Faculty Collaborative, 1988-1989

The first subseries covers NU committees not related to any specific college or department and contains correspondence, memoranda, notes, agendas and minutes of meetings. The file on committees in box 9 includes lists of committees from 1982 to 1991. The records of the Enrollment Management Committee and Special Committee on Enrollment document the emphasis during JAC's tenure on stabilizing student enrollment. The Student Government Association files includes correspondence and meeting minutes that indicate JAC's active involvement with addressing the concerns of students. Along with the strategic planning files in Series 3, the University Long-Range Planning Committee records document NU's planning process before and during JAC's administration. The Southwest Corridor Group records shed light on NU's participation in planning Boston's Southwest Corridor.

Subseries B includes material relating to committees, groups, and universities outside NU with which JAC was involved and, in some cases, on whose board JAC served. Especially significant are the organizations concerned with higher education, public schools, cooperative education, and other education-related issues at the local, state, national, and international levels. These records contain correspondence, agendas and minutes of meetings, reports, and pamphlets. JAC was involved with several national and state academic associations including the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts. Records include minutes, correspondence, reports, and publications. For information regarding JAC's involvement in fostering cooperative education in higher education, see files on the World Association for Cooperative Education. Researchers should note that the National Commission for Cooperative Education, although located at NU, has no administrative affiliation with NU and, therefore, is located in Subseries B.

The collection holds abundant information about NU's involvement with community affairs, particularly with the Boston Public Schools. JAC was an active trustee of the Boston Plan for Excellence in the Public Schools, a foundation that supported the city's public schools and provided mini-grants to teachers and college scholarships to graduates. Also of note are the records of the Boston-Fenway Program (later renamed the Fenway Alliance), which is a consortium of academic, cultural, and arts organizations working collaboratively to enhance the cultural, environmental, and economic vitality of the Fenway area.

Subseries B also includes proposals and other material relating to grants for which NU applied. These are organized according to the foundation or granting agency.