Finding aid for the Director’s Office: Schools files
DO.SCHOOLS

Summary Information

Repository
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
Title
Director's Office: Schools files
ID
DO.SCHOOLS
Date
1933-1992
Extent
12.0 linear feet
Language
English

Preferred Citation note

The suggested citation for the material is "[item], Director’s Office: Schools files, Box [box number], From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA."

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Scope and Contents note

Director’s Office: Schools files contain administrative records retained by the Director's Office about each of the Schools. Topics and time periods covered for each of the Schools vary. The series contains records from the first five administrations (Abraham Flexner through Harry Woolf). Filing protocols were not consistent, and materials located in this series during one administration may have been filed elsewhere under another administration.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center

Historical Studies-Social Science Library
Einstein Drive
Princeton
NJ, 08540
609-734-8375
archives@ias.edu

Conditions Governing Access note

Administrative records of the Institute are closed for 30 years from the date of creation. In addition, letters of recommendation are closed until the death of both the author and the subject of the recommendation.

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Related Materials

Related Archival Materials note

This series relates to others created by the Office of the Director, including the Faculty series, Member files, and General Files.

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Collection Inventory

Schools of Economics and Politics / Humanistic Studies 1935-1949   0.5 linear feet

Scope and Contents note

The Schools of Economics and Politics / Humanistic Studies subseries of the Files by School series of the Records of the Office of the Director includes materials for the two Schools of the Institute that were combined in 1949 to create the School of Historical Studies, Humanistic Studies and Economics and Politics. This subseries of administrative materials spans the years 1933-1949, and includes Faculty meeting minutes.

Box Folder

Economics and Politics: general administrative 1933-1948 

1 1

Humanistic Studies: stipends 1944-1949 and undated 

1 2

Humanistic Studies: general administrative 1935-1948 

1 3

Humanistic Studies: Faculty meeting minutes and agenda / general administrative 1937-1949 

1 4

School of Historical Studies   3.5 linear feet

Scope and Contents note

The School of Historical Studies subseries of the Files by School series of the Records of the Office of the Director includes records spanning the years 1936-1992, with the bulk of the materials representing activity from the 1960s-1980s. These administrative records include memoranda, correspondence, faculty meeting minutes and agenda, budgets, materials relating to visiting scholars (e.g., Member Reports, lists of Members' publications, fellowship announcements), Faculty searches, and various initiatives of the School and of individual School Faculty.

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Memos 1966-1971 

1 1

Memos 1972-1975 

1 2

Memos 1976-1981 

1 3

Memos 1982-1985 

1 4

Minutes and agendas 1950-1976 

1 5

Minutes and agendas 1977-1983 

1 6

Minutes and agendas 1985-1986 

1 7

Minutes and agendas 1987-1988 

1 8

Cost reduction 1986 

1 9

Memos from Executive Officer 1948-1974 

2 1

List of art historians 1987 

2 2

Letters from Adminstrative Officer 1980-1981 

2 3

Letters from Administrative Officer 1982-1987 

2 4

Memos-general correspondence 1985-1987 

2 5

Budget 1948-1970 

2 6

Budget 1971-1975 

2 7

Budget 1976-1987 

2 8

Minutes 1949-1962 

2 9

Minutes 1963-1973 

2 10

Member Reports, 1971-1972 1972 

2 11

Member Reports, 1972-1973 1973-1977 

3 1

Member Reports, 1973-1974 1973-1974 

3 2

Member Reports, 1974-1975 1975 

3 3

Member Reports, 1975-1976 1976-1977 

3 4

Member Reports, 1976-1977 1976-1977 

3 5

Member Reports, 1977-1978 1977-1978 

3 6

Member Reports, 1978-1979 1978-1979 

3 7

Member Reports, 1979-1980 1979-1980 

3 8

Member Reports, 1980-1981 1980-1981 

3 9

Member Reports, 1981-1982 1981-1983 

4 1

Member Reports, 1983-1984 1983-1984 

4 2

Member Reports, 1984-1985 1985 

4 3

Member Reports, 1985-1986 1985-1986 

4 4

Member Reports, 1986-1987 1986-1987 

4 5

Current Departure Information 1978-1986 

4 6

American Academy in Rome 1960 

4 7

American School of Classical Studies at Athens 1936-1981 

4 8

Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities 1985 

4 9

Seminar Notices (Archaeological Institute of America, Colloquia in Classical Studies, etc.) 1965-1979 

