File contains speeches and presidential messages.
File contains memoranda, versions of the business plan including enrollment, staffing, funding, and expenditure projections, other financial statements, and an academic plan.
File contains copies of the petition for degree-granting powers and its appendices, memoranda, enrollment statistics, and notes.
File contains letters of support for Nipissing's charter bid received from local school boards, municipal councils, associations, Nipissing University College alumni, and others.
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.
File contains parts of the charter application, including correspondence and a petition for degree-granting powers with appendices and supporting documents (including the 1988-89 academic calendar and a draft of the Nipissing University Act).
File documents presentations about the university charter bid that were made to northern Ontario town councils (including North Bay, Powassan, New Liskeard, Sturgeon Falls, Mattawa, Parry Sound, Cobalt, and Haileybury) in the spring of 1988. File contains presentations, correspondence, memoranda, notes, and contact information.
File contains reports on meetings with government officials, politicians, and others.
File contains correspondence, memoranda, briefs, and sections of the charter application.
File documents preparations for the Ontario Council on University Affairs (OCUA) subcommittee's fact-finding visit to Nipissing University College. File contains the President's presentation to the OCUA subcommittee, schedules and itineraries, a list of the members of the subcommittee, memoranda, invitation and guest lists for meals and events, and the speakers list for the meeting with faculty.
File contains reports, correspondence, briefs, presentations, and drafts of the university act and charter application.
File regards letters of support for Nipissing's charter bid received from organizations, municipal councils, and individuals. File contains correspondence between Dave Marshall and supporters, memoranda, and a list of names of organizations and towns that provided support.
File contains congratulatory letters and cards received by President Dave Marshall from well-wishers after Nipissing University received its charter.
File contains letters of acknowledgement and thanks sent by President Dave Marshall to supporters of Nipissing's successful university charter bid.
File contains memoranda, correspondence, minutes (of meetings of the Charter Advisory Committee, Academic Planning Committee, and administrative staff meetings), agendas, news clippings, Senate attendance records, reports, notes, organizational charts, and copies of the "Submission to the Ontario Council on University Affairs requesting degree granting powers" (1990) and "Nipissing University College's Capital Facilities Plan 1989-94."
File contains memoranda, news clippings, correspondence, reports, minutes of Charter Advisory Committee and administrative meetings, a reorganization cost estimate, and outlines for the charter presentation to OCUA.
File contains correspondence, news clipping, timetables for hearings, reports, memoranda, copies of the petition for degree-granting powers, presentations and responses to OCUA, minutes of Charter Advisory Committee meetings, and enrollment statistics.
File documents preparations for Nipissing University's charter celebration on April 3, 1993 by the Charter Party Committee. File contains correspondence, minutes, meeting agendas, schedules, speeches, and notes.
File contains articles written by President Dave Marshall regarding the charter and Nipissing's 25th anniversary celebrations, as well as comments to the Ontario Council on University Affairs and an article in <i>The Weekender</i> about the charter application.
Item is an overview of Nipissing University, its history, academic programs, services, and facilities, likely intended for prospective students.
File contains correspondence, "A brief to the chairman and members of the Ontario Council on University Affairs - Ministry of Colleges and Universities in support of an application by Nipissing University College for an undergraduate degree granting charter" by the Council of the Corporation of the City of North Bay, and a "Submission requesting degree granting powers" by Nipissing University College.
File documents the preparation of the presentation, and contains correspondence and notes.
File documents trips by President Dave Marshall to universities and corporations across Ontario to solicit their support for Nipissing's charter bid. File contains notes/reports on meetings with university presidents, administrators, and corporate heads, as well as correspondence and itineraries.
File documents preparations for the fact-finding visit by the Ontario Council on University Affairs' subcommittee responsible for assessing Nipissing University College's charter application. File contains schedules, reports, Charter Advisory Committee minutes and meeting attendance lists, enrollment graphs, memoranda, presentations, requisition forms, faculty lists, and notes.
File contains notes regarding arguments in favour of granting a university charter to Nipissing University College.
File relates to the drafting and introduction of a private member's bill to grant a university charter to Nipissing University College. File contains news clippings and a transcript of the debate regarding the bill, drafts of the Nipissing University Act, procedures for applying for private legislation, correspondence, notes, and enrollment projections and charts.
File contains drafts of the charter submission, correspondence, a list of organizations that sent letters of support, as well as briefs, presentations, and reports related to the submission.
File contains a list of members of the Ontario Council on University Affairs subcommittee investigating Nipissing's charter application and a summary of arguments for and against the charter.
File contains speeches by President Dave Marshall and others during celebrations of the university charter, convocation, and Nipissing's 25th anniversary. File also contains a copy of the "President's presentation to the Subcommittee on the Ontario Council on University Affairs regarding Nipissing University College's application for degree-granting status," and a summary of arguments for and against the charter.
File documents preparations for the fact-finding visit by the Ontario Council on University Affairs in November 1990. File contains memoranda, schedules, letters of support for the charter application, and graphs of student applications and enrollment.
File contains correspondence, memoranda, a brief on the charter application, minutes of the Board of Governors Charter Advisory Committee and administrative staff meetings regarding the charter application, university business plans and forecasts, revenue estimates, and notes.
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 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 contains addenda to the charter submission including Nipissing University College's 1990-1991 academic calendar, a promotional booklet for prospective students providing an overview of the college and its academic programs, and a cover letter.
File documents President Anthony Blackbourn's work to solicit support for the charter application. File contains correspondence (much of it with the Ontario Council on University Affairs and the presidents of other Ontario universities), memoranda, charter progress reports, petitions, minutes and reports of the Board of Governors and its Charter Advisory Committee, and news clippings.
Item is the updated addenda to a presentation (Item 0088-05) supporting the granting of a university charter to Nipissing University College. Addenda include an academic calendar and handbook, copies of university documents and bylaws, enrolment and graduation statistics, guidelines for appointments, promotions, and tenure, a list of full-time academic staff for 1989-90, a petition and draft university act, physical facilities description and plans, capital facilities and business plans for 1989-94, and audited financial statements.
Item is the addenda to a presentation (Item 0088-05) supporting the granting of a university charter to Nipissing University College. Addenda include an academic calendar and handbook, copies of university documents and bylaws, enrolment and graduation statistics, guidelines for appointments, promotions, and tenure, a list of full-time academic staff for 1989-90, a petition and draft university act, physical facilities description and plans, capital facilities and business plans for 1989-94, and audited financial statements.
Item is a presentation advocating the granting of a university charter and degree-granting powers to Nipissing University College.
File contains photographs of university students and staff celebrating the granting of a university charter.
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.
File contains reports, memoranda, and minutes.
File contains survey results, survey questionnaires, reports, correspondence, and a presentation.
File contains reports, minutes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.
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.
File contains reports, meeting minutes, and correspondence.
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 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.
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 records received by Nipissing Early History Committee in response to a call for donations of archival material relating to the history of Nipissing University from the 1950s to 1973. File contains photographs, correspondence, and short biographies of Norbert Schuldes and Charlotte Ames.
Item is a eulogy to Dr. Elizabeth Thorn.