University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees minutes of meetings
Scope and Contents
All original minutes are maintained by the Boston Office of the President of the University of Massachusetts, which also provides access to minutes of meetings and policy on the web site (back to February 1999). The copies in this collection are maintained for the convenience of patrons on the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus. They have been transferred from the records of the Office of the Chancellor and of the Provost and other sources, including copies from the library reserve desk. There are some local annotations on the records which may be of interest and make them unique. The attachments, when present, can also be quite useful, as these documents may be difficult to locate in hard copy. The collection is divided into 4 series, meeting minutes, committee minutes, projects and ideas brought forth by the board, and New England Association of Schools and College (NEASC) evaluations and reports.
Dates
- Creation: 1990 - 2003
Creator
- University of Massachusetts (System). Board of Trustees (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted.
Biographical / Historical
The University of Massachusetts is governed by a lay Board of Trustees which has comprised between twelve and twenty-four members since its foundation in 1991. Members were originally appointed by the legislature or the board itself, but are now appointed by the governor. The board was created when the Commonwealth’s system of public higher education was reorganized in 1991. Chapter 142 of the Acts and Resolves passed by the General Court of Massachusetts in the year 1991, “An act relative to public education in Massachusetts” dissolved the independent boards of trustees maintained on all five university campuses and outlined the structure and responsibilities of the University of Massachusetts Board. The broad responsibilities of the board are “to assure that University funds are spent properly, that the University exercises appropriate stewardship of University assets, and that operating results are positive. Most day-to-day responsibility to achieve these goals is delegated to the President and staff or to the Chancellors of the campuses through the President” (source: University of Massachusetts Web site http://www.massachusetts.edu/bot/index.html).
Extent
5 Linear Feet (12 manuscript boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
Archives and Special Collections, Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, N. Dartmouth, MA 02648. Telephone 508- 999-8686.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from various university records accessions. Most are from the records of the office of the Provost, accession # 00-04 and 04-10.
Processing Information
Processed by Taylor Newton ’16, Sandeep Paraitham G ’07. Finding aid by Judy Farrar, January 2007
- Title
- University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees minutes of meetings
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Judy Farrar
- Date
- January 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Repository