- CA ON00408 F037-S01-SS02
- Subsérie
- 1974-1989
Subseries documents the planning, establishment, and development of academic programs.
Subseries documents the planning, establishment, and development of academic programs.
Nipissing College - Environmental studies and outdoor education
File documents the proposal for a new Environmental Studies and Outdoor Education program. File contains correspondence, minutes of the Environmental Studies Sub Committee of APC, program proposals, reports, and a bibliography.
Proposal for a North Bay Centre for Entrepreneurship
Item is a proposal prepared by Canadore College of Applied Arts and Technology and Nipissing University College.
File contains the text of a proposal for a Master of Education program, as well as resumes of faculty and recommended external examiners.
University applicant survey - Final report - Nipissing University
Item is a report based on a surveys of applicants, with Nipissing University's results compared to those of the other 16 Ontario universities that took part.
File documents arrangements for a study tour by Japanese students from the Ake no Hoshi Women's Junior College in Saitama to Nipissing University College. File contains correspondence, a list of students, a public service announcement regarding billeting, and an event poster.
Nipissing University College - Faculty of Arts - Academic plan
Item is an academic plan for the Faculty of Arts.
Memo from Dr. R. Brozowski, Dean of Arts, to Dr. A. Blackbourn, President re: Arts Academic Plan
Item is a memorandum responding to statements made in the Faculty of Arts Academic Plan, with supporting reports attached.
Nipissing College - Staff conferences - Meeting before
File documents staff conferences, which were regularly held to discuss academic matters before the establishment of Nipissing College's Senate. File contains minutes of staff conferences and the Revisions Committee, memoranda, agendas, and reports.
College Education Centre Users' Committee
File contains minutes, notes, financial forecasts, correspondence, cost sharing breakdowns and budgets, gym schedules, and furniture plans.
Item is a consultant's report commissioned by the Education Centre Library that assesses the information and learning needs of Nipissing University students and provides scenarios for the development of a new library facility to meet those needs.
College Education Centre Residence Council
File contains minutes, agendas, and a list of members of the College Education Centre Residence Council.
File relates to a student residence expansion project and contains memoranda, correspondence, budgets, reports, grant applications, and a feasibility study.
File documents the drafting of a new vision statement following Nipissing University College's assumption of administrative responsibilities for the library from Canadore College. File contains drafts of the vision statement, memoranda, proposals, and correspondence.
File documents the planning of a library expansion project. File contains correspondence, memoranda, budgets, reports, proposals, minutes of the Ad Hoc Library Committee, cost estimates, and grant applications.
Report of Ad Hoc Committee re ownership of property at the College Education Centre
Item is a report on property ownership at the College Education Centre.
Supplementary letters patent changing the name of Northeastern University to Nipissing College
File contains a copy of the supplementary letters patent.
The establishment of Nipissing University College and its governing structures. - Mr. W. J. Hotten
File contains copies of foundational and policy documents of Nipissing College.
Subseries documents the appointment, promotion, and tenure of faculty members, as well as the administration of professional development funds, travel assistance, and sabbaticals. Files are arranged by last name of faculty member and contain: correspondence; curricula vitae; academic transcripts; sabbatical applications and reports; applications for professional development funds and travel assistance; faculty reports, evaluation forms, grant applications and project proposals; teaching appointment forms and contracts; assessment reports relating to promotion; and awards nominations.
File contains academic papers by Klingspon, correspondence, and an assessment form.
Dr. David Marshall - Dean of Education
File contains correspondence, curricula vitae, presentations, addresses, research grant applications, and articles.
Dr. Gerald Olsen - History - File 2 of 3
File contains correspondence, memoranda, travel assistance applications, academic papers, requisitions for professional development funds, postcards, and a curriculum vitae.
Surtees, Dr. Robert - Professor of History - #1
File contains correspondence, memoranda, sabbatical applications and reports, curricula vitae, applications for travel assistance, research grant applications, requisitions for professional development funds, teaching appointment forms, promotion assessment forms, teaching load statements, course outlines, faculty member's annual reports, and transcripts.
Weeks, Dr. Ron - Associate Professor - Education
File contains correspondence, applications for research grants and sabbaticals, memoranda, contracts, curricula vitae, and promotion assessment reports.
Walton, Dr. Diana M. - Associate Professor - Classical
File contains correspondence, a promotion assessment report, a conference program, and thank you cards.
Series documents Nipissing University's reporting to and interaction with Ontario government bodies responsible for education, primarily the Ontario Council on University Affairs (OCUA) as well as the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Colleges and Education, and special committees, commissions, and panels including: the Committee on University Education in Northeastern Ontario (also known as the Parrott Committee); the Committee on the Future Development of the Universities of Ontario; the Advisory Panel on Future Directions for Post Secondary Education; and the Commission on Post-Secondary Education in Ontario.
Series contains one subseries consisting of annual reports submitted to the Ontario Council on University Affairs.
