18. Rice University Archives

Records of the Search Committee for the position of Dean of Architecture, spanning the years 1988 to 1993.

These materials include correspondence, minutes, notes, and other materials related to the searches for an Associate Provost during the years 1986, 1995, and 1996. Also included are the materials submitted by the applicants for each search. This material is restricted.

agendas, minutes, advertising, letters to and from candidates, itineraries, and other types of correspondence, files related to committee work, and candidates' files.

Records reflecting the official business of the Presidential Search Committee, 1984-1985, including documentation of student, faculty, and alumni input; nominations; candidate files; and white paper preparation. This search resulted in the hire of George Rupp as President of Rice University.

This collection contains general files, such as calendars, announcements, information on organizations, newsletter, etc. The remainder of the collection focuses on the Rice Players’ productions. There are individual files on each production and may include programs, flyers, posters, photographs and news clippings.

This collection includes duplicates of Rice University publications, individual copies of which have been cataloged separately and are available in the Woodson Research Center and/or in Fondren Library main stacks.

The collection consists of scrapbooks, minute books, financial records, and other materials relating to the founding and operation of both the Owen Wister Literary Society (OWLS) undergraduate group and the alumnae group, 1927-2002. OWLS was founded in 1924.

Documents related to the daily business of the Regional Information & Communication Exchange (R.i.C.E.), which was established in 1967 as a fee-based information service operating as a cost-recovery center within the division of community services of Fondren Library. RiCE closed in December 2003.

The records reflect the activities of the Rice University Commission on Women (RUCOW). The collection spans almost 20 years and consists of materials associated with the Commission's work including task force reports that summarize the state of women's affairs at Rice (benefits, salary, promotion, child care, campus climate and visibility), surveys, memoranda, campus controversies, internal correspondence, and a collection of scholarly articles concerned with women's issues in academia.

This collection consists of framed paintings, framed and unframed drawings, prints, sculptures, and other artworks donated to the Woodson Research Center/Rice University archives.