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The records of the North Carolina State University Group Insurance & Benefits Committee contain correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, reports and annual reports, brochures and manuals about benefits programs, and other general information about the process of selecting and administering employee benefits at the university. Materials range in date from 1951 to 1990. The Group Insurance Committee was convened at North Carolina State College in or before 1951 to address insurance and retirement topics for faculty and staff employees of the college. The committee has changed names several times: in 1955, it became the Committee on Group Insurance and Faculty Welfare; in 1977, the Group Insurance and Welfare Committee; and in 1989 adopted the current name of Group Insurance & Benefits Committee. A member of the committee has also reported to the University of North Carolina (UNC) System-wide insurance and benefits group since at least the mid-1970s, incorporating the recommendations of that group into decisions made locally for NC State employees. As of 2010, the purpose of the Group Insurance & Benefits Committee remains to act in an advisory role to the North Carolina State University Benefits Office on all matters of insurance, retirement, and benefits for university employees. Less

The Harrelson Fund Committee Records contains minutes, correspondence, financial information, and annual reports documenting the activities of the Harrelson Fund Committee. There are also a large amount of documents related to the Harrelson Lectures, many of which document the planning and scheduling of lectures. Also included are texts of many of the lectures and faculty nominations for lecturers as well as promotional material such as flyers, posters, and brochures. The Harrelson Fund Committee was established at North Carolina State College in 1961 to manage the funds of former Chancellor John W. Harrelson's endowment. Since the Committee's founding, they have aspired to use the funds in accordance with the priorities established in Harrelson's will: "lectures (first claim); books; works of art; appropriate markers for buildings named for persons." Accordingly, one of the most important functions of the Harrelson Committee has been to organize the annual Harrelson Lectures, where a well-known public or academic figure gives a series of talks at NC State University. During the 2018-2019 academic year, the Harrelson Fund Committee transitioned into the University Standing Committee on Speakers and Lectures. Less

Included are 288 Microsoft Word files, 40 PDF files, 2 Microsoft Excel files, 1 ZIP file, and 1 PNG file. The NC State Information Technology Strategic Advisory Committee (ITSAC) was a business-focused committee of the IT Governance at NC State, and was established in 2012. It advised the Vice Chancellor of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer about policy, funding, and business applications. The ITSAC contained members representing the following areas: Human Resources, Financial Activities and Accounting, University Treasurer, Provost’s Office/Enrollment Management, Graduate, Research, Libraries, University Advancement, Deans’ Council, Associate Deans for Academic Affairs, Associate Deans for Research, Business Operations, Campus IT Directors, Audit, and the Office of General Council. Less

The records of the North Carolina State University Institutional History and Commemoration Committee include meeting minutes, memoranda, correspondence, annual reports, drafts of the "Place-Names on State College Campus" pamphlet, and other records related to the functions of the committee. Materials range in date from 1951 to 2010. The Committee on the History of the College was established in or before 1951 at North Carolina State College to coordinate the naming and dedication of campus buildings and roads, and to collect documentation on the history of the college. In 1972, the committee's name was changed to the Committtee on Commemoration, Institutional History, and Naming of Buildings; was changed again in 1977 to the Committee on Institutional History and Commemoration; and was changed sometime in the 1980s to the Institutional History and Commemoration Committee. This committee was formally dissolved in 2009. Less

The records of the North Carolina State University International Programs Committee include meeting minutes, memoranda, reports and annual reports, correspondence, and other materials related to the work of the committee. Materials range in date from 1967 to 1986. The Council on International Programs was established at North Carolina State University in 1967, following legislation passed by the United States Congress in 1966 to allocate additional funding to institutions with international programming. The Council on International Programs was intended to work in an advisory capacity with the Office of International Programs, which was also established in 1967. The council's name was changed around 1985 to the Committee on International Programs, and sometime thereafter to the current name of International Programs Committee. This committee remains active as of 2011, and continues to act in an advisory capacity to the Office of International Affairs (formerly the Office of International Programs) and the Provost's Office for matters related to international programming at NC State. Less

