Records of the Office of Provost, 1917-2003 (bulk 1954-2001).

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Records of the Office of Provost, 1917-2003 (bulk 1954-2001).

Records include correspondence and other files relating chiefly to the administration of and programs in the Division of Academic Affairs (established in 1954) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Of particular importance are files on the research centers and institutes that report to the Provost and on matters affecting the faculty, including tenure, leaves, and salaries. Individuals who have served as Provost and who figure prominently in these records are Corydon P. Spruill, James Logan Godfrey, J. Carlyle Sitterson, C. Hugh Holman, John Charles Morrow, Samuel R. Williamson, John D. O'Connor, Richard L. McCormick, and Richard J. Richardson. Many of the files predate the 1954 establishment of the Division of Academic Affairs, probably because Corydon Spruill, its first administrator, had been Dean of the General College beginning in 1935. He continued in that capacity after he became Chairman of the Division of Academic Affairs. Undoubtedly some mixing of the files of the two offices occurred.

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