UUM_Acc0597 Guide to the University of Utah College of Humanities records 1979-2008 University of Utah College of Humanities records Finding aid created by David Buhler University Archives and Records Management, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Acc0597 University of Utah College of Humanities records 1979-2008 1981-2008 University of Utah. College of Humanities 19.75 linear feet During the period covered by this collection, the College of Humanities was comprised of the six departments of Communication, English, History, Languages and Literature, Linguistics, and Philosophy as well as the Middle East Center, the Obert C. and Gail A. Tanner Humanities Center, and the University Writing Program. This collection contains administrative records from Deans Norman Council, Patricia Hanna, and Robert Newman. English Historical Note

During the 1980's to the early 2000's, the College of Humanities underwent significant growth with the establishment of the Obert C. and Gail A. Tanner Humanities Center, an Asian Studies Program, a Latin American Studies Program, and an Environmental Humanities Program. The College also undertook initiatives to further implement the use of computer technology in humanities scholarship for both faculty and students. This was also the period in which the Language and Communication Building and the Carolyn T. Irish Humanities Building were constructed as new campus locations for the College.

This collection is divided into three separate series covering the administrations of Deans Norman Council (1981-1991), Patricia Hanna (1991-2001), and Robert Newman (2001-2015). The administrative records consist of correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, and reports from the Dean of the College as well as its constituent departments.

The collection is arranged into three series. Within each series, the materials are arranged alphabetically.

Materials must be used on-site; advance notice suggested. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Initial Citation: University of Utah College of Humanities records, Acc. 597, Box [ ]. University Archives and Records Management. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Following Citations:Acc. 597

Acc0076: College of Humanities memoranda and meeting minutes (1971-1983)

Acc0329: College of Humanities records (1966-1978)

Acc0550: College of Humanities records (1971-1991)

Acc0419: Department of English records (1931-1970)

Acc0075: Department of History records (1975-1984)

Acc0450: Department of Philosophy records (1967-1982)

Acc0504: Department of Philosophy records (1954-1984)

Acc0158: Middle East Center records (1959-1976)

Acc0464: Middle East Center records (1961-1987)

Acc0579: Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center records (1976-2005)

Acc0486: University Writing Program records (1979-1986)

This collection comes from record center accession 92-330, 93-546, 94-317, 97-289, 98-288, 99-177, 199-178, 99-179, 00-180, 00-316, 01-258, 02-140, 03-180, 03-181, 04-152, 04-347, 04-390, 05-174, 06-163, 06-169, 06-202, 07-165, 07-214, 08-321, 09-171, 09-184, 09-231, 10-018, 10-120, 10-158, 11-094, and 11-236.

Processed by David Buhler in 2025.