The records of the North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) Land-Grant Centennial Committee include meeting minutes, memoranda, publications, reports, and other records related to the functioning of the committee. Materials range in date from 1958 to 1962. The North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) Land-Grant Centennial took place in 1962, marking the hundredth anniversary of land-grant colleges and universities. The centennial was celebrated at both the national and state level, with efforts beginning in or before 1959. The NCSC Land-Grant Council was responsible for events throughout 1961 and 1962 relating to the centennial. Rudolph Pate acted as Chairman of the council. Less

The North Carolina State University, Committees, Learning in a Technology-Rich Environment (LITRE) Team Records include a quality enhancement plan dated 2004. Learning in a Technology-Rich Environment (LITRE) was developed as part of the accreditation of North Carolina State University by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The quality enhancement plan was aimed at enhancing learning with technology opportunities available to students and faculty. Research groups were comprised of faculty, staff, and students and focused on educational infrastructure, student information fluency, faculty engagement, learning resources and educational technology applications, and e-learning environments. As a result of research, a forum, and surveys, five ares were targeted for implementation: expanding the classroom technology improvement plan, implementing and testing the new standard for technology in a limited number of classrooms, deploying a new classroom-based technology learning system, establishing pilot technology-enhanced workspaces, and initiating a faculty-support grants program. The plan was developed throughout 2002 and 2003, with a final report submitted in February 2004. Less

The North Carolina State University, Committees, Marine Sciences Council Records contain meeting minutes, assessment reports, correspondence, notes, by-laws, and a charter. Materials range in date from 1994 to 2011. The North Carolina State University Marine Sciences Council was established in 1995 to advise the Provost and Chancellor on affairs affecting marine science research, outreach, and teaching. The Council consisted of faculty from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, the College of Engineering, and the College of Veterinary Medicine. Because faculty were split between colleges, the Council provided a central focal point for marine sciences concerns. The Council played a prominent role in assessing and evaluating the Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST) based in Carteret County. Less

Ranging in date from 1919 to 1966, the North Carolina State University Memorial Tower Committee records document the conceptualization and construction of the Memorial Tower on North Carolina State University's main campus. This collection chiefly contains correspondence, reports, and financial records. These records document the committee's interactions with architect William H. Deacy of New York; the J. D. Sargent Granite Company of Mt. Airy, N.C.; the Works Progress Administration; and other individuals and companies. There are also blueprints of the tower. The North Carolina State University Memorial Tower, popularly known as the Belltower, stands 115 feet tall and is one of North Carolina State's main landmarks. Vance Sykes, class of 1907, and other alumni, formed the Memorial Tower Committee in the 1920s with the hope of erecting a monument to honor the thirty-four State College (later North Carolina State University) students and alumni killed in World War I. The Memorial Tower is a landmark of North Carolina State University's campus and has become central to several school traditions, including the housing of class rings inside the Tower the night before graduation and the illumination of the Tower with red light on significant dates, including athletic victories of North Carolina State. Less

The records of the North Carolina State University Mission Review Committee contain meeting minutes, news releases, reports and speeches, and a ten year mission plan. Materials range in dates from 1990 to 1991. The North Carolina State University Mission Review Committee was established in 1990 under the leadership of Chancellor Larry K. Monteith. The University of North Carolina Board of Governors, which has the statutory authority to establish the mission of the University of North Carolina constituent institutions, asked each campus to review its mission and to propose revisions as necessary. The Mission Review Committee consisted of faculty, staff, students, faculty senate members and North Carolina State University Board of Trustees. This committee appears to have been dissolved sometime after 1991. Less

