Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs (University of Michigan) Supplemental Files, 1953-2013

Summary

Creator:

University of Michigan. Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs.

Abstract:

Central academic administrative unit of the University of Michigan which functions as chief executive assistant to the president, responsible for appointments and promotions with oversight for schools, colleges, educational units and programs; including budget planning, legislative relations, institutional research, and affirmative action policies. Supplemental Files subgroup includes material on a number of subjects that was filed separately from the vice presidents' or staff's papers when the record group was received.

Extent:

155 linear feet (in 159 boxes)
12.5 GB (online)

Language:

English

Call Number:

87365-3 Bimu/2

Authors:

Finding aid created by Bentley Historical Library Staff Lisa Gibbon Pratt (reprocessing), 1995; Aprille McKay, 2004; Julia Teran, 2016.

Background

Scope and Content:

The Supplemental Files subgroup of the record group Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs consists of 155 linear feet (in 159 boxes) and spans the years from 1953 to 2013. This subgroup consists of material that was not interfiled with the vice presidents' or staff's papers when the record group was received. The records generally were not created or maintained by any one staff member in the Office of Academic Affairs, but rather are the result of the examination of a particular issue or topic over a period of time by a variety of people.

There are 14 series of varying sizes which comprise this subgroup. For an alphabetical list of the series in this subgroup, please consult the Summary Contents List in the Arrangement section of the finding aid.

Biographical / Historical:

As of 1995 the office represented by this record group is officially titled the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. Previous titles of the office were: Vice Presidents for Academic Affairs and Provost, 1983-1995; Vice President for Academic Affairs, 1962-1983; and Provost, 1938-1962.

Provost

The origins of this office date back to 1938, during President Ruthven's administration, when the position of provost was created by a bylaw of the Board of Regents to "aid the President by performing such of the President's functions as shall from time to time be delegated by him or by the Board of Regents" (Regents' Proceedings, March 1938, p. 505). E. Blythe Stason, the dean of the Law School who had already been performing many of these functions, was appointed the first provost. Stason resigned as provost in November 1944 to devote his attentions to the leadership of the Law School, and James P. Adams, vice president of Brown University and former University of Michigan economics professor, assumed the post of provost and professor of economics in January 1945. At the Regents' meeting of January 1945 the bylaw establishing the provost's position was amended to include the statement that the provost "shall be the chief executive officer of the University next to the President" (Regents' Bylaw 2.02). Adams remained the provost until his resignation in July 1,951. A successor to Adams was not named, and the responsibilities of the provost were absorbed by the newly created vice president and dean of faculties, Marvin Niehuss.

Vice President for Academic Affairs

In 1962 two new positions were created in the university administration: executive vice president and vice president for academic affairs.

Marvin Niehuss, vice president for university relations since 1945 and the vice president and dean of faculties since 1951, was promoted to the position of executive vice president in 1962. As vice president and dean of faculties, Niehuss had coordinated university relations with the state legislature and had overseen the administration of the schools, colleges, and other units (including institutes, Extension Service, summer session, and the Reserve Officers' Training Corps), reporting on enrollment, teaching loads, research, and faculty salaries. In his new position as executive vice president, Niehuss continued to supervise legislative relations and served as the University's contact with the state board of education. In addition, the executive vice president was the chief executive assistant to the president and assumed the duties and powers of the president in his absence. (When Niehuss retired in 1968 the position of executive vice president was abolished and a vice president for state relations and planning was established in its place.)

Roger Heyns, a member of the Psychology Department and since 1959 dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, was appointed to the position of vice president for academic affairs in 1962. Heyns assumed many of the duties previously performed by the vice president and dean of faculties. He was given general executive responsibility for the faculty and for the academic programs of the schools, colleges, and other educational units. He reviewed recommendations of deans, directors, and department heads with regard to appointments, promotions, leaves of absence, and salaries of faculty members and special service personnel. In addition, the Offices of Admissions, and Registration and Records--previously under the jurisdiction of the vice president for student affairs--were brought under the vice president for academic affairs.

This reorganization of administrative responsibilities was intended as a means of unifying planning in a period of rapid growth of the University. In actual practice, the duties associated with planning remained dispersed and were shifted from one office to another in the 1960s and 1970s. When a vice presidency for state relations and planning was established in 1968, some of the responsibility for academic program planning was transferred to that office. The Office of Institutional Research, which collected and analyzed data on enrollment trends, faculty characteristics, funding, and related subjects, was transferred in 1969 from Academic Affairs to State Relations and Planning. In 1974 the Office of Institutional Research was renamed the Office of Academic Planning and Analysis and was returned to Academic Affairs, reflecting the assignment of additional evaluation and planning responsibilities under the vice president for academic affairs. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, the vice president for academic affairs gradually assumed greater responsibility for budget preparation.