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 1 2 Alumni Association 1989-1991 1 3 Asian Studies Program 1989-1991 1 4 Asian-American Studies Program 1989-1990 1 5-7 Associate Dean David Iannucci - Correspondence 1989-1991 1 8 Awards Ceremonies 1987-1991 1 9-11 Computer Technology Initiatives 1984-1991 2 1-2 Council of Academic Deans - Executive Committee 1989-1990 2 3 Council of Academic Deans - Retreat 1989 September 12 2 4 Curriculum Reform 1989-1990 2 5 Dean Norman Council - Correspondence 1987-1991 2 6-8 Department Chair/Program Director Meetings 1981-1991 3 1 Department of Communication 1982-1991 3 2 Department of Communication - Graduate Council Review 1990-1991 3 3 Department of English 1982-1991 3 4 Department of History 1982-1991 3 5 Department of Languages and Literature 1983-1991 3 6 Department of Languages and Literature - Certificate in the Study of Japan 1989 3 7 Department of Languages and Literature - Goethe Institute/AAUSC German Section Annual Conference 1989 October 6-7 3 8 Department of Languages and Literature - Language Institute 1989 3 9 Department of Languages and Literature - Pacific Rim Program 1989-1990 3 10 Department of Languages and Literature - Reorganization 1989 3 11 Department of Languages and Literature - Teacher Assistants Wage Dispute 1989-1990 3 12 Department of Philosophy 1983-1991 3 13 Departmental Five-Year Plans 1988-1989 4 1 Development Office 1989-1991 4 2 Division of Continuing Education 1988-1991 4 3 Enrollment Management 1990 4 4 Ethnic Studies Program 1989-1991 4 5 Faculty Mentoring Program 1989-1990 4 6 Graduate School 1990-1991 4 7 Graduate School of Education 1989-1990 4 8-9 Humanities Center 1989-1991 4 10 Humanities Center - Advisory Board 1989-1990 5 1 Humanities Center - Development Advisory Board 1989-1990 5 2-4 Language and Communication Building 1989-1991 5 5 Lecture Notices 1990-1991 5 6 Liberal Education 1989-1991 5 7 Linguistics Program 1990 5 8 Lowell Bennion Community Service Center 1989-1991 5 9 Middle East Center 1979 6 1-11 Middle East Center 1980-1991 7 1 Middle East Center - Graduate Council Review 1981-1982 7 2 Middle East Center - Iran Claim 1981-1988 7 3 Office of the President 1989-1990 7 4 Provost 1989-1990 7 5 Public Relations 1990-1991 7 6 Religious Studies 1983-1991 7 7 Steffensen Cannon Committee 1990 7 8 Undergraduate Education 1989-1991 7 9 University Challenge Program - Concurrent Enrollment 1989-1990 7 10 University Libraries 1989-1990 7 11 University Writing Program 1989-1991 7 12 Vice President for Academic Affairs 1989-1990 8 1 Vice President for Academic Affairs 1991 8 2 Vice President for Administrative Services 1990-1991 8 3 Western Humanities Review 1989 8 4 Women's Resource Center 1989-1990 8 5 Women's Studies Program 1988-1991 2 Patricia Hanna Records 9 1 Administrative Structure Committee 1994 9 2 Advisor Meetings 1999-2001 9 3 Alumni Association 1992-1998 9 4 American Studies Task Force 1991-1993 9 5-6 Asian Studies Program 1991-2000 9 7 Assessment Data 1997 9 8-11 Associate Dean David Iannucci - Correspondence 1991-2000 9 12 Associate Vice President for Diversity and Faculty Development 1992-1999 9 13 Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU) 1991-1996 10 1 Career Development Committee 1993-1997 10 2 Center for Academic Advising 1991-1998 10 3 Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence 1993-1999 10 4-8 College Convocation 1992-1996 11 1-5 College Convocation 1997-2001 11 6 College Council 1991-1993 11 7 College Development Committee 1991-1994 11 8 College Executive Committee 1991-1992 11 9 College Holiday Outreach 1997-2001 11 5-7 Computer Technology Initiatives 1991-1999 12 1-5 Council of Academic Deans 1991-1996 June 13 1-5 Council of Academic Deans 1996 July-1998 14 1-2 Council of Academic Deans 1999-2000 14 3 David Eccles School of Business 1991-1994 14 4-6 Dean Patricia Hanna - Correspondence 1991-1998 14 7 Dean's Ad Hoc Advisory Board on College Research 1997 14 8 Department Brag Reports 1992 14 9-11 Department Chair/Program Director Meetings 1991-1992 15 1-8 Department Chair/Program Director Meetings 1993-1995 May 16 1-8 Department Chair/Program Director Meetings 1995 October-1998 17 1-2 Department Chair/Program Director Meetings 1999-2001 17 3-5 Department of Communication 1991-2001 17 6 Department of Communication - Communication Institute 1990-1997 17 7 Department of Communication - Graduate Council Review 2001 17 8 Department of Communication - Weekly Notes 1991-2001 17 9 Department of English 1991-1994 18 1 Department of English 1995-2001 18 2 Department of English - AALCS Conference - Looking Back with Pleasure II 2000 October 25-29 18 3 Department of English - Graduate Council Review 1997-1999 18 4 Department of History 1991-2001 18 5 Department of History - Graduate Council Review 1994-1999 18 6-7 Department of Languages and Literature 1991-2000 18 8 Department of Languages and Literature - Center for Soviet and Eastern European Scholarship 1991 18 9 Department of Languages and Literature - Chinese Major Proposal 1992-1994 19 1 Department of Languages and Literature - Defense Languages Institute 1993-1994 19 2 Department of Languages and Literature - Enrollment Pressures 1991-2000

