20. Rice University faculty and administrative records

This collection contains videotapes, DVDs, CDs, record albums, cassette tapes, reel-to-reel tapes and other formats associated with Rice University from the 1920s to 2008. Types of materials include amateur recordings of Rice events, clips from television and radio news broadcasts about Rice-related topics, and professional recordings of Rice events. Formats include record albums, films, magnetic recordings such as videos and audio tapes, and digital recordings including CDs and DVDs.

Records documenting the daily business of the Society of Rice University Women, including membership information, financial records and activity scrapbooks. Formats include membership lists, treasurer’s reports, bank records, meeting minutes, event flyers, scrapbooks, photographs, and yearbooks.

The bulk of these records relate to Akers’ administrative roles at Rice University, particularly as Vice President for Administration. Correspondence, memos, articles, newsclippings reflect his interests both as university administrator and as professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering.

Memoranda, correspondence and reports of the Committee on Affirmative Action. The committee was organized in 1970 to review progress in equal employmnt opportunities and to monitor progress in equal employment opportunities and to monitor progress towards the University's goals for new hire. The papers are arranged chronoloically; later years (1976-) consist primarily of letters of appointment to the commitee and replies to those letters.

Collection includes information from the Rice University Committee on Applied Mathematics and Systems Research. It includes minutes and memoranda, information on laboratory facilities, employment records, National Science Foundation grant reports, budget and financial issues, and an assessment of a computer program.

This collection contains correspondence, research, reports, and publications, administrative materials, course notes and handouts, and personal items of Alan Chapman, the Harry S. Cameron Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at Rice University.

Rice University News and Media Relations has also been known in the past as News and Publications. This office creates and manages news releases on behalf of the university. The photo and biographical files in this collection were created and manitained by that office for use in such news releases.

An assortment of prints, photographs, negatives, and negative slides concerning the Rice University campus, student life, sports, professors, the President's House [O’Connor House], the Baker Institute, commencements, and other university events. Most of these photographs were taken by Campus Photographers Thomas LaVergne, Philip Channing, and Jeff Fitlow.

The Chandler Davidson Academic papers collection includes course materials, selected student papers, information on minorities at Rice, Athletic Committee materials, and other publications, clippings, letters, and materials relating to Rice received from Research Professor and Tsanoff Chair of Public Affairs Emeritus Davidson.

These records reflect the daily business of the Office of Institutional Research, which administrates grant funded projects at Rice University. Types of records include Information Requests, Rice Facts, Rice University Profiles, New Faculty, Reading Files, and more.