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University of Southern California Office of the Provost records
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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: University of Southern California Office of the Provost records
Creator:
University of Southern California. Office of the Provost
Creator:
University of Southern California
Creator:
Tyler, John C.
Creator:
Tyler, Alice C.
Identifier/Call Number: 0384
Physical Description:
106.5 Linear Feet
96 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1923-2022
Date (bulk): 1973-2007
Abstract: The records, audiotapes and video tapes, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts of the University of Southern California Office
of the Provost. As the second ranking official and the chief academic officer, the Office of the Provost provides academic
leadership to the University of Southern California (USC). In addition, materials document the administration of the international
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, which is considered the premier award for environmental science, environmental
health and energy conferring great benefit upon mankind. The Tyler Prize is now administered by the USC Dornsife College of
Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
Language of Material:
English
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The Office of the Provost provides academic leadership to the University of Southern California (USC). As USC's second ranking
official and the chief academic officer, the Provost reports directly to the USC President. The Provost supervises all academic
programs and support functions, faculty affairs, student academic affairs, and academic planning. The Provost is also a principal
participant in collaborative decision-making on issues such as fundraising and endowment, the management of auxiliary services,
and USC's health services.
The Office of the Provost is accountable for the oversight, coordination, budget, and review of USC's academic units and initiatives.
This includes the seventeen schools and two hospitals (as of 2012), educational policies, deans and faculty, research and
grants, and strategic planning.
Books that accompanied the nominations for the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement were separated to be given to the
USC Libraries.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the University Archivist.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.
The collection is organized into the following series:
Series 1: Academic Planning
Series 2: Accredition Reports
Series 3: Correspondence
Series 4: Faculty Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure
Series 5: General Files
Series 6: James H. Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation Fund
Series 7: Presidential Inauguration Files
Series 8: Staff Achievement Awards
Series 9: Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
See also the James Zumberge papers, Collection no. 0252, University Archives, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California (http://www.usc.edu/libraries/finding_aids/records/finding_aid.php?fa=0252), and the University Archives
Photograph Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Pepperdine University (http://pepperdine.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p271401coll15).
[Box/folder# or item name], University of Southern California Office of the Provost records, Collection no. 0384, University
Archives, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
These records document the activities of the University of Southern California Office of the Provost, the second highest administrative
unit for the University, during the period from 1973 to 2007. The files include an academic planning document; accreditation
reports, consisting of reports from the Ad Hoc Review Committees, academic departments, and schools; general correspondence
and general files maintained by the Office; files pertaining to faculty appointments, promotions, and tenure; applications
for the James H. Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation Fund; files on the USC presidential inaugurations of James H. Zumberge
and Stephen B. Sample; nominations for staff achievement awards; and files on the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
Award presented initially by Pepperdine University (1974-1980) and now by USC (1981-present).
The records include audiotapes, correspondence, clippings, ephemera, office files, photographs and negatives, reports, video
tapes, and artifacts.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
College presidents -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Awards -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Universities and colleges -- California -- Los Angeles -- Administration -- Archival resources
Universities and colleges -- Accreditation -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement -- Archival resources
Correspondence
Reports
Environmental sciences -- Awards -- Archival resources
Accreditation (Education) -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Education, Higher -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
University of Southern California -- Archives
Zumberge, James Herbert -- Archives
University of Southern California -- Faculty
University of Southern California. Office of the Provost -- Archives
Vollenweider, Richard A. -- Archives
Stumm, Werner -- Archives
Organization for Tropical Studies -- Archives
Ames, Bruce N. -- Archives
Koop, C. Everett (Charles Everett) -- Archives
Meinwald, Jerrold -- Archives
Crutzen, Paul J. -- Archives
Bolin, Bert -- Archives
Wilson, Carroll L. -- Archives
Johnston, Harold S. -- Archives
Wilson, Edward O. -- Archives
Revelle, Roger -- Archives
Rowland, F. S. -- Archives
Goldberg, Edward D. -- Archives
Gómez-Pompa, Arturo -- Archives
Ehrlich, Paul R. -- Archives
Reagan, Ronald -- Archives
Ehrlich, Anne H. -- Archives
Goodall, Jane -- Archives
Tyler, John C. -- Archives
Oeschger, H. (Hans) -- Archives
Dansgaard, W. -- Archives
Patterson, Clair C. -- Archives
Hubbard, John R. (John Randolph), 1918-2011 -- Archives
Raven, Peter H. -- Archives
Pepperdine University -- Archives
Schaller, George B. -- Archives
Galdikas, Biruté Marija Filomena -- Archives
Lorius, Claude -- Archives
McCarty, Perry L. -- Archives
Bormann, F. Herbert -- Archives
Likens, Gene E. -- Archives
Sample, Steven B., 1940-2016 -- Archives
Tyler, Alice C. -- Archives