4 10

Advisory Committee on Modern History 1961-1962 

4 11

Professorial Appointment (Mayer) 1983-1984 

5 1

Responses to Historical Studies professor ad 1983-1985 

5 2

Responses to Historical Studies professor ad (cont.) 1983 

5 3

The School of Historical Studies: historical overview 1982 

5 4

Historical Studies Faculty appointments 1966-1979 

5 5

Dinner for Members 1960-1972 

5 6

Faculty Meeting October 9, 1972 

5 7

Meetings of Faculty and Trustees 1971 

5 8

Panel on new Faculty 1954 

5 9

Recommendations of the Faculty 1948-1955 

5 10

General Correspondence 1969-1970 

5 11

General Correspondence 1973-1974 

5 12

General Correspondence 1974-1975 

5 13

Visitors list 1966-1971 

5 14

Goldman Fund 1976 

5 15

Requests for housing 1976-1978 

5 16

Use of Institute services 1976-1978 

5 17

Members lists 1953-1966 

5 18

Colloquia in History of Art (Irving Lavin), 1974-1981 1974-1975, 1980, and undated 

5 19

Financial Data 1982-1983 

5 20

Leibniz Society Meeting, June 1985 1984 

5 21

Member Lists 1966-1974 

6 1

Member Lists 1974-1986 

6 2

Publications of Members 1966-1967 

6 3

Publications of Members 1967-1968 

6 4

Publications of Members 1968-1969 

6 5

Publications of Members 1969-1970 

6 6

Publications of Members 1970-1971 

6 7

Publications of Members 1971-1972 

6 8

Work of the School 1975-1982 

6 9

Visiting Committee 1980-1982 

6 10

Visiting Committee 1983 

6 11

Visiting Committee 1982 

6 12

Fellowship ad, 1986 1986 

7 1

Fellowship ad, 1987 1987-1988 

7 2

Fellowship ad, 1988 1988 

7 3

Fellowship ad, 1989 1988-1990 

7 4

Membership ad - new publicity plan 1990 

7 5

Membership ads (SSS and SHS), 1989-1990 1988 and undated 

7 6

Membership ad, 1990 1990-1991 and undated 

7 7

Membership posters, 1990 1990 and undated 

7 8

Membership ad, 1991 1990-1991 and undated 

7 9

Membership ad, 1992 1992 and undated 

7 10

School of Mathematics 1961-1962   2.0 linear feet

Scope and Contents note

The School of Mathematics subseries of the Files by School series of the Records of the Office of the Director spans the years 1930-1987. These administrative records relate to Faculty meeting minutes and agenda (the agenda are unique in the overall Archives Center collection), financial matters, visiting scholars, and various initiatives of the School.

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Miscellaneous general administrative 1933-1970 

1 1

General administrative 1966-1977 

1 2

General administrative 1976-1979 

1 3

General adminstrative 1977-1987 

1 4

General administrative 1980-1983 

1 5

Lists of Members, 1930-1976 undated 

1 6

Lists of Members, 1976-1987 undated 

1 7

Members' arrival and departure information 1977-1985 

1 8

Members reports, 1985-1986 1986 and undated 

1 9

Math Member reports, 1986-1987 1986-1987 and undated 

1 10

Publications of Members 1966-1986 

2 1

List of applicants for Membership, 1971-1972 1971 

2 2

Number of Members in the School of Mathematics, 1957-1986 1967-1972 and undated 

2 3

Summer Visitors list, 1984 undated 

2 4

Possible Soviet candidates undated 

2 5

Publications fund 1961 and 1967 

2 6

Funding / Proposals 1985-1987 

2 7

Case statement 1987 

2 8

Stipends 1958 

2 9

Budget 1940-1967 

2 10

Budget 1967-1986 

2 11

Use of Institute services 1976-1979 

2 12

Work of the School, 1978-1982 1975-1982 

2 13

Work of the School, 1985 1980 and 1985 

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Report of the Joint Faculty 1985 

2 14
Box Folder

Committee on Logic 1964-1968 

2 15

Memos (School of Mathematics Faculty appointments) 1962-1963 

3 1

Statements/memoranda to the Faculty 1968-1972 

3 2

Contracts concluded, 1954-1963 1954-1964 

3 3

IBM Fellowship [only "Cross Reference" sheets in this folder directing to Director's Office General File folder on the topic] 1960-1961 

