20. Rice University faculty and administrative records

This collection contains records of the first computer developed at Rice University (then Rice Institute) including correspondence, memoranda, manuals, news clippings, photographs, and drawings.

These records reflect the daily business of the Provost's office under interim Provost James Kinsey and Provost David Auston (1993-). They reveal the daily business of the Provost's Office, which has the overall responsibility for the institution's educational and research programs.

The minutes, reports, memoranda and correspondence generated by the Committee on Campus Safety and by its predecessor, the Committee on Disasters and Emergencies. The collection is arranged chronologically.

This record group includes the minutes, memoranda, correspondence and reports generated by the Rice University Committee on Examinations and Standing.

The minutes, memoranda, correspondence, reports, and other materials generated by or for the Graduate Counil, and its predecessor committee, the Committee on Graduate Instruction.

This material includes minutes of the Rice University Committee on Public Lectures' meetings, lists of lecturers, suggestions for speakers, administrative files, and in some cases, texts of the lectures themselves.

Correspondence and memoranda related to the Religious Activities committee's charge to coordinate all activities of a religious nature on Rice's campus and regulating use of Rice chapel.

These records contain information on commissions, minutes of meetings both of the committee and of the Association of Naval ROTC Colleges; questionnaires sent to other schools with ROTC programs; information on various ROTC summer camp programs and a significant number of correspondences between ROTC Committee chairmen, faculty, and administration.

These records consist of correspondence files that contain names of individuals appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board, descriptions of content in the issues of the Rice University Review, and letters from readers responding to particular articles.

Minutes, memoranda, reports, and correspondence documenting the activities of the Committee on Student Affairs.