Collections : [University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library]

The Student Discipline Committees series, 1914, 1922-1961 (4.5 linear feet) consist of correspondence, meeting minutes, hearing records, and reports pertaining to the formation of non-academic student policy and enforcement. Most of these records are bound and arranged chronologically. The records are produced by the Committee and Subcommittee on Student Discipline, the Committee on Student Conduct, and the Joint Judiciary Council. A large portion of these records include details of individual student cases, and are therefore subject to student educational records restrictions. Of particular interest are the records that show how the university exercised its judicial authority (records from the 1920s and 30s are unrestricted given the expiration of the student records restriction), and the volume labeled "University Committee on Student Conduct," which contains higher level policy documents from the Committee on Student Discipline and the Committee on Student Conduct. Researchers should note that differentiating between records created by the different committees can be confusing, due to similar names and overlapping functions of committees. Also note that bound records are titled with the name of a single committee, but could include records from several.

The bulk of the Committee Records series consists of correspondence of John Baur with other Lutheran pastors coordinating their efforts against the school amendments. Most of this correspondence is dated 1921-1922, though some of the letters do date from both the 1920 and 1924 campaigns.

The most substantive document is a notebook containing minutes of the executive board of the Lutheran Campaign Committee for 1920, as well as minutes of the joint meetings of the Committee of Defense and the Executive Committee in Behalf of Our Christian Day Schools for 1920-1924. These minutes are detailed and offer meaningful insight into the strategy and activities of the Lutheran Church in its defense of its school system.

The Committee Records (.7 linear feet; 1959-1984) series consists of minutes and correspondences of various committees formed within OTS. The Michigan Committee on Tropical Studies (MCOTS) is included in this series, but the Executive Committee is not because it is part of the Meeting Files series. There are ad hoc and standing committees included. This series is organized alphabetically by the title of the committee.

Committees (1972-1984, 0.75 feet), consists of fairly complete minutes, as well as some correspondence, of the Committee for Women's Studies, the Steering Committee, and the Program Committee. Also included are scattered material of other miscellaneous committees and minutes of marathon meetings, held at the beginning of each term to discuss short- and long-range planning and committee work. The steering and program committee minutes reflect the program's interest not simply in academic matters but in wider political issues, such as gay rights and sexual assault.

The Committees records (3.5 linear feet, 1972-2004) primarily include information from the Executive Committee, including meeting agendas and minutes, election results, memoranda, correspondence, and reports. For the years 1972-1982 the records are arranged chronologically by school year and are divided into five sections within each year: "Organization," "Agendas," "Minutes," "Documents," and "Miscellaneous." For the years 1989-1994, the records are arranged chronologically by month of the school year. Other committee information is included in the record group, most notably information on the activities of the Graduate Affairs Committee.

The Committees and Organizations series, 1954-1974 (0.7 linear feet), is arranged alphabetically and consists of materials regarding the various committees and organizations for which Estep was a member, including the American Bar Association Special Committee on Atomic Energy Law, and the State Bar of Michigan Committee on Atomic Energy Law.

The Committee Work series (1 linear foot) includes reports, minutes of meetings, correspondence, proposals, petitions, research materials, and publications of Ann Arbor area historic preservation organizations, most notably, the Ann Arbor Historic District Commission. Issues discussed in documents include surveying buildings and sites of historical and architectural value, preservation of historic buildings and sites, collection and preservation of historic records, establishing Historic Districts with special description and preservation standards, special celebrations and commemorative plaques.

The Communications series (1.5 linear feet) includes documentation that reflects the project's enterprise-wide unit liaison program, end user support, and efforts towards involving users in the design of the systems. In this series one will find comprehensive "Performance Support" plans which show how change management personnel meticulously planned for the change in the systems environment. A "snapshot" of the Change Management (CM) Deliverables database is included in this series on CD-ROM (located in Box 1). This database includes additional performance support and what was titled "gap" documentation. These materials are useful indicators of the change in work processes that the "change management" professionals foresaw with the implementation of the new system. Documentation on the training program can also be found in this subseries. A researcher interested in the enterprise-wide training effort should also consult the M-Pathways Project publications record group. The publications record group contains numerous training manuals for each of the five systems implementation projects. The training manuals not only detail specific business procedures but also, include related university adopted policies

The Communications series (57.1 MB, 2008-2009) contains materials produced by and about the Cockrel administration, with talking points and speeches related to the opening of a new Census Bureau office, cable commission, Spring Clean Up and Detroit Recycles, and the 2009 State of the City Address as well as articles about Mayor Ken Cockrel's transition and performance, op-ed pieces and news releases produced by the Mayor's office, and snapshots of various pages on the mayor's website as it appeared in 2008-2009. Also includes campaign materials and April 2009 poll results.