3 4

Visiting Committee 1985-1986 

3 5

Visiting Committee 1985-1986 

3 6

Report of the Visiting Committee, 1985-1986 1986 

3 7

Symposium on Differential Topology, 1963 1962 

3 8

Harish-Chandra Memorial Symposium, April 23-27, 1984 1984 

3 9

Harish-Chandra Symposium speeches 1984 

3 10

Harish-Chandra Symposium speeches (cont.) 1984 

3 11

Mathematics Faculty meetings: agenda and minutes 1953-1971 

3 12

Mathematics Faculty meetings: agenda and minutes 1972-1978 

3 13

Mathematics Faculty meetings: agenda and minutes 1979-1987 

3 14

Mathematics Faculty meeting (November 23, 1977) and Veblen Fund 1977 

3 15

Mathematics Faculty meeting minutes: amended versions 1935 

4 1

Mathematics Faculty meeting minutes 1935-1944 

4 2

Mathematics Faculty meeting minutes 1945-1953 

4 3

Mathematics Faculty meeting minutes 1954-1958 

4 4

Mathematics Faculty meeting minutes 1959-1963 

4 5

Mathematics Faculty meeting minutes 1964-1969 

4 6

Mathematics Faculty meeting minutes 1970-1977 

4 7

Mathematics Faculty meeting minutes 1978-1985 

4 8

School of Natural Sciences   3.5 linear feet

Scope and Contents note

The School of Natural Sciences subseries of the Files by School series of the Records of the Office of the Director spans 1947-1987, which includes years during which initiatives in the natural sciences fell under the umbrella of the School of Mathematics. (The School of Natural Sciences was established in late 1965.) These administrative materials include correspondence, budgets, and various initiatives of the School (e.g., the Oppenheimer Lectures) and of individual School faculty (e.g., John Bahcall’s involvement in the Space Telescope Science Institute, which spearheaded development of the Hubble Space Telescope).

Box Folder

Correspondence 1966-1976 

1 1

Correspondence 1977-1980 

1 2

Correspondence 1981 

1 3

Correspondence 1982-1983 

1 4

Correspondence 1984-1987 

1 5

Budget 1965-1974 

1 6

Budget 1974-1985 

1 7

Members Reports, 1984-1987 1982-1987 

2 1

Members Departure Information 1979-1982 

2 2

Computer, 1980-1984 1979-1984 

2 3

Computer: Manuals 1975, 1980 

2 4

Computer: Pamphlets and Manuals 1979-1980 and undated 

2 5

Children's Computer 1981 

2 6

Use of Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University Computers, 1967-1973 1966-1973 

2 7

Adler-Workshop on Induced Gravitation and related topics, Italy - October 1983 1983 

2 8

Weinberg, Steven - Candidate - Faculty 1979 

2 9

Fusion Institute 1979 

2 10

A Brief History of the Years 1960-1970 by M. Goldberger undated 

2 11

Requests for Housing 1976-1978 

3 1

Office Space 1982-1986 

3 2

Office Space in Building E probably early 1980s 

Minutes and Agenda 1985-1986 

3 3

Minutes and Agenda 1967-1983 

3 4

Oppenheimer Lectures, 1976-1977 1976-1977 

3 5

Oppenheimer Lectures, 1977-1978 1977 

3 6

Oppenheimer Lectures: Gell-Mann, Murray, October 1974 1974-1975 

3 7

Oppenheimer Lectures: Salpeter, Edwin E., 1975 1975 

3 8

Oppenheimer Lectures: Sagdeev, Roald Z., 1976 1976 

3 9

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) - Miscellaneous 1966 

3 10

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) - Proposals 1966 

3 11

National Science Foundation (NSF) - Miscellaneous 1985-1986 

3 12

National Science Foundation (NSF) - Miscellaneous 1967-1969 

3 13

Visiting Committee 1980-1981 

3 14

Visiting Committee 1980 

3 15

List of Publications - Faculty and Members 1966-1978 

4 1
Box

Correspondence Regarding Publication (reprints and preprints, etc.) 1966-1968 

4
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Russian Visitors 1976 

4 2

Seminars 1978-1979 

4 3

Seminars 1979-1980 

4 4

Seminars 1980-1981 

4 5

Institute for Theoretical Physics 1977 

4 6

International Astronomical Union (I.A.U.) Colloquium: Dynamics of Star Clusters, 1984 1983-1984 

