Florida State University Faculty Senate Minutes, October 7, 1905-October 18, 2006

Summary

Abstract:

Minutes of the Florida State University Faculty Senate and its predecessor organizations, including reports of standing committees, special committees, and sub-committees.

Extent:

6.50 Linear Feet

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

[Name of Item], [Date of Item], Florida State University Faculty Senate Minutes, Heritage & University Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2003-021

Background

Scope and content:

The minutes of the Florida State College for Women's Faculty Senate covers the period from October 7, 1931 through December 7, 1948. Topics include curriculum establishment, interpretation and revision; new courses and their descriptions; modifications to courses, credit given, graduate work, and honors work. Senate discussions involve the definition of "graduate student," "major" and "minor," whether Latin should be retained as a requisite for the Bachelor of Arts degree, and the relationship with the University of Florida regarding extension courses and transfer of credits between the institutions. Senate committees studied student selection at other institutions for a report on Better Selection of Freshmen, establishment of a general scholastic achievement honors degree, instead of honors work in a special field, and use of the quarter system, rather than the semester system. In February 1948, a sub-committee of the Curriculum Committee presented a new constitution to the Senate for discussion, which, after revisions were made, was sent to the Board of Control for approval.

Select materials from this collection have been digitized or collected from the Faculty Senate website and are available through the FSU Digital Library.

Biographical / historical:

The Faculty Senate Minutes document the deliberations of Florida State University's teaching faculty and activities at Florida State University (FSU) from the beginning of the 20th Century, when FSU was the Florida Female College (1905-1909) and the Florida State College for Women (FSCW, 1909-1947), through the post-World War II years, when it greatly expanded and became FSU, a co-educational institution. During the Florida Female College years, the Faculty Senate met monthly on the first Saturday of each school month. At the first meeting of the faculty held College Hall on October 7, 1905, President Albert Murphree "called attention to the fact that the recent legislature had abolished all of the former state educational institutions, and had created, among other establishments of learning, a State College for Women." At that meeting, Murphree also appointed various standing committees, such as curriculum, commencement, delinquencies, elective studies, library, public entertainment, and student societies. Up to 1920, Faculty Senate discussion items included attendance of non-campus students at athletic events, creation of campus committees, course credits, rules governing chaperoned visits of students to Tallahassee, requests for faculty salary increases, student course requirements, unexcused student absences, and names of faculty supervising the East and West Hall dormitories.

Acquisition information:

The 1905-1920 bound Faculty Minutes were given on May 30, 1958 by Charles H. Walker, FSU Registrar, to N. Orwin Rush, Director of Libraries. The source of the 1920-1942 volume is unknown. Additional accessions were sent to Special Collections by the Florida State College for Women and Florida State University Faculty Senates.

Processing information:

Processed in September-October, 2003 and updated in April 2008.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related

Related material:

There is additional material related to the Faculty Senate Minutes in the following collections: Doak Campbell Collection; Florida State College for Women Campus Defense Council Papers; Edward Conradi Papers; Florida State College for Women/Florida State University Curriculum Committee Papers. These collections are located in Special Collections, Florida State University, University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.

Location of originals:

The minutes are archived electronically starting from 1979 to the present on the FSU Faculty Senate website.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Florida State College for Women--History
Florida State University--Constitution
Executive Council
Minutes
Manuscripts
Reports

Names:

Florida Female College. Faculty Senate
Florida State College for Women. Faculty Senate
Florida State University. Faculty Senate
Florida Female College
Florida State College for Women
Florida State College for Women. Campus Defense Council
Faculty Senate
Phi Beta Kappa
Pi Kappa Lambda.
Abbey, Kathryn T.
Andrews, Elizabeth Gordon, 1880-1967
Barber, Lanas Spurgeon
Bellamy, Raymond F. (Raymond Flavius)
Blackwell, Gordon W. (Gordon Williams), 1911-2004
Campbell, Doak S. (Doak Sheridan), 1888-1973.
Carothers, Milton W., 1899-1980
Champion, John E., 1922-2002
Conradi, Edward, 1869-1944
Cotterill, R. S. (Robert Spencer), 1884-1967
Cowles, Walter Ruel
D'Alemberte, Talbot
DeGraff, Mark H., 1890-1957
Diffenbaugh, Guy Linton, 1891-1947
Dodd, William George, 1874-1963
Dorman, Olivia
Doyle, S.R. (Simeon Robert), 1881-1943
Edwards, W.T.
Eyman, Ralph Lee, 1885-
Finner, Paul F. (Paul Frederick), 1883-1972
Game, Josiah Bethea, 1869-
Heinlein, Chris P.
Hogarth, Charles P.(Charles Pinckney), 1911-
Irish, Marian Doris
Kellum, John Gabriel
Lick, Dale W.
Liddell, Anna Forbes, 1891-1979
Longmire, Rowena
Marshall, J. Stanley (James Stanley), 1923-
Montgomery, Katherine W. (Katherine Williams), 1894-1958
Moore, Coyle E.
Opperman, Ella Scoble, 1873-1969
Popper, Annie M.T.
Richards, Harold F.
Richardson, Louise
Rogers, William Hudson, 1894-1975
Salley, Nathaniel Moss
Sandels, Margaret Rector, 1888-1973
Shores, Venila Lovina
Sliger, Bernard F.
Smith, Elmer Riggs
Stewart, Alban, 1875-
Strozier, Robert M. (Robert Manning), 1906-1960
Vance, Earl Lynn, 1903-1992
Waskom, Hugh L.
Wetherell, Thomas Kent

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

This collection is in an offsite storage location. Please contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu with requests for access or for more information.

Terms of access:

To request permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from the archives, please contact Heritage & University Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. Researchers must obtain separate permission from the copyright holders of material held within University Archives collections for which the institution does not hold copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Name of Item], [Date of Item], Florida State University Faculty Senate Minutes, Heritage & University Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2003-021