In addition to program and budget planning, the Office of Academic Affairs was involved in implementing affirmative action plans, overseeing the Opportunity Program and Tuskegee-Michigan exchange program, and coordinating support services for minority students.

When Roger Heyns left the university in 1965 to become chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, he was succeeded by Allan F. Smith, the dean of the Law School. Smith held the post of vice president for academic affairs for nine years and in 1974 was followed by Frank H. T. Rhodes, a professor of geology and since 1971 dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Rhodes resigned in 1977 to assume the presidency of Cornell University.

Harold T. Shapiro, chairman of the Economics Department, was appointed vice president for academic affairs in 1977 and held the position until 1980, when he became president of the University of Michigan. Alfred Sussman, dean of Rackham School of Graduate Studies, served as acting vice president for academic affairs from November 1, 1979 through July 1, 1980, when Billy E. Frye, professor of Zoology and dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, assumed the position.

Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

At its February 1983 meeting, the Regents of the University of Michigan changed the title of the position to Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost (hereafter referred to as "provost"). The move to include "provost" in the title was taken in part because of the increased responsibility of the vice president within the university's administration and because of the need to assist the president as he moved into state and national projects, notably the management of the capital campaign fund-raising effort.

In 1986, Billy E. Frye resigned and was replaced by James J. Duderstadt, dean of the College of Engineering, who served as provost until he became the president of the university in September 1988. Robert Holbrook served as interim provost until December 1988. In January 1989, Charles Vest, dean of the College of Engineering, became provost and remained until July 1,990, when he left to assume the presidency of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Holbrook served as interim provost for the month of August, after which Gilbert Whitaker, dean of the School of Business Administration, began his tenure as provost.

Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

In September 1993 the Regents approved a change in title to provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. This title was intended to reflect more accurately the responsibilities of the provost and to "bring Michigan into line with the administrative structures of other universities" (The University Record 49(3), 1993 September 20: 4). The new designation came about when President Duderstadt recommended a change in title for Whitaker. In 1995 Whitaker returned to teaching and was succeeded by J. Bernard Machen, dean of the School of Dentistry. Machen initially served on an interim basis before agreeing to accept a two-year appointment. He did not seek an extension and was succeeded by Nancy Cantor, dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies in 1997.

The position vice provost for academic affairs was created in 1990 to recognize university-wide activities in which John H. D'Arms, dean of Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, was engaged that were beyond the scope of his decanal responsibilities. Such responsibilities included overseeing the Bentley Historical Library and the Clements Library, evaluating promotion and tenure dossiers, and serving as liaison between the university and major foundations (The University Record 45(24), 1990 March 26: 1). With the appointment of new provosts the functional responsibilities and reporting relationships of the vice provost have frequently changed.

Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

Date	Event
1993-1995	Gilbert R. Whitaker, Jr.
1996	J. Bernard Machen (interim)
1996-1997	J. Bernard Machen
1997-2001	Nancy Cantor
2001	Lisa Tedesco (interim)
2002	Paul N. Courant (interim)
2002-2005	Paul N. Courant
2005-2006	Edward M. Gramlich (interim)
2006-2010	Teresa A. Sullivan
2010-2013	Philip J. Hanlon
2013-2017	Martha E. Pollack
2017-2020	Martin A. Philbert
2020-	Susan M. Collins

Vice Presidents for Academic Affairs and Provost

Date	Event
1962-1965	Roger W. Heyns
1965-1974	Allen F. Smith
1974-1977	Frank H.T. Rhodes
1977-1979	Harold T. Shapiro
1979-1980	Alfred S. Sussman (Interim)
1980-1986	Billy E. Frye
1986-1988	James J. Duderstadt
1988	Robert S. Holbrook (Interim)
1989-1990	Charles M. Vest
1990	Robert S. Holbrook (Interim)
1990-1993	Gilbert R. Whitaker, Jr.

Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

Date	Event
1990-1995	John H. D'Arms

Vice Provosts for Academic Affairs – Graduate Studies

Date	Event
1995-1997	Nancy Cantor
1998-2004	Earl Lewis
2004	Steven L. Kunkel (interim)
2005-2015	Janet Weiss
Carol A. Fierke	2015-2017
2017	Michael Solomon (interim)
2018-	Michael Solomon

Senior Vice Provosts

Date	Event
2001-2014	Lester Monts

Vice Provosts for Academic and Faculty Affairs

Date	Event
2005-	Lori J. Pierce
2009-2014	Christina L. B. Whitman
2014-	Sara B. Blair

Vice Provosts for Academic and Budgetary Affairs

Date	Event
2007-2010	Philip J. Hanlon
2010-2013	Martha E. Pollack
2013-2016	Alfred Franzblau
2016-	Amy Dittmar

Associate Provosts

Date	Event
1993-1997	Robert Holbrook
1993-1997	Susan Lipschutz
1997-2002	Pamela A. Raymond
1997-2001	Lester P. Monts
1998-2002	Paul N. Courant
2001-2005	James L. Hilton
2002-2005	Valerie P. Castle
2002-2005	Janet Weiss
2004-2007	Philip J. Hanlon
2005-2007	Lori J. Pierce

Associate Vice Presidents

Date	Event
1971-1975	John Romani
1974-1981	Richard English
1975-1981	Carolyne K. Davis
1981-1993	Robert S. Holbrook
1981-1983	W. Allen Spivey
1983-1993	Mary Ann Swain
1984-1986	Niara Sudarkasa
1988-1989	John H. Jackson

Administrative Deans

Date	Event
1962-1974	Robert L. Williams

Assistant Vice Presidents

Date	Event
1974/75-1982	Edward A. Dougherty
1965-1982	Ernest R. Zimmermann
1983-1995	Robert B. Holmes

Associate Vice President

Date	Event
2002	Marilyn G.Knepp

Assistant Provost

Date	Event
1997-2000	Marilyn G. Knepp
1999-2008	Linda H. Gillum
1999-2002	K. B. Soper
2002-2011	Glenda Haskell
2011-2019	Philip R. Hughes

Associate Vice Provost

Date	Event
2002	Glenna Schweitzer

Chief of Staff

Date	Event
1998-2013	Karen L. Gibbons
2013-2014	Stephanie Riegle
2014-	Erin Fluharty

Acquisition Information:

The Provost's Office (Donor no. 5120 ) makes periodic additions to the records. Records were first received in 1971.

Arrangement:

Summary Contents List

1. Accreditations -- Boxes 158-159
2. Alliance for Undergraduate Education -- Box 44
3. Associate Provost and Associate Deans Group (APADG) -- Box 106
4. Audiovisual Materials -- Box 110
5. Author-Publisher Liaison Service -- Box 85
6. Awards -- Boxes 19-20, 78, 88, 104-105
7. Black Action Movement (BAM) -- Boxes 2, 157
8. Budget Priorities Committee (BPC) -- Boxes 7-9
9. Career Development Fund for Women Faculty -- Boxes 47-50
10. Child Care Task Force (1996-1998) -- Box 46
11. Dean and Director Reviews -- Boxes 21, 94-97
12. Faculty Recruitment and Retention Task Force -- Box 85
13. Ford Foundation Grants -- Boxes 2-3
14. Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) -- Boxes 3-5
15. Grievances -- Boxes 108-109
16. Higher Education General Information Survey -- Box 10
17. Historical Files -- Box 5
18. Institute for Social Research (ISR) -- Box 107
19. Institute for the Study of Mental Retardation and Related Disabilities (ISMRRD) -- Box 5
20. Job Descriptions -- Boxes 111-112
21. Management Advisory Group: Professional and Advisory Salary Implementation Program -- Box 6
22. Michigan Information Technology Network (MITN)-- Box 84
23. Minority Affairs Quality of Student Life Survey -- Box 42
24. Office Policy and Office Holder Documents -- Boxes 43, 50, 68-77, 157
25. Opportunity Program -- Box 1
26. Personnel -- Boxes 116-118
27. Presidents' Council of the State Universities of Michigan (PCSUM) -- Boxes 51-59, 98-103
28. Proposals -- Boxes 11-12
29. Provost's Advisory Committee on Mentoring and Community Building -- Box 85
30. Public Goods Council -- Boxes 78-79
31. Regents Files -- Boxes 70, 89-93, 113-115, 119-156
32. Reports -- Boxes 13-14
33. Residential College -- Box 6
34. Reviews -- Boxes 15-18
35. Searches -- Boxes 22-41, 60-67
36. Senate Advisory Committee on Staff Excellence -- Box 6
37. State Plan for Higher Education (State Board of Education) -- Box 18
38. State Postsecondary Review Entities (SPRES) -- Box 18
39. Space Files -- Boxes 70, 79-82, 86-88
40. Standard Practice Guides (SPG) -- Box 85
41. Task Force on Campus Safety and Security (1997) -- Box 45
42. TBLG Task Force (Taskforce on the Climate for Transgenger, Bisexual, Lesbian and Gay Faculty, Staff, and Students) -- Box 85
43. Thurnau Trust and Thurnau Professorships -- Boxes 46-47