4 7

Order out of Chaos (Piet Hut) 1986 

4 8

Stellar Dynamics of Galaxies and Globular Clusters (NASA) 1987 

4 9

Work of the School, 1980-1983 1979-1983 and undated 

4 10

Work of the School, 1974-1979 1974-1981 and undated 

4 11

Rosenbluth, Marshall 1987 

4 12

Natural Sciences - Miscellaneous 1966-1975 

5 1

Physics Preprint Library 1964-1966 

5 2

Physics/Math - Annual List of Preprints 1953-1963 

5 3

Physics/Math - Lists of Members, 1955-1967 1955-1966 

5 4

Physics/Astrophysics 1957-1966 

5 5

Physics/Natural Sciences - Budgets 1947-1974 

5 6

Physics - Visitor's Fund 1956-1957 and 1967 

5 7

Physics - Mailing Lists 1955-1963 and undated 

5 8

Physics - Faculty 1962-1963 and undated 

5 9

Physics - Faculty Meetings, Memos 1962-1967 

5 10

Physics - Miscellaneous 1947-1973 

5 11

Visitors in Physics - 1947 to date 1947-1954 

Physics - Memos to Faculty 1951-1961 

5 12

Physics - Adler, Dashen, Gell-Mann, Goldberger 1965-1969 

5 13

Physics - material for letters 1961-1965 

5 14

Physics - Faculty Meetings, Notices, Agenda 1960-1963 

5 15

Physics - Members Lists 1959-1965 and undated 

5 16

Physics - Astrophysics 1963-1964 

6 1

Physics - Biophysics 1961-1962 and undated 

6 2

Correspondence with Francis Crick 

Physics - Bibliography Project 1960 and undated 

6 3

Space Telescope Science Institute 

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April 1974-January 1979 (1 of 3) 1977-1979 

6 4

April 1974-January 1979 (2 of 3) 1977 

6 5

April 1974-January 1979 (3 of 3) 1974-1977 

6 6

January 1979-September 1979 (1 of 3) 1979 

7 1

January 1979-September 1979 (2 of 3) 1979 

7 2

January 1979-September 1979 (3 of 3) 

7 3

October 1979-January 1981 (1 of 3) 1977-1981 and undated 

7 4

October 1979-January 1981 (2 of 3) 1979-1980 and undated 

7 5

October 1979-January 1981 (3 of 3) 1979-1980 

7 6

School of Social Science   2.5 linear feet

Scope and Contents note

The School of Social Science subseries of the Files by School series of the Records of the Office of the Director spans the years 1948-1989. These administrative folders include memoranda, correspondence, budgets, materials relating to visiting scholars (e.g., Member Reports), Faculty searches, and various activities of the School and of individual School Faculty. Some of these materials predate the establishment of the School of Social Science in 1973, including those related to explorations in the field of psychology undertaken during J. Robert Oppenheimer's tenure.

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Programs and proposals (Alpha Fund), 1984-1987 1986-1987 and undated 