The records of the O. Max Gardner Award Committee at North Carolina State University contain correspondence; reports and annual reports; nominations for award recipients; and programs, dinner seating lists, and transcripts of speeches from events where the O. Max Gardner Award was conferred. Materials range in date from 1949 to 2008. The O. Max Gardner Award was established in 1949 to recognize the faculty member from among all University of North Carolina (UNC) system schools who has "...made the greatest contribution to the human race." Nominations for faculty representatives are collected at each university during the fall of the academic year, and one to three candidates are selected from among those nominees to represent each university. From this pool, one or two faculty members are chosen in the spring of the academic year by the UNC Board of Governors' Committee as the recipient(s) of the O. Max Gardner Award for that academic year.At North Carolina State University, the O. Max Gardner Award nominees are selected by a committee reporting to the Provost's Office. Less

The records of the North Carolina State University (earlier North Carolina State College) Committee on Patents and Inventions are dated from 1940 to the 1970s. The Committee was appointed by the North Carolina State College Dean of Administration, Colonel J. W. Harrelson. The committee members were faculty of North Carolina State College. The records include patent policy and procedures, patent and invention disclosures, agenda, minute and meeting notes, annual reports, examples of patent and invention diagrams, Invention management brochures and articles of incorporation of the North Carolina State College Research Foundation. In 1940 Colonel J. W. Harrelson, Dean of Administration of North Carolina State College (later University), appointed a committee of faculty members to make recommendations on institutional policy governing patents and inventions developed in the laboratories of the college and to prepare papers, by-laws and other documents necessary for the establishment of a research foundation at the college. The name of the corporation was the North Carolina State College Research Foundation. The purpose of the corporation was to promote educational objectives by encouraging, fostering and conducting scientific investigations and industrial research and by training and developing persons for the conduct of such investigations and research. The Patent and Invention Committee was also responsible for reviewing patent applications and patent disclosures and for issuing patents to corporations or individuals. Less

The records of the North Carolina State University Phi Beta Kappa Committee contain correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, reports, and applications documenting the work of the committee. Materials range in date from 1977 to 2018. The North Carolina State University Phi Beta Kappa Committee was created in 1977 at North Carolina State University to apply for a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest and best known society for recognition of academic excellence and scholarly achievement. The North Carolina State University Phi Beta Kappa committee chairman was Robert S. Bryan and the committee members were heads of selected departments. The committee was active through at least 1994, but may have dissolved shortly thereafter. Less

The records of the Physical Environment Committee at North Carolina State University contain meeting minutes, correspondence, memoranda, annual reports and other reports, committee membership rosters, and other information regarding the activities of the committee in their duties to monitor the physical environment of the campus. Materials range in date from 1932 to 2010. The Buildings and Grounds Committee was established at North Carolina State College in or before 1932 to consider matters related to the aesthetic appearance of the campus. In the committee's early years, this meant primarily considering issues of landscaping and other campus beautification, as well as adornment (and other decorative considerations) for the buildings on campus. In 1970, the Buildings and Grounds Committee was accused of becoming lax in these responsibilities, and was reorganized as the Campus Planning and Environment Committee, with duties to include a more wholistic responsibility for directing all matters related to the physical environment of the campus at North Carolina State University. In 1986, the committee was renamed the Physical Environment Committee. This committee existed until the 2016-2017 academic year, when it was dissolved. Less

The Preprofessional Health Sciences Review Committee Records include memos, correspondence, flyers, and other records produced by the North Carolina State University Preprofessional Health Sciences Review Committee from 1979 to 1992, with a gap from 1981 to 1989. While the purpose of the committee was to review and recommend students from NC State University to preprofessional health sciences programs, the information contained within the collection primarily concerns committee duties such as establishing contacts the admissions departments of these programs, maintaining members of the committee, and electing chairs of the committee. Later records contain averaged data about students who were accepted to preprofessional health sciences programs and information about program requirements that the committee would need in order to better assist future applicants. The North Carolina State University Preprofessional Health Sciences Review Committee is a group that reviews students' professional school application packages. The committee has been renamed the North Carolina State University Health Professions Review Committee. This committee is comprised of faculty from different areas that review all medical, dental, optometry, physician assistant and pharmacy applicants who choose to have their files reviewed by the committee and a composite submitted on their behalf. The committee makes a "university committee recommendation" for each applicant reviewed and submits this along with the student's "composite" review committee recommendation to each school to which they ask to have their file sent. The committee began in 1975 according to a piece of correspondence in the collection and exists in the present as of 2012, but there is no clear mention of specific people associated with beginning this committee. During the time of the collection that dates from 1979 to 1992, Dr. John Roberts and former Chancellor Dr. James L. Oblinger. At that time, Oblinger was Associate Dean of Academic Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Less