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Subjects:

Afro-Americans -- Michigan.
Draft -- Michigan.
Universities and colleges -- United States.
Demonstrations -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor.
Minority college students -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor.
Women college students -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor.

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Audiocassettes.
Digital file formats.
Sound recordings.
VHS (TM).
Video recordings.

Names:

American Council on Education.
Black Action Movement (University of Michigan)
Committee on Institutional Cooperation.
Ford Foundation.
Grand Rapids University Consortium Center.
Graduate Employees Organization (University of Michigan)
Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies.
Michigan. Dept. of Education.
Michigan. Legislature.
Michigan. State Board of Education.
Tuskegee Institute.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.
United States. Selective Service System.
United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
University of Michigan -- Accreditation.
University of Michigan -- Administration.
University of Michigan -- Awards.
University of Michigan. Board of Regents.
University of Michigan. Budget Priorities Committee.
University of Michigan. College of Architecture and Design.
University of Michigan. College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
University of Michigan. College of Engineering.
University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
University of Michigan. College of Pharmacy.
University of Michigan -- Congresses.
University of Michigan.
University of Michigan. Dept. of Geography.
University of Michigan. Division of the Health Sciences.
University of Michigan. Evaluation and Planning Project.
University of Michigan. Extension Service.
University of Michigan -- Faculty.
University of Michigan -- Finance.
University of Michigan -- Grants.
University of Michigan. Information Technology Division.
University of Michigan. Institute for Human Adjustment.
University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research.
University of Michigan. Institute for the Study of Mental Retardation and Related Disabilities.
University of Michigan. Institute of Public Policy Studies.
University of Michigan. Institute of Gerontology.
University of Michigan. Law School.
University of Michigan. Library.
University of Michigan. Medical Center.
University of Michigan. Medical School.
University of Michigan -- Students.
University of Michigan. Museum of Art.
University of Michigan. Opportunity Program.
University of Michigan -- Planning.
University of Michigan. Provost's Task Force on the Campus Climate for Transgender, Bisexual, Lesbian, and Gay Faculty, Staff, and Students.
University of Michigan -- Research.
University of Michigan. Residential College.
University of Michigan -- Students -- Scholarships, fellowships, etc.
University of Michigan. School of Art.
University of Michigan. School of Dentistry.
University of Michigan. School of Education.
University of Michigan. School of Business Administration.
University of Michigan. School of Information and Library Studies.
University of Michigan. School of Music.
University of Michigan. School of Natural Resources.
University of Michigan. School of Nursing.
University of Michigan. School of Public Health.
University of Michigan. School of Social Work.
University of Michigan. Senate.
University of Michigan -- Students -- Political activity.
University Center for Adult Education (Wayne State University-University of Michigan-Eastern Michigan University)
University of Michigan. University Hospital.
University of Michigan. Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer.
University of Michigan. Vice-President for Academic Affairs.
University of Michigan. Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs.
Cantor, Nancy E.
Cash, William Levi, 1915-
Courant, Paul.
Davis, Carolyne K.
Dougherty, Edward A.
Duderstadt, James J., 1942-
English, Richard A.
Frye, B. E. (Billy Eugene)
Goodman, George.
Gramlich, Edward M.
Hanlon, Philip J.
Heyns, Roger W. (Roger William), 1918-1995.
Holbrook, Robert S.
Holmes, Robert Bradford.
Machen, J. Bernard.
Pollock, Martha E.
Rhodes, Frank Harold Trevor.
Romani, John Henry, 1925-
Shapiro, Harold T., 1935-
Smith, Allan Frederick, 1911-
Spurr, Stephen Hopkins.
Sudarkasa, Niara.
Sullivan, Teresa A.
Sussman, Alfred S.
Swain, Mary Ann Price, 1941-
Tedesco, Lisa.
Vest, Charles.
Whitaker, Gilbert R., Jr.
Williams, Robert Lewis, 1903-
Zimmermann, Ernest R.