The Administrative Records series is comprised of Budget Reports; Correspondence; Executive Committee Minutes; Funding Materials; Grant Proposals, Reports, and Related Materials; Job Descriptions; Memoranda; Office Organization; Preservation and Storage Concerns; Reorganization of PASE; Staff Meeting Notes; and Personnel Records.
Highlights of this record group include five folders, which contain minutes of PASE's Executive Committee arranged chronologically. These records, dating from 1974 to August 1979, also include related correspondence and other materials that provide valuable information about the operation of the office.
Five folders consisting of correspondence, memoranda, and other related materials document PASE's identification of funding agencies. This set of materials spans nearly the entire period of PASE's existence, although no materials from the years 1976 and 1979 are present. Complementing these records is a significant number of grant proposals, reports, and other related materials, which PASE submitted to various organizations in order to secure funding. It should be noted that two folders include proposals and related records sent to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) during the years 1972 to 1975. To maintain these documents' original order, the folders are dated 1972-1975 and 1973-1975, respectively.
The record group includes a folder of job postings and descriptions, which provide information about employees' responsibilities. Included also is one folder of memoranda exchanged between PASE and the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies in 1975 and 1976. Of special note is a memo that serves as an introduction to PASE's recently reorganized personnel in 1976. Memoranda and correspondence from 1979 and 1980 document the prospective administrative reorganization of PASE.
Because of the personally identifiable nature of the records contained, one folder of personnel-related documents is closed to research for thirty years past the records' dates of creation. These materials date from 1973 to 1980. The folder comprises the records of particular employees, arranged alphabetically by last name, which were selected for their documentation of PASE activities. Of special note are records pertaining to the three directors that PASE had throughout its existence.
