Undergraduate Council and Graduate Council Records
This collection houses a wide variety of records documenting the activities of the Undergraduate and Graduate Councils at the University of Tennessee between 1911 and 1989. The earliest records were created by the two Councils' predecessors. Although the most frequently discussed programs are part of the College of Liberal Arts, other courses are documented as well.
Dates
- 1911-1989
Conditions Governing Access
Collections are stored offsite and must be requested in advance. See www.special.lib.utk.edu for detailed information. Collections must be requested through a registered Special Collections research account.
Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
15.5 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection houses a wide variety of records documenting the activities of the Undergraduate and Graduate Councils at the University of Tennessee between 1911 and 1989. The earliest records were created by the two Councils' predecessors. Although the most frequently discussed programs are part of the College of Liberal Arts, other courses are documented as well.
Biographical/Historical Note
The University of Tennessee's Undergraduate Council concerns itself with standards for admission, retention, and graduation; with curricular matters in the undergraduate programs; with the development of interdisciplinary programs; and with the approval of new programs and any other matters of educational policy pertaining to undergraduate programs. In addition, the Council examines study abroad policies applicable to undergraduate students, serves as a liaison between faculty and campus offices that coordinate services designed to reach international education goals, supervises policies for screening applicants for various awards, and monitors policies regarding receiving credit from programs abroad.
The University of Tennessee's Graduate Council is a special committee of the Faculty Senate designed to promote excellence in graduate education by establishing standards for admission, retention, and graduation, assessing changes to the curriculum, evaluating proposals for new programs, evaluating interdisciplinary, intercollegiate, and international programs, authorizing professors to direct doctoral dissertations, and considering other matters pertaining to graduate education. Its current bylaws were adopted in 2008.
Although the liberal arts have been taught at the University of Tennessee since its founding in 1794, the College of Liberal Arts was not formed until President Brown Ayres reorganized the University in 1905. This reorganization moderated the earlier emphasis on agricultural and industrial education and put the liberal arts on an equal footing with the other departments. Now known as the College of Arts and Sciences, the program encompasses the departments of Anthropology, Art, Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Classics, Computer Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, English, Geography, History, Mathematics, Mathematics (at the UT Space Institute), Microbiology, Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, Music, Philosophy, Physics (at the UT Space Institute), Physics and Astronomy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, and Theater.
Arrangement
This collection consists of sixteen boxes.
Acquisition Note
These records are the property of the University of Tennessee's Archives.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository