College of Letters and Science. Administrative files of Helen Astin.
1983-1987.
Finding aid prepared by University Archives staff, 1996 December; finding aid revised by Katharine A. Lawrie, 2013 December;
machine-readable finding aid created by Katharine A. Lawrie, 2013 December.
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©1996 December
Title: College of Letters and Science. Administrative files of Helen Astin.
Identifier/Call Number: University Archives Record Series 629
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.8 linear ft.
(2 boxes)
Date: 1983-1987
Abstract: Record Series 629 contains the administrative files of Helen Astin, Associate Provost of the College of Letters and Science
at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Creator:
University of California, Los Angeles. College of Letters and Science.
Access
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], College of Letters and Science. Administrative files of Helen Astin (University Archives Record
Series 629). UCLA Library Special Collections, University Archives.
Historical note
UCLA's College of Letters and Science was founded in 1919 with the founding of the Southern Branch of the University of California,
later the University of California, Los Angeles. The College contains the Division of Humanities, Division of Life Sciences,
Division of Physical Sciences, and Division of Social Sciences. Originating as the university's general undergraduate program,
the College represents the bulk of UCLA's student body.
Dr. Helen Astin served as Associate Provost of the College of Letters and Science at UCLA from 1983 to 1987. Additionally,
Dr. Astin co-founded the UCLA Center for the Study of Women in 1989 and serves as founding director of the Higher Education
Research Institute at UCLA. She holds the title of Distinguished Professor Emerita at UCLA's Graduate School of Education
and Information Studies.
Scope and Content
Record Series 629 contains the administrative files of Helen Astin, Associate Provost of the College of Letters and Science
at the University of California, Los Angeles. Files regard the operations and management of divisions, offices, councils,
committees,and curriculum at the College of Letters and Science. Materials include correspondence, memos, agendas, minutes,
reports, and other operational documents.
This is an inactive record series; no additional University records are expected to be added.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Box 1, Folder 1
Academic Operations Committee for Student Athletes.
1983-1986.
Box 1, Folder 2
Advisory Council on Undergraduate Education (Curriculum).
1984-1985.
Box 1, Folder 3
Advisory Council on Undergraduate Education.
1985-1986.
Box 1, Folder 4
Athletic Operations Committee for Student Athletes (AOCSA).
1983-1986.
Box 1, Folder 5
Committee meetings (assorted).
1983-1984.
Box 1, Folder 7
Committee memberships.
1984-1985.
Box 1, Folder 8
Desdemona file.
1985-1986.
Scope and Contents note
Contains correspondence with Desdemona Cardoza.
Box 1, Folder 9
Executive Review (original).
1984 Mar.
Box 1, Folder 10
Forming a Diagnostic Center.
1983-1984.
Box 2, Folder 1
Freshman seminars.
1984-1987.
Box 2, Folder 2
General education.
1985-1986.
Box 2, Folder 3
Guidelines for freshman seminars.
1984-1987.
Box 2, Folder 4
Large lower division classes.
1983-1984.
Box 2, Folder 5
Liberal arts forum.
1984.
Box 2, Folder 6
Life Science Division.
1984.
Box 2, Folder 7
PR for Undergraduate Programs and Services Division.
1984-1985.
Box 2, Folder 8
Office of Research and Evaluation.
1987.
Box 2, Folder 9
Rules Deregulation report.
1986.
Box 2, Folder 10
Student Research Program.
1985.
Box 2, Folder 11
Undergraduate Assessment Project.
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 12
Undergraduate Programs and Services.
1984-1985.
Box 2, Folder 13
Undergraduate Programs and Services (Advisory Committee) - memos and correspondence.
1983-1985.
Box 2, Folder 14
Undergraduate Programs and Services (Advisory Committee) - minutes and agendas.
1984.