Reports to the Ontario Council on University Affairs
Subseries contains annual reports prepared for the Ontario Council on University Affairs (OCUA) by the President and Academic Planning Committee of the Senate of Nipissing University College. Reports generally cover the College's finances, academic programs, enrollment, and future plans.
Annual report to the Ontario Council on University Affairs
Item is an annual report submitted to the Ontario Council on University Affairs.
Annual report to the Ontario Council on University Affairs
Item is an annual report submitted to the Ontario Council on University Affairs.
Annual report to the Ontario Council on University Affairs
Item is an annual report submitted to the Ontario Council on University Affairs.
Dept. of Education - Teacher education
File contains correspondence, memoranda, news releases, and statements about the integration of North Bay Teachers' College with Nipissing College. File also contains a double-page spread (likely from a magazine) of the North Bay Teachers' College building at 168 First Avenue.
A proposal for structural change in the university system of northeastern Ontario, and critique
File contains the proposal prepared by A. N. Bourns, chairman and consultant on Northeastern Ontario to the Ontario Council on University Affairs, as well as a paper by professor Allan G. Reynolds entitled "A critique of Dr. A. N. Bourns' 'Proposal for structural change in the university systems of northeastern Ontario' and some suggested alternatives."
Structure for the proposed new university in northeastern Ontario, report on the
File contains a report by the Committee on University Education in Northeastern Ontario.
Parrott Committee Presentation
File contains proposals, presentations, and memoranda submitted to the Committee on University Education in Northeastern Ontario (the Parrott Committee) by different groups, working papers regarding cost studies, correspondence, and a list of organizations and individuals who made presentations to the Committee at hearings held February 3-4, 1983.
Presentation to the Advisory Panel on Future Directions for Post Secondary Education
Item is a presentation by Nipissing University to the Advisory Panel on Future Directions for Post Secondary Education regarding cost sharing, college-university relationships, and accessibility.
Item is a draft report.
Education Centre : Position of Nipissing College in the College Education Centre, North Bay
Item is a brief prepared for presentation to Mr. Al Gordon, Minister of Colleges and Universities.
File contains an a video recording of an interview of Richard Beauchamp [sp?], one of the graduates of Nipissing College's first Education class (1972) and a member of the college's first hockey team.
File contains records collected by Susan Robineau after Anthony's death in 2005. File contains correspondence, reports, news clippings, a curriculum vitae, and funeral programs .
Early history submissions to The Review by Stan Lawlor
File contains two short essays (entitled "Nipissing University - Reflections on the early years" and "Nipissing College's Group of Seven") and the lyrics of the "Nipissing University Song" by Stan Lawlor, with an accompanying email.
File contains transcripts of interviews of Nipissing University faculty and staff that were conducted by history students for oral history class projects. Interviewees include Chad Cardinal, Al Carfagnini, Desmond Anthony, Roman Brozowski, Ed Monohan, Bill Hotten, Jack Jones, Stan Lawlor, Diana Walton, and Ted Chase.
North Bay Quality of Life Committee
Subseries documents President Dave Marshall's activities as Chairman of the North Bay Quality of Life Committee, which was created to produce reports on quality of life the North Bay region for the Economic Development Commission of the City of North Bay.
File contains meeting minutes and agendas, memoranda, reports, statistical data, a research proposal, presentation, questionnaire, and a North Bay Quality of Life Committee membership list.
University charter application
Series documents preparations for Nipissing University College's application for a university charter and degree-granting powers, which were carried out by the President's Office (under Presidents Anthony Blackbourn and Dave Marshall) and the Board of Governors' Charter Advisory Committee. Series documents: the preparation of a university charter submission; negotiations with the Ontario Council on University Affairs (OCUA); the campaign to build support for the charter bid among municipal councils, universities, businesses, and other organizations locally and across Ontario; the hosting of an OCUA fact-finding visit to Nipissing University College in November 1990; and the planning of celebrations following the granting of a university charter.
Free-stand[ing] Institutions Committee
File documents preparations for a presentation made to the Free-Standing Institutions Committee of the Ontario Council on University Affairs on January 30, 1989 in which representatives of Nipissing University College made the case for the institution to be given degree-granting status. File contains the final and draft versions of the presentation, correspondence, examples of presentations made by other colleges, and memoranda.
File documents the writing of a draft Nipissing University Act by President Anthony Blackbourn and the Board of Governors' Charter Advisory Committee. File contains drafts of the act, memoranda, examples of other university acts, and drafts of the charter application.
File contains notes regarding arguments in favour of granting a university charter to Nipissing University College.
Dr. Del Smyth - Re charter hearings
File documents President Anthony Blackbourn's consultations with Dr. Delmar McCormack Smyth about Nipissing's charter application. File contains correspondence, notes on conversations, memoranda, and a short biography of Smyth.
Petition material for Charter Advisory Committee
File contains copies of the petition for degree-granting powers and its appendices, memoranda, enrollment statistics, and notes.
File contains memoranda, versions of the business plan including enrollment, staffing, funding, and expenditure projections, other financial statements, and an academic plan.