Conditions Governing Use:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collection Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Conditions Governing Access:

Portions of this collection are restricted. Acc. 2008.060 is restricted in its entirety. Portions of Acc. 2008.106 are restricted. Consult a staff member for assistance. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Preferred Citation:

Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies Records, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Acc. 1992.034 transferred from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies 09/1992; Acc. 2002.040 transferred from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies 8/16/2002; Acc. 2008.057 transferred from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies on 6/17/2008; Acc. 2008.060 transferred from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies on 6/27/2008; Acc. 2008.106 transferred from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies on 10/14/2008. Acc. 2022.217 donated by Bobak Kasrai.

Processing Information:

Accessions 2008.060 and 2008.106 added to the finding aid by Steven Bookman in 2008. Earlier accessions described by Special Collections Research Center staff.

Historical Note:

The Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies oversees the undergraduate curriculum in Arts and Sciences. Central to the College's mission is a firm commitment to providing a liberal arts education to its students and using this education as the foundation on which to build an understanding of a specific discipline.

Scope and Contents

Acc. 1992.034: Correspondence; reports of the Academic Status Committee (1982) and Educational Policy Committee (1988-1989).

Acc. 2000.013 and 2002.040: Records of the Educational Policy Committee, material for the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), and other material.

Acc. 2008.057: Records of the International Studies Committee.  Includes minutes and agendas of meetings, correspondence, and reports from 1979-2001.

Acc. 2008.060: Records of the Educational Policy Committee.  Includes minutes of meetings from 1991-2005.

Acc. 2008.106: Records of the Curriculum Review Committee from 1978-1993, proposals from various academic departments for courses, brochures and fliers from different academic departments, and Educational Policy Committee records from 1995-2002.

Acc. 2010.386: Contains subject files from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies from 1987 to 2005. Included in the records are assessment reports for the Arts and Sciences departments, curriculum committee meeting files, university handbooks, and procedures for Arts and Sciences departments. Acc. 2022.186 contains student handbooks from 2007-2013.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• College of William and Mary--History--20th century
• Correspondence
• Reports
• State Council of Higher Education for Virginia