22. Rice University faculty and administrative records

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.

The memoranda, reports, proposals and correspondence generated by or for the Rice University Committee on Undergraduate Teaching.

The collection consists of the notes, correspondence, and minutes of the Committee on University Welfare, formed in 1961. It served as a grievance committee until 1971 when the committee disbanded and its functions were taken over by the newly organized Faculty Council and the University Council.

The Friends of Fondren Library Records contain meeting minutes, correspondence, membership information, printed invitations, newsclippings, lectures, budgets, photographs, typescripts, notes, and pamphlets regarding business and events held by the Friends from 1950 to 2021.

Records reflecting the official business of the Presidential Search Committee, 2002-2004, including documentation of student, faculty, and alumni input; nominations; candidate files; and white paper preparation. This search resulted in the hire of David Leebron as President of Rice University.