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 19 3 Department of Languages and Literature - Graduate Council Review 1997-1998 19 4 Department of Languages and Literature - Japanese Program 1994-2000 19 5 Department of Languages and Literature - Purchase Credit 1991-1992 19 6 Department of Languages and Literature - Teacher Assistants Wage Dispute 1997 19 7-9 Department of Linguistics 1991-2001 19 10 Department of Linguistics - Departmental Status Proposal 1998-1999 19 11 Department of Linguistics - Graduate Council Review 1991-1994 19 12 Department of Philosophy 1991-1993 20 1-2 Department of Philosophy 1994-2001 20 3 Department of Philosophy - Graduate Council Review 1992-1993 20 4 Department of Philosophy - Minor in Cognitive Science 1991-1996 20 5 Department of Philosophy - Newsletters 1992-1999 20 6 Department of Philosophy - William Whisner Tribute 2000 20 7-8 Development Office 1991-1995 21 1-2 Development Office 1996-2000 21 3 Distance Learning 1993-1995 21 4-5 Division of Continuing Education 1991-1999 21 6 English as a Second Language Task Force 1996-1997 21 7 English Language Institute 1994-1996 22 1-2 Enrollment Management 1991-1994 22 3 Environmental Studies Program 1993-1996 22 4 Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Commission 1992-2000 22 5 Ethnic Studies Program 1991-2000 22 6 Executive Committee 1992 22 7 Faculty Mentoring 1991-1994 22 8-10 Gender and Diversity Committee 1993-1996 23 1-4 Graduate School 1993-1999 23 5-6 Graduate School of Education 1991-1995 23 7 Honors Program 1997-1999 23 8-9 Institutional Data Management Committee 1995-1997 24 1 Intermountain Junior Science and Humanities Symposium - College Career Fair 1994 February 25 24 2 International Center 1991-2001 24 3 Language and Communication Building 1993-1997 24 4 Language and Communication Building - Utah Arts Council 1% for Art 1991-1995 24 5 Language and Communication Building - Dedication Ceremony 1995 May 12 24 6 Lecture Notices 1993-1996 24 7 Liberal Education 1991-1995 24 8 Lowell Bennion Community Service Center 1991-1996 24 9 Martin Luther King Day Events 1992-1999 25 1 Medical Ethics 1993-1997 25 2-5 Middle East Center 1991-2001 25 6 Middle East Center - Administrative Structure Review 1999-2000 25 7 Middle East Center - Bylaws Committee 1997 25 8 Middle East Center - Graduate Council Review 1992-1993 26 1 Middle East Center - Graduate Council Review 1997-1999 26 2 Middle East Center - Jewish Studies Program 1988-1994 26 3 Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges - Accreditation Evaluation 1995-1996 26 4-8 Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center 1991-2001 26 9 Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center - Carlson Hall 1995-1998 26 10 Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center - Lowell Durham Memorial 1997 27 1 Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center - Obert C. Tanner Proposal 1992 27 2 Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action 1993-1996 27 3 Office of Orientation and New Student Development - Advisory Committee 1996-1997 27 4 Office of the President - Machen, Bernard 1998-2000 27 5 Office of the President - McIntyre, Jerilyn S. (Interim) 1997-1998 27 6 Office of the President - Smith, Arthur 1991-1997 27 7 Office of the President - Smith, Arthur--Inauguration 1992 May 8 27 8 Office of Sponsored Projects 1994-1999 27 9-10 Office of Undergraduate Studies 1991-2000 28 1 Office of Undergraduate Studies - General Education 1996-1997 28 2 Office of Undergraduate Studies - Graduation Requirements 1996 28 3-6 Office of University Communications 1991-1998 28 7 Olympics 1991-1995 28 8 Orientation Advisory Committee 1997 28 9 Orson Spencer Hall 1992-1994 28 10 Presidential Search Committee 1997 29 1 Religious Studies Program 1992-1996 29 2-3 Retention, Promotion, and Tenure 1991-1992 1998-2001 29 4 Rocky Mountain Humanities Center 1999-2001 29 5-8 Semester Conversion 1992-1998 30 1-6 Strategic Planning 1991-2000 30 7 Student Services Survey 1999 30 8 Study Abroad Program 1995 30 9 Teaching Aids/Teaching Fellows 1991-1995 31 1 Transfer Articulation 1992-1998 31 2 Tuition Waiver Policy 1993-1997 31 3-4 University Advisory Council on Teacher Education (UACTE) 1992-2001 31 5 University Diversity Profile Project 1996-1998 31 6 University Publications Committee 1999 31 7-9 University Student Commission 1998-2001 32 1-3 