of the minutes.
From approximately 1898 to 1904, the faculty was divided into the academic (non-science) faculty and the school of science faculty, and met in these groups as well as altogether. The minutes of the academic faculty and the scientific faculty are also included in this subseries, as volumes eleven and twelve.
This series is made up of bound volumes that cover the period 1781-1998, unbound minutes housed in boxes that cover the period 1998-2009, and PDFs that cover 2009-2010 and later. Because of their fragile condition, the volumes in Subseries 1A may not be photocopied without the permission of the university archivist. Duplicate material that may be photocopied can, in some cases, be found in subseries 1B and 1C.
- Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Collection History
- Accruals
Periodic transfers of general records from the Office of the Dean of the Faculty are expected indefinitely; personnel files are transferred annually and added to series 6.
- Appraisal
No information on appraisal is available.
- Processing Information
Processed by Matthew Reeder, Rosalba D. Varallo, Shannon DeVore '07, Page Dykstra '06, Lindsey Huddle '07, and Christina McMillan '07. Finding aid written by Matthew Reeder. Box 153 added by Christie Peterson with assistance from Suchi Mandavilli '14 in December 2010. Series 9 added by Lynn Durgin in December 2015. Finding aid updated by Annalise Berdini in February 2018.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The pre-July 1984 minutes are closed for 75 years from the date of creation of the record; the remaining minutes are open for immediate research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. The Trustees of Princeton University hold copyright to all materials generated by Princeton University employees in the course of their work. For instances beyond Fair Use, if copyright is held by Princeton University, researchers do not need to obtain permission, complete any forms, or receive a letter to move forward with use of materials from the Princeton University Archives.
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- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
This collection contains records created and used on computing devices. Researchers are responsible for meeting the technical requirements needed to access these materials, including any and all hardware and software.
- Credit this material:
Subseries 1A: Complete and Final Minutes of Faculty Meetings; Office of Dean of the Faculty Records, AC118, Princeton University Archives, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
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Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript LibrarySeeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library65 Olden StreetPrinceton, NJ 08540, USA
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (mudd): Box 150-151
Find More
- Other Finding Aids
Records described in Series 6 Faculty, Staff, and Trustee Personnel Files are indexed in a searchable database: Faculty and Professional Staff Index, 1764-2006.
These records may also be found in finding aids for each subgroup of the Faculty and Staff Professional Files:
Subgroup 1: A is available at Faculty and Professional Staff Files 1764-2014, Subgroup 1: A.
Subgroup 2: B is available at Faculty and Professional Staff Files 1764-2014, Subgroup 2: B.
Subgroup 3: C is available at Faculty and Professional Staff Files 1764-2014, Subgroup 3: C.
Subgroup 4: E is available at Faculty and Professional Staff Files 1764-2014, Subgroup 4: E.
Subgroup 5: F is available at Faculty and Professional Staff Files 1764-2014, Subgroup 5: F.
Subgroup 6: G is available at Faculty and Professional Staff Files 1764-2014, Subgroup 6: G.
Subgroup 7: H is available at Faculty and Professional Staff Files 1764-2014, Subgroup 7: H.
Subgroup 8: I-K is available at Faculty and Professional Staff Files 1764-2014, Subgroup 8: I-K.
Subgroup 9: L is available at Faculty and Professional Staff Files 1764-2014, Subgroup 9: L.
Subgroup 10: M is available at Faculty and Professional Staff Files 1764-2014, Subgroup 10: M.
Subgroup 11: N is available at Faculty and Professional Staff Files 1764-2014, Subgroup 11: N.
Subgroup 12: O is available at Faculty and Professional Staff Files 1764-2014, Subgroup 12: O.
Subgroup 13: P is available at Faculty and Professional Staff Files 1764-2014, Subgroup 13: P.
Subgroup 14: R-S is available at Faculty and Professional Staff Files 1764-2014, Subgroup 14: R-S.
Subgroup 15: T-W is available at Faculty and Professional Staff Files 1764-2014, Subgroup 15: T-W.
Subgroup 16: Other, Unknown, and Multiple Departments is available at Faculty and Professional Staff Files 1764-2014, Subgroup 16: Other, Unknown, and Multiple Departments.
Full text searching of this collection's archived website(s) is available through the Archive-It interface.
- Bibliography
A 1974 dissertation studying the creation of the position of dean of the faculty at the College of New Jersey (Princeton University), and the campus climate that led to it (call number LD4616.R676 1974) is held at Mudd Library. The dissertation was written for the education department at Rutgers by Michael Louis Rosenthal and is entitled, The Founding of the Office of the Dean of the Faculty: Undergraduate Life at the College of New Jersey: An Anthropological View of History.
In the composition of this finding aid's history section, the following works were consulted: Articles titled "Faculty" by J. Douglas Brown and "Dean of the Faculty" in Alexander Leitch's A Princeton Companion (Princeton University Press, 1978); Annual reports to the president from the dean of the faculty; Michael Louis Rosenthal's 1974 Rutgers dissertation, The Founding of the Office of the Dean of the Faculty: Undergraduate Life at the College of New Jersey: An Anthropological View of History.
- Names:
- Princeton University
Brown, J. Douglas (James Douglas) (1898-1986)
Eisenhart, Luther Pfahler (1876-1965)
Fine, Henry B. (Henry Burchard) (1858-1928)
Gunning, Robert C. (Robert Clifford) (1931)
Lemonick, Aaron (1923)
Lester, Richard Allen (1908-1997)
Magie, William Francis (1858-1943)
Murray, James O. (James Ormsbee) (1827-1899)
Palmer, R.R. (Robert Roswell) (1909-2002)
Root, Robert K. (Robert Kilburn) (1877-1950)
Winans, Samuel Ross (1855-1910)
