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Instructors' Association records, 1919-1947
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Instructors' Association (University of Washington)
- Title
- Instructors' Association records
- Dates
- 1919-1947 (inclusive)19191947
- Quantity
- ca. 1.04 cubic ft
- Collection Number
- 5065
- Summary
- The Instructors’ Association was a professional organization founded by University of Washington faculty on October 22, 1919 in order to investigate major issues facing faculty and advocate for their needs to the university administration. This collection spans the years 1919-1947 and contains correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, resolutions, financial records, and other textual material created and/or kept by the association.
- Repository
-
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Open to all users.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Recognizing the need for an organization to investigate issues facing University of Washington faculty, the Instructors’ Association was founded by faculty with the support of President Henry Suzzallo at a meeting on October 22, 1919. The association served as a liaison between faculty, including members of the American Federation of Teachers Union, Local No. 401, and university administration. A Board of Directors of seven annually elected individuals governed the organization and several standing committees were created to research specific issues. Through these investigations, often administered through questionnaires distributed to university faculty, the association would compile reports and make recommendations to the administration based on the results. Major issues explored by the Instructors’ Association include promotions and faculty salaries; faculty’s role in appointment of university presidents; retirement and annuity; sabbatical leave; university personnel policies, including a policy that prohibited married faculty members to both teach at the university; teaching load; cost of living; taxes; state and local funding; university budget and expenditures; tenure; and healthcare and insurance. Although the records stop at year 1947, it is currently unknown when the Instructors' Association officially disbanded.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Correspondence, reports, resolutions, meeting notices and minutes, published material, organizational charts, university policies.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Consult the restrictions governing reproduction and use for each of the accessions listed below.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Organized into 3 accessions.
- Accession No. 5065-001, Instructors' Association records, 1919-1946
- Accession No. 5065-002, Instructors' Association records, 1919-1947
- Accession No. 5065-003, Instructors' Association report, 1938
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Accession No. 5065-001: Instructors' Association records, 1919-1946Return to Top
Scope and Content: This accession spans the years 1919-1946 and contains correspondence between Instructors’ Association board members, faculty, and university administration; reports; resolutions; meeting notices and minutes; and published material. Subjects discussed include salary increases and promotion, teaching load, role of faculty in appointment of university presidents, retirement annuity, faculty dismissal, sabbatical leave, disability, and insurance. Particular items of note include a news clipping and meeting notice from October 1919 regarding the first meeting held by faculty that established the association as well as a small bound report titled, "The Salary Situation at the University of Washington: A Report to the Board of Regents by the Association of Instructors."
Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.
Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Acquisition Info: President's Office, 1968-04-16
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/1 | 5065-001 | Correspondence, Meeting Minutes,
Resolutions, and Reports |
1919-1926 |
1/2 | 5065-001 | Correspondence, Meeting Minutes,
Resolutions, and Reports |
1928-1946 |
Accession No. 5065-002: Instructors' Association records, 1919-1947Return to Top
- Series I: Organization
- Series II: Correspondence
- Series III: Reports
- Series IV: Meeting Notices and Minutes
- Series V: Financial Records
- Series VI: Subject Files
Scope and Content: This accession spans the years 1919-1947 and contains organizational charts; university policies; correspondence between members of the association and university presidents, faculty members, the American Federation of Teachers Local No. 401, and government officials; official reports of the Instructors’ Association Board, official recommendations made by the association to the university administration on specific issues, and other reports compiled by association members; association meeting notices and minutes; financial reports, including university receipts and expenditures and other materials related to university finances; and subject files compiled by the association on various topics. Subject matter consists of assorted issues affecting University of Washington faculty, including retirement and annuity, salary, legislative initiatives, funding, instructor workload, university policies, tenure, sabbatical leave, medical care and insurance, emeritus faculty, relationship between the university administration and Instructor’s Association, and faculty leave of absence and dismissal cases.
Also included is a large bound record book of the Instructors’ Association Board containing handwritten and typed meeting minutes, correspondence, news clippings, and reports. Some of these materials are likely duplicated within other series of this accession.
Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.
Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Acquisition Info: Unknown
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/1-1/3 | SERIES I |
ORGANIZATION
|
1929-1946 |
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/1 | 5065-002 | Member Group Insurance at
University of Washington |
1929 |
1/2 | 5065-002 | Administrative and Legal
Organization of Faculty |
Undated, 1938 |
1/3 | 5065-002 | University of Washington
Faculty and Staff Annual Salaries |
c. 1934-1946 |
1/4-1/15 | SERIES II |
CORRESPONDENCE
|
1925-1946 |
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/4 | 5065-002 | Assorted
Correspondence |
1934-1939 |
1/5 | 5065-002 | Assorted Interdepartmental
Correspondence |
1927-1942 |
1/6 | 5065-002 | Assorted Intradepartmental
Correspondence |
Undated, 1925-1946 |
1/7 | 5065-002 | American Federation of
Teachers, Local No. 401 |
1936-1938 |
1/8 | 5065-002 | State Legislation |
1934-1938 |
1/9 | 5065-002 | State Teachers Retirement
Fund |
1926 |
1/10 | 5065-002 | Faculty Salary
Adjustments |
1934 |
1/11 | 5065-002 | Survey of Tenure at Other
Universities |
1944 |
1/12 | 5065-002 | Faculty Health Care and
Insurance |
1935-1938, 1946 |
1/13 | 5065-002 | Instructors' Association
Fund |
1942 |
1/14 | 5065-002 | Community Fund |
1938-1940 |
1/15 | 5065-002 | Faculty Dismissal Policies and
Investigations |
1934-1938 |
1/16-1/25 | SERIES III |
REPORTS
|
1919-1946 |
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/16 | 5065-002 | American Association of
University Professors' Preliminary Report on Faculty Salaries |
1946 May |
1/17 | 5065-002 | "Initiative 153: Effect Upon
the Powers of the Board of Regents" [On Sale of Public Land] |
c. 1941 |
1/18 | 5065-002 | Instructors' Association Board
Reports |
1937-1942 |
1/19 | 5065-002 | Faculty Personnel
Policies |
1940 May |
1/20 | 5065-002 | Instructors' Association
Reports |
1919, 1927 |
1/21 | 5065-002 | Instructors' Association
Reports |
1933-1934 |
1/22 | 5065-002 | Instructors' Association
Reports |
1935-1936 |
1/23 | 5065-002 | Instructors' Association
Reports |
Undated |
1/24 | 5065-002 | Instructors' Association
Recommendations |
c. 1933-1939 |
1/25 | 5065-002 | Tenure Practices in Other State
Universities |
c. 1945 |
1/26-1/28, 2/13 | SERIES IV |
MEETING
NOTICES AND MINUTES
|
1922-1937 |
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/26 | 5065-002 | Meeting Notices |
1922-1925 |
1/27 | 5065-002 | Meeting Notices |
1926 |
1/28 | 5065-002 | Meeting Notices |
Undated, 1937 |
2/13 | 5065-002 | Instructors' Association Board
Record Book |
1929-1947 |
1/29-1/30, 2/1-2/3 | SERIES V |
FINANCIAL RECORDS
|
1926-1946 |
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/29 | 5065-002 | Treasurer's Record
Book |
1942-1946 |
1/30 | 5065-002 | Board Summary of University
Income and Expenditures |
c. 1937 |
2/1 | 5065-002 | Receipts and Expenditure
Reports |
1929-1939 |
2/2 | 5065-002 | Statistical Graphs on State
University Enrollment, Teaching, and Financial Data |
c. 1934 |
2/3 | 5065-002 | Life Insurance Credit
Memorandums and Termination Reports |
1926-1929 |
2/4-2/12 | SERIES VI |
SUBJECT
FILES
|
1922-1939 |
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
2/4 | 5065-002 | Florence B. James Leave of
Absence and Tenure Case |
1936-1939 |
2/5 | 5065-002 | Medical Care and
Insurance |
c. 1934-1938 |
2/6 | 5065-002 | Lea Puymbroeck Miller Dismissal
Case |
1937-1938 |
2/7 | 5065-002 | Questionnaires |
c. 1938-1939 |
2/8 | 5065-002 | Faculty Retirement and
Annuity |
c. 1937-1938 |
2/9 | 5065-002 | University of Washington Rules
and Regulations |
c. 1937-1938 |
2/10 | 5065-002 | Legislative
Initiatives |
1934-1939 |
2/11 | 5065-002 | Sabbatical Leave
Studies |
c. 1938-1939 |
2/12 | 5065-002 | Legislative Initiatives and
State Taxes |
c. 1922-1938 |
Accession No. 5065-003: Instructors' Association report, 1938Return to Top
Scope and Content: This accession contains a single printed report of the Instructors’ Association Board published on April 25, 1938. The report contains a discussion by the Insurance Committee on retirement annuity and health and accident insurance as well as the University of Washington’s recommended plan for faculty retirement.
Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.
Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Acquisition Info: Robert Hennes, 1987-05-01
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
VF1916 | 5065-003 | Report of the Board |
1938 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Corporate Names
- Instructors' Association (University of Washington)--Archives
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Boettiger, John, 1900-1950 (creator)
- Harris, Joseph Pratt, 1896-1985 (creator)
- James, Florence Bean, 1892-1988 (creator)
- Johnson, Claudius O. (Claudius Osborne), 1894-1976 (creator)
- Kerr, Clark, 1911-2003 (creator)
- Kizer, Benjamin H. (Benjamin Hamilton), 1878-1978 (creator)
- Miller, Lea P (creator)
- Schweppe, Alfred John, 1895-1988 (creator)
Corporate Names
- American Federation of Teachers. Local 401 (Seattle, Wash.) (creator)
- Labor Archives of Washington (University of Washington) (creator)
- University of Washington. President (creator)
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)