1 1

Joint Proposal-SS/HS: "Religion and Society" 1987 

1 2

Memos 1981-1987 

1 3

Memos 1978-1981 

1 4

Finances and budget 1977-1986 

1 5

Finances and budget 1967-1977 

1 6

Budget, 1966-1967 1967 

1 7

Faculty appointments 1979 

1 8

Faculty Committee Assignments 1984-1985 

1 9

Member forwarding addresses, 1986 1983 and 1986 

1 10

Visiting Committee Report 1984-1985 

1 11

Visiting Committee (correspondence), January 18-19, 1985 1982-1985 

1 12

Visiting Committee binder, 1984-1985 1985 

1 13

Member reports, 1968-1969 1969 

2 1

Member reports, 1969-1970 1970 

2 2

Member reports (Information Processing), 1970-1971 1971 

2 3

Member reports (Social Change), 1970-1971 1971 

2 4

Member reports (Information Processing), 1971-1972 1972 

2 5

Member reports (Social Change), 1971-1972 1972 

2 6

Member reports, 1972-1973 1972-1973 

2 7

Member reports, 1973-1974 1974-1975 

2 8

Member reports, 1974-1975 1974-1975 

2 9

Member reports (Linguistics), 1974-1975 1975 and undated 

2 10

Member reports, 1975-1976 1976 

2 11

Member reports, 1976-1977 1976-1977 

2 12

Member reports, 1977-1978 1978 

2 13

Member reports, 1978-1979 1979 

2 14

Member reports, 1979-1980 1980 

2 15

Member reports, 1980-1981 1981-1982 

2 16

Member reports, 1981-1982 1982 

2 17

Member reports, 1982-1983 1983 

2 18

Member reports, 1983-1984 1983-1984 

3 1

Member reports, 1984-1985 1985 

3 2

List of Members, 1969-1987 (Academic years: 1968-1969 - 1987-1988) undated 

3 3

Seminar notices, 1969-1972 1969 and undated 

3 4

Seminars (Social and Economic History), 1972-1973 1972-1973 and undated 

3 5

Luncheon seminar-current interests, 1973-1977 1973-1977 

3 6

Seminars (special topics), 1973-1974 1973-1974 

3 7

Thursday Lunch Group, 1973-1974 1973-1974 and undated 

3 8

Seminars (Thought and Language), 1974 undated 

3 9

Seminars, 1974-1975 1974-1975 and undated 

3 10

Seminars (Latin American), 1974-1975 1974-1975 and undated 

3 11

Seminars (on the Methodology of the Social Sciences), 1974-1975 1974-1975 and undated 

3 12

Seminars, 1975-1976 1975-1976 

3 13

Seminar (Sociology of Science), 1976-1977 1976-1977 

3 14

Luncheon seminars, 1976-1977 1976-1977 and undated 

3 15

Luncheon seminars, 1977-1978 1977-1978 and undated 

3 16

Luncheon seminars, 1978-1979 1978-1979 and undated 

3 17

Luncheon seminars, 1979-1980 1979-1980 

3 18

Seminars, 1980-1981 1981 and undated 

3 19

Seminars, 1981-1982 1981 and undated 

3 20

Seminars, 1981-1989 undated 

4 1

Seminars, 1982-1983 undated 

4 2

Cognitive Science Seminars, 1982-1983 1983 and undated 

4 3

Seminars, 1983-1984 undated 

4 4

Seminars, 1984-1985 undated 

4 5

Seminars, 1985-1986 1985-1986 

4 6

Background materials on School of Social Sciences 1965-1969 

4 7

Development of School of Social Science 1966-1969 

4 8

Work of the School of Social Science, 1978-1990 1979-1982 and undated 

4 9

Appendix J - designation of School of Social Science undated 

4 10

Prof. Wm. J. McGuire, University of California, San Diego (Silvan Tompkins) 1967-1968 

4 11

Extra copies of press release (Carnegie / Russell Sage) 1967 

4 12

Program in Human and Social Information Processing 1972 

4 13

Interpretive Social Science Proposal, 1984-1987 1983 

4 14

Professorial search (Lepenies, Wolf) 1983-1984 

4 15

Professorial search 1983-1985 

4 16

Psychology Program at the Institute for Advanced Study (for Dr. Kaysen), 1949-1961 1948-1966 

5 1

Earlier versions - Program description 1970-1972 

5 2

Condensed program description 1972 

5 3

Culpeper Foundaton 1985 

5 4

General Correspondence, 1977-1978 undated 

5 5

General Correspondence, 1975-1976 1975 and undated 

5 6

General Correspondence (Social Change), 1974-1975 1973 and undated 

5 7

Fall Dinner, October 3, 1973 1973 

5 8

Correspondence re. new School of Social Science 1967-1972 

5 9

Fundraising (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) 1970 

5 10

Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Clemens Heller) 1974 

5 11

Personnel 1970 and undated 

5 12

Newsweek article (April 6, 1970) 1970 

5 13

New academic building (West Building) 1970 and undated 

5 14

Hand drawn diagram of room assignments for the 1972-1973 academic year undated 

Historical Data Archive (Theodore Rabb) 1969 and undated 

5 15

Use of Institute services 1977-1978 

5 16

Requests for housing 1976-1978 and undated 

5 17

Annual report to Russell Sage (and Carnegie) 1969-1972 

5 18

Publications of SSS Members, 1969-1970 undated 

5 19

Publications of SSS Members, 1970-1971 1972 and undated 

5 20

Publications of Members (National Science Foundation grants), 1970-1971 - 1974-1975 undated 

5 21

Publications of SSS Members, 1971-1972 undated 

5 22

A New Program in the Social Sciences: Needs and Opportunities 1968-1970 

5 23

IAS Conference, September 15, 1970 (transcript of conference held to collect views about what an IAS School of Social Science might do) 1970, 1995 

5 24