The records of the Radiation Safety Committee at North Carolina State University include correspondence, meeting minutes, memoranda, reports and annual reports, and handbooks and other procedural information concerning the operation of the nuclear reactor and the use of radioisotopes on campus. Also inclued are some meeting minutes from the Reactor Safeguards Advisory Group, an associated component organization of the Radiation Safety Committee. The Radioisotope Committee was established in or before 1950 to oversee the use of radioisotopes on the campus of North Carolina State College, largely in conjunction with operations of the nuclear reactor. In 1953, the Radioisotope Committee recommended the establishment of a permanent, more official committee to take on these responsibilities (as well as to oversee the actual running of the nuclear reactor), and the Radioisotope Committee was thus replaced by Chancellor Harrelson with the Committee on Safety and Health for the Nuclear Reactor and Radioisotopes in September of that year. In 1969, the Committee on Safety and Health for the Nuclear Reactor and Radioisotopes was renamed the Radiation Protection Council, and has since been renamed the Radiation Safety Committee. This committee continues to be active as of 2010. Less

The records of the North Carolina State University, Registration, Records and Calendar Committee include correspondence, meeting minutes, memoranda, appointment letters, agendas and annual reports. Materials range in dates from 1969 to 1985. The Registration and Records and Calendar Committee of North Carolina State University was established in April 1969 by the Executive Committee of the University Board of Trustees. It is charged with providing advice and recommendations to the University Registrar regarding the university calendar, and other registration and records procedures. The committee typically meets once early in fall semester and once early in spring semester. An additional meeting each semester may be scheduled if needed to discuss necessary updates. A new 3-year academic calendar is recommended to the Chancellor and published online each year and any changes are presented to the University Registrar prior to submission to the Chancellor for approval. When considering future calendars, the committee relies on several sources, including but not limited to: feedback from the campus community, requests from student government, and annual reading days surveys. Less

This records subgroup contains the records of the North Carolina State University Research Committee, which provides service and support for research interests of members of the faculty. Records include correspondence, annual reports, meeting minutes, policy statements, as well as project proposals and award distribution from granting agencies. Materials within the collection reflect the changing research concerns of the university. Issues confronted by the Research Committee range from policy creation and funding problems to the creation of web pages, depending on the various time periods. The University Research Committee's records range in date from 1943 to 2004. The North Carolina State University (previously College) Research Committee provides oversight in the administration of research proposals and funding resources for members of the faculty. While committee responsibilities have changed and evolved throughout the years, the management of proposal development (including budget development and agency guidelines) have maintained. The Research Committee has been concerned with the review and development of institutional policy for research, with assistance in obtaining financial support for research and research facilities. Its principal activities include the following: (1)Obtaining information on sources of funds, (2) Assisting individual faculty members in structuring proposals for grants and contracts, (3) Administering special research funds. Less

The records of the North Carolina State University Research and Professional Ethics Committee provide professional ethics education for graduate students and faculty at North Carolina State University. Records include reports, Course and Seminar information, and program flyers. Also included are the Steering Committee Project notes for the a national conference sponsored by the University's Research and Professional Ethics Committee. The University Research and Professional Ethics Committee's records range in date from 2001 to 2007. The North Carolina State University Research and Professional Ethics Committee's objective is to help graduate students and faculty know and understand how to act with integrity, respect others, and how to facilitate professional and scientific responsibilities. The Research and Professional Committee researched, designed, and implemented Research Ethics courses and seminars for faculty and graduate students. Less