University Writing Program 1992-2000 32 4-9 Vice President for Academic Affairs 1992-1997 33 1 Vice President for Academic Affairs 1998-2001 33 2 Women's Studies Program 1993 3 Dean Robert Newman Records 34 1 2002 Olympics 2001 34 2 2002 Olympics - Building Security 2001-2002 34 3 2002 Olympics - College Reports 2002 34 4 2002 Olympics - Department Schedules/Plans 2002 34 5 Ad Hoc Budget Formula Committee 2002 34 6 Advisor Meetings 2001-2004 34 7 Animation Major/Minor 2002-2003 34 8 Asian Studies Program 2002-2003 34 9 Assistant Dean Maureen Mathison - Correspondence 2003-2004 34 10 Career Development Committee 2001-2002 34 11-12 Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building 2005-2008 34 13-15 Chairs and Directors Meetings 2001-2003 35 1-2 Chairs and Directors Meetings 2004-2005 35 3 College Charter Committee 2003-2005 35 4-8 College Convocation 2002-2006 35 9 College Holiday Outreach 2001-2004 35 10 Community Programs 2001-2002 35 11 Computer Technology Initiatives 2003-2004 35 12 Council of Academic Deans 2001-2004 36 1 David Eccles School of Business 2001-2003 36 2 Dean Robert Newman - Correspondence 2001-2005 36 3 Department of Communication 2001-2005 36 4 Department of Communication - Graduate Council Review 2003 36 5 Department of English 2001-2003 36 6 Department of History 2001-2005 36 7 Department of History - Graduate Council Review 2003-2004 36 8 Department of Languages and Literature 2002-2004 36 9 Department of Linguistics 2001-2005 36 10 Department of Linguistics - American Sign Language/English Interpreter Major 2001-2002 36 11 Department of Linguistics - ESL Task Force 2001-2003 36 12 Department of Linguistics - Graduate Council Review 2001-2003 36 13 Department of Linguistics - Ph.D. Proposal 2001 37 1 Department of Philosophy 2001-2005 37 2 Department of Philosophy - Graduate Council Review 2003-2004 37 3 English Literacy Program 2002-2003 37 4-5 Environmental Humanities 2004-2006 37 6 Environmental Studies Committee 2003-2004 37 7 Environmental Systems Management Program 2002 37 8 Ethnic Studies Program 2001-2005 37 9-20 Executive Committee Meetings 2001-2005 38 1 Faculty Experts Lists 2001-2002 38 2 Faculty Meetings 2001-2005 38 3 Gender Studies Program 2001 38 4 Graduate School 2001-2004 38 5 Graduate Student Events 2001-2004 38 6 Grant Application and Efficiency Report 2004 38 7 Honors Program 2001-2005 38 8 Humanities Happy Hour 2003-2004 38 9 Humanities Student Council 2001 38 10 Internal Audit Department 2004 38 11 International Studies Program 2001-2005 38 12 J. Willard Marriott Library 2001-2004 38 13 Language and Communication Building - Expansion 2001-2004 38 14 Last Great Lecture Series 2003-2004 38 15 Latin American Studies 2001-2003 38 16 Lowell Bennion Community Service Center 2005 38 17-18 Lyceum II Lecture Series 2003-2005 39 1 Middle East Center 2001-2005 39 2 Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges Accreditation 2001 39 3 Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center 2001-2005 39 4 Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center - Gardner Lecture 2003 39 5 Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center - Tanner Lecture on Human Values 2002-2003 39 6 O.C. Tanner Humanities House 2001-2005 39 7 Office of Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 2003 39 8 Office of the President - Machen, Bernie 2001 39 9 Office of the President - Young, Michael B. 2004 39 10 Office of the President - Young, Michael B. -- Inauguration 2005 April 15 39 11 Office of Undergraduate Studies 2001-2003 39 12 Orientation and New Student Programs 2001-2002 39 13 Osher Lifelong Learning Institute 2004 39 14 Presidential Inaugural Symposium in the Humanities 2005 April 6 39 15 Religious Studies 2002-2003 39 16 Renaissance Guild 2003-2004 40 1 Retention, Promotion, and Tenure 2002-2004 40 2 Rocky Mountain Regional Humanities Center Initiative 2001 40 3 Smart Goals 2001-2002 40 4 Spy Hop Productions 2002-2005 40 5 Staff Directory 2001-2002 40 6 Strategic Planning 2002-2004 40 7 Study Abroad Program - Program Review 2001-2002 40 8 Undergraduate Advisors Meeting 2004-2005 40 9 University Academic Advising Committee 2002 41 1 University Student Commission Meetings 2001-2002 41 2 University Writing Center 2003-2004 41 3 University Writing Program 2002-2004 41 4 Vice President for Academic Affairs 2001-2005 41 5 Vice President for Research 2002