Collections : [University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library]

The Administrative Records series is comprised of eight subseries: Annual Reports and Minutes, Clerk, Leadership, Membership, Nurture, Stewardship, Worship, and Miscellaneous.

The Administrative Records series (1 linear foot) include budget information, departmental histories, and club and organizational records. Budget files contain worksheets, used to track salaries, which detail increases, decreases and promotions. There is also correspondence concerning justification for budget requests. Departmental histories include several brief histories, as well as a copy of the script from a play, titled "T.H.", performed in 1957 in honor of T.H. Hildebrandt's retirement. There is, in addition, an interesting thirteen-page transcript of the recollections of Raymond L. Wilder, in which he discusses other faculty members, recruitment, and curriculum changes during his tenure as professor from 1926 to 1968. Wilfred Kaplan's history includes an appendix listing all of the faculty members who served in the department from 1841 to 1988. Club and organizational records contain the files of the Undergraduate Mathematics Club and the Ishango Society of Mathematics. The Undergraduate Mathematics Club was established ca. 1890 and was designed to stimulate discussion on mathematical topics through presentations and meetings. The records include a minute book covering the years 1913 to 1937. It presents a relatively complete record of the club's activities, finances, and papers presented. The Ishango Society of Mathematics was created in 1975 by African American graduate students to give voice to their demands for more minority students and faculty members. The materials primarily consist of correspondence between the organization and the department.

The Administrative Records series (1 linear foot) contains a wide variety of materials pertaining to the club and its established mission and aims. The series includes three subseries: Constitutions and legal certification, 1944-1973, Minute Books, 1937-1947, and Chronological Files, 1937-1988. Included in the Chronological Files subseries are minutes for club meetings and board meetings, annual reports of elected club officers, newsletters detailing club activities, press releases to Detroit area newspapers, and correspondence with various parties that reflect the nature of the club's activities and the club's internal working mechanisms.

Administrative Records (1968-1987) consisting of three folders. The series sheds light on the origins of the Marketing Communications office. The policies and procedures are the record group's link to past incarnations of the unit. It includes organizational charts, job descriptions, office roles, and procedures for standard activities within the Office of University Publications. These records reveal not only procedural and focus changes between the offices but also the dramatic differences in the use of technology and today's focus on multimedia communications. The Undergraduate Recruitment Literature Committee minutes and correspondence reveals a time when admissions advertisement played a larger role within the office's mission.

The Administrative Records of Michigan Media and its predecessor, the University of Michigan Television Center, document management and policy aspects of television production at the university. The most significant files within the Administrative Records series are Annual Reports to the President, 1953/54-1984/85; Broadcasting Committee minutes and correspondence, 1950-1978, and Remley Files, 1980-1987; Budget Materials, 1954-1985; Merger of the TVC and the AVEC, 1978; Unit Review Material and Reports, 1986; Vice President for Academic Affairs correspondence, 1976-1986; and Yearly Production Summaries, 1950/51-1958/59.

Other administrative series include correspondence and budget material relating to various special projects undertaken by Michigan Media and several special reports and speeches, notably President Ruthven's 1950 address to the Television Broadcasting Association on "The Possibilities of Educational TV," Garnet Garrison's 1968 report on "TV in the University Community," the report of the President's Ad Hoc Communication Review Committee on "The New Teaching Technology" (1973), and a case study of the impact of university-imposed budget cuts on Michigan Media by Marcia Jablonsky, a student in the School of Business Administration and a former employee of Michigan Media (1981).

There are no administrative records for the Audio-Visual Education Center from the period before its incorporation into Michigan Media. Some information on AVEC can be found in records of the University of Michigan Extension Service, boxes 18 and 20.

The first series, Administrative Records (1936-1983), contains topical files relating to a number of areas of the Society's operation, documenting the work of and on various committees and activities. It also includes articles of incorporation and bylaws, newsletters, correspondence, and records relating to real estate owned by the cooperative.